Malaysia Airlines 17 Crash Breaking News Trap

Twitter is a great source for information, but also can be a source of confusion when breaking news is happening. I understand the need to get information out for public interest and the completive nature of getting the scoop, but isn’t it best to say very little...

Monday Ann-Sense: Bring the Conversations Back to Twitter

  How many of us got involved in social media for fun? Then transitioned into using it professionally? If you joined Twitter pre-2010, I can pretty much say most of us. It was a new thing. And rather exciting. It was like a rolling conversation at a cafe with...

Newsjacking on DreamDay

  The above tweet should make you cringe. It did me. A friend in an online networking posted this tweet by the Golf Channel. Today marks a very important day in US history, it has been 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King made his famous “I have a...

Planting a Seed for a Twitter Chat

[youtube Last Friday morning, Phil Hollows, CEO of FeedBlitz, and I were have a long chatty conversation about a passion (or obsession) we both have: tea drinking. Now, you have to understand, Phil and I will talk about tea at least once a week. It is sort of like...