by Chad Michael Lawson | Jan 31, 2010 | Blog, Social Media
“Though parents often have concerns about letting their teens use social media Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, a new study by University of Virginia psychologists suggests that well-adapted youth with positive friendships will use these sites to further...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Jan 30, 2010 | Blog, Human Psychology, Social Media
Image via CrunchBase Mashable.com has an interesting post about Facebook friends and your brain: Ever heard of Dunbar’s Number? According to British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, it’s the cognitive limit to the number of people you can be friends with. The number is...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog, Social Media
The key may lie in the motivation of Internet users to email that content to their social network, say researchers from Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University. …. They studied what they call ‘e-mavens’, people who spend a lot of time online,...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Sep 11, 2008 | Blog, Social Media
Alright, so I’m reading a blog I like to read from a master persuasder and marketing maven Dave Lakhani and he posts something about Twitter that makes me think on it for a several days. It has to do with building your audience by letting them tell you what they...