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Re: Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves

TimothyCarter — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:23:08 -0000

Ron, you should be soon my man... :)

Re: Influx of Twitter Account Suspensions Creating Confusion

Ron Capps — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:14:29 -0000

Still waiting for Twitter to sort out the suspension on my account

Re: Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves

Ron Capps — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:02:12 -0000

Congratulations on apparently having your Twitter account restored. Hopefully mine will reactivate in the near future. It's still down. lol

Re: Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves

Ron Capps — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:51:32 -0000

You have company, Denise

Dr. Ron Capps the NicheProf

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Re: Hacked! 5 Ways to Protect Your Social Networking Profiles

Dr. Ron Capps — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:29:52 -0000

Thanks for bringing this to my attention yesterday, Travis.

This is a working example of some of the best that social media platforms have to offer while, at the same time, illustrating some of the potential risks that are involved.

It also provides us the opportunity to demonstrate monitoring one's social reputation "up close and personal"...a bit more of each than I might personally like.

Keep your finger on the social pulse of the web, Travis.

Dr. Ron the Nicheprof

Re: Cool Internet Marketing Tools: My Personal Toolkit For Online Marketing Tasks

Ron — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:17:15 -0000

Nice set of resources, Robin.

You might want to add two Firefox Extensions: SEO Quake and Shareaholic

Dr. Ron the NIcheProf

Re: The Death of The Salesletter

Ron Capps, PhD — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:55:08 -0000

Thanks for the well thought out and shared insights Michel.

Your report is a great reminder that regardless of the media, we are dealing with the process of communication and how humans communicate.

As a professor of communication, I attempt to convey the importance of understanding that communication is an evolutionary, systematic process by which we seek to identify with and influence other human beings.

The late Kenneth Burke demonstrated that at its essence, communication is the use of symbols by symbol using creatures (that's us - lol) to induce cooperation among other symbol using creatures. Part of that process can be by providing people and scenarios that others can identify with as they participate in the conversation or social interaction.

With the evolution of the Internet and Web 2.0, humans are able to achieve not only their Warholesque 15 minutes of fame but, to a degree, we are also able to accomplish what had been previously reserved for the writers, artists and other creative "X" types - the denial of death. The Pulitzer Prize winning effort by Ernest Becker explains : "The main theme of The Denial of Death is that most human activity ultimately concerns the denial of one's mortality. The full realization of one's own mortality is mostly unbearable, absolutely terrifying and horrific. Man transcends this problem in the concept of heroism. By being heroic, man feels he has meaning, a purpose, something that will never die. One can be a hero to the eye of God, to the State, to the eyes of his peers, to his family, etc." (Wikipedia).

Humans crave mattering and Web 2.0 provides the very real vehicles for satisfying that craving.

A warning though. The late Scholar Richard Weaver of the University of Chicago reminded us that "Ideas have Consequences". This is a critical concept when one understands that once one commits to share something with society and others in a public community, they give up the ability to determine how the others will use or give meaning to what was created and shared.

As you can see Michel, you once again have stimulated food that we could all feed upon and ponder.

I look forward to sharing your insights with friends and wish you and your family greater health and prosperity for 2007 and beyond.

Dr. Ron the NicheProf