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Andrew - who has written 13 posts on Mueller & Co..

Problem Solver, Critical Thinker. Voracious Consumer of Information, I help CEO's and Heads of organizations devise and implement business strategy and tactics. I specialize in social media, branding, video, communications and operations.

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Followfriday is Sabotaging your Twitter Experience – A New Model for Community Building Recommendations

1 May 2009

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Everyone who has used Twitter for more than a couple weeks has surely seen and likely participated in #followfriday -- Don't! The once productive and effective way to recommend to people to follow has turned into an unsustainable self promotional orgy that is clogging the arteries of twitter. Instead, tweet whenever you interact with an individual that adds significant value and tell your followers why. Use #rec as the hashtag

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A Study in Social Media Power Dynamics – The Results of Unfollow Ashton Kutcher Day

28 April 2009

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This post discusses what we learned about power dynamics in social media as a result of Unfollow Ashton Kutcher Day. In summary, Ashton Kutcher was partly right — the little guy does have a voice, no matter how many followers they may have. And this voice has the potential to engage and influence others to take action. It is just that the voices of a “popular few” have much greater reach. The fact that we were unsuccessful does not mean that an individual with relatively little influence cannot generate a social media groundswell that could have viral impact on a mass scale but rather that this attempt did not succeed in achieving its stated goal. This was an imperfect experiment but nonetheless I believe we succeeded in demonstrating both the amazing democratizing effect of social media, as well as, its inherent power imbalances.

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What 1 Million Twitter Followers Really Means and why we Should Unfollow Ashton Kutcher on Monday

17 April 2009

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1 million twitter followers means a shift of power balances from corporate media to individuals and denotes a coming of age of social media. With that comes new concerns of power imbalances.

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