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Social networking

Is Facebook really the one with the identity crisis?

by Simon on May 26, 2010 · View Comments

in Community, Consumers, Facebook, Social networking, Values

Today Mark Zuckerberg travels to D.C. for a Congressional Briefing on privacy. While this will probably bring the privacy debate to a boil, I wanted to return to a Zuckerberg statement revealed last week that was largely overlooked in the emotion of privacy pushback. The statement was extracted  from David Kirkpatrick’s upcoming book, The Facebook Effect by Michael Zimmer [...]

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Social media and your place in it: ‘Connection Generation’ by Iggy Pintado review and giveaway

by Simon on May 18, 2010 · View Comments

in BOOKS, Social media, Social networking

This week I’m giving away a copy of Iggy Pintado’s Connection Generation. Inside Iggy reveals how the world’s new obsession with connectivity directly affects the success or failure of how we function in society, both in business and as individuals.
With ever increasing links between all facets of society, he stresses it’s important to understand how to [...]

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Is Facebook really to blame for your privacy issue?

by Simon on May 9, 2010 · View Comments

in Community, Facebook, Optimism, Social networking, Technology, Twitter, thought leadership

Jeff Jarvis wrote a great post yesterday about Facebook, privacy and the theme of his upcoming book – publicness. I can’t wait to read it – seriously, Jeff, write fast – as it provides much-needed clarity around the web’s hottest issue: privacy.
Critical to his post was the distinction between the ‘private’ public (that’s the one we [...]

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wecanendthis.com A living community ideation lab to end hunger

by Simon on May 4, 2010 · View Comments

in Causes, Community, Social networking, thought leadership

One of the remarkable ideas at SXSW this year was the cause lab organized by wecanendthis.com This is a model for idea generation whether you’re a for-profit brand, a non-profit or a foundation. Here’s how it worked.
A whole bunch of people who didn’t know each other got in a room and literally brain stormed about [...]

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Facebook’s Open Graph: Is privacy a given or a taken away?

by Simon on April 26, 2010 · View Comments

in Community, Facebook, Future, Social media, Social networking

The internet has been ablaze this week with discussion around the impact of Facebook’s announcements at the f8 conference last week. Effectively Facebook has dismantled the walls between it and the entire web inviting conjecture that the entire web will become social and that Facebook is making a bid for control. From a user’s point [...]

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Will Facebook come unstuck now that it’s the social glue?

by Simon on April 21, 2010 · View Comments

in Advertising, Community, Facebook, Social networking

Today was transformative for the Web. When Facebook announced that its ‘Like’ button is going to appear on publisher sites throughout the web they smashed their own dam walls positioning themselves as treasurer of the social currency of emotion.
This not only gave Facebook the capacity to capture an almost unlimited amount of real-time consumer data, [...]

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Protected: Facebook About-Face is Role Model Behavior

by Simon on February 28, 2009 · View Comments

in Social networking

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