recession hits social media startups: twitter in the deadpool

twitters investors have run out of money. the massive hits to the market have taken their toll, and bad loans elsewhere have forced investors to pull the plug.
at the moment the scenario is improbable but not impossible. if you said lehman brothers and wamu were going to go bust two years back you would have [...]

social media body of knowledge

back when i was a systems architect most of the projects i executed on were overseen by a project manager. their mandate was to ensure the project came in on time and on budget to a sufficient level of quality.
they had help in what they did because of a number of frameworks. one of them [...]

the most responsive social media experience i’ve had: drupal

i think i have just had one of my most responsive customer service experiences ever and i am not even a customer.
drupal is an open source content management platform. i experimented with it for a while but ultimately i found that as i was mainly blogging, wordpress suited me better.
i tweeted about it and found [...]

social media 101: what is social media?

if you have clients who just don’t get social, this video makes it really easy to understand.
common craft who produce the video also have one for twitter, wikis, blogs and rss feeds. all of which you can purchase to use during training sessions.

united states military fiddles with photos

the gang over at boing boing posted the photos of two dead soldiers.
the catch? the u.s military has doctored the images. eagle-eyed chief photog over at the San Antonio Express-News spotted the photoshop shenanigans.
it seems that for one reason or another they have chosen to cut and paste different faces onto the identical body.
without getting [...]

apple’s campaign “i’m a pc” dealt a deathblow

this campaign is nothing short of brilliant.
to be completely honest, i never thought i would see the day that microsoft would respond so effectively to apple’s “i’m a pc” campaign.
hats off to the agency, crispin, porter + bogusky and hats off to microsoft.

grassroots social media: nosey in newtown

i stumbled upon this gem of a site: nosey in newtown and it probably represents the best example of social media at a grassroots level.
the blogger known only as “nosey” writes about her local area newtown, an bohemian suburb in the inner west of sydney. it’s a colourful community consisting of an eclectic mix of [...]

is deception okay in advertising?

this has been one of those posts that has been sitting as draft in wordpress for a couple of months now.
the idea started out as an excited facebook message (who emails anymore?) from a very dear friend, lisa, who is now living in new york:
“So, there’s something very cool going on here at the moment.
It [...]