Over the last month there have been a flood of opinions and articles about Google +. Our own Mike Troaino reported early on that its Google + vs. Twitter, not Facebook, Jeremiah Owyang later agreed and provided 5 Ways Google + Can become Mainstream, only to be outdone by 6 Ways Google + is Winning…
Here’s a mid-Summer prediction for you… The Google Plus v. Facebook debate is a sideshow. The real battle will be between G+ and Twitter… and while Google+ will become a franchise for The Goog, Twitter will win. Here’s my thinking. Before Google Plus, Facebook was mostly for personal, LinkedIn was mostly for professional, and Twitter…
You can imagine your hearty-ankled, elementary school librarian peering down at you through half moon glasses, that reproachful gaze reminding you that you’ll never be good enough to read chapter books, as she says, “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover.” It was good advice. Advice that taught generations of us to dig a…
Image via Wikipedia Over the weekend I had the honor of participating in a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was lucky enough to see the Harlem Gospel Choir perform for a crowd of a few thousand people in Cambridge. Their performance was so uplifting and inclusive that I felt compelled to comment…
Came across this eye-opening stat today, in light of yesterday’s Content Hub post. PostRank says that 80% of audience engagement with online content now happens somewhere other than the site on which that content originates. The slide deck: Measuring Engagement of the Social Web: 2007-2009 View more presentations from Ilya Grigorik. 80-freaking-percent. That’s just incredible…