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    Rich Harris has been a web marketer for over 10 years, with over 14 years experience in high-tech, both in the consumer and enterprise spaces. Currently heading up the social media effort for a large prominent high-tech company, he has a passion for people and community building coupled with a strong analytical aversion to online marketing's status quo.

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Rich is employed full-time with Seagate Technology, a leader in storage devices for consumer, small business, and enterprise customers. The blog posts here are solely his opinion and do not represent his employer or any other organization with which he may be affiliated.

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Rich Harris

Rich Harris has been a web marketer for over 10 years, with over 14 years experience in high-tech, both in the consumer and enterprise spaces. Currently heading up the social media effort for a large prominent high-tech company, he has a passion for people and community building coupled with a strong analytical aversion to online marketing's status quo.

  • How Path became my favorite social app of 2011

    Path is quite possibly the best social mobile application of the year. With Path 2.0, they bring together the best features of all the apps you already use and combine them into one slick...

    Blog posts | December 20, 2011 11:33am PST

  • Social Media Books: Smart Business, Social Business

    Michael Brito's new book, "Smart Business, Social Business," focuses on how to integrate social media practices from the inside of a business first, as a foundation for a more integrated social...

    Blog posts | December 9, 2011 9:40am PST

  • Will advertising lose the war against word of mouth?

    With the influence of word of mouth marketing at an all time high, has the increased use of social media and community feedback rendered most traditional advertising somewhat annoying?

    Blog posts | November 28, 2011 7:40am PST

  • Google+ finally launches Business Pages, now what?

    Google has finally released Google+ Business Pages. Now, just like Google+ itself, we need to figure out the value of these pages for, well, business.

    Blog posts | November 8, 2011 8:11am PST

  • The End of Business As Usual: An interview with Brian Solis

    Brian Solis' new book, The End of Business as Usual, is now available. In a quick email interview, Brian explains the focus of his book, the shift from Social Media 1.0 to 2.0, and the transition...

    Blog posts | October 25, 2011 8:39am PDT

  • Bit.ly announces beta launch of search platform, reputation monitoring

    URL shortening service bit.ly takes URL click data to another level, offering their own search platform and reputation monitoring service.

    Blog posts | October 18, 2011 8:11am PDT

  • Steve Jobs made technology adoption worth it for everyone.

    Thank you Steve for showing us that technology and innovation can be such an integral and seamless part of our lives.

    Blog posts | October 6, 2011 8:32am PDT

  • Google+: Source code reveals unannounced features?

    Code junkie Matt Mastracci discovers new features that Google+ hasn't released yet. If he is correct, Google is ready to step it up with fixes, new features, and user experience improvements to...

    Blog posts | September 29, 2011 12:05pm PDT

  • Humans first, technology second. Why Facebook will win.

    Facebook's understanding of what strikes an emotional chord with people will keep them ahead. Can Google learn how to do this or will this reinforce their heavily discussed inability to be a real...

    Blog posts | September 23, 2011 4:25pm PDT

  • Facebook Timeline: Personalization without all the mess

    Facebook Timeline was announced yesterday at the f8 conference. The opportunity to better curate your own Facebook content for your friends and family is here but within a slicker, more controlled...

    Blog posts | September 23, 2011 10:37am PDT

  • Social Media Books: Location-Based Marketing for Dummies

    Location-based marketing has emerged as a strong category within the social media landscape. With so little information available on how to get started, Aaron Strout and Mike Schneider have...

    Blog posts | September 20, 2011 8:38am PDT

  • Posterous follows the personal curation trend, introduces "Spaces"

    Taking a hint from Google+ Circles, and Facebook's new Inline Profile Controls, Posterous launches "Posterous Spaces," available on the web or on their iPhone and Android applications. As a...

    Blog posts | September 13, 2011 1:35pm PDT

  • My first Facebook imposter experience

    Social networks have become a playground for hackers. With phishing at an all time high and other methods at getting access to your life, do you feel like there is enough information out there on...

    Blog posts | September 13, 2011 6:00am PDT

  • Foursquare adds five more languages to the mix

    Foursquare opens up its platform to another 1.5 billion users internationally in their own native language. Support has been officially added for Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian,...

    Blog posts | September 8, 2011 7:10am PDT

  • Google+: Eric Schmidt wants your real name or nothing at all

    Google's former CEO says that if you don't like their policy about having to use your real name to represent you on Google+, then maybe their social network is not for you. Thank you Eric Schmidt!

    Blog posts | August 29, 2011 1:45pm PDT

  • Social Media: Hurricanes, cyclones and real-time reporting, oh my!

    Esri.com offers a real-time interactive map covering hurricane Irene activity with integrated content from sites like Twitter, Flickr and YouTube posted by those living on the east coast.

    Blog posts | August 26, 2011 12:44pm PDT

  • Good storytelling and why "commodity" is a state of mind

    There is so much content being shared by our favorite brands but do they have a compelling story to tell, ensuring that the customer experience is meaningful?

    Blog posts | August 23, 2011 2:33pm PDT

  • Why social media books and 'breaking news' don't mix

    Chris Brogan just announced his new book-in-progress about Google+ and business but is it too early to be relevant being that Google's business page/platform has not yet gone full scale?

    Blog posts | August 17, 2011 9:56am PDT

  • How Facebook Messenger blew up my iPhone

    Facebook launches its stand-alone version of Facebook Messenger for iPhone and Android, but not without hiccups and privacy concerns related to it's ability to share and edit your contacts on your...

    Blog posts | August 11, 2011 1:53pm PDT

  • Out with the Old Twitter, in with the New Twitter

    Next week the old Twitter look and feel will go away completely. All users will soon be upgraded to the new look and functionality. Will you miss it or are you ready to move on?

    Blog posts | August 2, 2011 5:10pm PDT

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