The only thing I think might be incorrect is your statement that Sherrod resigned after the video aired on a news network. I understand that the taped segment on this issue did air the same day but didn’t happen until after she already resigned from her post. Several media organizations were reporting this as fact, but then again, who really knows!

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It’s tough to stand up in a culture determined to keep things ‘as they’ve always been.’ I say: catch up with the times! Quit handing pink slips to our youngest and brightest educators! Get out of the methodology rut, people.

Thnx for info re: June 30 being Social Media Day and Wallstreet Plaza’s celebration (3 blocks from my downtown apt!).

Lots of good info on the blog… looking forward to reading regularly!

Earlier this year, Pete Cashmore with Mashable predicted that foursquare would be the big social media app of 2010. I like Pete Cashmore because he’s dreamy (I’ve met him in person a couple of times, so trust me on this one) and after seeing all the check-ins start to pop up on Facebook, I decided to sign up.

So far, I don’t see the point of foresquare. Well, that’s not entirely true. I read an article last week on foursquare and Dennis Crowley (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/06/04/foursquare.dennis.crowley/) that shed a bit of light into why it’s a great social media tool (basically, you can see where your friends are at a given moment), but unless it catches on, that point is moot. I can tell you from experience that remembering to check-in at places is slightly annoying. And I’m rarely sitting at home thinking, “I wonder what my friends are doing? Let me check foursquare!” Granted, part of this is because most of my friends are not actually on foursquare, but in a world of texting and Facebook status updates, is foursquare really necessary?

Furthermore, my argument with Twitter was always that people would tire of managing too many social media apps and that it didn’t have a clear business plan beyond simple status updates. Given that Facebook integrated status updates into its services, people would eventually tire of Twitter and managing multiple accounts and the fad would die out. My prediction is turning out to be right.

Yelp now integrates check-ins and coupons as part of its service package and, given its range of services, I don’t see how foursquare can compete with its limited scope. In this scenario, foursquare is to Twitter what Yelp is to Facebook. I just don’t see how foursquare can survive.

I stumbled on this article that pretty much sums up my feelings on much of the social media revolution: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/dont-bother-following-me-on-twitter/?src=busln. With too much out there, messages are thrown into space and are lost. Eventually, everything will streamline into one or two core applications that will be the go-tos. We’re already seeing that with Goliath Facebook eating other smaller social media companies alive. It will be interesting to see where we are three years from now.