Thoughts on Web 2.0, tech, communications, sports - or whatever strikes me.
If there is a politician or elected official in the Western world who thinks that they don’t need to be aware of social media after the recent Iranian elections, I’d be quite surprised. Its true that many politicians are (wilfully?) ignorant of technology and social media, but even the most ardent luddite cannot help but [...] Read more »
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This site is written by Brian Mulawka - a passionate geek, an avid gamer, a tech aficionado and a lover of virtually anything that plugs in - and certainly everything with a screen.
Brian is a Social Media and Internet Communications Consultant with the Government of Alberta. The opinions expressed on this site are his alone and in no way should be considered those of the Alberta Government.
You have to give the folks over at Google credit. They might have been slow out of the blocks launching their social media site Google+, but they’re doing everything they can to make sure it takes off now – and not everyone is pleased about it. On Thursday Google CEO Larry Page laid out his [...] Read more »
Aside from a cleaner interface with no games and ads, the differences between Facebook and Google+ are not all that significant. Except for Google’s ‘circles’. Google+ is set up so that when you add ‘friends’ you also assign them to one or more ‘circles’. That means you can categorize people into friends, family, colleagues, people [...] Read more »