photo by Greg Beadle © 2008 - http://www.gregbeadle.com The latest season of So You Think You Can Dance prompted me to compare certain elements about making a career in dance with making it in Social Media (SM). Yeah, may be a bit of a stretch. But hear me out. Here are some thoughts: Choreography to SM Skill … Continue reading So you think you can Social Media?
Author: autom
Autom writes at the intersection of communications and tech, tracking the why behind the what. He cuts through hype to surface nuance, moving from expanded insights on leading tech coverage to critical reflections distilled into rhythmic haikus. His work probes the tenor of an era saturated by hollow digital echoes. Driven by the gap between human intent and machine action, he both marvels at and cautions over tech’s relentless transformation.
Opinions are his own, not his employer's.
Ode to Twitter
for months at social sea, unyielding to cacophony of twitter dees and twitter dumbs a chanted mantra bit by byte by sprite, like strands of loaded wind a wiz awizzing by vibrating ears, vibrating tears of agony and ecstasy, yes even that recycled shamelessly to blog a post and post a blog and blog myself into a … Continue reading Ode to Twitter
Wikis for Enterprise
New entrants to the social media sphere are getting their feet wet, googly-eyed while sorting through the hype and determining what to leverage and how. For business communicators keen on emerging web-based technologies and their various applications to existing processes within the enterprise, a good starting point would be to look at how wikis (not … Continue reading Wikis for Enterprise
Filtering – a thorny path to awareness
Despite the nature (and brute power) of the social media beast to propagate at break-neck speed, the onus remains on us to filter through the barrage of information. To benefit from the ubiquitous advantage of real-time access to information, we must be able to make sense of it all; and do so ideally, at the … Continue reading Filtering – a thorny path to awareness
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