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Experts: Social Media Pose a Compliance Risk
“Use of internet-based social media such as Facebook and Twitter can pose compliance risks for drug companies, experts agree.” — I’ll say this: Any time anyone who is employed by a drug (or device, or biotech) company opens their mouth, it’s a compliance risk. Regulated companies can and should use social media channels to market themselves instead of their products.
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TwinCities.com on Foursquare: “Be There and Be ‘square”
I was quoted in an August 7, 2009 St. Paul Pioneer Press article on foursquare, a location-aware social game in which you check in at venues around town to earn points and badges, to let your friends know where you are and potentially meet up with them, and to alert friends to hot tips about that place.
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Voting in the SXSW Panelpicker
One of the features of the South by Southwest Interactive festival is that they allow the attendees and interested parties to help determine the programming. I’ve rated about half of the 2200-ish submissions. I’ll describe my rating process and my general impressions of this year’s Panelpicker.
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Ten Money Questions with Me at Queercents
Queercents is a super awesome LGBT-oriented personal finance site of which I am a big fan. They have a regular feature called Ten Money Questions and I am this week’s answerer of said questions.
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Discussion of Twin Cities News(papers) Hosted by KFAI
I participated in KFAI’s Speaker Series presentation of long-time, award-winning Twin Cities journalist Nick Coleman. I sat on the panel of public affairs programmers in my capacity as an independent self-publisher on the topic of the Twin Cities (aka a cityblogger) for going on five years.
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Why You Should Publish Full Content in Your RSS Feeds
“Including more content increases subscribers, which in turn increases the number of impressions you serve into your feed. Though you might think this will reduce clicks to your site, our experience has shown this isn’t always the case. Often, the audience reading your feed is a separate audience from those who visit your site, so we encourage you to monetize your audience of feed readers separately.” — Says Google. The monetary aspect of it is one thing, but the separation of your audience is the bigger issue, IMO.
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Online Conversation
Julio Ojeda-Zapata, in his latest Maynard Institute column, broke down the behind-the-scenes-in-plain-view goings on at the MPR Ethics in Online Journalism forum that Greg and I liveblogged for Ye Olde Metblog.
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“Keeping it short and tweet”
I was quoted in a Star Tribune story about Twitter. “Because you can have that constant stream of input I feel compelled to constantly consume it,” said Mauter, who follows 200 Twitterers. “It’s terrible if you have an attention deficit problem.” I do have more, more nuanced opinions on Twitter, but that’s certainly one of ...