Last month Facebook unveiled Facebook Platform to enable developers to use Facebook’s API and integrate applications into the social networking site.

One my favorite applications in MyQuestions (you’ll need to be logged into Facebook to see the application), which makes it easy for your Facebook friends to give you instant feedback to any question that’s [...]

On Sunday morning, I Twittered that my aunt Nichole had passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Two days later, I received two notes — one by e-mail and another via text comment to the post on this blog where that Tweet also lives — from former friends and co-workers of my aunt’s. [...]

One of the joys for me as a podcaster is hearing from listeners I never knew I had.
This morning, after a note from Doug Haslam — who is obviously paying better attention to his Technorati tags than I am to mine — I discovered that I have a new listener from Mumbai, India.

She [...]

How to run a successful blogger relations campaign.
Hosted by Bryan Person. Recorded from Boston, Massachusetts, USA and published for Tuesday, May 15, 2007.

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As the Wall Street Journal rightly points out in its featured technology story today, “How to Be a Star in a YouTube World,” going from amateur to true online superstar requires more than just good talent:
Just as in Hollywood, becoming a hit takes talent, effort, timing and some luck. Sex appeal is just as valuable [...]

Libaries and new media. Managing your social media.
Hosted by Bryan Person. Recorded from Boston, Massachusetts, USA and published for Tuesday, May 8, 2007.

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Dave Jones, co-host of the outstanding Inside PR podcast, included this gem in a list of five things to do as part of spring cleaning your PR career: “Lose the do-what-I’m-told approach.”
Dave’s right. Here are five reasons why simply doing what you’re told on the job is a loser’s game. Some of these ideas came [...]

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’m certainly one to trumpet the use of social media (blogs, podcasts, tagging, social networks) as an effective way to spread your message, or your organization’s message.
But I’m by no means a one-trick pony.
Today I ask you to remember how useful the telephone — [...]

I just received this generic LinkedIn invitation:
I found you while I was searching my network at LinkedIn. Let’s connect directly,
so we can help each other with referrals. If we connect, both of our networks will grow. To add me as your connection, just follow the link below.
The request came from a person that I [...]

Looks like the folks at the SimonSays podcast have heeded my advice and updated their RSS feed at long last.
As of my post last week, no episodes had been added to the podcast feed since July 20, even though Simon & Schuster had been publishing a new episode every week since that date. But [...]