Posts Tagged "Twitter"

Twitterfeed: An Old New Tool

Posted by on Jan 20, 2012 in Social Media | 0 comments

Twitterfeed: An Old New Tool

Some thoughts on using Twitterfeed to enable easy posting of RSS content across various social media sites. Includes a brief description of features and capabilities

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Please Feed The Animals

Posted by on Aug 26, 2009 in Case Study | 1 comment

If I were a giant, publicly-traded-holding-company-owned-agency I'd look at Please Feed The Animals as both a wonderful staffing resource but also both a rebuke of, and a threat to my organization. The world's biggest, most experienced agency is on the streets.

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Returning to the Agora

Posted by on Aug 19, 2009 in Culture, Social Media | 2 comments

In this world of social media (really in any world) it's all about engagement: with people, their ideas, their points of view, opinions, photos, work, trials and triumphs. Marketers have been striving for decades to engage customers to sell clients' stuff. The name of the game hasn't really changed, the tools have, and the communication channels have ...

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Posterous, A New Favorite

Posted by on Jun 26, 2009 in Social Media, Technology | 2 comments

When I talk to my clients about social media strategies and tactics I always mention Posterous when I notice them calculating the time it will take to update their various outposts.

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#iran, #iranelection & Twitter

Posted by on Jun 18, 2009 in Politics, Social Media, Technology | Comments Off

Tonight marks nearly a week of serious unrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran in the wake of a presidential election that by most any standards was rigged in favor of the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For the first time in 30 years — since the Khomeinist revolution that birthed the current  republic — the streets of Iranian cities are thronged by young protesters clamoring for freedom. Things seem to be going badly for the ruling elite. They obviously mismanaged the election rigging. Shutting down the cell phone text messaging system on the day of the election, and declaring a winner within 3 hours of poll closings when more people voted last week than any...

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