Tag Archives: Transparency

LinkedIn’s Obsession with Guarding its User Data will Alienate its User Base

by on March 25, 2009 in Social Media, Transparency

LinkedIn was never very transparent. Although they offered up a LinkedIn API to developers in June, 2007, I can’t name one developer-based LinkedIn API built application (I can name partners like NY Times), while I can point to hundreds of Facebook and Twitter apps. (Google LinkedIn API for confirmation). I’m not a developer, but I’m [...]

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Leveraging Social Media Presence for Business

by on March 25, 2009 in Economy, Marketing, New business models, Real Estate, Social Media, Transparency, Web tools

Having a social media presence attracts opportunities. Twitter in particular has introduced me to many people with common, shared business interests – they come out of the blue and we become close friends very quickly based on our business compatibility. Many “social media experts” promote consulting, or how to get rich quick schemes based on [...]

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Vigilante Journalism

Vigilante Journalism

by on October 22, 2008 in Mass Media, Politics, Transparency

Government transparency has always been oxymoron. Sordid details of profligate spending get outed and become legend – everybody knows about the $600 toilet seat or the half-billion dollar travel system that isn’t used. Now we have citizen journalists watching over the bailout with BailoutSleuth.com: BailoutSleuth believes that transparency is vital to the success of the [...]

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