Social media and business: Two great tastes that go great together, or is the peanut butter scare appropriate for this rotten analogy? Wednesday morning I head to Babson for a panel with the Babson Alumni Technology Council on social media and business. The panelists will be asked whether this represents a new paradigm or a [...]

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I’m not a big fan of meme tagging. It’s like the social media version of the email chain letter. But what the hell, if it gets a few people to pay attention to my blog (“HELLO, people, I’m over here!”), then I’m all for it. So, Doug Haslam tagged me on the what change will [...]

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“In the debate, a spokesman accused the government of being silly and doing not at all good things. The member accepted this in the spirit of healthy criticism, but denied that he had ever been naughty with a choir boy. Angry shouts of ‘What about the watermelon then’ were ordered then by the speaker to [...]

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I resisted the incredible urge to add my voice to the post-election noise for most of yesterday and today, but my perusal of InformationWeek has forced my hand. Mitch Wagner wrote a very good analysis of the president-elect’s pioneering use of Web 2.0 and social-networking technologies. Mitch hailed the election as “the end of the [...]

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When you vote on Tuesday, tweet in your vote report! If you’re not on twitter, Text in your vote report. Here’s how it works (from http://twittervotereport.com/how-to-help/): It’s simple. We voters are using Twitter and other texting tools to report on how the vote is really going during this election, and we’re urging everyone to use [...]

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I am surrounded by political junkies at my new job. With the election in full swing and inspired by past successes, John Della Volpe came up with a great idea–the social media war room. Every day at 9:30am, we all come together at the table to review the day’s news, priorities and challenges. We share [...]

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