Biznology

APRIL 16, 2012

Cover of Kevin Bacon. The idea behind 6 degrees of separation is ”friend of a friend” connections make it so everyone is only 6 steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person. The theory was originally presented by Hungarian author, Frigyes Karinthy, in a 1929 short story. It was a popular play in 1993 written by John Guare and then a trivia game called Six Degree of Kevin Bacon that Kevin turned into a charitable organization called SixDegrees.org.

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Biznology

APRIL 17, 2012

Now that I have my iPhone wired for sound, I do a majority of my tweeting and facebooking through the apps that I use. I use Instagram , which connects to my Twitter , Facebook , Flickr , Tumblr , Posterous , and FourSquare account; I use Hipstamatic and it connects and posts to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Flickr; I use Posterous and it will cross-post to Twitter and Facebook; I use FourSquare and it posts to Twitter and Facebook as well; and I have started using GetGlue recently a

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Biznology

APRIL 20, 2012

Photo credit: Steve Woolf. In the social media age we desperately want to have our cake and eat it too. In fact, we would love to have everyone else’s cake as well but when it comes to the consequences, we scatter like cockroaches when the lights come on. We see all the time how people try to distance themselves from people and things so that they can have the perception of more freedom.

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Biznology

APRIL 18, 2012

Image via CrunchBase. I am a retired IBM Distinguished Engineer. (My wife says that makes me an Extinguished Engineer.) So, you might guess that I am fairly comfortable with the technical side of social media, but there’s one thing I don’t like, which is that technical people like to make up new fancy words to describe what they make, even if no one knows what they mean.

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Biznology

APRIL 19, 2012

Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife. Sometimes I am making a speech and I realize that I am meeting a lot of traditional marketers–people my age (or even I admit, a little younger) who are trying to make the adjustment to digital. And as I am speaking, and explaining concepts, and exhorting people to take a chance and make a change, I realize something.

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