ONE SOCIAL MEDIA PREDICTION FOR 2011…YES, 2011

Nancy Myrland All Posts, Social Media 9 Comments

About a year ago, Twitterville author Shel Israel wrote a blog post titled “My Predictions for 2011” on his blog Global Neighbourhoods. One of his predictions that resonated with me at the time was Number 9. Shel wrote: “The Chinese government will accelerate its suppression of free speech on the Internet. Simultaneously, more Chinese people will bypass the government censors. It will …

HAS TWITTER GOTTEN TOO BIG?

Nancy Myrland All Posts, Social Media 11 Comments

new post from Shel Israel, the author of Twitterville and Naked Conversations.  The post is called Twitteropolis, implying a shift in Twitter culture from the more quaint Twitterville he wrote about in his book. Shel wrote that Twitterville is feeling much more like Twitteropolis these days. Shel shared: “I named it Twitterville because I wanted to connote a certain homey, small-town feel–a …

IT’S NO LONGER OUR DECISION

Nancy Myrland All Posts, Client Service and Retention, Social Media 17 Comments

The other day I read, and commented on, a post from Twitterville author Shel Israel, in which he was discussing his assertion that social media is now at the end of a period of great disruption, and is now entering a longer, quieter period of normalization. The thoughts I shared on his blog, along with a few new additions, are these: …