I’m honored that I’ve been asked to speak on a panel about social media at BlogHer ’12. I believe that the ways in which we share online are wonderful opportunities to inspire and be inspired. I also believe that embracing the new means we can’t disregard the past. The new …
Yesterday I wrote about how important it is to think before you tweet. I’ll say it again. And I don’t mean people being honest and witty and funny and candid. I’m talking about people saying things that potentially hurt others or themselves. Because if twitter is like a cocktail party, …
(As usual, there is more to cover than fits a single post. Part 2 tomorrow.) I regularly compare twitter to a cocktail party - it provides a source of great conversation, interesting people and often better info than a google search. I started using twitter in April 2008. Back when …
I don’t have kids yet, but the way Pinterest is behaving makes me want to sit down with them and have this sort of chat that seems very much like a parent/child conversation on an ABC Afterschool Special. “I know you had good intentions, but you’re hurting people.” “I know …
I’m not the first, and certainly not the last, to have referred to the web as the Wild West. The analogy works. But here’s the thing, the Wild West is not so wild anymore. It hasn’t been for a long time. History has shown us that civilization can’t sustain itself …
At some point this site will go back to simply being AlexandraWrote and not AlexandraWroteAboutPinterestgate. But several things happened in the last two days that remind me, yet again, that Pinterest is just one facet in a larger problem I’ve yet to figure out a name for. Right now, I’m …
Contrary to what internet headlines say, Pinterest is not the root of all evil. Pinterestgate is simply the tipping point for an issue that’s been brewing for years. We’ve watched as content has been “shared” across websites and social media platforms without much concern about who things belongs to. We …
The conversations about whether Pinterest is acting as pusher in a sea of potential copyright infringement issues have been incredible. For the most part it assures me of what I truly believe: people don’t set out to do the wrong thing, and most, upon learning they are, want to know …
I’ve reached the moment when I cannot decide which end is up with Pinterest. I love what I share with my followers, and what they share with me. But I’m worried that I’m infringing on copyright with every pin I push. In a recent case of online copyright infringement, someone …
In the last few weeks I’ve seen plenty of posts about Pinterest as it explodes from this small site I joined a little over a year ago to what it is today. Posts on netiquette, like I’ve discussed here. More often I’ve seen posts that discuss how to use Pinterest …