OK, Twitter For Dummies should be called Twitter for Everyone. I may be considered a pretty heavy Twitter user and was #herebeforeoprah but even I really enjoyed getting into the heads of Laura @pistachio Fitton, Michael @gruen Gruen, and Leslie @geechee_girl Poston. If I were to boil Twitter for Dummies down, I would say that […]
Archives for August 2009
‘All a Twitter’ is Twitter for smarties
If you’re smart and savvy but have not yet been wooed to the world of Twitter, All a Twitter is for you: All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter. Author Tee Morris writes this book more to the folks who are not quite wooed by Twitter yet but who […]
Photos from Seizing the Moment
Spent Friday at Seizing the Moment, the sold-out, end-of-summer Garage/Summer Institute at San Francisco State University featuring a rich array of speakers who provided training in multimedia, new media, social media and more. I gave a 90-minute Social Media Bootcamp with Susan Mernit, and I’ll post the presentation on Monday. Above is Benjamin Jealous, president […]
Aren’t we all a little narcissistic and Internet addicted?
New study doesn’t distinguish between flaws and healthy behavior I‘ve long believed that the Internet exists solely because of our ego. Everything we do publicly online is an effort to be acknowledged. This week, two stories pointed out the frighteningly obvious: That students who use social networks are narcissistic and that a center for Internet […]
5 questions for the author of ‘Twitterville’
Shel Israel discusses the impact of the real-time Web on society & business Shel Israel’s new book, Twitterville, is due to hit hit bookstores next week. (See Twitterville site, the Global Neighbourhoods blog or Amazon page.) A day after his book release party at the Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, Calif., Shel took time out […]