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Archive for May, 2010

The Last Post

Monday, May 24th, 2010

This site on which you’re reading this post is the product of the hard and clever work of Paul Reynolds and his wife, Helen.

We could not believe it when, on Sunday, we received the call that Paul had suddenly died.

He commented on one of our posts just a few days ago, last week he spoke at a social media conference and he was filing material on his own Facebook, his blog peoplepoints and Twitter accounts as late as Thursday afternoon. By late Saturday morning, he was gone.

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Social Media – Shamans and Shysters

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Around every new social development there arise the shamans. Those who seek to shroud the obvious in mystery to create the illusion that only they can interpret the “unknowable”.  And thereby make a buck.

For example, look at the hype over “social media” (presumably this means traditional or mainstream sources are “anti-social media” and perhaps that’s right).

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