Tag Archives: social networking
5 Technologies For 2011
2010 was stuffed with technological innovation and gadgets that bedazzle (and break your budget.) For 2011, I recommend the following five technologies. Some may be familiar, some may be new to you, but all are worth a try. 1. Landline … Continue reading
Microsoft Office 2010 For Free
Microsoft recently announced that Office 2010 consumer version will soon be available for free: Office Web Apps. This might just make Google start sweating. If not, it should. Continue reading
Own Your Online Identity
Image by Bizzia.com I can’t emphasize the value of creating your online identity. I totally respect those who want to keep things private, but there is a way to balance privacy and making sure you are your identity is kosher. … Continue reading
Who Do You Trust?
Every single day people, arguable most, blindly accept companies’ TOS (“terms of service”). They unresistingly click “I Agree” to whatever legal jargon is in between them and their desired product or service. Why? People trust the companies have their best … Continue reading
The Voter Engagement Success of Obama ’08
During the 2008 Presidential election, the Obama campaign pushed the envelope in two significant ways: they set out to change the face of the electoral map by mobilizing new and young voters; and they took the guesswork out of their resource allocation strategy to achieve that goal.
Rather than engage in the futile exercise of attempting to control an outcome from the top-down, the Obama campaign structured its efforts to model the complexities and nuances of a political campaign in a networked society the same way scientists model an ecosystem, a weather system, an immune system, or a social system–using the concept of a Complex Adaptive System. Continue reading
Videos of UW Insight: The Digital President event
Facebook. Twitter. Mybarackobama.com. Text messaging. The president-elect used all of these digital tools to devastating effect in the 2008 election. How did he do it? What strategic lessons can we learn from Barack Obama’s high-tech campaign? How might he deploy … Continue reading
Wrestlemania: Wrestling with the Point of Social Media
I sometimes have the troubling thought of “what’s the point?” Yes, I am referring to social media and/or social networking and not the question of whether to put on clothes each morning. While questioning something that I study on a … Continue reading
Hi-Tech Shirts Link Social Networks to the Real World
Is science-fiction catching up to social networking? In a recent PC World article it seems that way. Imagine wearing a shirt with a bar code that can connect a stranger to your social networking profile by a click of your cellphone camera. Well a … Continue reading
