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Why Doesn’t Facebook Embrace Social Media?

October 14, 2008

Facebook is the 900 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to consumer’s ideas about “social media” and “social networking”, So why doesn’t Facebook embrace that fact and have a conversation with their own community?
Sure, they’re want to be a public company, they’ve got thousands of employees, millions of dollars worth of bills, and [...]

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99% Of Incoming Students Connect on Facebook Prior to Class

October 13, 2008

Yesterday I ran across a fascinating article saying that 99% of Amherst College freshman had already connected on Facebook via an “Amherst College Class of 2012” Group. Out of the 438 registered freshman, 432 had joined that specific FB Group the week before classes even started.
Lately I’ve been hearing more and more about how Facebook’s [...]

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Why I’d Make A Good Social Media Club Board Member

July 14, 2008

—Please Vote For Me, Jonathan Coffman for Social Media Club Board Member by clicking here (voting is open until Thursday —
I’ll try to keep this post short and sweet, but I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and my ideas for the SMC.
If you weren’t already aware, I am a candidate for the [...]

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What Working for PBS Engage Means

June 23, 2008

As the product manager for PBS Engage, the social media initiative of the Public Broadcasting service, I get to work with magnificent people day in and day out to bring social-media to the masses. It’s a very exciting time to be working in social-media, and especially at such a stellar organization.
My one month-iversary at PBS [...]

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Why It’s PayPal’s Fault, Not The Browser

April 27, 2008

About a week ago there was some buzz floating around about how PayPal may block Safari because it doesn’t have phishing protection built in. This has since been retracted by PayPal:
PayPal: No plans to block Safari
A representative for PayPal on Friday said the ecommerce firm is developing features to block customers from logging into PayPal [...]

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New Research on Premium Branding

April 21, 2008

This weekend I got the chance to sit down and read some of the huge stack of magazines that I previously hadn’t had time to read. I certainly didn’t make it through all of them, but a couple caught my eye. One of the most recent ones is the April 28th edition of Business Week.
One [...]

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A Personal Update

April 19, 2008

Today’s post has two different themes, 1) a change in blog format and 2) my job search.
I wanted to start out by saying that I’ve changed the way things work on here a little. After getting several emails, I re-evaluated having my Twitter updates archive to my blog. I’ve decided that there isn’t very much [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-12

April 12, 2008

Yeah yeah, no one likes to talk food on Twitter, but I had some great sushi tonight #
Good Morning Twitterville, lots of prep work today before I head out of town early tomorrow morning. #
wow, I made it to RSS Reader Zero just now, granted I now have 30ish tabs in my browser to read [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-11

April 11, 2008

Working on my calendar for the next couple of weeks. #
Being CEO/CTO/CFO/Visionary for Contributr is pretty taxing, I’ve got to get this under control. ha! #
@dsilverman Not a fan of Utterz? #
Headed to bed early tonight, g’night Twitterville. #
Good Morning Twitterville, not too terribly busy today but we’ll see what crops up #
@acafourek It’s that [...]

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