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Category Archives: Social Media

A friend has added a photo of you

Posted on Posted in 2012, Facebook, Social Media, spam, spammers and scammers, technology .

For a short period of time last night, a number of my Facebook friends thought my account had been hacked.

I was tagged in some pornographic photos that were major violations of Facebook’s Terms of Service.

What had actually happened was that a friend’s Facebook account was hacked and the hacking involved changing her profile picture and then posting photos on her wall and randomly tagging friends (which in turn, caused the photos to come up on my wall and also the friend feed of anyone who follows me). I didn’t get home last night until 9:50, so I’m lucky it didn’t happen earlier in the evening.

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Video test

Posted on Posted in 2012, blog, iPad2, Social Media, technology .

Testing video upload directly from my iPad. More testing to come as my trip to Taiwan quickly approaches. I’m planning to only take my iPad2 and not have a laptop.

This is a video from today’s IceCaps game. B.Maxwell scores by hitting to puck off of the goalie’s back.

Photo Upload Test

Posted on Posted in 2012, blog, GSE 2012, iPad2, Social Media, Test .

 I’m currently looking at options for blog updates and photo uploading while I’m in Taiwan and Japan in March and April.

I have to say that I’m not impressed with the WordPress iPad app. It doesn’t have a lot of options or features, and it isn’t very intuitive.

I’m pretty pleased with the Blogsy app and I’m writing this post on the iPad using the touchscreen keyboard. I’ll have a keyboard case to use as well, but short amounts of typing on the touchpad isn’t too bad. 

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Gimme me dat clicker

Posted on Posted in 2011, blog, Social Media, Uncategorized .

The subject line of this post comes from a series of skits on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes. It involves a mother (actress Mary Walsh) and son (actor Greg Thomey) who provide commentary on the latest political and pop culture topics; all while watching TV. The mother, donning her fuzzy slippers is often seen kicking the son while lying on the couch.  She’s not happy about the current program they’re watching and therefore wants to change the channel. To which she demands (while kicking), “Gimme me dat clicker!” I can’t find a clip online, but if anyone else can, please leave a comment!

Image Credit: Blackcoffetwosugars.blogspot.com (according to http://bit.ly/sMPQD1)

I’m here, and here, and here and…
There are so many social media channels, tools and places nowadays. It’s hard to keep track. Heck, I want to make this contact page more snazzy and whenever I go to edit I think, “Oh I should had my account on such-and-such account here.”

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Follow me, follow you

Posted on Posted in 2011, Dilbert, PR, Social Media .

Dilbert continues to nail it with great comics these days. This is the daily for today July 19, 2011.

How many Twitter followers do I have? The short answer is too many. There are times I don’t feel as engaged as I would like to be with some of the people and organizations I follow. But on the flip side of that, amongst my many followers/ those I follow I do have some very valuable relationships that have been built over time. The key to that last statement is that many relationships have been build with time and proactive effort.

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