Recently, using social media for charities and non-profits has been the conversation topic du jor, due in no small part to the massively successful text donation campaign for Haiti implemented by The Red Cross. Social media for non-profits and causes has been steadily evolving in both effective and creative ways because social channels are a natural way to disseminate information. Which is why TwitCause makes so much sense.
I had a chance to be on a panel at Internet Summit ‘09 with several interesting folks, among them Rick Klau, the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google.
My very first blog, Life is Marketing, was a Blogger blog, but I had to wonder how Blogger was faring in an era of microblogging (like Twitter), location-based services (like FourSquare) and mini-blog services (like Posterous and Tumblr). And since Rick works for Google, I had to ask him exactly where Google Wave is going to take us. Take a look:
With all the hype about the Nexus One today, and knowing that I am still in the market for a cell phone, I wanted to see what all they might have that would make this more interesting. The problem is going through the web interface of the Android Market Place simply stinks – only top featured apps, no browsing capability – no search – and all this from Search Engine King Google.
There is a character on Dilbert called Mordac. If you’ve seen him, you know he is a caricature of an unfortunately real person in many corporate organizations who worries solely about data security at the expense of usability, accessibility and just about anything else:
We all hate Mordac. Of course, on a logical level, most of us know that we need him (or her). When it comes to sharing data online, most people behave with more risk than they probably should. As the places to share your personal data have grown, so too have the ways that you can accidentally share too much. The problem is, it is sometimes tough to spot those moments when you are sharing too much without meaning to. As each of us starts to live more of our lives and place more of our identities online, knowing the do’s and don’ts of sharing personal information online will be increasingly important. Here are a few lessons I’ve learned and follow about what I share online: