A recent news article on PBS.org makes a great point about the value of social media (and directly correlates to one of my favorite talking points about our Campaign 2.0™ iPhone application) — social media removes the filter of the Mainstream Press and puts campaigns and organizations directly in touch with their supporters and [...]
It’s been said by many people, but perhaps best by Clay Shirky: “The Internet lowers barriers to action,” he says. “It doesn’t make people behave differently – it just lets them do more of what they would do anyway.” (That’s paraphrased, but close.)
Shirky is a researcher and scholar on the ways people [...]
We’ve been expecting for some time that phones using Google’s Android operating system were going to be serious players in the smartphone market, and sure enough, it’s happening! The number of devices available is set to jump from just one in August to as many as 30 by the end of the year. [...]