January 2009

Twitter Challenge: Stop Blogging

January 31, 2009

This is the last blog post of mine devoted to Twitter until March. Ten days ago, Meg Fowler dared you

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Obama en Espanol: Is Government 2.0 Ready?

January 31, 2009

Barack H. Obama es el cuadragésimo cuarto presidente de Estados Unidos reads the opening sentence in the Spanish presidential biography on whitehouse.gov. The U.S. Census language report from 2000 indicated 28 million residents spoke Spanish at home, representing about one-fifth of the total population. Over 215 million parents and children spoke English “very well.” Rounding [...]

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Scientific Study of Twitter Proves What You Told Me: Value, Value, Value!

January 30, 2009

Using data from an academic study of 309, 740 Twitter users, the image on the left represents the typical online social network on Twitter, comprised of people you follow and people who follow you. The image on the right symbolizes your inner circle; the people you send messages to the most. Social networks have existed [...]

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Why I Don’t Care for Ikea Werbungs

January 29, 2009

German for an advertisement, the latest werbung to go viral on YouTube is a 3-D catalog distributed last year by IKEA, which celebrates the notoriety of printing the most third-class catalogs in the world. Hat tip to Erin Norton for sharing this video:

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Sextogenarian Women Come to Facebook

January 29, 2009

I wrote last fall about the pending arrival of  mommies to Facebook. Despite my generation with a greater presence, a rising number of American women my mother’s age are turning to the site… Keep following those red dots of women when men are added:

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Bombarded by Email Spam?

January 28, 2009

Many bloggers go out of their way to mask their email address on websites to prevent “robots” from harvesting them for inbound spam purposes–Chris Brogan types his out (blog at chrisbrogan.com), Darren Rowse prefers a contact form, and David Meerman Scott uses both. My impression is their tactics are to prevent email spam bombardment: I [...]

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Mark Drapeau is the Epitome of Government 2.0

January 28, 2009

Mark Drapeau is the epitome of Government 2.0 and I am sorry I thought anything contrary. Five months ago, I saw Mark’s name for the first time after reading his debut Mashable article providing an insider’s perspective to government. Mark is an Associate Research Fellow at the National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National [...]

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How to Thank Your Critics Online

January 27, 2009

With the apt title, “New Media Communications Firm Misrepresents Itself,” I wrote last October about an integrated marketing firm in Boston, 451 Marketing, that was walking the social media walk but not talking the talk. I’d seen a press release arrive in my email inbox in the form of a Google Alert about a state [...]

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