Today I interviewed a job applicant who had recently completed a stint at a well-known financial public relations company. I asked whether she had used any tools to understand online conversations. To my astonishment she said that not only was this not the case, but that the PR company in question actually banned [...]
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A Facebook founder who helped Obama
July 7th, 2008 — MarkBrian Stelter profiles Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who has played a key part of generating the grassroots-up political support for Obama.
Twitter or Facebook?
May 15th, 2008 — MarkThe scene is the playground at my wife’s school in Oxford in the 1980s. Two children put their arms around each other’s shoulders, they start chanting: “Anybody want to play kiss-chase?” As each child joins they put their arms around the shoulders of a child at either end of the line they join [...]
Wal-Mart targets student decorators on Facebook
August 9th, 2007 — MarkWal-Mart have launched a group on Facebook designed to harness the decorating needs of students returning to college.