Tag: Facebook

  • Four reasons why the social network I have decided to invest in is…

    …LinkedIn. In the last week, I’ve gone on a Connections binge because I finally realized how important this platform is — something I’ve never done on any other social network. I already jettisoned my original Facebook account and access it only via browser (and not via mobile app because I don’t trust it on my…

  • The first (and last?) social media election: online resources and where to watch on second screen

    After the 2008 election, I hosted a conversation called “The First Digital President.” Barack Obama’s win was partially attributable to his online engagement and fundraising — primarily via a still-novel Facebook platform. But as a German news organization reported today: There are now ten times as many Facebook users and five times as many Twitter…

  • A conflict of Pinterest? Take Evernote (on my Galaxy Note)

    My biggest “wow” from yesterday’s Seattle Chamber Interest in Pinterest event (which I moderated), was how locally-based Allrecipes.com has migrated its social engagement away from Facebook to the new visual platform (which is now the 3rd most popular online social network). That’s even as Bloomberg reports today that Pinterest referral sales on Amazon (via Zappos) are…

  • Teaching the world’s media capital a thing or two

    “Boy was I ever important,” New York Times columnist David Carr declared during his Internet Week keynote. That’s when the newspapers’ presses – located one floor below — would come to life after he had submitted an important scoop, “and you would feel the rumble in your butt,” Carr said. Now, the once all-powerful cabal…