This post first appeared on Alisa’s blog, The Web is Social. I love everything about this. #Dataportability Alisa Leonard is senior analyst, social media for iCrossing.

I am mightily impressed by a recent presentation from Paul Adams, a senior user experience researcher at Google. Entitled ‘The real life social network’, it examines how people connect, relate and communicate with each other, and what this means for e

Of all the copycats I expected post the @OldSpice hub bub, my alma mater, Brigham Young University, was perhaps the last brand I expected to get in on the meme game. For any of you who might be familiar with BYU’s uber conservative culture, it might be

A recent study in the US found that more than half of social network users are worried about their privacy. In the main, privacy concerns seem to focus on the complexity of managing your public profile on Facebook and other services. However, with a gr

This post first appeared on Alisa’s blog, The Web is Social. Did you hear that? Another explosion somewhere out on the interwebs has happened, and this one smells like Old Spice. Yesterday Old Spice launched, quite innocuously, a campaign that has now

One of the recurring themes for us at iCrossing and our clients over the past year or so has been the way that the social web is should be thought of as a business issue first and marketing issue second. An article about libel on The Lawyer website called

The latest news this week was that Nine Inch Nails will score David Fincher’s upcoming film,” The Social Network” – A movie about the founding of Facebook. As Trent Reznor (the man behind Nine Inch Nails) truly understands the value of Social Medi

The latest news this week was that Nine Inch Nails will score David Fincher’s upcoming film,” The Social Network” – A movie about the founding of Facebook. As Trent Reznor (the man behind Nine Inch Nails) truly understands the value of Social Medi