by Wayne Kurtzman | Sep 19, 2010 | Social Media
This week I focus on the gifts bestowed to us by the Social Bluebird of Happiness, a.k.a. Twitter. If you haven’t seen the changes at Twitter.com yet, I review them for you in my MediaBullseye article. The changes and updates move the 160-million member social...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Sep 11, 2010 | Geolocation, mcommerce, Social Media, Web 2.0
Data visualization agency JESS3 had one of the best data visualization models of social media. The Conversation Prism made it clear how big the social media world has become. That is, until their new model came out (left) which, for lack of a better word just...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Sep 10, 2010 | education, Social Media
There was a commercial that featured the line “try it, you’ll like it”. Well, I am not big on asking you to do something, but I believe attending a Podcamp – an unconference, could be one of the best things you can do for yourself in this age...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 30, 2010 | Feature, Innovation, Marketing, Social Media, Web 2.0
Seth Priebatsch, the CEO and Chief Ninja of the mobile geolocation game company SCVNGR, (pronounced scavenger), wants to build a game layer on top of the world. Listening to him speak at the recent TEDxBoston conference makes you realize that the game layer is...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 20, 2010 | Content, Social Media
Content is what we string together to tell stories, share thoughts and ideas. Coming in different flavors (text, video, photo, music, spoken word, etc.), content is king, and in the digital age it’s good to be the mayor, let alone the king. Now the news: 61 percent of...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 20, 2010 | education, Feature, Social Media
If old movies taught us anything, it is when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. What happens in today’s instant news environment when perception becomes fact? Thanks to Jeff Cutler who covered the Gulf oil spill for several weeks, I hear his story the way it...
