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FYI Stuff

I don’t like Google anymore

I have blogged before how I don’t like Google’s growing monopoly on the web, and how they increasingly block non-Chrome browsers when you use their own web applications. It looks like Google is now moving into more unsound web practices, using their web crawling power and abilities to unfair, unethical and illegal purposes.

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Help us putting “Social” back into “Social Media”

Don’t you hate it when organisations are using social media merely as a “broadcast medium”? You know the types…, those who only tweet links to their own websites, only publish their own publications on Facebook,… Those who never reply when you send them a message on Twitter, and hardly monitor their social media channels. No [...]

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Wanted: Drupal developer to implement a mobile theme

Update: Thanks to everyone who helped. I have now identified a developer! One of my websites, Humanitarian News, runs on Drupal 6. I’d like to implement a mobile theme on it, to make browsing from a mobile device easier and faster. I am looking for a Drupal developer who can implement a very simple and [...]

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Sharing links via social media:2011 statistics

“AddThis” is one of the main social media sharing sites. Just like “ShareThis“, which I covered before on this blog, they provide browser plugins and social bookmarking icons for 11 million websites. In short, they facilitate ways to “pass on” links via different (social) media.

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At the International Forum on Water and Food:
Our social media team is rocking!

Barely two months have passed since we published a post, asking for volunteers to cover the forum via social media. By now, we have gathered about 20 social reporters who will “report” live from the Forum itself. Another 80 (!) social media volunteers spread all over the world will be helping to “propagate” the content [...]

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Is Chrome soon the only browser supported by Google tools?

A few weeks ago, I complained that the new Google’s Blogger dashboard no longer supported Safari. Instead Google encouraged people to switch to Chrome, Google’s own browser. I predicted that it would not stop there, knowing Google’s tendency to monopolize the web world.

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The EU directive on web cookies:
a privacy warning too far?

This warning popped up today, while surfing the website of a large international nonprofit. It was the first time I ran across a oblivious warning like that.

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A New Delicious, a New Problem.

In the past days, Delicious, the widely popular bookmarking site, changed their ehmm, how should I call it: their “website”, their user interface? If it were only the user-interface, I’d be happy, but some of the functionality changed too… Yet another example of “If you seriously engage in social media, you can’t keep it as [...]

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Wanted: social media volunteers for a good cause

Water scarcity is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity today. Today, more than 20 percent of the world’s rivers run dry before reaching the sea. This is an upcoming disaster for the world’s agriculture, specifically in developing countries where 70-90% of the available water is used to grow food. More than 1.4 billion [...]

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The Social Media Revolution

 From time to time, those of us working in social media, still have to convince people on the reach and use of it all. So, here is another infographics/infomercial video. Always good at the beginning of a presentation. Video is based on the book “Socialnomics” by Erik Qualman (Discovered via @gaurisalokhe and @rsamii)

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The World of Social Media in 2011

If you ever need to give a presentation on the reach of the most prominent social media tools… Video courtesy Omobono

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