Social Media: Not Quite A Revolution
So many of us Social Media consultants are often writing how Social Media is changing our world, how a revolution is underway. That Social Media is devaluing the newspaper and changing the PR...
View ArticleThe Honeymoon Phase of Social Media
Social Media, more specifically how people are using it, is in the honeymoon phase we suggest. Business is eying it warily, a tiger circling its prey, nibbling here and there. Citizens are all playing...
View ArticleCivilizations and Social Technologies
If you’re still in the mindset that it’s just kids using social media, then you’ll more than likely entirely miss the point of the rest of this blog entry. And if you think social media is just about...
View ArticleExporting Revolutions in Social Media
Was Facebook the key driver that sparked revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Not likely. The social network, like Twitter, certainly played a pivotal role, of that there is little doubt. When the Web was...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Is Not a Revolutionaries Tool
Many a pundit has put forward that Facebook played a vital role in the Arab Spring and in 2009 in the failed Iranian revolution, that it will increasingly play an important role in organizing...
View ArticleAre Digital Diaspora Communities Politically Engaged Online?
This blog entry is an update on our ongoing research into digital diaspora communities and how they are using social medias and technologies to engage with their country/culture of origin and within...
View ArticleTwitter, Emerging Markets & Digital Diplomacy
Twitter announced on May 7th of 2012 that it has made significant changes to its software for mobile devices (iPhones, iPads, tablets and BlackBerry’s etc.) so that it uses less bandwidth than previous...
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