Category Archives: Social Media

It worked! You can indeed ask LinkedIn to put you on a do not contact list

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Recently I wrote a blog post about how LinkedIn email notifications work, and as part of that pointed out that there is no easy way to unsubscribe from invitations. Instead, people who never want to hear from LinkedIn can contact … Continue reading →

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The arrival of non-text Google Ads – part of the privacy policy changes?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

I just opened my email and saw my first non-text Google Ad – see screenshot. One of the things I always liked about Google for email is that even though I’m exchanging free for looking at ads, the ads were … Continue reading →

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Did you know? Technically, LinkedIn invites are personal email from your contacts, not LinkedIn spam

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Yesterday I posted some tips to help deal with unwanted LinkedIn invitations. Today I received another invitation and, out of curiosity, followed the link anonymously in a chrome incognito window (control-click -> open link in incognito window). This allowed me … Continue reading →

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Preventing LinkedIn spam – how it works and tips for the spammer *and* the spammee!

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

LinkedIn is an important online tool for professional networking and maintaining a handy and attractive online curriculum vitae (mine is at http://kb2.org/eigencv), but one of its strengths (that so many people use it) is also directly related to one of its … Continue reading →

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Amazee shut down on 23 December: did anybody notice?

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

I just remembered that in October Amazee Labs announced that it would be shutting down the amazee.com social change platform on 23 December. I blogged about it back then and was quite appalled. I completely forgot to check on the 23rd, … Continue reading →

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On my radar: accessnow.org Protecting the Net in 2012

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

I just received the mailing below from Brett Solomon at Access Now, and it has gotten my mind spinning on how much work there is to do to “protect the net” and the now billions of people around the world … Continue reading →

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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

There are some good lessons in this video for all of us. Listen carefully. (What I can’t get over is the irony that people take the time and effort to make media like this that criticizes us for sharing time-wasting … Continue reading →

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Even wikipedia is fraught with peril

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

I love how XKCD teaches us valuable tech skills through humor. Wikipedia is a great tool, but as with all tools we need to use our brains when we use it – and be more than slightly careful.  

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Social Media Explained

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

Perhaps it’s because “you get out of facebook what you put into facebook” and I haven’t been spending much time on facebook in recent months, my stream has been reduced to people I know sharing (“so funny! I’m stealing this … Continue reading →

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The Human Rights Imperative for Grassroots Empowerment through ICT

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

I just spent two days at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference. Over 500 people came together to “examine and explore how the human rights and high tech sectors can better plan for and manage the human rights implications of … Continue reading →

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