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Disconnected
How long could you go without Google? Facebook? and being connected?
College students made this film. A social experiment. No heads down texting. Having to look people in the eye. Having to make real world connections…imagine that?
A really good one on SnagLearning. Like drug addicts kicking the habit!Let us celebrate outdoor living this long weekend. Let us connect more with each other. But first watch this film. LOL. On SnagFilms.com.
Big New Idea
Wow. I love this one. Makes so much sense, doesn’t it? Check it out! Thank you.
Cool Photo Of The Day
Who is that with Senator Warner of Virginia?
Click here to see for yourself.
Heads Up
I can’t add any more folks to my Facebook friends list. I maxed out at 5,000 friends more than a year ago. Please don’t send emails or messages asking me to add you to my friend’s list. I simply technically cannot do it. Perhaps you can follow me on Twitter? That is a good route.
Also please don’t send me emails on important matters to my Facebook messaging box. I don’t review it that often. I read my email at my personal email address which I don’t circulate publicly but is well known and at WashingtonCaps@aol.com and TheWashWiz@aol.com.
I have just seen some very distraught messages from folks saying they have emailed me at Facebook and I haven’t responded.
I noted that this is not a viable email box for me. I clean it out about every ten days or so. I do not consider this a viable means of communications to me for requests or problem resolution.
I apologize in advance to you all. I can’t keep 4 email boxes going all of the time.
Please understand. I want to do my best but my Facebook box sometimes has 500 unread messages from the world of Facebook members. It is hard to manage. It is overwhelming at times.
Thank you.
Whoa!!!!!!!!
This is getting way out of hand.
I encourage our players to be interactive and to be transparent. I want them to be on Facebook or to Tweet away. To respond to emails; to be out and about; to sign all autographs; and to be approachable.
Thirteen years ago, I gave all of our players’ laptops and email addresses to jump start the effort. It was the first time in professional sports that happened.
Just so you know, I blog every day and I am on Facebook and Twitter. All of our players are as well. It is generational.What I did say in an interview was that while most people like interactivity, some fans have told me they don’t like seeing some players’ Tweets or posting personal photos and that seeing behind the curtain sometimes makes a fan lose some respect for the player.
Interactivity can cut both ways.
I hope this provides some perspective and context here as this is the third article I have read that makes it sound like I don’t encourage our players to be online and in social networks. Thank you.
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I Remember Fondly
I still use AIM. Do you? See this article.
I have some fun once in a while on AIM Fight.
I sure wish AIM Pages had worked.
Twitter feels like AIM status messaging to me introduced in 1996.
AIM was the first online product to dazzle and delight people.
AIM was fun. Light. Easy to use.
It worked. It scaled.
At its height, 14 million people around the world were using it at the same time!
It was an inspiration to many.
The first social network.
The first virally marketed product.
Kudos to the pioneers behind this great product and service from AOL. The good ole days!
Nostalgia is good but I still use AIM. I am proud to say that, too.
Everything Old is New Again
I saw this article and smiled.
I once did a deal with the nice people from Mars, Inc at AOL and we launched a customized M&Ms promotion in 1998.
You could order your own M&Ms and choose the color and what you wanted to be messaged on the candy. Order it online and have it delivered overnight. “Clicks instead of bricks.” You could then send some candy as gifts to folks on your buddy list. They would be alerted to this nice gesture by you on email.
We had our members’ credit cards on file, more than 35 million of them.
We, too, wanted to get a piece of every transaction.
We, too, were all about social, community, platforms and payments.
After a while, AOL just took folks’ dollars as sponsorship and ad revenues.
Good to see Facebook running this play in the playbook. It is a good one.
Blurring the Lines
What is a blog vs. a tweet vs. a website vs. a Facebook newsfeed or a Facebook wall posting?
It is all starting to blur, isn’t it?
This is a terrific article on NYTimes.com. Read this one.
It augers well for people who use a service such as TweetDeck where for example my blog posts also get turned into tweets and into Facebook newsfeeds to reach a wide audience of friends and interested parties.
It also hints that blogs that are a part of a great network of other like-minded sites will do well and morph into major media properties and that singular blog sites will struggle as islands with no where to go and servicing a shrinking audience.