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Social Media

New Twitter list @tparish/enterpriseleadership-org – EnterpriseLeadership.org Interviewees

December 15, 2009
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As host and overseer of the EnterpriseLeadership.org community I’m making some end of year changes to get us going for 2010. One rather fun update is building a Twitter list list of 21 amazing individuals who have been interviewed by me and Elizabeth Ferrarini.  The Twitter list widget sits on the home page and updates [...]

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Tom Parish Inc. Fan Page on Facebook

December 12, 2009
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For those who follow me on Facebook I am posting my more technical geeky topics and projects on the Tom Parish Inc. fan page on Facebook.
I still post of course nearly the same things at http://twitter.com/tparish. Clearly I need to spruce up the fan page but for now it’s there and functional and thankfully quite [...]

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Tom Parish at the Austin Rotary Downtown Mtg – Social Media for Business Video Presentation

November 21, 2009
Tom Parish speaking at the Austin Rotary Club

This is what I presented to the folks at the Austin downtown Rotary Club. Great group. Must have been near 100 folks there with lot of relevant questions. Many thanks to Allison Allen for getting me on the agenda for November.

About the Author: Tom ParishTom Parish is a Social Media Consultant who harnesses social web [...]

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Facebook Fan Page for Tom Parish Inc.

November 15, 2009
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Tom Parish Inc on Facebook
I am separating out my personal from business activity streams for Tom Parish (personal) and Tom Parish Inc. (business).
Become a FAN!
Tom

About the Author: Tom ParishTom Parish is a Social Media Consultant who harnesses social web strategy for Enterprise use. Find out more about Tom Parish at tomparish.com.

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Why It’s Taking So Long for Google Wave To Really ‘Be Here’ For Everyone

October 21, 2009
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If you think about it, the complexities of building out modern data center infrastructure (locally and inside the Google Cloud)  necessitates really watching and learning from the data traffic patterns across a field of Wave servers. There is a great deal of complex data being exchanged in real time as it interconnects with so [...]

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Getting Going on Google Wave – October 1st Thursday Morning

October 1, 2009

Last night, very late, I received my Google Wave Beta invitation. This morning I'm sending out invitations. Google Wave isn't much fun to use by yourself. It's like using chat by yourself. You just sit there and stare at it waiting for someone to come online.
I've sent 4 invitations out in the last hour [...]

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A Tactical Plan for Deploying External Social Media: Dave Evans, Social Media Strategist and Author

September 5, 2009

Whether you are a chief information officer or a chief marketing officer, you need to know how to leverage technology, especially social media, to understand how customers perceive your brand both positively and negatively, and what changes you need to make to your products to get more positive responses. You have the challenge of influencing [...]

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Facebook Updates Look to Compete with Twitter

March 6, 2009

Facebook is undertaking a redesign of its page in an effort to keep up with the surging popularity of Twitter. While widely acknowledged as the leading professional networking engine, Facebook is concerned by Twitter’s recent success in guerilla/viral marketing, evidenced by its increased use by large corporations and celebrities.
Speed and ease of updates, along with functionality, [...]

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Tom Parish Interviews Dave Evans Author “Social Media One Hour a Day”

March 3, 2009

This interview is 7:45 in length. We chat in my studio about SXSW
2009 this year, the rise in people suddenly adopting ’social media
consultant” titles, and comments about his book “Social Media One Hour
a Day”.
This was shot with a rental camera I was testing and I didn’t get
the focus as razor sharp as I had hoped. [...]

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What Is This Term ‘Social Graph’ People Are Babbling about?

January 26, 2009

Let’s explore that a bit, because part of the change we’re going to
see in 2009 and in a big way in 2010 is the evolution of social
networks to allow you to bring your social graph (meaning your social
connections) from place to place without have to start over every time.
(It’s optional, of course, so don’t let [...]

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