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The social disappearance of Ian Schafer
Ian Schafer
Whoa – it’s been more than a few days since Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus (Mad Men Yourself), disappeared off my TweetDeck and Foursquare radar. I barely know him (met him once at a conference) but he’s a Twitter buddy and I have grown to miss him – a lot. Although Ian’s a great social media thinker and damn good prognosticator and marketer in general (I read everything he writes for his blog here: Ian Schafer’s Blog and various other publications), I particularly miss the less business-y stuff. I don’t hear about where he’s getting his Starbucks, what fashion show he’s attending, and who he’s sitting next to at said fashion show…
That’s the thing about the new social media world. You get to feeling better just because there are thinkers, leaders or just plain interesting people in it and you get a nice feeling when you know they are safe having breakfast at a diner in Jersey. I am sure he’s just off vacationing with the family but I feel like there should have been some kind of notification that he was going off the Blackberry, like Chris Brogan does.
Wow Steve, is it just me or does your profile picture look strikingly similar to Derek Jeter?
If you are anything like me and use Facebook for the sole purpose of stalking ex-boyfriends, posting ridiculously meaningless content on the same five profiles, and ignoring your grandmother’s friend request, yet again, for the seventh time, then chances are you also may have found it a bit out of the ordinary when seeing your newsfeed full of celebrity photos last week.
Social Media Themed Halloween
"Take me to your media!"
I saw this picture in my “friendfeed” from a company in Boston. It made me smile because the costumes are in keeping with the social media immersion we’re experiencing on the web these days. These women are dressed up as “chiclets.” For those who don’t know, ‘chiclets’ are icons that allow social media participants to share content, thoughts, and information among social networking sites with one click of the mouse. Cute, right?
