Social Research & Analysis

Social Research & Analysis is where I share the research I’ve done and the results, analyze the impact of changes in social media and technology, and cogitate on the future.

• From Tornados to Starbucks—My HTC Does It All - June 29, 2010
• Those Crazy Community Pages - June 9, 2010
• The Holes in Facebook's Strategy--And How to Plug Them - May 17, 2010
• 5 Graphics that Explain Facebook's Open Graph - April 22, 2010
• Why Social Media is a Lot Like Survivor - April 13, 2010
• The Happiest Tweeps are Frequent Clickers - April 11, 2010
• The Wrong Way to Handle a Rumor - April 5, 2010
• Quit Yer B**ch'n and Dictat'n - March 15, 2010
• My Little Secret: RSS in my Inbox - March 9, 2010
• Twitter Quitters Say Twitter is Boring - March 1, 2010
• Is Facebook Cheating Its Users? - February 10, 2010
• When Is It SPAM--What Tweeps Say - January 26, 2010
• Facebook, Flying Squirrels, and Other Things - January 19, 2010
• Skills for Modern Day Orators - January 12, 2010
• Three Principles that Drive Click-Through, Engagement, and Content Sharing - December 20, 2009
• Facebook--Eat Your Cake, and Enjoy It - December 17, 2009
• Evolution of Social Networks: Past, Present, and Future - December 8, 2009
• How Trusted Sources will change advertising - November 22, 2009
• How the coming of Trust Sources will change Search - November 13, 2009
• Will Social Media Make Businesses More Ethical? - November 8, 2009
• Small Biz Fails to Use Twitter Effectively - November 2, 2009
• Twitter Lists: Paving the Way for Ads? - October 30, 2009
• 4 Clever Uses for Lists - October 22, 2009
• Basics: Using Twitter Lists to grow your business - October 20, 2009
• Will Twitter's Lists feature restart its growth? - October 18, 2009
• 4 recurring tweet scenarios - October 14, 2009
• Or maybe Twitter is brilliant - October 14, 2009
• Dear Twitter, please don't kill your market - October 14, 2009
• When Is It Spam? - October 12, 2009
• Don't Shoot the Messenger - October 7, 2009
• We are All our Own Image Consultants - October 3, 2009
• Only 27% of Tweeps Use Clients--What's that Mean for Your Tweet Strategy - September 29, 2009
• Social Media Marketing Needs to Grow Up - September 23, 2009
• Sorry, but it's not all about the conversation - September 12, 2009
• Just who is taking all those Facebook quizzes? - September 7, 2009
• Why Facebook Feeding Twitter Isn’t a Surprise and Isn’t a Problem - August 20, 2009
• Facebook Usage: How Often Do Different Types of Users Access Facebook? - August 12, 2009
• Business Needs to be Good to Twitter - August 3, 2009
• BingTweets -- Bing and Twitter Integration - July 14, 2009
• They got me! I'm switching my home page to Bing (for now) - July 13, 2009
• Non-Users Don't Know What to Make of Twitter - July 6, 2009
• Twitter Usability Test: "I don't get it." - June 29, 2009
• Facebook Users: Study of Facebook Goals for Differing Demographics - June 19, 2009
• Twitter: Social Network or Social Bookmark Site - June 1, 2009
• Twitter Developers vs Twitter Users: Demographics - May 25, 2009