What a trip! I’ve been walking back in time through seven years of tweets and it’s quite a revelation. No wonder I didn’t believe in Twitter in 2007. I fundamentally misunderstood it, just like I didn’t quite get how Twitter chose to give access to archival Tweets. It seemed so counterintuitive. I may have been wrong. Gaining… Continue reading The Twitter Archives
The way we communicate about serious illness and death in our private lives has been utterly transformed by social media. Using Facebook, text and even Twitter, as well as reliable old email, we take our most urgent and affecting news and send it on its digital way, barely stopping to absorb its deep impact on… Continue reading How we communicate death and illness with social media
The digital afterlife goes social and so does Respectance! With the launch of the new Facebook application Respectance integrates their existing community with social network Facebook. On Respectance, users can instantly create a personalized Tribute for someone who passed away or has been missed for many years already. Family and friends come together on Respectance… Continue reading Introducing New Respectance
Why online? Simply stated, the future is online. We all know the Internet can be overwhelming for first-time users. It is typical to think, “How do I find what I want? This is too much!” Butit is not as difficult as you might think. Getting Referrals Funeral directors know the traditional venues for referrals… Continue reading Why Online? The Future of the Funeral Business
Respectance is getting quite some press. Since we found that a lot of our users are women between 25 and 50 we got invited by better.tv. This is a show broadcasted in eleven million households in the States. Rather big. They made a special about why and how women can profit from social networking. Ranny is… Continue reading Better.tv
