Category archive for ‘Social Media’ 
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New Study Says Under-35s Love to Twitter after Sex
A new report from consumer electronics site Retrevo finds that 36% of Twitter and Facebook users under the age of 35 like to post updates immediately after sex. I have a feeling the findings will have many readers nodding in agreement. If embarrassingly so.
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Last Word (for Now) on C-BOM Blog Sustainability Meetup
On the last Saturday in August, I and two dozen other bloggers from across Chicago got together for the C-BOM: Community Blogging & Online Media meetup at the Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago. We arrived to discuss ways to make local blogging financially sustainable.
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On Chicagosphere: Why the Sun-Times Deserves to Die
On Chicagosphere I asked whether the Chicago Sun-Times union truly understands the endgame faced by their paper and journalism in general, calling out the Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner along the way for suggesting that columnists be forced to ditch commentary in favor of strict news analysis. There’s nothing I find more tiresome than yet another reporter throwing the rest of the world under the bus for the failings of their own field.
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Now on Sale: Social Media Management?
If your communications plan is not Internet based yet, it had better be soon. If you don’t believe having a social media presence is fundamental to contemporary success, you’d better re-examine your beliefs. And if you think you’re going to mobilize tomorrow’s supporters by half-hearted, cut-rate outreach attempts, think again.
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Twitter 101 for Business: Horizon Realty Edition
When Horizon Realty Group sued unhappy tenant and Twitter user Amanda Bonnen for ‘defamatory tweeting’ they might have avoided giving themselves a global PR black eye if only someone had read Twitter 101 for Business: A Special Guide…released by the microblogging platform just days before the tweet hit the fan.
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Sex and the Sneakered Blogger
It’s a sad commentary on my social life when the highlight of the past week comes from sitting on the front patio of hoary Uptown gay bar Big Chicks on dollar burger night, doing Gweilo impressions of contact sheets from AsianPoses.com. On a Monday.
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Independence Eve Violence Update
Today, as I continue to ask my readers and social-media friends to keep the eyewitness accounts coming, I did what any self-respecting traditional news-gatherer would do. I filed FOIAs regarding the alleged Independenc Eve fireworks violence.
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Following Up on Chicago’s Independence Eve Violence
Yesterday’s post on alleged gang violence during Chicago’s Independence Eve fireworks generated a lot of local attention and concern. That post compared official reports of a relatively ‘peaceful’ July 3rd fireworks display with reports from the blog, Second City Cop, and several Twitter members indicating a sizable gang presence, multiple gang-related fights, numerous guns recovered, and a potential shooting in the vicinity of Buckingham Fountain. Here’s how you can help get to the bottom of things.
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Four Reasons Why Bloggers on Twitter Shouldn’t Pimp Facebook
The going assumption seems to be all social networking sites are the same: if you like me here, you’ll love me over there. The Internet is a bad place to make assumptions like that. Twitter and Facebook couldn’t be farther apart in the ways–and the whys–their respective communities mingle with each other. Here are four reasons why bloggers using Twitter shouldn’t push their Facebook pages on their followers, told from the perspective of a hapless new follower.
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Taste for the Taste of Chicago
I admit it, for the first time in the six-and-a-half years that I’ve been a Chicagoan I had a good time at the Taste of Chicago. Not that I don’t love shuffling at one mile an hour in direct 90-degree sunlight, eating over a trash can, running from wasps, and peeing in a porta-potty…
