What is "Social Media", the "Social Web", and "Social Networking"? In this section we offer our perspectives on the history and meaning of the next wave of social technology. The purpose is to be a starting point business professionals who are trying to get up to speed, quickly, on what this technology shift is and what it means to his or her business.
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Written by Chip Roberson
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Friday, 08 May 2009 17:02 |
As the Web 2.0 is developing critical mass I have sensed the chasm that divides the digital "haves" from "have nots" growing wider.
Some of you know me, others do not but I've been on the Internet since 1987 when it was a very loose collection of networks held together with a single "host list". In those 20 years, I have seen the digital community rush forward while the rest of the world struggles to keep up. There have been epoch-making events that marked significant transformations: the rise of the personal computer, the modem, the internet, the web and now what we are calling "Web 2.0".
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Written by Chip Roberson
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:33 |
A business associate sent me a link to a post called "Twitter: Will It Implode Under the Weight of Its Hype?" by Derek Hardin of ClickZ.  In this article the author says "I still don't get it" meaning a "business case" for Twitter use that is both replicable and scaleable.  The article is worth reading but I disagree with some of his main theme so my response is below. |
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Social Media 101
