Types of Social Media
Quick overview of the various types of social media available to all of us today.
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Google Plus: What Is It Really All About?
Tommy Landry takes a moment to review Google+, discussing it’s use as a social network and how it might be important to understand for social search.
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Privacy and Social Media: Something is Amiss
Important Privacy Info: Sign petition for Google & Facebook to protect your data, & learn about new persona software that the federal government is building.
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Social Media: Think Before You Tweet
Last week while traveling to San Francisco for the RSA Conference 2010, I finally took the time to figure out how to use TwitPic from my mobile phone. It was like a revelation! For those of you who follow me, you may have seen as I posted various photos from the trip out there, my dinner the first night, etc. I had a shiny new toy!
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Information Security & the New Generational Gap
Since the RSA Conference is happening this week, I thought it would be different to do a piece that hits on both Real-time and Information Security. The following blog post is my own original work that appeared on The Network View, the official blog for Anue Systems, on November 12, 2009. It highlights some important sociological differences between the various generations of today’s adult population, and looks at how changing work habits and security need to find a workable balance.
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Fantasy Sports: Social Networking or Time-Wasting?
Most of you likely looked at the title of this post and wondered, “Tommy, what the heck are you talking about? Fantasy Sports is not social networking.”
On the surface, it’s easy to see why the game could be viewed that way. But I’m here to tell you that fantasy sports are as much a vehicle for social networking as Facebook, Flickr, and even foursquare / gowalla.
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Social Media: It CAN be measured too!
If you keep up with the local Austin startup scene or even with new social media services as they pop up, then surely you saw the announcement from Spredfast about their Social Media Campaign Management Dashboard product. It would easy to dismiss this as just another hype-laden announcement about a new social media tool, but that would be rather short-sighted in this case.
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