Category: Social Media


  • Growth, Good and Bad

    Growth, Good and Bad

    Guest Post Elon Musk isn’t the only one growing interest in a social media platform with a free-for-all, anything goes strategy. Rumble is a video licensing and sharing platform similar to YouTube but with fewer restrictions for content creators and marketed as a politically “neutral” platform. The site was launched in 2013 but has gotten

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  • Big Data, Business, and Politics

    Some candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary are marketing themselves like products, running solely on familiarity—presumably like the familiarity of your favorite neighborhood restaurant or a carmaker whose models you keep buying over the years. Others are using a radically different approach: They are building movements while they campaign, because they see themselves as

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  • 2011: We’ve Moved!

    Follow Adriel Hampton and friends in 2011 at the new self-hosted WordPress blog, adrielhampton.com The latest: Eight Advanced Act.ly Tactics for Twitter Activism Review: Bob Fine’s ‘The Big Book of Social Media’ Happy New Year!

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  • Inbound Marketing – It Works

    “Inbound marketing” is one of the buzziest of the social media catchphrases, but that’s because it works. I’ve been doing a lot of Web 2.0 and social media for government speaking of late, and all of the leads have come either from social media connections or contacts directly through my web outposts, from inquiries on

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  • SF Architecture, Landscape, Weather Brought to Life on Twitter

    Twitter has long been a place where fictional characters – from Darth Vader to strange turns on comic book heroes to the characters from the space opera Firefly – have found life. Now, in a move to warm a tourism board’s heart, some of the most iconic features of San Francisco are also animated on

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  • Fall Speaking Schedule

    My fall schedule is quite busy, and I’m looking forward to meet many of my social media friends at several upcoming speaking engagements. So you’ll know where to find me: Citizen 2.0 Workshop – Sunday, Sept. 19, 2-4 p.m., Fairfield, CA – I’ll be leading a session on social media for progressive activists and campaign

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  • Q&A: ‘I See Pictures Everywhere’

    Allie Wojtaszek of Edmonton, Alberta, is one of the top members on the social media influence market Empire Avenue, and a prolific photographer. I interview Allie about Empire Avenue and Flickr, where she is ranked as the most influential member on EA.

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  • San Francisco City Attorney’s Office on Flickr

    Today, we opened an official Flickr account for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where we hope to not only highlight our great city, but also feature photos that illustrate the work of our office, from the hard-fought battle for marriage equality, to City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s anti-gang initiatives.

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  • Flickr, Tokyo

    Much of my July is a family visit with the in-laws in Tokyo. Thanks to Empire Avenue, a few weeks back I resurrected my long-dormant Flickr account and I have been posting pictures from the trip (not great pictures, but pictures). I also discovered that Flickr has much improved since I last actively used it. I am

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – June 18, 2010

    Steve Radick: Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media Stephen Collins: Government 2.0…it can be a reality David Forbes: I Do Not Believe in Collapse Kristy Fifelski: ‘Govsourcing’ the Reno.gov homepage Sarah Estes Cohen: Hybrid 2.0? How to leverage social media for emergency management and response Dan Slee: Social Photo – 11 groovy ways local

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