Tag Archives: Google

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

Personal time. Sometimes you have to take some from social media too.

It’s been a few weeks since I posted here and for good rea­son. But this really isn’t the time or place to talk about it. (If you’re my Face­book friend and you know me per­son­ally, you already know why I haven’t posted.) I’ve writ­ten here before about the need to post fre­quently and main­tain a 

So what about Google Buzz?

Image via Crunch­Base Yes­ter­day Google launched Google Buzz with a “so what” that rang much clearer but with less of a let down than last weeks iPad intro­duc­tion. It’s not fully acti­vated so I haven’t used it on my desk­top Gmail yet (yes, I acti­vated it) but it is work­ing on my iPhone. It looks

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?

New Media Atlanta and the BackNoise controversy

My first expe­ri­ence with Bac­kNoise ever was three weeks ago at the New Media Atlanta con­fer­ence. Bac­kNoise is a web­site that allows peo­ple watch­ing an event to pro­vide a run­ning com­men­tary of what is hap­pen­ing. They can do it anony­mously or, if they choose, com­ment using their name. What this pro­vided was a win­dow into what