If you follow the tech developments and platform inventions of social media, you can get a headache. Facebook and Twitter seem to rule the net, but FourSquare and StumbleUpon are out there too, and many are wrestling with developing a presence on Instagram. Et cetera! We want to help cut through that clutter for our […]
#SOCIALNETWORKS: Let’s Check In With Foursquare For Nonprofits
We have talked about Foursquare, the social network and geo-tagging software that offers opportunities to share your experiences at businesses and organizations of all types. The platform is a comparative newcomer, having been launched by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in 2009. But as of this April its membership has swelled to over 50 million. […]
#COMMUNICATIONS: A Storm & A Second Cause Disruptions That Remind Us Of Need For Vigilance (& Backups)
If you live in the Mid-Atlantic region, then you might not be reading this blog on the Monday it was (hopefully!) posted. A freak and unpredicted storm ripped through the region Friday night − an effect of the 100+ heat and no breezes to break up the high-pressure cell parked on the region. Power is now […]
#Tech: Cloud Reliability As Critical As Cloud Security
As more information, entertainment, and even software moves toward ‘the cloud,’ we meet both new freedoms of access and flexibility as well as new needed skills and risks. For most of us (including this author), envisioning the end of huge hard drives and CDs to deliver content is stressful: How can a whole movie (at […]
Far More Developers Than Users of Location-Based Social Media
We shared with you last week a story published by The Wall Street Journal about how mobile applications draw our personal data from our devices in ways few of us understand. We would expect our social-media apps to do such (Facebook, our myriad of Twitter-based software, FourSquare, etc.), but The WSJ found that information-based apps […]
Twitter Joins The Trip To Location-Based Social Media
Twitter recently, if coyly, announced that its developers are working on a beefed up Places-like feature that allows Twitter-ers to specify the location from which their tweets are sent. The feature is not new to Twitter, but the company’s reminding the public of it suggests an effort to steal some thunder from (or ride the […]
#SocialNetworks: Divying Up The Duties Of Social Media In Your Organization
Every company has its own time and budget windows to complete its projects. And developing the social-media ‘face’ of an organization requires both time and a budget. The good folks at EngageYourCause.com, who we featured yesterday, encourage the establishment of a ‘listening post’ first-and-foremost. The listening post creates an online window to pursue research on […]
Twitter Continues To Set World Cup Records, And Now Sets Places
It should no revelation that we have been following the World Cup in South Africa here at MKCREATIVE. But we also have been following the ways social media have had an impact on the event – at least the sharing of news about the event – as an example of how the strategic use of […]
