Persuasive Picks for the week of 04/26/09

Swine flu: Twitter’s power to misinformThe power of Twitter can be both good and bad. Foreign Policy examines the current Swine flu epidemic and how Twitter is rapidly fueling the delivery of incorrect information by lack of context. FACEBOOK FAIL: How to Use Facebook Privacy Settings and Avoid Disaster Alison Driscoll explains (on Mashable)how to [...]

Should Google’s Knol be part of your marketing toolkit?

After a half year of testing, Google publicly launched its Knol service this week and the inter-webs are buzzing about how it will stack up against its similar encyclopedia-like competitors. As you’ll see from the comparison below, Knol is much less restrictive than Wikipedia when it comes to creating content. Knol vs. Wikipedia Right out [...]