If you remember Ask.com, you probably remember Jeeves. Now he’s back on the UK site. It turns out that people liked the old chap, and in this age of social media, it’s probably prudent to have a corporate avatar (it looks a lot better on Facebook, anyway). There’s more about the resurrection at Search Engine [...]

Posted April 20, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: Ask Jeeves, Ask.com, corporate avatar, facebook, marketing, social media, social software. Be the first one.

Finding a 2007 blog post about a condom and a cheeseburger made a friend ask if student blogs should be moved off-domain. My flippant answer was “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
His retort was simple and quick: “Tell that to the catholic church.”
It stung. He had me, I was sure. It’s hard for many [...]

Posted January 14, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: bad publicity, blogging, catholic church, church sex abuse, lessons, PR, public relations, publicity, reputation management, scandal, social media. One Comment.

When Phoebe Ayers isn’t hanging out at ROFLcon she’s probably doing something related to Wikipedia, so I’m looking forward to reading How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It.
Extra points: Phoebe and her co-authors somehow convinced their publisher to release the entire work under the GFDL, the same license Wikipedia [...]

Posted October 13, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: book, How Wikipedia Works, Phoebe Ayers, social media, wikipedia. Be the first one.

Social Media in Plain English and RSS In Plain English, among others from Common Craft among the best explanations you’ll find.

Posted September 24, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 2.0, Common Craft, explanation, social media, social software, web 2.0. One Comment.