Archive | January, 2010

Social Media Naysayers

January 25, 2010 Written by Social Media

In my experience trying to convince social media naysayers that they should get on the social media band wagon is largely a wasted exercise. What do uThnk?

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Is Social Media Becoming A Turn Off?

January 20, 2010 Written by Social Media

Well what made social media so darn interesting for businesses in the first place? Was it the cool funky social tools or was it the fact that some really switched on companies where engaging with people in an open honest and seemingly transparent way? Me thinks the later.

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Cliches About “Free”

Cliches About “Free”

January 19, 2010 Written by Social Media

When talking about free there’s clichés aplenty…“there’s no such thing as a free lunch”, “there’s free as in speech and there is free as in beer” etc. The funny thing about clichés is that there’s often a kernel of truth to them.

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Social Media Ninjas

January 3, 2010 Written by Social Media

There is quite a lot of chat going on about the amount of self-proclaimed Social Media experts popping up on Twitter right now. I wasn’t horribly surprised when I read that the number of (for the sake of this post I’m going to call them Social Media Pros or SMPS) had exploded from 4,487 to [...]

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