A few weeks ago, while I was at Catalyst, I read an article about the marines banning the use of social media. The policy on social media usage is far from consistent within our armed forces, as revealed in this Stars and Stripes story that shows just how confused and divided the policy makers are:
Marines [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Connection Denied: Why the Military should play with Social Media
Identity Proofing on Twitter – problems and potential
All the web has been abuzz recently about Twitters launch of Verified Accounts (read Mashable’s post about it here). The goal of the program is to be able to show a badge on a Twitter account that communicates to readers the authenticity of the twitter stream. The reason for Twitter doing this is to avoid [...]
The new Identity Equation
A few days ago, I tweeted about this CNET article that talks about the plans that Twitter has to expand their search service into what could be one of the most powerful real-time search engines anywhere. The key to this whole thing is the idea of reputation – that ephemeral quality that will improve the [...]
