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Shopping Malls, Facebook, and the Passing of an Era
Listen to Radiolab’s City X. It’s a history of shopping malls told through slickly edited sound bites and Muzak.
How Different Are Your Blog's Copyright Interests from the Associated Press?
Given my longstanding interest in copyright, I’ve been following the AP anti-fair-use story with some interest (e.g., see this by Jason Kintzler, or this by Julian Baldwin; there’s also an interesting discussion thread ongoing at the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups).
What Comes After Web Sites and Online Social Networks?
Today we use the web in many ways. Traditional web sites — “places we go” on the web to do things — still exist. But increasingly, web based transactions also depend on the nature of our online relationships with other people.
Comparing Apples and Oranges: Linkedin and Facebook
Lunn comes out pretty clearly with the view that Linkedin is better for business use than Facebook. I agree — but I knew that six months ago.
What Happens When 20-Somethings Settle Down?
We’ve all seen the lists of things that differentiate younger generations from older generations. Here’s my own:
Dennis McDonald's Personal Facebook Saga
I’ve been reducing my use of Facebook recently having found it to be less useful — and less easy to use — than other social and professional networking tools.
Social Media and the Spread of FUD*
I thought I had heard just about everything to know about the famous 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater, but the March 25 episode of Radio Lab convinced me otherwise.
Direct Marketing, Blogging, and Association Email
In Three effective uses of a blog for association magazines Ben Martin lists a fourth item from a conference he attended recently:
Speedbumps on the Way to Creating a Blog Based Micro-Community
Lee White and I recently initiated an experiment, described here, that consists of our writing about a specific topic (project management and social media) on our respective blogs. Lee writes a post on his blog, I respond on my blog, then we combine and display the posts and the comments we receive in a single RSS feed.
What Should Project Managers Know about Social Media and Social Networking?
I’m a member of the online group SdB+PM Forum, a collective of 825 senior project managers who are also members of the Linkedin professional networking group.
