Social Media

Peanut butter cups, duct tape, and social media: They’re more alike than you think.

Posted by that damn redhead on Aug 11, 2011 in Featured, Rants, Social Media | 7 comments

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I really thought I was done writing about “social media.” I’ve been bored with it for a long time, over saturated, jaded, stick-a-fork-in-me done. Yet recently I had a conversation with a new online friend of mine that reminded me of one big reason why. (And in my usual ironic fashion, I thought I’d write about why I’m done with writing about it. However, consider this the last post before a big...

The 800 lb gorilla of social media dependence: When it fails us.

Posted by that damn redhead on Mar 29, 2011 in Social Media, Tech, Uncategorized | 16 comments

Last week I found myself in a very engaging discussion over at Shonali Burke’s blog on the challenges of authenticity on the social web. The post was a guest post by Erica Holt, who posed the question of whether it’s possible to truly be yourself online. The discussion in the comments got into dissecting what exactly it means to be “authentic” or “transparent” on the web, and why some people find it much easier to be their true selves online than others. (If you’d like to...

Fun with Twitter: Do your “overheards” tell a story?

Posted by that damn redhead on Aug 22, 2010 in Funny, Social Media | 0 comments

One of the joys many people, including myself, find with Twitter is the beauty of the tweeted “overheard” statement, which is some odd statement that is, well, overheard, that you just feel compelled to share with the rest of the world. (Because of character constraints, “OH:” is usually used before the statement instead of “Overheard” though I confess when I first saw people using this I wondered what Ohio had to do with anything.) Usually neither...

Amazee: A winning alternative to Ning for cause-based communities

Posted by that damn redhead on Jul 25, 2010 in Nonprofits, Reviews, Social Media | 5 comments

In April 2010, custom social network service Ning decided that they were going to start charging and do away with their free service. Beginning August 20, Ning will charge the following for usage of their custom social network platform: (Features included in each plan are not shown because of space.) As you can imagine, this decision by Ning caused (and is still causing) quite a stir among users and administrators of such networks. Even if it’s only $2.95, many administrators of smaller...

There’s too much ME-ME-ME in social MEdia.

Posted by that damn redhead on Jul 12, 2010 in Social Media | 2 comments

I’m clearly in the wrong field. See, though some may say I’m rather outgoing, the truth is I’m an introvert. Meaning, while being out and around people is nice and all, I can only take so much. I prefer to be by myself (always have), and usually I’m lost in a deep cloud of my own thoughts. I’m highly analytical and have an uncanny ability to remain objective in most situations & not get too caught up in the thick of things. In other words, I have a very finely...

The secret to my (alleged) Twitter “success” revealed

Posted by that damn redhead on Jun 27, 2010 in Social Media, Uncategorized | 5 comments

There’s nothing like tweeting about blogging and blogging about tweeting to beat a dead horse into the ground, eh? Guess what? I’m doing it anyway. Last week a friend messaged me on BlackBerry messenger about something, I don’t remember the exact context, but somewhere along the line I decided to send him a link in a direct message (DM) via Twitter, and realized he wasn’t following me. So I asked him why, and he said he was “trying a different approach to his...