Remember when social networks first came about, and the basic idea was that, as a user, you chose who you wanted to follow, and then your feed, or timeline, etc. showed you what just those people had shared, in reverse chronological order? Had they stuck with that, there would be a lot less to complain…
From Seth Godin’s podcast recently “Going forward, I think we have to realize that the distributor is us. That the distributor, the person who is going to spread the idea, is as responsible for that as the network executive was, the bookstore owner was. That the ideas that we share are the ideas that spread…
According to this article, yes we should. And I tend to agree. It takes seconds to tag a brand, send a mean Tweet and publicly shame them into responding to a complaint in front of millions. But we often forget that there are still real people manning the phones, and hiding behind a screen doesn’t…
I actually saw this service mentioned a few weeks ago by Chris Brogan and wanted to try it out, so I took some text from an old post on my Child Abuse Survivor blog and spent about 5 minutes creating this video to share on Instagram. Messing around a bit with a service called Lumen5….
I’m barely a Snapchat user, but this comment reminds me of what Instagram recently did as well. Nothing really makes sense in the main app now, it’s only in Stories that the timeline makes any sense at all. “Because I am not a teen and have not been for several years, Snapchat’s interface has always…
I’ve been mostly spending the long holiday weekend offline, with some Instagram exceptions as we enjoy some new Louisiana Christmas traditions. I hope ya’ll are enjoying your holiday as well and spending time with the people who are important to you. I’ll get back to posting to the blogs and other social media pages midweek.