Category Archives: Social Networks

Fighting Fire With Fire: Dad Shoots Laptop, Posts Video

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

A North Carolina dad, Tommy Jordan, reached his wits end on Wednesday after his 15-year daughter posted a rant on her Facebook page, a video “disrespectful” to her parents. He pulled out a pistol and shot her laptop dead. And he videoed it, then shared that video with the world.

That is your laptop. This is my .45.

His monologue — where he reads what he says his daughter wrote on her Facebook page — includes some profanity and what I think of as a litany of teen-age whininess (based on my listening to adult friends and relatives as well as nieces). Titled Facebook Parenting: For the Troubled Teen, the video  has 3.7 million views as of this writing (125,486 likes, 9,392 dislikes):

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Listen Up! Two-Way Communication Key Lesson In Crowdsourcing Research Paper

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

How can businesses tap into the collective wisdom of the crowd? Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams explored mass collaboration in Wikinomics as well as Macrowikinomics. Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li focused on how digital social technologies facilitate consumer-corporate collaboration in their book, Groundswell: Winning in World Transformed by Social Technologies.

A undated research paper (2011?) from Carnegie Mellon [1] analyzes participation at IdeaStorm.com (@IdeaStorm), launched by Dell in 2007 as a way to tap suggestions (“idea generation”) from its customers.

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Seattle Does SxSW – Panel Picker Round-Up – Deadline Extended

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

List updated 5 September 2 September. Thanks to @MarkBriggs (KING5) who tipped me to the existence of a Seattle pitch list … and to @JoeSunga (TeachStreet) who did the initial compiling. I’ve elaborated a little on his list. Deadline for voting is 9.59 pm Pacific on Monday Sept 5, 2011 Friday Sept 2, 2011! Registering to vote is quick! Continue reading →

LinkedIn Joins Facebook In “Personalized” Ad Push; Here’s How To Opt-Out

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

To some of you, this may be old news. After all, LinkedIn announced the change via a blog post last month. But I learned about it today on GooglePlus.

First, there were announced changes in the LinkedIn privacy policy in June. (Missed those, too.)

Then last month, under the familiar guise of “deliver[ing] ads that are more useful and relevant to you,” LinkedIn opted-you-in to agreeing to let the company use your name and photo in social advertising.

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Facebook Adds eMail Addresses To “Download Your Info” But In The “Off” Position

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

Facebook has quietly implemented a new feature as part of its “download your information” tool.

The company, which is notorious for introducing new features that force its customers to “turn off” default settings, has set up the “let my friends have my email” option … in the “off” mode. Yep, it is a nod to personal privacy. But it’s really a nod to Facebook’s attempt to have a stranglehold on all that personal data.

Before this announcement, it was possible to export your Facebook friends — at least a subset of them — using the import contacts feature at Yahoo mail and Hotmail. When I did this earlier this summer (post GooglePlus launch), the two sets were not identical (N was different). Clunky, though.

This new “opt in” feature seems to apply only to Facebook’s “download your info” tool. In other words, it is still possible to import Facebook contacts into Yahoo mail (I did not try Hotmail) … and this import/export process still doesn’t capture everyone. No, I don’t know why!

[Follow the jump for "how to" instructions and screen shots.]

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