Social Media

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Our publisher,  Addison-Wesley Professional, has graciously published ‘Rough Cuts’ -  that means they still need final edits – of the first five chapters of our upcoming book, Facebook Development: A Complete Guide to Smart Application Development for the Facebook Platform, on InformIT’s Safari Books Online. Rough Cuts allow readers to get access to the book [...]

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Mike Langford, fellow panelist and CEO of Tweetworks, has posted video of the panel discussion from the Girls in Tech Boston event held on May 6th, 2009 at Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Center. You can view the video here. Along with Mike, Cappy was joined by the following panelists: Rachel Happe, Co-Founder, Community Roundtable Karen Rubin, [...]

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Thought Labs’s Cappy Popp will be speaking on a panel titled, “Linked in – How to Increase Sales” on Thursday, June 18, 2009 from 11:45A – 1:30P at the Clark University Graduate Management Center in Framingham, MA. This should be an interesting event; it will undoubtedly be covering a much broader range of topics related to [...]

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We’ve just received an update from the Hewlett Packard ProLiant team after two months with their new Facebook Public Profile and Twitter account.  Below is a summary of the process we went through in creating their strategy and implementation and how they’re doing so far: What HP Wanted The ProLiant team had previously created a [...]

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Facebook today announced Quick Transitions, an Ajax-backed technology for enabling faster canvas page loads in Facebook Applications. Does it work? Not at the moment.

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Selling to CIOs is a complex and daunting task. Make sure you do your homework and know what they are looking for. Know their industry, pain points, and competitors. Prepare and be ready for pointed questions about ROI of your solution.

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Dealing with negative comments on Twitter or your blog is an effective skill that can help turn detractors into advocates.

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The chance of coming down with a virus depends on a number of things how many people are exposing you to it whether you have seen it before how much energy is put into fighting it Social media infects companies in the same way. If many of the company’s employees and decision makers have used [...]

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Late last year, Twitter was abuzz with people talking about The Twitter Secret. Only some knew it, and they weren’t telling unless you followed them, paid them, etc. It turned out to be nothing more than a bug at twitter.com that allowed sending Direct Messages longer than 140 characters. The hype was way better than [...]

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Facebook Pages have changed; they are now more like Facebook user profiles. So, how do you deal with their status messages? How do you get them from the API and what can go wrong?

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