I posted part of this taped interview a while back and the folks at Oklahoma State University were gracious enough to give me the entire taped interview with Dr. Weinberger, outtakes and all. There is lots here so I hope you will take a second (2,119 to be exact) to watch, learn and debate below. Later…
When I work with groups on their strategic use of social media I assure them, “size doesn’t matter” and they look at me funny. We have been told our whole lives that bigger is better. As it turns out, when it comes to building a community via social media and specifically when you amass a…
I have my academic hat back on and am doing research for the social media class I will teach this next semester. One of the areas I have been spending a lot of time on is the actual design of a community and how it should look in relationship to specific goals and objectives for…
The recent Morgan Stanley Report regarding teen usage of social media has generated a lot of discussion. What caught my eye was twitter and the statement, “Teens don’t use Twitter because no one is reading their tweets. Twitter is totally different when you have thousands of people following you versus only a handful of your…
I’ve given it a lot of thought and the number one takeaway from the Oklahoma Twitter Study doesn’t have anything to do with Twitter and yet it is what I find most fascinating about social media. Are you ready…? The number one takeaway from this study is that it was done at all (power of…
Got a note from a student who is still struggling to land a job after graduation. He’s not alone but, I would argue, there are ways to stack the deck. I asked to see his resume and he offered to e-mail it to me. Red flag number one. Here is the advice I gave him…
I’m writing fast and should be working on a few other projects but Matt Galloway sent me a graph, similar to his PSATuesday graph for #jb4520 and I need to get what follows off my chest so I can get back to those other projects. If I oversimplify please fill in the blanks in the…