The Social in Social Media
I ran across this interesting post today by Tom O’Brien at Movie Quest. Here’s a key highlight from 5 Things About Social Media:: Social media is about human scale engagement – not technology SM is...
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Elias Bizannes provides a round-up of definitions of social media in “Thank you 2008, you finally gave New Media a name.” The shortest definition in his post is: “social media are primarily Internet...
View ArticleTweulogy: “Not every event needs a backchannel”
Check out this humorous cartoon from Tweulogy. (If it hasn’t happened already, I’m sure it will some day soon.) As Rob Cottingham points out: There’s a fascinating renegotiation going on between...
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A decision tree for charts
When you have data to present, how do you decide what kind of chart or figure to use? For me, it’s often a long process of trial and error, trying to find a visual representation that looks right....
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A Twitter horoscope via @ptarkkonen @ArthurTubman
Two successive tweets in my morning timeline remind that received wisdom is so oft contradictory. (Thanks to @ptarkkonen and @ArthurTubman.)
View ArticleEvent promotion: it’s an email, not a bulletin board
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but if you are promoting an event a couple dozen words are much better. Just because you can send a picture via email, it doesn’t mean you should. The very...
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