Clik here to view.
Rep. Weiner’s Tangled Twitter Tempest
The past two days has seen the mysterious case of the picture sent from US Representative Anthony Weiner’s Twitter handle to a female college student here in Washington state go from bad to worse to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hiding in Plain Sight
This morning’s news feed contains stories about the breaking of another so-called “superinjuction“. If you’re not aware, a “superinjunction” is a legal order out of the United Kingdom. It’s similar to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You can do it the easy way or the hard way
It’s official, Representative Weiner chose the hard way. After a week plus of trying to avoid it, he had to fess up today that he sent the picture through Twitter. At this point, he also had to admit...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The One Two Punch
It’s always nice to start the week off with a positive, successful story. Today’s example of a good way to use social media to manage bad situations comes from McDonald’s via Mashable. The facts appear...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Intersection of Design and Downfall
It’s a treat to find someone able to bring a different and informative point of view to a topic that’s essentially being carpet bombed in the media. Steven Levy has an article over at Wired today that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weiner and Twitter: Everything New is Really Old
Today brings the Twitter scandal chapter of Representative Weiner’s life story to an end. I think most of us are thankful that it’s done. For many of us, this has been a combination of a train wreck in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Death, A Birth, A Possible Terminal Diagnosis
It’s an interesting 24 hours in the world of social networking with big news related to three big companies that marks them moving to a new stage. Basically, we’re seeing a death, a birth, and a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Facebook #Winning?
I tend to shy away from predictions in an area as fluid as social media. The intertubes are filled with plenty of old pages proclaiming the eternal dominance of MySpace, the coming failure of Facebook,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Overresponding: A Lesson
Say this about Twitter, it certainly is a treasure trove of incident mishandling for analysis. Today’s lesson comes to us from the Topeka Kansas Home Office and is about the danger of overresponding to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview on KIRO 7 Seattle on Social Media Scams
I had a chance to talk with KIRO 7 news in Seattle recently about the current crop of social media scams plaguing Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Do you know what not to click on Facebook, Twitter?
View Article
