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A Confusing Social Media Birthday

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But I was really surprised by the number of people that used my birthday as a way to “get something” without “giving something” other than a few words in a social media message. The post A Confusing Social Media Birthday appeared first on Feld Thoughts. This confused me.

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More Thoughts on Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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A few weeks ago I read Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. He makes a reasonable case (obviously with a lot of room to dispute individual points) that social media is “bad” in general and a source of concern. Last I checked, no one uses Google Plus.

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Is Astroturfing Coming To Social Media?

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It’s when this becomes a social media strategy. Once someone builds this into a social media dashboard and automates the “identify-keyword, add, @reply-message” function, it’ll get yucky fast. My concern isn’t the one off dynamic, which I don’t think has much real impact.

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Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon

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Fred Wilson had an excellent post up this morning titled Social Media’s Secret Weapon – Email. My partners and I have continued to invest aggressively in what we believe is social media’s secret weapon which we refer to as the comm channel in a hat tip to the TV show 24.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

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They didn’t just “grow up with social media,” they grew up with “social media that constantly changes.” ” In fact, not only do they keep up with the changes on a particular social media service, they are always exploring the latest new services.

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Help Support Black-Owned Businesses

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It consists of providing your support and sending out the following message on social media. I request [@Friend One], [@Friend Two] and [@Friend Three] to also “Do The BOB” by sharing the logo and text on social media. ?Learn Jasper has started a campaign called Do the BOB. Learn More: [link]. ?#BlackOwnedBusiness

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The Circle

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We’ve somehow elevated social media metrics to the same level as money in the context of self-worth. .” We’ve taken Peter Drucker’s famous quote “‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” to an absurd extreme in the tech business.