Archive for ‘April, 2011’

What Happens to Social Media When The Cloud #Fails? Here’s How Delta, Citi, McDonalds Responded when CoTweet was down.

Photo: http://www.clarkedailynews.com Yesterday Amazon Web Services suffered a prolonged outage which also brought down social media websites CoTweet, Hootsuite, Quora, Foursquare among others. For Twitter accounts with…

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Are Your Twitter DMs Private? Or Not.

  Photo: http://eclas.tumblr.com/  I’ve noticed lately that there are a number of Twitter DMs (Direct Messages) which should be private between two people, but have somehow found their way…

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Should Brands Be Available On Twitter Afterhours?

Over the weekend I noticed that Mercury Energy was merrily tweeting away, and this caught my attention because (a) I hadn’t noticed this account before and (b) it was the…

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10 Tips To Keep Yourself Safe On The Interweb

Photo: http://weheartit.com/entry/7159746 Some people live their lives very openly on social networks choosing to share all sorts of details with the world. Others take a more conservative…

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Personal Social Media Accounts – Who Is Watching?

Last week, the idea was floated at the London Finxtra Social Media event #finxsm that some organisations may be considering hooking up the personal social media accounts…

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Photo Editing Web App: A Review of Picnik

I’ve been using the Picnik web app for that past week or so for editing my photos (thanks to @KateMontgom for the tip). Been quite enjoying it,…

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Lets Keep Our World Turning

Photo: thehobergs717.blogspot.com Today I was lucky enough to spend the morning at Auckland Hospital, helping out in their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) which is where…

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