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Can a Hashtag Get You Sued?

Alternative title to this post: "How Not to Use Twitter as a Business Tool, Vol. 842"A colleague of mine recently...

Wrangling the Octopus

Yesterday, I gave a presentation at the eduWeb conference entitled "Wrangling the Octopus: Managing Your Social Media Ecosystem." In the...

Establishing an Institutional Presence on Goodreads

If there's a mantra for organizations or institutions in social media, it's this: connect with your users where they are....

Twinfomercials

Those of you on Twitter are doubtless all too familiar with the thousands of spam accounts set up to pitch...

Presentation: Twitter in Higher Ed Communications

Next week I'll be presenting at the 2009 eduWeb conference here in Chicago. My talk will be entitled "A Bird...

Presentation: Social Media for Arts and Humanities Nonprofits

Today I had the pleasure of participating in The Southside Arts & Humanities Network's Meet the Press 2009 event. I...

Project Update: The Law School Twitter Feed

The Law School now has its very own Twitter account, which can alert you to newly added content from everything...

TweetChicago: Behind the Scenes

Last month the Law School announced its TweetChicago page, which collects together an ever-increasing number of our faculty and students'...

Twitter: Redefining Spam?

Twitter has recently been making strides to cut down on spam on the microblogging service. Twitterspam is an interesting phenomenon,...

Social Networking: Why?

When I discuss my work with friends and family, I inevitably wind up talking about the various social networking sites...