influence
Life in the "influencer" club
You might be an influencer - but is anyone actually influenced?
Facebook Likes - the newest target of the fake internet
Channel 4 news ran a big investigation into Facebook Likes [http://www.channel4.com/news/facebook-likes-hacking-fan-data-internet-how] last week: > As Facebook has grown to 1.15 billion users, gaining “likes” or fans, the social network has become a valuable marketing opportunity for companies. One social intelligence company put the value
snake oil
Social media for carpetbaggers
I laughed and I laughed and I laughed – and then I became a little depressed at how accurate this is about some people “in social media”:
conferences
5 thoughts about Social Media Week London
This post has lurked in the drafts folder of MarsEdit for the last couple of weeks because, well, my current state of under-employment is making me more nervous than normal of offending people. But if there’s one thing the last six weeks or so has taught me, there’s
reputation
A Prediction: 2010, Social Media & Snake Oil
I made a small mistake this evening. I broke my self-imposed social media exile to retweet something by Alan Patrick [http://twitter.com/freecloud/status/7097876834], that linked to this post on his blog [http://broadstuff.com/archives/2002-Twitter-to-be-nearly-entirely-composed-of-Social-Media-Experts-by-2013.html] . And suddenly, I found myself besieged by unhappy social media