January 11th, 2010

The Importance of Boundaries

The emergence of the internet, real-time web, and social media technologies have made the “work” day longer and longer. There’s no such thing as an 8-to-5 job anymore, and if you work in the web spa…

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January 5th, 2010

Quoted: China Daily on Social Media

Tiffany Wong recently published the first of a multi-part series in China Daily on Social Media, speaking with myself and Jonathon Zhu, who runs the Hong Kong Internet Project. Zhu has come out with…

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January 5th, 2010

Quoted: China Daily on Social Media

Tiffany Wong recently published the first of a multi-part series in China Daily on Social Media, speaking with myself and Jonathon Zhu, who runs the Hong Kong Internet Project. Zhu has come out with…

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December 22nd, 2009

Aged 33+? You are more likely to check out God and the Government online

That’s according to the Pew Internet & American Life project, which looked at generational differences online.    Apparently, Internet surfers aged 33-72 are ’significantly’ more likely to check out…

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December 18th, 2009

Desensitized consumers = devalued advertising

How many ads would you say you have seen on the Internet in the past 20 minutes? And how many of those ads do you remember? Depending on what kind of sites you frequent, you could be viewing anyw…

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December 16th, 2009

The Social Media Ego Threat

Information hoarders are an endangered species. It’s not enough to know something anymore, because the internet knows it, too. If you don’t share it, someone, somewhere, will. Your value to a compan…

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November 26th, 2009

4 Reasons Why I Am Thankful For Social Media

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for Social Media. Social media is perhaps just a natural evolution of broadband Internet penetration coupled with the fact that people like to talk to each other, bu…

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