Well, I’m as surprised as anyone that a rumored start date actually panned out. It’s Leap Day and Facebook has rolled out the Timeline functionality for Business pages. Page admins have until March 30th to preview and play around with the new features, the new look and feel. You can publish at any time, but [...]
Have you ever watched Twitter for the daily calendar updates? Fridays are the best, the day of the week everyone is glad to see, what they’ve been waiting and working for all week long. The burdens of the week’s to-do list are forgotten in the rapture of Friday. OMG TGIF. Tuesday is not good, but [...]
Sunday night I posted this photo to Instagram, and it’s an honest question that might need some explanation. It’s a screen capture from my phone of the Day One app, which is actually a wonderfully elegant app for just journaling, jotting down the day’s notes, making sure the user doesn’t forget whatever’s important. It’s one [...]
Editors’ NOTE: This post has been sitting in Rick’s tumblr drafts for a long long (okay, we don’t really know how long) time. But it’s good. And it’s decently pointed. So we thought it would fit here. Thanks, and apologies for any lack of cross-posting inconvenience. – the Editors It’s unavoidable. Sometime, somewhere with someone [...]
I’ve told folks that I’m more into the relational aspect of social media – the “social” more than the “media” side. This article tweaked me in it’s ideas for collaborating and brainstorming together: Put more simply, it’s a way for a group of people to get together and brainstorm with structure. It’s a way to [...]
This morning at the SC Arts Commission THRIVE Conference, I’m leading the Conversations And Content: Social Media Is A Two-Way Street session. For me, it’s an opportunity to share that “social media” is more about the social than anything else. Or as Kelly put it on Twitter last night: @RickCaffeinated #SocialMedia is actually social sharing? [...]
Ever stop to think about what you’re doing and why? about what we as a nation are creating and why? So here’s a tiny hypothesis: maybe the real depression we’ve got to contend with isn’t merely one of how much economic output we’re generating — but what we’re putting out there, and why. Call it [...]
This week, Facebook is supposed to be opening the doors for one of the biggest IPOs in history. Around Rick:Caffeinated, you know that that means: LET’S TALK ABOUT TWITTER. So here’s a few notes and thoughts about my personal go-to social platform: My @rickcaffeinated twitter handle has been around since May 2007. 43.5K tweets later, [...]
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