Category Archives: Social Media

LinkedIn might be getting a little too pushy

Posted on October 10, 2012 by markkolier

Most of the business professionals I know have a LinkedIn account. Recently I’ve seen a number of my LinkedIn contacts becoming much more active on the platform. That’s a good thing in my opinion as the platform is being used … Continue reading →

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You’re raising a barn on Farmville – nobody cares

Posted on May 21, 2012 by markkolier

With Facebook’s successful IPO this past Friday Zynga (creator of Cityville, Words with Friends, Draw Something, Farmville, Frontierville and other ‘villes) has more motivation than ever to unwean itself from the mother ship that is Facebook since Facebook may come … Continue reading →

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Foursquare continues to be more than public check-ins

Posted on May 11, 2012 by markkolier

I’ve said for a long time that Foursquare’s location based platform originally based on user check-in’s, is one of the most interesting social media applications around. An article in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal http://on.wsj.com/IT3IVJ did nothing to dampen my enthusiasm. … Continue reading →

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Will Instagram be the new Napster?

Posted on April 11, 2012 by markkolier

This past Monday Facebook announced it will pay cash and stock totaling one billion dollars for a company that has no revenue model. Instagram has been around for less than 24 months. It has (reportedly) 30 million users who upload … Continue reading →

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Zynga and Yelp – did you buy in?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by markkolier

Yelp.com had a very successful IPO last week with shares jumping 64% in the first day of trading last Friday – http://usat.ly/zrYhvu. The offering valued Yelp at $900 million. Yelp.com with 66 million monthly users had 2011 revenue of $83.3 … Continue reading →

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Now’s the time for more social networks but do you have time for more social networking?

Posted on February 20, 2012 by markkolier

Who’s got more time for social networking? Already I find myself spending less and less time on Facebook. It may seem like I am on FB all the time to some people but I leave the tab open on my … Continue reading →

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When will a LinkedIn Profile replace a resume?

Posted on February 8, 2012 by markkolier

I have looked at many resumes over the years. Most of them are conventionally boring as if a resume writing service had advised the candidate to play it safe. Consequently most resumes are anything but memorable. Your resume should supposedly … Continue reading →

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If you have a vendetta, think twice before posting on a social network

Posted on January 25, 2012 by markkolier

The old saying that ‘information is power’ is true, except when it’s the wrong information. Among other things social networking allows communication to large numbers of people by one single individual. A very cool feature indeed but with that comes … Continue reading →

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The future of Yahoo.com is cloudy

Posted on October 27, 2011 by markkolier

Carol Bartz has been gone from Yahoo for nearly two months and there has been spotty news on management other than Timothy Morse being named interim CEO and Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo remaining ‘chief Yahoos’. Wednesday of … Continue reading →

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