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Lead Us to Tweet, and Forgive the Trespassers

by Erik on July 5, 2009

in Interesting

Religious groups from Episcopalians to Orthodox Jews have signed up for Twitter, Facebook and other social media networks with the same gusto that celebrities and politicians have, and for some of the same reasons — to gain a global platform and to appeal to young people. Still, many clerics admit to an uneasiness about the merger of [...]

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Restaurants finding Twitter a cheap, effective marketing tool

by Erik on June 29, 2009

in Interesting,New Tech,Social Media

I was having a discussion the other day with one of my employees about the benefit of twitter and how it can be utilized in a business setting as a value-adding marketing tool. He was not so convinced. He could only see twitter as a way to tell people what you were doing at any [...]

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IBM and the Web 2.0 World

by Erik on June 24, 2009

in Censorship,IBM,Privacy,Web 2.0

Serendipitously, I just uncovered a post relating to IBM and social media use guidelines, which I wrote about yesterday with regard to the Associated Press’ new policy. IBM’s document is a “public submission to the Department of Homeland Security as part of their Privacy Workshops they hosted in Washington D.C. earlier this week.” photo credit: [...]

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AP Issues Strict Facebook, Twitter Guidelines to Staff

by Erik on June 23, 2009

in Censorship,Privacy

photo credit: miralize Wired.com posted an article pointing to a new set of guidelines from the AP regarding a corporate policy about staff posting to twitter and Facebook. The Associated Press is adopting a stringent social-networking policy for its employees, informing them to police their Facebook profiles “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t [...]

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Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners

by Erik on June 22, 2009

in Business Logic,Philosophy,Smartphones

photo credit: ydhsu As Web-enabled smartphones have become standard on the belts and in the totes of executives, people in meetings are increasingly caving in to temptation to check e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, even shhh! ESPN.com. But a spirited debate about etiquette has broken out. Traditionalists say the use of BlackBerrys and iPhones in meetings is [...]

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Facebook Nabs The Man Who Engineered Google AdSense For Many Years

by Erik on June 14, 2009

in Competition,Facebook,Google,Human Resources

Facebook has just hired Greg Badros, a Google Senior Director of Engineering, we’ve learned. Badros joined Google in early 2003 and has worked his way up the chain since then. At Facebook, his official title will be Director of Engineering. At Google, Badros was in charge of the AdSense engineering team from its formative years [...]

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