Category: Social Media

Time has posted a piece about a service I never knew existed:

Presto and Celery, which both launched in 2006, deliver e-mail printouts almost in real-time because they require subscribers to purchase hardware to handle incoming messages. (In addition to personal updates and interesting articles, caregivers can send reminders about doctors’ appointments or family functions.) Celery charges $13.98 a month to send and receive (color printouts of) e-mails — as well as Facebook and Twitter updates — via a fax machine, which costs $119 if you don’t already own one.

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From Open Press Wire:

Are you tired of hearing it yet? I sure am. It seems Twitter has fostered an extreme steroid fed bacterial growth of social media experts, social media gurus and super follower magnates. Unfortunately there isn’t much of an antibiotic floating around to separate the experts from the idiots. If you weren’t aware already, most of these experts are just idiots that have found a stool to stand on and shout their garbled rehashed crap they read from TwiTips.com and rewrote it on their own “pretty” blog.

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Oh brother:

Even if you’re not the type of person who uses Facebook or Twitter yourself, there’s no denying that these new forms of connection and communication are powerful and becoming increasingly important. That’s why your business should be on Twitter now.

Haven’t we already covered this?

Twitter tips are not included in the list of reasons I read Macworld.

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Urban Dictionary:

1. A joke used to refer to persons claiming to be experts in the field of social media. The punch-line being that those with enough expertise in the field know it’s an impossible field to be an expert of.

2. A self proclaimed title by carpetbaggers and snakeoil salesman to mesmerize unsuspecting people with their recipes of easy “1,2,3” success in Social Media.

And some examples:

1. That guy with hardly any social media experience will call himself an expert.

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Yesterday, I discussed the work of BJ Fogg, a social media guy at Stanford, and I said I could not find the pricing for his 6-week Facebook course. Turns outs there was a reason I couldn’t find that information. Here’s an email I received from him this morning:

FYI – To date. I’ve not received a dime for teaching parents about Facebook at Stanford.

This was a public service. And the parents were grateful.

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Over the last few months, I’ve grown increasingly annoyed by social media - and those trying to make a buck off of it as “social media gurus.”

So what does CNN do? Give me someone else to dislike:

Many of these older folks use social networks to keep tabs on younger family members and they often find fruitful connections with their peers after they’ve friended all of their kids and grandkids, according to an informal survey by Stanford University professor BJ Fogg.

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There’s an event in May called “140 | The Twitter Conference” that is exactly what I was talking about yesterday:

On May 26th and 27th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, we’re bringing together  the top gurus in the Twitosphere to discuss all things Twitter, from understanding the business value of Twitter to exploring the what makes a great Twitter app.

Just a few of the other topics to be covered include: Utilizing Twitter data for brand monitoring and seeking Alpha * Creating compelling Web services with the Twitter APIs * Best practices: How smart organizations are utilizing Twitter * Attracting and keeping followers.

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Leo King at Macworld:

Businesses can make use of Twitter as a public relations channel, but they need to be aware of security when sharing ideas, market-research firm Gartner has said.

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Many businesses are using Twitter as a public relations and marketing channel, Gartner said. Businesses are “tweeting” about corporate accomplishments, distributing links to press releases, and responding to other Twitterers’ comments about their brand.

Gartner said this approach should be used with caution because uninteresting Tweets could hinder the brand image as much as help.

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Twitter:

Twitter Engineering and Operations are on the case but if you receive a Direct Message with a blogspot.com link in it that redirects to what seems like Twitter.com do not enter your Twitter credentials. If you look at the URL, you’ll notice that it is not really Twitter but twitter.access-logins.com—a sketchy phishing site.

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FakeSarahPalin is calling it quits after Obama’s victory:

It has been fun making you laugh through this election. If you’ve laughed at us and found us funny, do us (and America) a favor: spend the next four years working to make America better. Heed Obama’s call for service. We rarely have opportunities like this, so– let’s take advantage of it.

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