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Drucker and Facebook–Organizing for Change

October 19th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Brands & Markets, Psychology

There’s a story about the demise of Facebook in the Washington Post: Worldwide ebb for Facebook.
I like the logic–when a company’s been around long enough for someone to make a movie out of it, then it’s probably on the downhill slide, even if they do get Justin Timberlake.
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Hang in There Jack: A Case Study in Cross-Platform Digital Storytelling

February 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Brands & Markets, Politics & Policy, Social Media, Technology

Why would someone use television ads, billboards, and print to drive people to online and social media sites?
1) For the right audience, social media has lots of advantages, speed of dissemination, trust, interaction, expectations, collaboration, and emotional investment in user-generated content, engagement, curiosity, or
2) you are trying to look very hip and don’t care if [...]

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New Communication Rules Bring New Communication Careers

February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Cognition, Networks, Technology

Newsweek’s Technology Section has an article called “Twitter, Unmasked: Who is really writing all those Tweets? Professional microbloggers.” This article  underscores the importance of looking at new media with an open-mind. Too many people I know, when faced with media that is not indigenous to their technological coming of age, spend way too long [...]

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The Digital Social “Me”

January 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Cognition, Education, Social Media, Technology

I sat with a group of educators, marketers, public relations professionals, investor relations professionals, and web developers yesterday talking about how to develop a graduate level program focused on social media. This was especially interesting because as the only psychologist, my vantage point was quite different. Where marketers talk about metrics and stats [...]

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Facebook is just another connection

December 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Education, Psychology

An article in the Financial Times (Lawyers use Facebook to serve papers) reports that an Australian lawyer received permission from a local court to serve papers using Facebook social network. It seems that Mr. McCormack, the Canberra solicitor, had been unable to track down his victims in more traditional ways. The article also notes [...]

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