Category Archives: social media

Not just for Christians, some good general principles here: Thoughts about using Facebook well for ministry groups.

Mal Booth highlights some information on how social media is breathing new life into some public collections of images and other works.

Why the measured approach and large number of billing hours involved in ad agency work can struggle to be good value for some clients. In social media, the pace of response and volume of content creation becomes too expensive. Advertising Agencies & Social Media: A Culture Clash

A very solid (and short) presentation on social media for business use: It’s Not What You Say That Matters.

[ mUmBRELLA ] JK Wedding Dance video was a real video, but going viral was manufactured – a breakdown of the stats.

A number of people linked to this article – unhelpfully titled Facebook, MySpace put teens at risk of suicide: church when it came out earlier in the week, immediately dismissing it as a lack of understanding of the technology. But most would remember the story of Megan Meier , who committed suicide after being dumped …

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[Stephen Downes] When corporations start to embrace twitter, it’s all easy to follow until the lawyers get involved.

This one has been on my “to-blog” list for a long while: 13 essential read for community managers, as suggested by … you is a list of books on the topic of community management, which is a part of the social media skill-set that I’m hoping to further develop. I have yet to read any …

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[barb] There are a lot of uses for Twitter out there, but I hadn’t considered this one: Twitter as a Spiritual Discipline.

More than just passing notes in class? The Twitter-enabled backchannel – a scholarly paper on the use of Twitter at academic conferences (and other conferences) to add another channel of engagement that participants can access and contribute to.