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I have been working on some alternatives to Smugmug over the last 24 hours since I finally bit the bullet and decided that it is time to go, as I explained here yesterday. What I am seeing is that the sites are basically breaking down into two categories, showcase and warehouse. While my experience doesn’t [...]

This has been a very interesting week for employers and Facebook. I have been writing about this story over on Toolbox, here and here if you are interested in reading,     but on this site I want to go a little deeper into the idea of asking prospective employees for a username and password [...]

The more you look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. You can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with the subject and the better your [...]

Jet Blue has two approaches to the use of social media, external and internal. The use of external social media comprises Twitter, a pseudo blog “Flight Log” that has not been updated since October 2007, Facebook and MySpace pages. There is also a YouTube channel that is updated occasionally.  Internal use was field tested via [...]

Note: This was originally published right here on Techwag in January of 2012. This is a repost due to the move of Techwag from one hosting company to another. This is one of the most difficult blog entries to write, one it is hard to tell the truth, and in some ways I think the [...]

  First World meets Social Media and attempts to curtail it much like their third world counterparts – too late the cat is so far out of the bag we can’t even catch a whiff of what things were like before social media communications to coordinate groups for good, or bad.   It is interesting [...]