I’ve had a personal blog for a rather long time, but I don’t post here anymore. More than any other place, I post to Facebook. I have recently decided that I want to stop using Facebook. This post isn’t about why I’m leaving; I may write about that in the future. Rather, this post is… Read more »
Category: Social Media
#occupywallstreet vs #thathighmoment
I just had another discussion about the amount of media attention (or lack there of) the Occupy Wall Street protest was seeing. There have been slews of reports that Twitter may be blocking the trending topic. I just did the most basic of tests. I searched over and over again for both #OccupyWallStreet as well… Read more »
The Mess Of Social Media
Did you know kids don’t use email? They say they prefer social media and txt messages. The other day I opened up Pidgin for the first time in a while and realized that I haven’t added any “new” contacts in years. I barely write to my own blog and have failed to visit my RSS… Read more »
Building Community: The Game Changed
My first online community effort happened in 1994. I didn’t have a vision or understand what I was doing. It was low tech and attracted a small population, but it filled a need so it sustained for several years. Back then, building an online community was actually rather easy. In 2007, I was hired by… Read more »
My Own Social Media History
There’s a silly link going around to see if someone was on Twitter before Oprah. Seeing the link today, I started doing something I’ve thought about for a while. I did a quick audit of some of the social sites I belong to and referenced when I joined. I also looked at some of my… Read more »
On The Pirate Bay Sentencing
The file sharing rant has raged on for years. While the media industries claim that file sharing has hurt their market share, the movie industry is seeing record sales. For many, it’s obvious what is going on. With the advent of new media, we saw a shift in how things work in our world. Once… Read more »
You’re A Social Media What?
I’ve struggled with some job titles in the past. Occasionally I would be filling a new role that related to some emerging tech and have the challenge of trying to tell people what I was doing in as few words as possible. About the time I would finally settle on something I thought fit, I… Read more »
Dallas Snowboarders: Two Weeks Later
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned DallasSnowboarders.com. We did some basic promotion by announcing the site in a few places online and started spreading the word of mouth. In the past two weeks we have had about 15,000 page loads. As of the time of this post, we have 29 registered users. If we… Read more »
Open Source Social Networking
Social Networking is easy. Any user can jump online and join one of hundreds of social networking sites. The “friends list” concept is popping up all over the place. You can find social networks for posting pictures, videos, and even finding dates. Perhaps it’s the ease of use that enables them to be so popular…. Read more »
A New Virtual Community: DallasSnowboarders.com
There’s nothing particularly unique about the virtual community I helped launch recently. The community is for the small but quickly growing group of snowboarding enthusiasts in the Dallas area. Thus, the site is appropriately called Dallas Snowboarders. Here’s our banner: As I said, there’s not much unique about it. We used PHPBB as our forum… Read more »