Social media

Video and interesting backgrounds

by Bill Wren on August 10, 2011

икониMy last video was kind of awful mainly because it was a mash-up stitched together from a webcam, a Canon ZR850 and a Canon PowerShot. The first third probably could have been scrapped. Still, the tip about avoiding “the furtive glance” was valid, I think. I have another video tip, this time about backgrounds, and [...]

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Social media school and learning curves

by Bill Wren on August 1, 2011

(Most of what follows was written prior to reading Chris Brogan’s Social Media Fatigue. It would be a very different post had I read his post before writing this. But it seems serendipitous that my post and his should coincide.) We all had to have blogs and then certain types of blogs, like WordPress. And [...]

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Google makes social media interesting again

by Bill Wren on July 26, 2011

I found myself wondering if Google might be the first company to actually get social media by focusing on the word social and realizing something was lacking in a big way in the world of social networks and technology generally. This was after having watched Andrew Keen’s interview about Google+ with Vic Gundotra (Google’s VP [...]

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Hazards of the mom and pop operation

by Bill Wren on June 22, 2011

A lot of small businesses fall into the category of “mom and pop” operation and we know what the phrase refers to: many constraints. The biggest is financial. A mom and pop operation struggles with just getting the product or service out there so it can be sold. They have limited reach, limited budget, limited [...]

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вик услугиOver the last four months or so I have been using social media far less than a year ago and I wonder if social media hasn’t hit a kind of tipping point and I’ve entered into a kind of fugue state where it is concerned. The dictionary on my computer defines fugue (second meaning) [...]

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