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Kevin B Hawkins

The insanely simple reason companies mis-use social media.

I was having a brief ‘between-panels’ discussion at an HR event when something occured to me, a simple revelation that changed how I talk about social media. You see, day in and day out social media as we know it is being mistreated in ways that would get someone fined in your typical episode of Animal Precinct. And I’m conviced that, at the root of it, it’s for one simple reason: the...

Oct

29

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Three Ways Google Gets Evil with Sidewiki

There has been a lot of talk about Google’s new Sidewiki…a tool which allows anyone to comment about a web page, virtually ON the web page itself in a sidebar. These comments and postings are only available to people who have the sidebar installed but, no-doubt, Google’s hope is that more web surfers will use this as part of their pursuit of socializing and democratizing the internet. That...

Aug

20

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How do I continuously increase my following on Twitter?

I was skimming through the Q&A section of LinkedIn when I found the following question which cuts right to the heart of the ‘Twitter dilemma’ for many users. It was titled: ‘How do I continuously increase my following on Twitter?’ It read: I have been put in charge of our Twitter account. Our following is slowly increasing, but I still haven’t got the hang of it. Is their any...