September 28, 2009
Technology Is Reducing Face To Face Communication

Based on 1,000 responses, research conducted on behalf of communications provider Lumison found 68 per cent of respondents said they have less face-to-face interaction in the office than they d …

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RIP William Safire — disagreed on politics but loved “On Language.” http://bit.ly/bepT7 via @cbasturea

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Technology Is Reducing Face To Face Communication http://post.ly/6Txn

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September 26, 2009

Grilled a tri-tip from a recipe in @rockinronnie’s book “Barbecue Secrets.” Turned out perfect.

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Why pay $400/mo for Brands in Public when u can DIY on NetVibes as @hyku did? http://SethinPublic.com (w Godin as focus). via @allanjenkins

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September 25, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #486: September 24, 2009

Content summary: Twitter phishing attack; Kris Gallagher’s harmonica meme; Bright One volunteer-led agency announces four ambassadors; Dan York reports from Orlando, Florida; the Media…

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Who should own social media? Everybody and nobody

tugowarI thought I had seen all the arguments about which function, within an organization, should “own” social media. I’ve argued that PR or communications is the logical home, since PR/comms is…

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Free GoGo WiFi on my American Airlines flight today. Nice to be able to tweet from 34,000 feet.

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Finally got FIR 486 posted. Now to check email for the first time in four hours. God help me.

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September 24, 2009
Social media is not a car

car engineThere’s an age-old analogy that keeps coming up in social media talks I hear. “You don’t need to know how it works,” the analogy goes, “just like you don’t need to know how internal…

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September 23, 2009

Lkg for sample job description for a comms type tasked with introducing a social media practice to an agency. Know where I should look?

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All-day client mtg is large team working on vision for direction of global inttanet. Should be fun.

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Wkg on my 1st blog post in weeks: “Social media is not a car.” Should be up tonight (after all-day meeting).

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Heavy workload has kept me from much blogging, tweeting, etc. Result:I’m not hearing from people much. You get based on what you give.

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Staggering how many Twitter accounts have been hacked, including mine. I did not make $ yesterday and did not send URL for you to learn how.

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