I cannot lie, but the weekend is a very welcome sight. How was your week? This week was some interesting things including Danny Brown’s Livefyre experiment and Facebook changing privacy rules against brands only to rescind them. Hopefully you enjoy this week’s edition of Five for Friday what stories did I miss?

Facebook’s grand plan for the future – My good friend Keith Trivitt passed this gem from the Financial Times over the weekend and I am glad he did. It’s a pretty interesting look at where the folks over at Facebook see themselves in the future. Some sounds like Orwell, but I can see it happening.

Why Digital Death Sucks – This is a thought provoking article from Shonali Burke on the campaign where celebrities stopped Tweeting until they raised $1M. Now I thought that the whole thing was foolish from the get-go but Shonali shows how it might be more damaging in the long-run for charities.

An Arresting Act of Customer Service – How many times can you say that the police offer good customer service? A show of hands? Well since I don’t see any, you might want to take a look at these deeds from the Austin police department.

Social Media Does Not Equal PR – I was very happy to read this article from Stephanie Schwab (AKA @socialologist), because it plainly states the difference between public and social relations. The explanations can serve as go-to nuggets if you have to explain one to an executive.

What’s to be learned from Tumblr’s Outage by Anyone Involved in Social Media – Many folks reading this may have been grumbling when Tumblr went down for 24 hours or so earlier in the week and will probably disagree with this article from Peter Shankman. You know what, he’s absolutely right. Unless you own the platform that you are broadcasting on, whether it’s a blog, Twitter, Facebook or something else, unless you own the platform you are merely renting someone’s space and will be SOL if the site goes away. This is especially vital for companies who rely on social networks as their broadcast platforms. And if you are whining about the cost of hosting your own blog, the price shouldn’t be prohibitive as you can do it for under a $100 a year if you wanted to, which breaks down to $8.33 per month.

I cannot lie, but the weekend is a very welcome sight. How was your week? This week was some interesting things including Danny Brown’s Livefyre experiment and Facebook changing privacy rules against brands only to rescind them. Hopefully you enjoy this week’s edition of Five for Friday what stories did I miss?

Facebook’s grand plan for the future – My good friend Keith Trivitt passed this gem from the Financial Times over the weekend and I am glad he did. It’s a pretty interesting look at where the folks over at Facebook see themselves in the future. Some sounds like Orwell, but I can see it happening.

Why Digital Death Sucks – This is a thought provoking article from Shonali Burke on the campaign where celebrities stopped Tweeting until they raised $1M. Now I thought that the whole thing was foolish from the get-go but Shonali shows how it might be more damaging in the long-run for charities.

An Arresting Act of Customer Service – How many times can you say that the police offer good customer service? A show of hands? Well since I don’t see any, you might want to take a look at these deeds from the Austin police department.

Social Media Does Not Equal PR – I was very happy to read this article from Stephanie Schwab (AKA @socialologist), because it plainly states the difference between public and social relations. The explanations can serve as go-to nuggets if you have to explain one to an executive.

What’s to be learned from Tumblr’s Outage by Anyone Involved in Social Media – Many folks reading this may have been grumbling when Tumblr went down for 24 hours or so earlier in the week and will probably disagree with this article from Peter Shankman. You know what, he’s absolutely right. Unless you own the platform that you are broadcasting on, whether it’s a blog, Twitter, Facebook or something else, unless you own the platform you are merely renting someone’s space and will be SOL if the site goes away. This is especially vital for companies who rely on social networks as their broadcast platforms. And if you are whining about the cost of hosting your own blog, the price shouldn’t be prohibitive as you can do it for under a $100 a year if you wanted to, which breaks down to $8.33 per month.

I cannot lie, but the weekend is a very welcome sight. How was your week? This week was some interesting things including Danny Brown’s Livefyre experiment and Facebook changing privacy rules against brands only to rescind them. Hopefully you enjoy this week’s edition of Five for Friday what stories did I miss?

Facebook’s grand plan for the future – My good friend Keith Trivitt passed this gem from the Financial Times over the weekend and I am glad he did. It’s a pretty interesting look at where the folks over at Facebook see themselves in the future. Some sounds like Orwell, but I can see it happening.

Why Digital Death Sucks – This is a thought provoking article from Shonali Burke on the campaign where celebrities stopped Tweeting until they raised $1M. Now I thought that the whole thing was foolish from the get-go but Shonali shows how it might be more damaging in the long-run for charities.

An Arresting Act of Customer Service – How many times can you say that the police offer good customer service? A show of hands? Well since I don’t see any, you might want to take a look at these deeds from the Austin police department.

Social Media Does Not Equal PR – I was very happy to read this article from Stephanie Schwab (AKA @socialologist), because it plainly states the difference between public and social relations. The explanations can serve as go-to nuggets if you have to explain one to an executive.

What’s to be learned from Tumblr’s Outage by Anyone Involved in Social Media – Many folks reading this may have been grumbling when Tumblr went down for 24 hours or so earlier in the week and will probably disagree with this article from Peter Shankman. You know what, he’s absolutely right. Unless you own the platform that you are broadcasting on, whether it’s a blog, Twitter, Facebook or something else, unless you own the platform you are merely renting someone’s space and will be SOL if the site goes away. This is especially vital for companies who rely on social networks as their broadcast platforms. And if you are whining about the cost of hosting your own blog, the price shouldn’t be prohibitive as you can do it for under a $100 a year if you wanted to, which breaks down to $8.33 per month.

I cannot lie, but the weekend is a very welcome sight. How was your week? This week was some interesting things including Danny Brown’s Livefyre experiment and Facebook changing privacy rules against brands only to rescind them. Hopefully you enjoy this week’s edition of Five for Friday what stories did I miss?

Facebook’s grand plan for the future – My good friend Keith Trivitt passed this gem from the Financial Times over the weekend and I am glad he did. It’s a pretty interesting look at where the folks over at Facebook see themselves in the future. Some sounds like Orwell, but I can see it happening.

Why Digital Death Sucks – This is a thought provoking article from Shonali Burke on the campaign where celebrities stopped Tweeting until they raised $1M. Now I thought that the whole thing was foolish from the get-go but Shonali shows how it might be more damaging in the long-run for charities.

An Arresting Act of Customer Service – How many times can you say that the police offer good customer service? A show of hands? Well since I don’t see any, you might want to take a look at these deeds from the Austin police department.

Social Media Does Not Equal PR – I was very happy to read this article from Stephanie Schwab (AKA @socialologist), because it plainly states the difference between public and social relations. The explanations can serve as go-to nuggets if you have to explain one to an executive.

What’s to be learned from Tumblr’s Outage by Anyone Involved in Social Media – Many folks reading this may have been grumbling when Tumblr went down for 24 hours or so earlier in the week and will probably disagree with this article from Peter Shankman. You know what, he’s absolutely right. Unless you own the platform that you are broadcasting on, whether it’s a blog, Twitter, Facebook or something else, unless you own the platform you are merely renting someone’s space and will be SOL if the site goes away. This is especially vital for companies who rely on social networks as their broadcast platforms. And if you are whining about the cost of hosting your own blog, the price shouldn’t be prohibitive as you can do it for under a $100 a year if you wanted to, which breaks down to $8.33 per month.