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Rick is on a day to day basis working on social media (strategy) cases for several (Fortune 500) clients. He lives and loves social media, helping people and enterprises in using social media in a way that adds value for them. He also gives guest lectures at several universities to make students aware of the impact social media will have on their life in general and on enterprises in particular in the near and not so near future. Is he a geek? Well… yes. A geek with a social life though. Even one with a wife and a young son, who’s first English words were ‘Social media’.

How are Mobile Phones Changing Social Media?

The FT promotes its Twitter feed as alternative to newspaper (almost)

The Last Advertising Agency On Earth

This might be true, at least for some agencies.When I am presenting for marketing people I often use this quote from Futurebuzz:

If you don’t understand the web and strategic application as a marketer, PR professional or member of the media, it shows you don’t care.  There’s no way around this, if you truly cared about your profession and craft you’d embrace what’s new and ultimately better as opposed to rallying against it or outright ignoring the market.  The web isn’t new or novel, and if you think it is, you’ve been too stuck in your ways to see the most clear trend of the last century.  Analog has no future in a connected society.

If You Don’t Embrace The Web, It Shows You Don’t Care

Social Gamer Demographics (UK, US, France and Germany) - Social Media Graphics

Is Twitter Losing its Tweet-Factor?

Stop the Presses: How to Save Newspapers

Facts & Statistics about Facebook

Novell Pulse and Google Wave: Getting Down to Business Across Boundaries

Novell Pulse is a new real-time collaboration environment for enterprises that works with Google Wave so people can get down to business in real-time across both tools. Check out this video to see a business use-case of inter-company collaboration using Novell Pulse and Google Wave.

Too geeky: SQL injection for speed cameras

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An (illustrated) History of Marketing