Exploring Our Digital World
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#21: “Social media doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Make traditional media and social work together.”
Happy New year! Here’s a great infographic to refresh everybody’s memory of our brave new world’s rules of the road. Most of it head-nodding stuff but the piece is actually worth pinning to your wall.
It was at that same event I was told I was personally destroying journalism and someone called me a malevolent capitalist. I kinda liked the malevolent thing, though it’s the opposite of what I think. Demotix began precisely because I was interested in actively benevolent business. We come at the world with a very deliberate free speech agenda. And business is helping us spread that agenda globally.
As many social networks as there are, there is still heaps of room for innovation. With technology evolving in allowing users to develop new habits in using social networks, dreams can run wild about we’ll see in the future. But what will happen of the dozens networks that exist today? Will their number keep growing indefinitely?
It is then like stretching and slowing down time; where you once had the choice between as-it-happens-live-no-rehearsing and reflected-daunting-blow-by-blow communication means; we now have an a-la-carte, always-on, on our terms opportunities to communicate, connect and create new relationships.
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As to the why question, simply because it’s an event that moves billions of dollars in advertising and most brands are today operating on a global basis.
Honestly, a list of top anything can be created out of thin air and include people or things deemed worthy based on multiple factors. Notwithstanding, I’m flattered to know that the dedication and time I put in, generating content through various online channels, proved valuable to others. “Pride is the illusion of separation. Humility is the… [Continue Reading]
The interesting thing that happened is that by sharing the check-in on Twitter, Foursquare automatically tagged me as being at airport with a certain @TylerJanderson. We haven’t had the pleasure to meet yet, nevertheless if you look at the resulting tweet, it does look like I am purposefully mentioning him as in his company.
Links are very useful and constitute the raison d’être of the internet. Problem is they look ugly, gibberish and often relay a spamy smell; especially on Facebook. Take a look at the picture below, how ugly is that?!
Listed by Forbes as a top social media influencers two years in a row, I'm a new media marketing strategist, speaker, coach, biker and a week-end chef. more…