The thoughts that bubble forth from my overactive mind…
Posted in Big Thinkers, Social Media How-Tos on Aug 31st, 2009
Here’s a comment I posted to my friend Raul Pacheco-Vega’s blog, Hummingbird604. He was asking for some more opportunities for the Vancouver online community to discuss at a deeper level the many issues our evolving use of social media raises. I’ll comment a bit more, but here’s what I posted following his article. Has the [...]
Posted in Social Media How-Tos on Aug 20th, 2009
Twitter has a few “special powers” as social media. In particular, it’s a powerful grapevine, thanks to the evolution of the beloved “retweet”, also known as RT. But how does a retweet work? Where are the rules for retweeting? Like much that is Twitter, or many other forms of human intercourse, the rules aren’t written [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Where Work meets Life on May 6th, 2009
Let me start by saying that I LOVE to connect with people. Last month, when I blogged about culling my Twitter list, I really meant it when I said “I hate breaking up with people”. It seemed natural to me, a few months ago, to want to follow-back people who follow me on Twitter, and [...]