Facebook Disconnect? Connecting to the social ROI
The recently-announced platform service, Facebook Connect, will allow people to be social across sites on the internet in a new way. But will corporate offices and other workplaces allow access? And will the other similar services interact with each other, or find reasons to not interact reminiscent of the early days of instant […]
Definition of Social Media
In trying out the new Knol collaborative platform, I took a stab at defining Social Media. There were no search results for that term when I first tried it out, and in general as a new service Knol has a lot of opportunity for people to contribute. The definition-writing took about an hour […]
Social Clutter - Too Much Information
The music of The Police, including the artist Sting, has among the songs some concepts that were perhaps ahead of their time. One example is “Too Much Information” (listen), which was written over 25 years ago, and refers to having to deal with information overload:
Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me […]
An Old Idea Becomes New? Akashic Records & Tech
Someone mentioned to me at lunch last month a term I hadn’t heard - akashic. The wikipedia akashic definition has in it the following: “A theosophical term referring to a universal filing system which records every occurring thought, word, and action. The records are impressed on a subtle substance called akasha (or […]
You Can’t Touch a Tweet!
Online social interaction requires the real world, but can (or do) social media marketers blend the offline and online together in a useful way? Rarely.
My own online social interaction has always had a strong connection to the physical (real) world. My instant messaging was always with people I had met physically, until it wasn’t. My email messages […]
CSO: Chief Social Officer Job Description
So what does a CSO do, anyway? After searching a few top search engines, I couldn’t find any job descriptions for the title of “Chief Social Officer”, although I did find a partial writeup. After creating a quickly-cobbled together first-ever CSO job description, I’ve decided to refine it and share it out, as a true CSO […]
