by Brian Crawford | Feb 19, 2012 | Project Management, Social Networking
Lately I’ve been getting into using Pinterest, a social networking site designed to allow users to collect and share information by “pinning” things that they find useful or interesting onto “boards”; pages within a user’s hierarchy...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 10, 2011 | Social Networking
The other day I was involved in a discussion that included talk about Twitpic, the most popular of the real-time media sharing sites on the Internet. The service was started by a fellow in Charleston, South Carolina, the town where I last lived (in fact, the site I...
by Brian Crawford | May 8, 2010 | Social Networking
Lately I’ve been using Twitter in an attempt to connect and communicate about relevant, real-time information about some of the things I’m interested in – project management, PMP certification, the cities of Charleston (where I currently live),...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 2, 2010 | Social Networking
Contrary to what you might think when you first hear its name, a Gravatar is neither an Autobot nor a Decepticon. Rather, it is a Globally Recognized Avatar, an avatar (or image) that follows you to the WordPress blogs you go to online (Blogger doesn’t currently...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 26, 2010 | Social Networking
EDIT: Unfortunately, as of June 1, 2011, Collecta has shut down its real-time search service. But all may not be lost; Collecta has indicated that it plans to work with a variety of organizations (including United Way crisif relief projects) to open source its...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 12, 2010 | Social Networking
There are plenty of social media sites out there. The Wikipedia list of social networking websites currently lists 180 social networking sites that exist online – and that number is going to grow. Several sites make an attempt to make sense of all of the chaos...