The timing of Ben’s thoughts and Chris’ response have me wondering how many others are dealing with a similar issue of how to control – and express publicly – their social media consumption. I have been contemplating both my usage and the perception of my usage in this arena for some time now. Where I…
While I am all about utilizing social media to market your product and I am also in favor of using it to garner as much feedback as possible from the consumer, there is a limit to which I would take it. I’d say the creator’s of the new Joshua Jackson film One Week crossed that…
A major player in the world of web (both design and programming) was looking to adopt his third child along with his wife in the near future, the future came a little sooner than expected. Read all about it (and contribute if you’re inclined) here: http://snook.ca/adoption Through the use of twitter, in 12 hours he’s…
Still wrapping my brain around this: http://skittles.com/ They are using most major forms of social media to show their product and how people interact with it including twitter, facebook, youtube, flickr and wikipedia instead of having a standard website. Interesting concept, I can imagine that it won’t be long before we start to see this…
I get the computer equivalent of a funny look when “Internet people” find out I don’t have a Facebook or Myspace account. In fact, I get quite a few funny looks when I mention it to live people as well. There are many reasons why I have chosen not to sign up for an account…