Alex Priest

September 19, 2010
by Alex Priest
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Calling All Entrepreneurs, Communicators, and Social Media Smarties

I need you! Here’s the deal. I’m in a number of leadership roles at my school, American University. This semester, I am: Director of Entrepreneurship for my professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi, where I work to foster a spirit … Continue reading

August 19, 2010
by Alex Priest
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Facebook Wants to be the Location Lifeblood

Facebook is a smart company. Possibly one of the smartest companies we’ve ever seen, or will ever see in our lifetime. It’s for one simple reason–they want to be important, and they’re good at it. Facebook thrives on being important. … Continue reading

August 10, 2010
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Who To Follow? In Social Media, Certainly Not the Users.

Twitter’s recent release of a contentious new feature–“Who To Follow”–has some users pretty irritated. But it also shows Twitter is taking a page out of Facebook’s playbook: ignoring their users. Good for them. Say what? you might be thinking. Companies … Continue reading

June 10, 2010
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Make Your Cubicle Your Own

Over the years I’ve worked in plenty of offices, and plenty of cubicles. Unfortunately, each and every single one of those cubicles has included a Windows computer. Me being a Mac user, I’ve done lots of research to make these … Continue reading

May 24, 2010
by Alex Priest
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Internet, Meet Reality

It’s high time for this wake-up call. It is abundantly clear by the recent outrage at Facebook that the vast majority of the Internet–the social media crowd, in particular–still doesn’t get the business of social media. Social media is not … Continue reading