Tag Archives: Facebook
Millenials’ Attitudes about Social Media from Buzz Machine
Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine met with a bunch of New York City teenagers to explore how they use Social Media and their attitudes about it. He calls it “The Kids are all right”. Fascinating. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/11/13/the-kids-are-all-right
Search Engine Optimization Primer
There are no silver bullets to getting well-known on the internet. At the end of the day, you have to do it the hard way: provide great content, find your community, share, link and grow. Tricks will not get you … Continue reading
“I know that half of my advertising budget is wasted. I just don’t know which half.”
Preparing for the second Facebook for Business Workshop I’ve learned some great new tricks that I am eager to share with my community and clients If you can handle basic HTML, you can get started with custom Facebook pages. Good … Continue reading
Facebook for Business: Make it work for you
We had a great time at the first of my new series of Social Media Workshop sponsored by the Shelburne Falls Area Business Association last Thursday. About half the workshop participants are not yet using Facebook, and the statistical and … Continue reading
A different side of Facebook – software
I was a technology leader in my industry once: everybody thinks its magic. Here’s some details about the magic behind Facebook. http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/
Where are the Honor Students?
Finding high school friends again, and becoming friends with some classmates who were not particularly friends has been one of the greatest pleasures of Facebook for me. I’ve reconnected with a couple of dozen people from my high school, and … Continue reading
Kaiser Wilhelm II wants to be your friend on Facebook
George Carlin said that “military intelligence” is an oxymoron. Well, I don’t think so. Whatever we think about war (I imagine we can all agree that it’s not that great) and military forces (we probably concur that they have their … Continue reading
Facebook is not a blog
I confess: I have spent the summer trying to use Facebook as a blog. It doesn’t work. I love Facebook and I delight in my Facebook Friends, but as a venue for getting a conversation going it’s been a failure … Continue reading