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Should employers be able to ask for employee’s Facebook passwords?

Should employers be able to ask for employee’s Facebook passwords?

By on April 25, 2012 in Editorial

An AP story reported last month a situation in which a company asked a potential hire for their password after learning that their Facebook account was set to private.             Many people are up in arms about the invasion of privacy, calling it ludicrous and unreasonable for management to think [...]

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Are social media and networking a waste of time?

Are social media and networking a waste of time?

By on March 16, 2012 in Editorial, Social Media

Are social media and networking including twitter, blogs, google+ and linkedin among other venues and mediums a waste of time or only for those who have nothing else to do? As with most things, the answer is it probably depends. However IMHO the answer is NO, social media and networking when incorporated as a part [...]

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Google+: A “social” assault on Facebook & Twitter

By on July 12, 2011 in Editorial, Social Media

It’s no secret that Google wants to be social. It attempted at doing so numerous times already. First came orkut which failed to catch on here in the US, then came Google Buzz which didn’t seem to catch on anywhere. Then came the short-lived Google Wave, which was the biggest disaster of them all. But [...]

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Drama In Middle East Drives Global Internet Expansion

Drama In Middle East Drives Global Internet Expansion

By on June 28, 2011 in Community Manager, Editorial, Social Media

Access to information drives human destiny.  However, democracy, not so much. As we witnessed in North African nations like Tunisia and Egypt, and now, to a certain extent, Libya, the ability to speak truth to power and to get information from the source, sans top-down censorship, may be enhanced by the tools of the Internet, [...]

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Social Network Checklist For Big Technology: branding vs lead generation redux

By on May 24, 2011 in Community Manager, Editorial, Social Media

Define Your Lead Generation Domain The consumer hordes flocking to the social networks have created a meaningful subsidy to the advertising industry. Our poor print friends, and TV and radio friends, are suffering the last few years, but Internet 2.0 is living up to the hype by providing new global eyeballs with lots of crossover [...]

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Delays Lead To Zero Day Vulnerability

By on January 29, 2010 in Community Manager

Democracy, the elusive political system, got a lift from Twitter’s Founder, Evan Williams. As we shared earlier this week, prior to Google’s recent refusal to abide by China’s censorship rules, CCTV’s Tian Wei reminded everyone that Google courted and vowed to keep within China’s rules and firewalls, prior to launching there. The Twitter founder says [...]

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Greetings to #scrm on Mark Tamis, Prem Kumar, Esteban Kolsky, Jesús Hoyos, Tamar Weinberg and more

By on October 28, 2009 in Community Manager, Social Media

The “accidental” #scrm twitter group will be invited to share their experiences and tap into the tek-tips community on a regular basis. We look forward to their discussions.

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The Selfish Meme and The Future of Technology

By on August 4, 2009 in Community Manager, Data Center

It should be no surprise that, in tracking the technology business, the world’s best thinkers borrow from the lexicon of biology and the natural world. After all, both follow an evolutionary, heuristic, process with all sorts of connections and shared metaphors. For example, the cultural equivalent for a gene is called a meme: an idea [...]

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Social Friday: Using Twitter Search

By on June 4, 2009 in Editorial, Enterprise Applications, On-Demand, Social Media

People new to Twitter are often dumbfounded. Why would I use Twitter? Why do I want people to know that I am making a sandwich? Let’s play devil’s advocate. Let’s say I own a restaurant. I am thinking about what new sandwich to offer on the menu. I am looking for something new, creative, that [...]

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Twitter Users Victims of Two-Phase Attack: Screencast

By on June 1, 2009 in Community Manager

It looks like Twitter users were hit by a two-phase attack over the past week, fueling expert claims that Twitter is in criminals sights as a ripe place to execute “for-profit,” attacks. Phase 1: >>Last week, about 13,000 Twitter users get fooled into giving up their user names and passwords. At first it appears to [...]

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