Daniel Johnson, Jr.

As the world changes, so should the way we interact with it. Very general statement for sure (I sense a few “duhs” coming from those who are reading this.). I find my used of tools to help me get work done also changes.

Sometime ago, Facebook released new profile pages for users. Twitter released its new layout of its website last summer. Google is constantly tweaking its search indexing algorithm.

Getting more value from LinkedIn groups

LinkedIn has been evolving, too. (more…)

In this video I share about the upcoming February 12, 2011 New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday event. We’re excited to have Debba Haupert from Girlfriendology.com to come and talk about how she’s built a great community around the concept of female friendship. (more…)

Google Doodle for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Today is the day the United States has set aside to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. Among many things, he is known for his “I Have A Dream” speech he made at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963.

Here’s an excerpt: (more…)

Twitter has been around since 2006, which seems like eons in internet time. I signed up in August of that year, and it’s been really neat to see how far the tool has come.  I think each of us as users need to make the tool useful for ourselves, and that often means using the tool differently than others. My strategy and tactics in using Twitter have changed over the past 4 years, and they’ll continue to evolve.

One way I’m currently using Twitter is via a plugin on this blog called Twitter Tools. It posts to Twitter when I publish a new post here on this blog, and it compiles an archive of my tweets. The latter I used to do daily, but I’ve since changed it to weekly.

Over the years, there have been some very powerful stories told that involved Twitter. This year, the Twitter team has compiled what it considers to be the 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010. Do you agree with their assessment?

This could be a useful exercise for each of us, provided we have access to our own tweets from January 2010. What would be the top 10 most powerful tweets you sent this year?

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• Who’s New on Twitter #Hindsight2010 (twitter.com)
• Top Twitter news and TV trends in 2010 (lostremote.com)
• #Hindsight2010: Top Trends on Twitter (twitter.com)

Much of what happens in the new media space is highly experimental; especially when new tools are released. Google Buzz came out last week, and we talked about it at last weekend’s New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday. There are a lot of things that need to be worked through, and there are certainly some promising things for it. (more…)