Category: Social Media
Fake Facebook Friend Requests – How To Protect Yourself
Fake Facebook Friend requests could have much more serious implications than you think. Why? If they arrive via email. Yesterday, I received a poorly crafted, but fake Facebook Friend request: What’s the danger? What are these “more serious implications” I speak of? Because the email [...]
How Important Are The Internet And Social Media To You – Your Business?
For me, the Internet and Social Media are critical. A whole host of reasons. Here are just some of my views….. People are social beings – the Internet has significantly changed how we network and socialise. We ignore Social Media at our peril. I say peril because of what I am seeing out there. (My [...]
Facebook cussedness & my new Fan Page
****** Start of Facebook post ****** Hmm…my Facebook fan page , which I created yesterday, is not importing blog posts properly. Looking into it. Facebook is in some respects a ‘cussed’ application – counter intuitive, works in strange ways, feels like it has been thrown together and so on. I am not alone in my [...]
Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher
Twitter has become a powerful tool for community organizers, marketers, and others who want to share and receive information in a fast, friendly environment. It’s no wonder, then, that teachers have also found success on Twitter, using the tool to connect with students, share information with parents, and find useful resources. Here, we’ll take a [...]
URL shortening – my favorite method.
Up until recently I have been using Bit.ly for my link shortening. For some time now I have had the impression that Bit.ly is not tracking clicks properly and have been busy testing http://su.pr/ which is part of StumbleUpon. Recently, at Bit.ly, my click figures have gone right down – sometimes just 1 or 2 [...]
Imagine…a live photo feed like Twitter, but with pics.
DailyBooth – where you can share your life with others via photos. Post a photo instead of words. Use it to get real time updates on what your family and friends are doing. DailyBooth has a live, detailed map which shows where each picture is in the world. When a new photo appears on the [...]
Twitter tracks cats' movements!
Twitter knows when the cat comes in and out! Check out this story: Tweeting Cat Door More comment here: Twitter-Enabled Cat Door Tweets a Kitty’s Comings and Goings
20+ Great Twitter Tools for Firefox
I like Twitter and the Firefox web browser. Here are 20+ Great Twitter Tools for Firefox. Enjoy!
14 Twitter directories to find new friends
Here is a handy list of Twitter directories where you can find new friends. Twitter is certainly taking off these days. This morning I saw a prominent bar across an established news site which had a direct link to news about Natasha Richardson on Twitter.
Surgeons send ‘tweets’ from operating room.
Twitter is becoming ubiquitous! I quote: It’s potentially a risky surgery, but everything’s ready: The doctors and nurses are in the operating room, the surgical instruments are sterilized and ready to go, and the chief resident is furiously Twittering on his laptop. Surgeons send ‘tweets’ from operating room
Twitter Venn Diagrams
I am a big fan of Twitter. My other articles about Twitter are here. The mainstream are increasingly coming aboard Twitter and these days I am coming across more applications based around, or on, Twitter. Here is one such: Venn Diagrams Here is a direct link to an active Venn Diagram about chocolate,milk,hot. Clearly, those [...]
Man updates Twitter from site of airplane crash!
Just a quick post about another example of social media being at the forefront of new developments… Regular readers will have seen my posts about Twitter here. (Scroll down/go back and ignore Twitter Digest posts). Here is news of a guy who updated his Twitter immediately after being in a plane crash: Mike Wilson updates [...]
#mumbai: three days as a Twitter journalist
Last week I wrote a post about Twitter and another:Social media – citizen journalism: changing the world: Mumbai Terror. Today I came across this interesting news article written by a Twitter “journalist”: #mumbai: three days as a Twitter journalist The article gives a detailed account of how Twitter was used during the Mumbai horror and [...]
What is Twitter?
Twitter? What is it? How can I use it? What will I get from it? These are common questions asked by people about Twitter. I mentioned Twitter in a post recently about social media and the Mumbai massacre. Simply speaking, Twitter is a way of sending quick short messages to lots of people all at [...]
Social media – citizen journalism: changing the world: Mumbai Terror.
Back in the 20th century (I know, sounds awful doesn’t it) we used to read newspapers, listen to the radio or watch the news on television. The internet as a news source was still in its infancy back in 1999, yet today it is supplanting the old ways of doing things. Not only that, new [...]
Are cyber friends real?
Today, in our local online news source we have an article which claims that our new cyber technology is adversely affecting our friendships and which concludes that today some people have fewer friends. The article claims that the real culprit is technology. I disagree. Whilst in some respects I do think that technology misused can [...]
