Tag Archives: Social Networking

Why caring is now the key to your brand’s success

February 6, 2012 Comments


No book could be more important or timely than Who Cares Wins by David Jones of Havas.  There is a growing awareness that the business revolution brought about by social media is bringing with it an equally transformation in the …

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How social media can destroy your business and what you can do about it

June 3, 2011 Comments


Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace. Social media has impacted how they perceive their roles, how they organize themselves …

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Facebook (re)Places: What it means for Foursquare and Gowalla

August 19, 2010 16 Comments


Yesterday Facebook announced its much anticipated entry into the location based services. Unlike Google Places which is a search tool, Facebook Places is a check-in service focused on social interaction. You simply use your phone to tell people where you …

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How social networks reshape business by reshaping us

August 17, 2010 54 Comments


httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwbX4HUOdE8&feature=related I wanted to share with you this video of a speech by Nicolas Christakis from the Harvard Dept. of Sociology, on the shaping powers of social networks. He does a wonderful job of explaining stastically the forces and dynamics …

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wecanendthis.com A living community ideation lab to end hunger

May 4, 2010 Comments


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 …

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

April 26, 2010 11 Comments


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 …

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What happens when everything you are is everywhere you are.

April 6, 2009 Comments


Watching Biz Stone, Twitter Founder, on the Colbert Report I was struck by how quickly the marketing world is changing. It wasn’t long ago that a person was defined by their home and, to a lesser extent, their office space. …

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