A lot of companies refrain from using twitter and other social media because they feel their customers are not on there. But what if someone were bashing your company on twitter? Let’s face the facts — the twitter community has a large reach (and mighty influence), whether it is in social media or outside of [...]
16 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Prashant Kaw In: social media| video| viral
A happy ending to an extreme case of misconduct by a NYPD police officer who shoved a harmless bicyclist off his moving bicycle during Critical Mass. Unluckily for the officer the entire incident was caught on camera and uploaded to YouTube which spread virally over the internet.
The YouTube footage below was used to indict [...]
I love the viral nature of social media and here is another classic example. The 6th photo meme, the new version of the age-old chain letter (remember those snail mail days?). Choose the 6th photo of the 6th page of your flickr stream and post it along with links to six other people or bloggers [...]
Around a month back BusinessWeek ran this article on how Google was jumping into the fray of grading how influential people are — very similar to their page rank system for grading web sites. Seth Godin’s new book Triiibes has a very similar message. Tribes are powerful and you should strive to be the leader [...]