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#FollowFriday: The enemy of true conversation?

11 August 2009

Back in January 2009, @Micah (Micah Baldwin, who is currently with Lijit) sent out a tweet proposing "Follow Friday".

In an article on Mashable.com ("#FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend", Baldwin said:
The idea is to think of interesting people you already follow and recommend them to others
The idea was laudable — but what is the [...]

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How to lose your job on Facebook

10 August 2009

WARNING: Some might find the language used in the graphic offensive. It is, however, an actual Facebook message.

Jack Schofield,  the computer editor of The Guardian (a UK newspaper, online and off), sent out a Twitter message linking to the graphic file below.
It's a Facebook status message posted by a young woman — and her supervisor's [...]

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The real price of ignoring social media

5 August 2009

This past week saw the news break of a woman who Twittered a negative comment about Horizon Realty — with the result that Horizon filed a $50,000 lawsuit against her.
Is the lesson here that you should not twitter negative comments? Hardly.
The real lesson is the cost to Horizon Realty. It's a cost in reputation as [...]

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