Of course “social media is documenting the Iranian revolution — not leading it.” But that still requires media exposure, coordination and communication, all of which Twitter supplies in spades.
The Real Action In Iran is In the Streets
Tag Archives: social networking
Social Media, Freedom & Revolution
If Twitter and other social media networks had been available in China in 1990, Shanghai might already be free, more than economically.
Is Social Media Making Corporate Web Sites Irrelevant?
As devotees understand viscerally, the Internet’s current social networking phenomenon is radically changing communications modes on the Net. Not only is email on the way out, but now the very existence of “static” Web sites is being questioned.
Social Media Rules of Engagement
Here are my six rules of engagement for social media — Twitter, Facebook, etc.– all of which can be summed up in the phrase “if you are going to do it, do it right.”
Who Owns Social Media UGC?
Facebook was possibly wrong (although correct from a customer relationship standpoint) to argue that it needed a license from one user to display his/her content on the “Wall” of another user, even when the first person had affirmatively decided to share that UGC by posting it within Facebook.
The First Thing We Do Is…
The official trade rag of the legal industry — a notorious technology backwater for decades — is publicizing the wonders of the Internet social networking phenomenon Twitter.
The Net Changes Nothing
So if Howard Dean and MoveOn.org mastered online contributions and bogs, Barack Obama has shown that he doesn’t get social networking, announcing his VP selection not via email, text or social networks.
Blaming the Dead
If American law enforcement can only solve cases years later by blaming dead guys, we as a society have mucho problemas.