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Steve Hammer on August 15th, 2011

According to twitaholic, there are about 20 users on twitter with more than 5 million followers, and well in excess of 400 users with more than a million.  The question in my mind is: are these numbers impressive or dangerous? For a moment consider the expectations of a twitter user.  Twitter is currently central to [...]

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Steve Hammer on June 16th, 2011

No commercial I’ve seen recently resonates as much as “The most interesting man in the world” series from Dos Equis.  It’s not a new campaign and  it didn’t start out as an sort of social media campaign, but it offers so many lessons in to better social media campaigns. Have a Point of View There [...]

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Steve Hammer on March 30th, 2011

Today Google unveiled it’s latest attempt at social media with the plus one (+1) button.  In many ways it’s an exciting development that could eventually be a strong signal for search.  It’s not hard to imagine how having users vouch for the quality of search results could lead to less junk in search results.  However, [...]

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Steve Hammer on March 3rd, 2011

It might sound odd for an annual member of social media club and a former GM of a social network to write a post about some recent over selling of social media.  In fact, there’s a lot that’s still very exciting about this nascent industry.  However, there’s some parts that need to get brought back [...]

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Steve Hammer on March 26th, 2009

One of the more interesting things about “living” online is the sheer number of places that we need to maintain our identity.  From the social networking perspective, I have three: facebook, linkedin and twitter.  All have their own followers/friends and all have different purposes in my mind.  I try to keep facebook personal, linkedin professional, [...]

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