As businesses experiment with social media, their first impulses are to get onto twitter and say. HELLO I AM HERE or worse yet @JessicaGottlieb COME SEE MY NEW WIDGET I HAVE A 15% DISCOUNT FOR YOU And yes, typically they do use all caps. I think they learned it from Oprah. The magic of social [...]
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This morning I read about Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani. The Iranian mother of two will be stoned to death any day now, because she is a convicted adulterer. Without delving into the collective cruelty of a country that would punish people for the “crime” of intimacy. I wont’ even talk about the fact that she has [...]
According to ShePosts.com, someone from the hip and trendy Paul Frank Store right here in LA posted these words on twitter. Having your whole boob out and breastfeeding in our store #NOTOKAYATALL (since been deleted) Such is the danger of handing your brand over to a retail sales clerk. I’m a forty year old woman [...]
My friend George says that blogging is just a gateway drug. If that’s the case, then Twitter is heroin. It’s entirely possible that you got an email from me last night that looked like this: I need your help on twitter. Can you ask everyone to put #RefreshGary in their stream once every two hours. [...]
Hashtag Spam and twitter parties (they are synonyms). If you are not familiar with Twitter, you might not be familiar with hashtags, surely you are familiar with Spam. Twitter is a microblogging service. You can update your status using just 140 characters. It’s not quite a bulletin board, but it’s not a blog either. In [...]
Three bits of Netiquette you may have missed: Comments: When you go to leave a comment on my blog (and most others) you’ll need to add your name, email and an optional URL. If you have a link to point people toward, this is the place for the URL. When you add a URL in [...]
