You Need a Thick Skin to Participate Online

Jul 22, 2009 | 8 Comments

Earlier, I read a thread on Geeks about Trent Reznor, the Nine Inch Nails frontman, deleting his Twitter account. Trent embraced Twitter quite awhile ago after discovering what an amazing outlet it can be. He quickly recognized the excellent means of communication Twitter provides. He helped raise over a million dollars via Twitter for a [...]

What’s Your Social Networking Advice?

Jul 17, 2009 | 2 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You can find me on pretty much every social networking site that you’ll find. If it’s a network and people are interacting in a social capacity – that’s where I am. I get a lot of questions on a daily basis, [...]

TweetDeck

Jun 16, 2009 | 15 Comments

TweetDeck is now on the iPhone. That’s right – the reversed-palate, desktop-hogging application has now gone mobile, releasing its first iPhone version today. The TweetDeck community fervently downloaded it and spread the exciting news that they have been waiting for since the idea was mentioned last summer. Some of you might have tried the desktop [...]

Five Reasons to Join an Online Community

Dec 7, 2008 | 28 Comments

This is Radu Mitiu’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily [...]

Do You Have any Social Networking Advice for Students?

Aug 30, 2008 | 12 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’m originally from the great state of Iowa. Some nice folks in Kansas asked me to present their Keynote speech at their welcome back orientation. At some point during the live presentation, the video feed died. So, I re-recorded this video. [...]

Web Communities and Social Networks Need Transparency

May 5, 2008 | 61 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I need you all to think about your answer to this question I received in an email: “What would be the one fundamental principle every social networking community must have for maintaining its integrity to the people who are using that [...]

Follow me on Twitter

Mar 24, 2008 | 52 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Who here has Twitter? Twitter isn’t really a Social Networking site. I never thought it would turn into what it has. Twitter is basically the place to let the World know what you’re doing, in 140 characters or less. Twitter has [...]

Social Media Questions and Answers

Mar 3, 2008 | 19 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Social Media is a huge word in my community. It can be defined in a variety of ways. It’s a way for you to be yourself on the Web, using Websites that are available to upload pictures, text and more. I’ve [...]

Gleamd

Aug 28, 2007 | One Comment

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ -Tonight I got to interview Matt McInerney, the creator behind the new Social Networking site… Gleamd.com.

What is Social Networking?

Jul 30, 2007 | 18 Comments

http://live.pirillo.com/ – How many of you are part of a social network? How many of you have no idea what a social network is? The big buzzword these days is "social network" – but what is a social network? Typically a social network is a service that allows you to keep track of your friends, [...]

Subscriptions are Equal to Social Pressure

Jul 30, 2007 | 8 Comments

I was a little taken aback this weekend by a personal attack on YouTube that was accurate, but largely based on inaccuracies. I’m not going to dismiss it outright, because the person who made the remark is quite an intelligent individual. It was noted, accurately, that I do not choose to have comments or subscriptions [...]

Pownce: Social Networks aren’t Identity Networks

Jul 27, 2007 | 33 Comments

Interesting. Someone just told me that I was on Pownce – which is odd, because I never signed up for an account. Lo and behold, here “I” am. I’m not terribly upset about it at this point, but that’s pretty much my identity – and the people following “me” may not know that that’s “me” [...]

MySpace vs FaceBook

Jun 13, 2007 | 28 Comments

Five reasons I like MySpace: Everybody has a beautiful MySpace page It’s a haven for Internet marketers Tons of people over 99 years old – my demographic Easy discovery of loud music upon page load – no clicks required Advertisements are unobtrusive and targeted Five reasons I hate FaceBook: Every page looks the same, is [...]

My Problems with MyBlogLog

May 28, 2007 | 9 Comments

Comments are useless these days. 90% of them are spam, and even if they’re not spam (outright), they’re crafted so as not to look like spam. Managing comments (bunk or legit) is still as painful as it ever was. Sometimes, I don’t want someone to know I came to their site. Now, I’m not saying [...]

What is a People Aggregator?

May 1, 2007 | No Comments

The PeopleAggregator is a feature rich, personal publishing oriented system. This is the hub social network you’ve been waiting for. Find out what its all about, what standards we support and how [they] can help you mesh yourself into the distributed Live Web. At the center of all great Live Web software will be one’s [...]