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Conversational Social Networks

Jan 28, 2016

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in social media, social media living room, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesBen Thomspon wrote, “How Facebook Squashed Twitter”. Â The article looks at social networks from a marketing point of view. I like conversational social networks. Social networks by their very name are for conversations. They are about connections and they are about friendship, collaboration and more.Â In its Golden age twitter was a…

Suunto and Sports tracker collaborate.

Jan 22, 2016

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in N95, social media, social networking, Swiss walks, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been using sports tracker for years. I first used it on the Nokia N95 8GB several years ago. This was an excellent app that allowed you to track your moves using the mobile phone as a GPS. The limitation of such an app was battery life on mobile phones. The…

The idiocy of the Hashtag

Nov 4, 2015

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in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: 7 minutesEvery day I am reminded of the Idiocy of the Hashtag. Twitter is a conversational medium where the more we converse the more addictive the social network becomes. Every single @ reply was a reaction to what we said or shared. Connections between users were strong and so the network effect took…

Vanity fair is wrong to label Zuck as the top disruptor

Sep 9, 2015

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in facebook, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesZuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s 2015 List of Disruptors Every successful social network first establishes a friendship network where a tight knit group of people interact with each other on a very frequent basis. In the case of facebook it was uni friends interacting with uni friends from the same campus. On twitter…

Social Media and Via Ferrata

Aug 27, 2015

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in social media, social media living room, social networking, Switzerland, travel, Via Ferrata

Reading Time: 3 minutesPeople on linkedin were discussing whether social media campaigns are worth organising and keeping. When it comes to extreme sports such as Via Ferrata, rock climbing and other extreme sports then I believe that the audience is ready and enthusiastic enough for a social media presence to be desirable. Via Ferrata is…

The Dumbing Down of mainstream media

Aug 16, 2015

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in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking, Uncategorized

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently I have found mainstream anglo-saxon media much harder to tolerate. A few years ago I went to see 90 films in 9 months. I had no TV and the World Wide Web wasn’t quite as accessible then as it is today. For years I could watch BBC World from the moment…

On the lack of Common interests and mobile phones getting the blame

Aug 6, 2015

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in observation, social media, social networking

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn Linkedin and Facebook people believe that mobile phones are making people less sociable then they would be if phones were not around. They believe that the world in which we lived before mobile phones was an open and sociable place where everyone communicated with everyone. These people are forgetting the social…

Social networks and project collaboration

Jul 31, 2015

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in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesJacques Yves Cousteau’s documentaries would have done well in the social media age, especially if the social media age moved away from profit and money. Imagine that social media companies such as Facebook and twitter were Not For Profit Organisations and imagine that instead of having advertisers they had sponsors. The quality…

Fribourg was liberated by Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva Ingress resistance fighters

Jul 20, 2015

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in cycling, ingress, social networking, travel

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis weekend teams of Resistance Ingress agents from Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva met in Fribourg to neutralise and capture all Enlightened portals. Some teams were on foot to liberate portals from the centre of the city. I was with the bike team and we took care of liberating all of the…

Has Social Media made us less sociable?

Jul 16, 2015

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richard

in social media

Reading Time: 2 minutesIntroverts who are not going to compete with extroverts, through social media, have an opportunity to have friendships and interactions that would otherwise not occur. To say that Social media makes is unsociable is a fallacy. When I was a uni student the second time around I was socialising with fellow students…

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