PR students on learning Twitter
I place a lot of emphasis on Twitter in my PR courses, but were not sure whether that was such a good idea – from their perspective. So I asked my PR students from the Spring 09 Stakeholder...
View ArticleResearch Study: @sockington is more influential than @chrisbrogan
This Webecology research report has been making the rounds on Twitter. I haven’t had time to read it until now, here are my reading notes: The Webecology team uses large scale data mining to identify...
View ArticleBrizzly: making Twitter more like Facebook
I’ve been playing around with Brizzly this morning, and here are some initial thoughts. My default Twitter app is Tweetdeck, so I’m comparing to that. for most part, it works as advertised in the demo,...
View ArticleBuilding Relationships part 1
This is part of a series of post about building relationships online and the relationships we build online. The initial idea was triggered by reading in one of the books for TECH 621 about marketable...
View ArticleBuilding Relationships part 2
In the previous post in this series, I argued that Twitter is great for building bridging social capital – loose connections with large numbers of people who are quite different than you. Bridging...
View ArticleComing up: Total chaos?
In one of my previous posts I tried to explain how one’s sense of self emerges through interaction with other people. The direct consequence of this dynamic is the idea of the relational self: The...
View ArticleLafayette Twestival Ticket Giveaway
March 24 is Twestival Local 2011. What is Twestival? Twestival is a way for people to get together and donate to a local cause. It is mainly organized on Twitter, and showcases the power of Twitter to...
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