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Six degrees of separation and your privacy settings

by Cynthia Closkey, May 14, 2010

Related to my post yesterday about Facebook’s privacy settings: danah boyd posted in more detail about the implications of Facebooks privacy (“Facebook and ‘radical transparency’“). These two paragraphs convey the problem I often see in which people haven’t thought through the implications of the “network” part of social networks: A while back, I was talking […]

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How to simplify your privacy on Facebook (and everywhere else on the web)

by Cynthia Closkey, May 13, 2010

Yesterday the New York Times made a noble attempt to map Facebook’s new, super-complicated privacy settings, via a few well-designed graphics and an accompanying article (“The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking,” by Nick Bilton, 5/12/2010). The new opt-out settings certainly are complex. Facebook users who hope to make their personal information private should be […]

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Getting passionate about passion

by Cynthia Closkey, April 18, 2010

British comedian/writer/actor/generally-brilliant-person David Mitchell gets passionate about passion in advertising

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Cover It Live: great tool for liveblogging an event

by Cynthia Closkey, April 2, 2010

Last night I attended an interesting discussion at Pitt, “The Future of the Book.” I knew ahead of time that I’d want to share my notes, and I was curious how others might react to the ideas. So I set up an event on Cover It Live. It’s a simple-to-use gadget for documenting anything as […]

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Results versus hype: can small businesses realize value from social media?

by Cynthia Closkey, March 22, 2010

An article in the Wall Street Journal last week (“Entrepreneurs Question Value of Social Media,” Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ 3/15/2010) said that a recent study showed that small firms were having mixed results in their use of social media. In and among the survey results, the article gives several examples of companies seeing a positive […]

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“Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity” by danah boyd

by Cynthia Closkey, March 18, 2010

For an excellent overview of the concepts and issues surrounding online privacy and publicity, check out danah boyd’s keynote speech from SXSWi for 2010. Just because a large percentage of people engage in public does not mean that they don’t care about privacy. Pew found that 85% of adults want to control who has access […]

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