Tag Archives: Facebook

Facebook, privacy and few helpful tools

Over ten years ago, Sun’s CEO told us to “You have zero pri­vacy any­way. Get over it.” In a few cir­cles Face­book is becom­ing about as trusted as BP or Phillip Mor­ris. And in my opin­ion, this is jus­ti­fied. While I agree with Scott McNeally’s assess­ment, I don’t agree with his sen­ti­ment. We shouldn’t get

Google Plus mania. Are we missing the forrest for the tree?

It seems when Google or Apple unveils some prod­uct the Twit­ter­sphere goes nuts for a few days or maybe a week. Peo­ple have being flam­ing the com­ment streams and mes­sage boards over FCP X for the last week, Google Buzz was a huge topic of con­ver­sa­tion for about three days. Wave, a lit­tle longer but

Is social media changing the world?

New post at Kil­gan­non Says: We’re in the midst of some rather trans­for­ma­tive times. Espe­cially if you hap­pen to live in the Mid­dle East.  Some are cred­it­ing Face­book and Twit­ter as key cat­a­lysts that helped to over­throw a 40-year dic­ta­tor­ship in Egypt. This phe­nom­e­non has spread through­out the Arab world from Yemen to Bahrain and is

Why your advertising sucks part 6. You’re scared you might offend someone.

Ever met some­one who never takes sides. Never makes a clear deci­sion. Always wants the group to decide so he doesn’t run the risk of mak­ing any­one upset. You prob­a­bly called this per­son wishy washy, inde­ci­sive or maybe even weak. And never a leader. Now imag­ine this per­son is your brand. A lot of mar­keters

Why are you so flaky online? Or 6 simple ways to maintain a consistent presence.

Image via Wikipedia I know peo­ple who are bright, ener­getic and engaged in per­son but don’t come off that way online. They have Face­book pro­files that are never updated and Twit­ter accounts they haven’t posted to in weeks. Or worse, a blog that has gone entirely dark for months. Sure it’s hard to keep up

How’s your online personal brand doing? Or what we can learn from Tiger Woods.

This train wreck that’s been hap­pen­ing on all the gos­sip sites, new chan­nels, and sports out­lets should be dri­ving two things home to every­one who lives in the dig­i­tal age. There is no pri­vacy and can’t con­trol your per­sonal brand. So what if you’re not Tiger Woods with mil­lions of dol­lars of endorse­ments to worry about?

Some connections are just better

The inter­webs got me in touch with an old friend last week I had not talked to since I moved east. I picked up the phone and we picked up where we had left off – it was a great con­ver­sa­tion. It was also con­nec­tion worth renew­ing. But there are some peo­ple I see every

How much should you have to give to get?

Like all par­ents of young chil­dren, I hate, hate, hate how much it costs to keep my kids in dia­pers. So when I opened a new pack of Hug­gies® I was happy to be noti­fied I pos­si­bly had won a life­time sup­ply. All I had to do was fill out an online form. OK. But the

Social media isn’t free. Nor should it be.

A few months ago I worked on an adver­tis­ing project that came up because a client was promised some free pro­duc­tion and media. This offer was too good to pass up so they asked the agency to add some value and help make the most out of the oppor­tu­nity. I bet you know where I’m

Think TV Is Dead? You must still be looking at the idiot box.

I can’t tell you how many peo­ple have told me in the last year that TV is dead. Unlike the changes we’re see­ing in printed media, this couldn’t be fur­ther from real­ity. Nev­er­the­less, the way we’re watch­ing TV has changed. But there are some mis­con­cep­tions about the way we’re watch­ing TV. For exam­ple, that every­one