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It’s My Privacy (Final Post)

(This is the final post in a series that will form a chapter for a university textbook called Communication in Question, Second Edition which will be released in 2013. The chapter is called "Social Networks and Privacy: Should Government Be More Inter...

Blase About Privacy?

This infographic from MDG Advertising provides context to my previous posts about online privacy and explains to some extent why the big social networks may be more blase about our privacy than we would like: We let them because we don't understand pri...

It’s My Privacy (4)

(Fourth in a series of posts that will form a chapter for a university textbook called Communication in Question, Second Edition which will be released in 2013. The chapter is called "Social Networks and Privacy: Should Government Be More Intervention...

SXSW Interactive 2012

If ever there is a place at which you can be made to feel not geeky enough, it's Austin during SXSWi. Tuesday morning in a session called The Right Tool for the Job: Native or Mobile Web? a panel of developers staged a geek street fight about a bunch ...

It’s My Privacy (3)

(Third in a series of posts - this one being posted from #SXSW in Austin - that will form a chapter for a university textbook called Communication in Question, Second Edition which will be released in 2013. The chapter is called "Social Networks and P...

It’s My Privacy (2)

(Second in a series of posts that will form a chapter for a university textbook called Communication in Question, Second Edition which will be released in 2013. The chapter is called "Social Networks and Privacy: Should Government Be More Intervention...

It’s My Privacy (1)

Every time I come to write something about privacy on the web, another social platform changes its private policies accompanied by widespread outrage in the social web demos or another app is exposed for its leaking - or selling - personal data to mar...

Twitter Influence – MPPs v Journalists (Infographic)

The winners in the Twitter battle between MPPs and journalists in Ontario are in and - no surprise - the leaders of the pack are Dalton McGuinty (Who writes his tweets anyway?) and Steve Paikin (who I know writes his own).

Twitter Influence – MPPs v Journalists (Infographic)

The winners in the Twitter battle between MPPs and journalists in Ontario are in and - no surprise - the leaders of the pack are Dalton McGuinty (Who writes his tweets anyway?) and Steve Paikin (who I know writes his own).

10 Organizing Principles

After a presentation I made for Social Media Week on my favorite topic - online to offline activism - the session organizers received a number of requests for my 10 principles for successful social web organizing. Here they are.

Zuckerberg: Facebook is about a social mission

  "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." If it wasn't for an email from the global chairman of H+K Strategies, Jack Martin, I would ...

Pinning – The Marketing Onslaught Begins

This is another social network unlikely to escape the marketing onslaught for very long. I imagine creative minds are trying to find ways for their brands to jump in as I write. I'm talking about Pinterest, of course, the addictive image sharing socia...