How much influence do you really have?

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There’s been a lot of talk in social media circles over the last couple of weeks about social capital, influence and how you measure it. When Klout first launched I was both excited and worried about seeing what my score would be. I admit that I was hoping for a high score (a boost to [...]

Getting to know Facebook

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(This article was published in WO Magazine Fall 2010) Facebook would be the third largest country in the world behind China and India if it were a country.  It’s not, but it is a social, online community of more than 500 million users worldwide. Canada has the 7th largest population on Facebook. A decade ago [...]

No new 4G iPhone for me

Apple showed the world its much anticipated iPhone 4G this week.  When I bought my 3GS last fall I worried about getting technology that I knew would be out of date within a year.  Should I wait?  I decided that new technology was always coming and I could wait until the cows come home.  And [...]

Facebook under the gun about its new Instant Personalization

Facebook’s launch last week of Instant Personalization has caused another backlash from users and most certainly from Canada’s privacy commission along with U.S. Senators.  The complaint is that Facebook is forcing people to opt out rather than opt in to share their profile information with partner websites, currently Microsoft Docs.com, Pandora, and Yelp. Here’s a simple [...]