Anthony Bradley

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Entries from August 2009

Why Don’t People Get Twitter?

August 19th, 2009 · 18 Comments

Twitter isn’t artful, it isn’t deep, it is sometimes even silly, but it certainly can be powerful. Many people I run into in my travels don’t seem to get it.
This Techcrunch article entitled, “Why I don’t Use Twitter” has motivated me to blog on this concern of mine. Forget for a moment that someone who [...]

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Tags: social solutions

Is Your Social Media Strategy Really Web 2.0?

August 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments

I speak to many organizations about their social media strategy. I am often excited to hear that they have formulated a social media strategy only to find that it is glorified Web 1.0. What do I mean by this?
These glorified Web 1.0 strategies are really communications-based strategies for how to pump out the corporate message [...]

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Google Wave Gets the Collective

August 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I know I’m late to the Google Wave comment party but you will have to forgive me since I’m coming off of a two month near constant client travel schedule.
Like most, I was impressed with the Google Wave demo. What struck me as most important and foundational was Google’s core grasp of the power of [...]

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The US Marines Choose Banning Over Governance for Social Networking

August 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments

An associated press article just hit the streets with the Marine Corps announcement that they are banning access to social networking sites.
It will be interesting to hear the details behind this choice of banning over governance. This begs many questions like:

What are the results of the risk v. benefit report cited?
What actual risks were encountered [...]

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