In the years that I've been involved in social media, I have heard so many misconceptions and myths about social media that I am certain this article is long overdue. Here is a list of the top five misconceptions regarding social media:
This article examines the process of using this still-new method of raising donations for charities -- what it is, how to use it, and some of the issues to think about and plan for.
Great article on how to get designers and developers to work effectively to render designs in HTML, as well as a reality check about pixel-perfect rendering in every browser (graceful degradation is the preferred method)
If you haven't created a Facebook fan page for your business yet, you may be unaware of the real benefits. I touch on many of these benefits in my previous post, Facebook Fan Pages vs. Groups. One of the useful tools I mention in that article is Facebo
Katrina's devastation of New Orleans was BSM (before social media). It's hard to think that we lived during a period of time without social networking, but only 4 years ago Facebook was barely one year old, and Twitter was yet to be inked out on a restaur
United States intelligence agencies will have a tool to read blog posts, Twitter tweets and chatter across the Internet. In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment arm of the U.S. government, has infused cash into Visible Technologies with plans to ma
On Monday, early adopter and Web provocateur Robert Scoble suggested that my use of Google Reader to share the best of the tech Web each day was antiquated. In fact, he called Reader "a dead product" compared to Twitter, which he believes will grow in imp
BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST, Uganda (Reuters) - Lurking deep in the mist-glazed forests of east Africa, Uganda's mountain gorillas are preparing to 'tweet' for their survival.
With the launch on Saturday of the "Friend a Gorilla" campaign, human fans will
Computerworld: The White House's data.gov effort is spurring the creation of some entertaining and informative applications from private developers.
Take for instance, DataMasher, which allows you to take two sets of data and merge them. Popular mashups
Forum One`s DataMasher took first place out of 47 entries in Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest, a competition in which participants were challenged to build a web site or internet application that makes federal data more accessible, interesting, an
If you want to keep tabs on a U.S. senator or Congressman's votes, tweets, or YouTube posts, a convenient website -- Legistalker.org -- tracks them all, with updates every 20 seconds. The site, which came in second in the Sunlight Foundation's Apps for Am