The Social Media Clarity Podcast

Ban the Banhammer - Episode 28

Scott and Randy discuss the (mis)use of the various forms of the "ban" tool, and provide alternative techniques.

• It's Almost Impossible to Rehabilitate an…

Marc, Scott, and Randy talk about recent changes at social platform companies as they wrestle with …

Why Comments Suck - Episode 26

Scott and Randy tear into the history and problems of comments on "news" sites, and identify the most overlooked problem. They then talk about current and future soluti…

Amplifying Influencers - Episode 25Who is the mayor of your topic? Description

Part 4 of our Social Network Analysis Series. In this episiode, Marc details how seeking out specific influential people…

Two Recipes for Stone Soup [A Fable of Pre-Funding Startups] - Episode 24

I'm Randy Farmer, and this is another episode from the vault...

This time: Two Recipes for Stone Soup [A Fable of Pre-Funding…

Quantifying Empathy - Episode 23 Twitter Hearts and Facebook Reactions

TL;DR - You KNOW Marc, Randy, and Scott couldn't let Twitter messing with Favorites and Facebook Reactions go without some spir…

Best Practices: Starting Enthusiast Communities - Episode 22 Photo taken at OCTribe

With this episode we embark on a series of "Best Practices" looking at the entire online community lifecycle - from…

The Rise and Fall of a Comment Empire - Episode 21

This is the third in our series of episodes critiquing Huffing Posts changes in commenting policies and technology. This time, we interview an insi…

Forumcon 2014 Musings, Part 2 - Episode 20

We're back after a long hiatus. We missed you!

Scott and Randy contunue sharing thoughts and observations inspired by ForumCon 2014, held in June. This tim…

Forumcon 2014 Musings - Episode 19

Scott and Randy share thoughts and observations inspired by ForumCon 2014, held in June.

• Greetings from @themaria Maria Ogneva from SideCar
• Upcom…

Social is Big Data: Get Scala! - Alexy Khrabrov - Episode 18

After a greeting from @David Spinks and updating our previous episodes about Huffington Post comments and Facebook reach, Scott and Marc …

What does your hashtag look like - Lee Rainie from Pew Internet Research - Episode 17

Scott and Marc speak with Lee Rainie from Pew Internet Research about the new report Mapping Twitter Topic Netwo…

Your hosts - Scott, Randy, and Marc discuss recent very public changes to Facebook reach as an indicator that companies may be looking in all the wrong places to connect with their community. Or is i…

Bryce Glass returns to the show to join Scott and Randy interviewing Matt Leacock: A mild mannered UX designer by day ... but after hours he uses his super-powers to design award-winning boardgames. …

Marc, Scott, and Randy discuss LinkIn's so-called SWAM (Site Wide Automatic Moderation) policy and Scott provides some tips on moderation system design...

[There is no news this week in order to dig …

Thriving Online with Howard Rheingold - Episode 13

Marc, Scott, and Randy interview Howard Rheingold - critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implicati…

In this, our first Q&A episode, we answer a question from Ryan Crowe @doctorcrowe of Twilio, who asked us about what resources we use to keep up with our social media related areas of expertise.

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Scott and Randy interview danah boyd about her book It's Complicated: the social lives of networked teens, coming out February 25th and available for preorder now.