Is social networking communication limited to the communications department?

Cellular News reports that a new study says top CEOs should do a better job at managing their presence online, on social sites like Twitter; LinkedIn; Facebook; and Wikipedia.
This is based on Fortune`s 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs – Sharon Barclay of the UberCEO blog conducted research over several weeks and found a [...]

How your Facebook connections are connected

WebAddict’s latest blogpost caught my interest. Titled ‘Show me your Facebook Social Graph’, it explains how the Facebook Application Social Graph clearly demonstrates how your facebook friends are connected with each other.
The graph shows clusters that can be zoomed into for a closer view. There are also nodes that can be highlighted, to show [...]

The Grid: keeping South Africans connected

In a social-media saturated world, there always seems to be room for one more social network with an innovative approach to keeping its users connected. The Grid is a South African mobile social network that allows users to chat to their friends, keep track of their locations, and share things they like, from a cell [...]

Could you live without being connected?

In today’s culture, where we have become accustomed to being connected to a network of people and information at the touch of a button no matter our location, it seems that the tools required to maintain that connectivity are viewed as more important than items which, in the past, we vowed we would never live [...]

Public/ private – are we too connected?

At a braai this weekend, my husband and I were discussing our upcoming trip to Disneyworld with a friend. Said friend is very detail-orientated, and was bursting with questions about the weather, prices, length of flight, and more. All went well until he asked if we’re going to be available on Skype. This is when [...]