March 23, 2011
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Strategy is the immutable forest. Tactics vary with circumstances, like as do individual trees in the forest. Learn the difference and how it impacts your organization’s social media activities. Continue reading
February 26, 2011
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Learn how to use the CPAN Net::Twitter library harvest queries created with http://search.twitter.com. Continue reading
April 22, 2010
by meandean
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Facebook rocked the internet yesterday with 5 new plugins, one of which is an API for the Facebook Like Button. After reading about it and playing a bit with the Facebook’s Like Button generator, I decided what’s needed is a WordPress plugin that allows folks to easily configure the look-and-feel of the Facebook Like Button, and then automatically add it the beginning and/or the end of their posts. Continue reading
February 19, 2010
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Despite the all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the tech community about how closed or limited the iPad is, it is going to sell simply because its users don’t care whether or not the thing is open or closed or “made of kumquats … so long as they can Tweet and Facebook with ease, they’re set. Continue reading
June 17, 2009
by meandean
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Twitter, Facebook, Myspace. If you’re using any of these tools to communicate from the summer mission field, then communicate with me. FriendFeed, Orkut, Tumblr, Linkedin, Bebo too. I’ve been asked to write a major Christian publication – so if you’re using a social network to talk to the folks back at home, then please take a moment to talk to me. Continue reading
May 13, 2009
by meandean
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Here’s another lesson we can take from Twitters poor handling of their @ replies notification setting problem: don’t tell users that they’re the problem when it is your system that’s sick (e.g.#FixReplies + #TwitterFail vs. #TwitterLied) Continue reading
May 13, 2009
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Twitter, in fiddling around with their @ replies notification setting, created a firestorm of outrage among the known twitterverse manifesting itself into to hash mark campaigns entitled ‘#fixreplies’ and ‘#twitterfail’ respectively. Continue reading
December 10, 2008
by meandean
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Twitter gives our mundane lives meaning, that’s why it beat the snot out of a more ‘feature-rich’ Pownce. To prove my point, let’s rewind about a year and a half ago to Tamar Weinberg’s comparison entitled ‘Twitter vs. Pownce: Who … Continue reading