Tag Archives: Social media

On the Internet we all know…

By Shana | Published: July 23, 2010
I happened to stop into a tweetup last night.  Happenchance (really happenchance) I ran into an old friend of mine, BZ (BenZion in case you all are curious), a phd History Candidate at Ohio State, in for the summer to do some more phd thesis writing.  He’s been an active blogger on a number of [...]
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The end is near- (or not)

By Shana | Published: July 8, 2010
So, while in the middle of taking a look at all things New York Tech Meetup (even if this requires admitting to myself that I am single, gawd), one of the realities of All Things Social Media has taken on reality. It’s name is Hot Potato.  It reminds you of that game, Hot Potato, that [...]
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While everyone else was having a Privacy Scandal

By Shana | Published: May 21, 2010
Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I saw the weirdest thing recently.  While we are all having conniptions about privacy, the last person I would ever think threw a wrench in the entire argument about having privacy.  Maybe. A fairly obscure blogger (who I like to read), named Hasidic Rebel, decided to unmask himself as Sholom [...]
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In Honor of Arnold and Facebook

By Shana | Published: April 7, 2010
Image via Wikipedia So Arnold wrote this piece about the growing dominance of Facebook (is that my internet home???).  In honor of some of the questions he raised, I am going to throw some possibilities out about the questions of search: It might be that search is not the answer, finding is.  And finding, is [...]
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Flash Me! (Not really)

By Shana | Published: March 28, 2010
Image by mattwi1s0n via Flickr Some interersting articles appeared on my radar about, of all things, flash mobs. For those who do not know, a flash mob is: A flash mob (or flashmob) is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse. [...]
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The AVC People List

By Shana | Published: January 31, 2010
Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I’m not sure what to say right now.  Though the AVC People list is here. (now you can’t complain, it is at the top of the post.) Originally I had started this list many moons ago because Fred Wilson told me that I should follow the people on AVC.com in [...]
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Someone asked me about Second Life

By Shana | Published: August 16, 2009
Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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