Ashton Kutcher social media consultant- are you kidding me?
Ashton Kutcher is the cover story on this weeks Fast Company magazine.
Ashton and his cohorts in Katalyst media (yes the url does resolve to a Facebook page), Sarah Ross and Jason Goldberg are really the worst part of social media, get your numbers and then use a megaphone to shout at your followers.
“If we [...]
Twitter lists, I am not bothered
Lists, Lists and Lists
It appears to have set the world on fire, me?
I am not bothered
Maybe its just me but I really don’t understand the excitement over lists, I have the feature and played with it a few times and that’s it.
Scoble makes a lot of sense, Chris Brogan makes no sense and Todd Zeigler [...]
How to Twitter (no charge)
My discovery yesterday (maybe I’m innocent) that people are charging companies/individuals to teach them to use twitter wasn’t followed by a discovery that people are charging for fresh air this morning.
This is a short post as the good news is, there is nothing to learn.
These people are just slightly shy of shysters fresh air salespeople [...]
Call me on Twitter with Jajah’s @call
A few companies have tried this but I think Jajah has got it right.
JAJAH@Call
Call your twitter friends with a simple @
Firstly you have to follow @call
“To make a call simply send a tweet with “@call @username” where the “username” is the Twitter name of the person you wish to call. @calls are made without revealing [...]
When will brands wake up? (Old skool PR is dead)
I have written on this extensively before and will keep this post short but with all the handbags being swung here I thought it might be an idea to do a simple real world experiment to show why PR isn’t necessary any more for smaller brands.
So its Sunday morning and your head is lifting with [...]
Loopt, Brightkite all your bases will belong to twitter
When Twitter make an announcement its time to wake up and examine the space even more closely but this weeks post of Location Location Location by twitter will change the LBS game.
With twitter now over 20 million users location services become the absolute honeypot. I wrote about the value of location based services recently and [...]
Twitter, are you a numbers jockey?
You wake up in the morning, whats your first thought?
“I GOTTA GET MORE FRIENDS”
Who lives like this?
Well @katelawson worries about getting to 100, @eatingLA begs to hit 1000, and @megalucklylady views @carrie as a hero because she has 10,000.
These people really completely miss the value in twitter.
“Popularity is not an indication of quality.” Vanna Bonta
Check [...]
Firing blanks
One of my issues with being so busy is that it leads to blogging blanks.
I have so much to say on twitter and in real life but all this talk leads me to firing blanks on this blog.
So I introduce you to a new meme “Firing blanks”
Why do companies say their client is the “best [...]
@aplusk @oprah have Tweeted us away.
You are now familiar with my regular cyber squatting on Pat’s blog. Today 1 year after this post we are going to see if Twitter can be mainstream and still be interesting.
In last few weeks celebrities took over our favorite social medium. Not that it bothers me. Twitter is a democracy. My issue is mostly [...]
Best of breed twitter mobile clients
There are a number of fantastic Twitter clients floating around at present for Blackberry, Android, Symbian and iPhone.
Here are my flavors of the month.
Symbian
Gravity has just been released and its a huge leap from what was available.This is definitely a huge personal favorite. some complaints regarding its cost of €9.46 but not an issue in [...]