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The First Tweets of 16 B2B Brands (and a Few Familiar Faces)

first tweets of B2B brands

What was your first tweet? As Twitter began trading on the New York Stock Exchange last week, I couldn’t help but consider how far this small, simple, fledgling network has come. Once mocked for being stupid and insipid, and plagued by its own persistent identity crisis, Twitter has nonetheless become a prominent and important part […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Business, Content, Media, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: Social Media, Technology

Today’s Guessing Game: What Is It?

Remember AOL disks? If you owned a mailbox in the late 1990s or early-2000s, you know what I mean, because America Online‘s aggressive direct mail strategy probably distributed CD-ROMs and diskettes into it with irritating frequency. More than a billion disks were mailed between the late 1990s and 2006, when AOL stopped the mass mailing. […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Pop Culture, Technology Tagged With: AOL, AOL marketing, CD ROMS, ink cartridge, Technology, typewriter

A Journey to ’25 Random Things’

Facebook Random

Three weeks ago, William tagged me in a “25 Random Things About Me” chain letter. I’ve hung around with William a few times, but reading his list feels a lot like a peek at his diary: Here are his hopes, fears, and his profession of love for Twizzlers. I’m tagged again by Tim (“I’m a […]

Filed Under: Business, Media, Pop Culture, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: '25 Things', connectivity, digital life, Facebook, meme, online intimacy, Social Media, social networks, Technology

Wii Are Family

Wii tennis pro

In college, I had a friend named Jane. She was the oldest daughter in a family of tennis players, and they all looked like her: tall and willowy, but strong as thoroughbreds, with defined muscles in their long arms and legs; permanently sunburned noses; and an effortless way of moving that was almost heartbreaking to […]

Filed Under: Children, Family History, Parenting, Pop Culture, Teenagers Tagged With: children's games, digital life, family culture, personal history, sports, Technology, tennis, uncoordinated, Wii

Four Diary Entries

Diary

Barb Chamberlain is the Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Washington State University in Spokane. She was also the youngest Representative and (later) Senator elected to the Idaho State Legislature–which I didn’t know until she tagged me in a post she wrote on her blog: Five things you don’t know about me. But I’m […]

Filed Under: Secrets Tagged With: memes, Secrets, Technology, Travel, Writing

How to Get Regular Updates of Annarchy

Since I don’t write here daily, it’s easy to miss new stuff on this blog. My friend Chris Brogan, guest-posting at Shannon Paul’s place, calls the content I create here a “craft blog” and distinguishes it from a typical blog that’s updated more frequently, with shorter posts. Understandably, Chris says, my essays here are “something […]

Filed Under: Social Media, Technology, Writing Tagged With: blogging, blogs, Technology, Writing

I Suspect Everyone Else Is Smarter, Better-Looking, Taller, Cooler, Cuter, Has Newer and Shinier Objects than I Do (and Is More Modest)

Excellent!

When you are prone to measuring yourself against others, like I am, and when you both work and live out chunks of your life online, as I do, the Internet can be a bitch. It’s easy to get caught up in measuring your impact online, and to suspect that your own self-worth is tied to […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Humor, Politics & Society, Social Media, Technology, Video, Writing Tagged With: blogging, blogs, connectivity, internet, metrics, psychology, social networks, Technology

American Idolatry

Last week I signed on for the Comcast triple play, which brought our triumvirate of phone-internet-TV under Comcast’s wing. It also simultaneously catapulted us back to the Land of DVRs (Digital Video Recorders), a place from which we had reluctantly decamped after our last TiVo box died months ago. With DVRs, we’ve learned to start […]

Filed Under: Media, Parenting, Pop Culture, Technology Tagged With: connectivity, digital life, Technology

New Media as Community Theater—All the World’s a Stage

I am a total sucker for community theater, especially musical theater. What I love isn’t so much the corny show tunes or the predictable story lines, but the players’ infectious energy for taking risks. I was reminded of this a few weekends ago when I went to see a local production of Godspell. Because I […]

Filed Under: Business, Pop Culture, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: blogs, Boston, community theater, connectivity, digital life, internet, social networks, Technology

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