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Blogger of the Week - Dan Greenfield and Bernaise Source

Dan Greenfield doesn't remember whether it was 1991 or 1992 nor the name of the magazine where he first read about the internet and the coming digital revolution.  But, he remembers well, the "aha" moment it inspired.

"It's the same feeling I got in 2005 after reading about the MySpace Generation in a Business Week cover story...and once again in 2006 when Steve Astle then at Text 100 PR suggested I blog," he says.  "It....

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How to Get Your Posts on the Frontpage of Social Media Today

Because you folks are so generous with your thoughts and writing (and, maybe because we get lots of readers and you'd like to grow the old personal brand a bit), Social Media Today now has more posts automatically submitted everyday then we can possibily use.  Choosing which ones to feature has become an editorial challenge (and pleasure).   At some point in the not too distant future, I'm going to create some addi....
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The difficult language of Web 2.0/social media

This is a bit of a psycho-sociological-political semi-rant so if that doesn’t float your boat, click elsewhere. If you enjoy ethical debates, this might give you pause for thought. A few weeks ago I had a Twitter exchange with Euan Semple on the issue of language as it is applied to many of the tools that [...]

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Collaborative Socialutions . . . Where Does Collaboration Fit In?

The social web seems to attract a lot of definitional redefining, whether by adding numbers after a term like Collaboration 2.0, Business 3.0, or Office 4.0, or by combining two previously independent words into one as we have with Socialutions. These attempts at redefining can be useful, but they have a tendency to confuse.

Collaboration intuitively has a place in Socialutions, but where exactly does it fit?

Socialution...

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IBM’s Social Computing Guidelines - Now Updated!

I am sure that plenty of you folks out there may already know about this, but I thought I would share a few thoughts about it, just in case you may have missed it. If you would remember, some time ago, I actually put together a number of different blog entries where I was sharing [...]
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MindTouch Momentum Shows Power Of Mashups

There's no question that Mashups are hot right now. In fact, it's a market that Forrester's Oliver Young says could be worth nearly $700 million by 2013. Vendors in every sector are rushing to deliver these so-called "situational applications" to sophisticated business users everywhere in the hopes of improving collaboration and spiking productivity. A vendor I covered recently and one that's in the in the middle of Mashup mania is MindTouch, ma...
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The realities of customer engagement (hint: it’s not all positives)

The other day I jumped into a conversation thread on the SWOM forum and caught this bit of genius from “Wandering Dave Rhee”: As a former Dell competitor (at the time when they introduced their initiative last year), I can say that we closely looked at the pros and cons of creating [...]
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Success Story: Historian Discovers Personal Branding is a Reality

Who is Katherine Banning? Currently living in the US, Katherine is a member of the National Trust (UK), as well as English Heritage, the Royal Oak Society, Friends of Kew, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation (US). An energetic and enthusiastic professional, she plans to graduate from Eckerd College with a degree in Museum Studies [...]
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Top Print Publisher Finds Better Life Online

Last week, The New York Times wrote about International Data Group’s (IDG) successful transition from a print to an online model. I was intrgiued to read about IDG Chairman Patrick McGovern’s enthusiasm for the economics of new media. Having gotten to know McGovern a bit during my 15-year career at IDG, I asked [...]
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Learning to listen - the real “quiet revolution” that is social media

This is the second in our ongoing series of guest posts. Today’s is from Maddie Grant, who pens Diary Of A Reluctant Blogger. So, listen up. I was thinking about what to write as my guest post for the THINKing blog. Since I write about social media specifically as it pertains to associations and [...]
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Is Time The Driving Factor?

With so many demands vying for our time and attention, sometimes even a simple, uninterrupted phone call seems to be a stretch of the imagination. Cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), instant messaging, pagers, faxes, emails and the list goes, on all contribute to information availability and overload.

In Western society, we have been trained to “want what we want, when we want it - five minutes ago.” Microwave ovens, cell p...

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Are Media Database Companies Complicit In PR Spamming?

NOTE: This is a joint piece, co-authored by John Cass and Jason Falls. It is cross-posted on PR Communications and SocialMediaExplorer.com. The blogosphere has been abuzz this week here and in other places about Gina Trapani’s PR Spammers wiki and the blacklisting of public relations professionals and firms. As the discussions have progressed, we [...]
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Negative sentiment - the blogosphere's alternate take

About a year ago, Kevin Hillstrom of MineThatData analysed the sentiment of marketing bloggers, under the hypothesis that top bloggers overwhelmingly post negative sentiments. Hillstrom concluded from a sample of posts that marketing bloggers were more positive than expected. I think Ben Franklin would be pleased with the tonality of discussion in today's blogosphere - there's generally moderation between positive and negative. My hypothesis: if...

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Ideas for Using Twitter

There have been many posts on Twitter & tutorials keep coming out. Awhile ago I wrote about how I had to shift my use of Twitter. When I had only 120-150 followers I checked in 3-4 times per day. And I would page back through everyone’s tweets & open links that I would read later. But the [...]
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Meme of the week - “Blacklisting Bloggers” and bad PR pitches

What seems to have come to a head over the last few days is the concept of Bloggers “blacklisting” PR firms that pitch them in a way they don’t want to be pitched. Gina Trapani of LifeHacker published a wiki listing PR firms that have spammed her with pitches. Suddenly, everyone’s taking sides over [...]
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More on the Role of Blogs in Business Communication

Here is another follow-on inspired by Andrew McAfee. This time I am adding more to my post, Can You Trust Your Blogger? What is the Role of Blogs in Business Communication? I briefly mentioned Andrew's post, Evidence of the Value...
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Morgan Stanley Comments on Web 2.0


Mary Meeker, of Morgan Stanley, overview of the internet economy from the Web 2.0 summit is up. The big coming trends were online advertising growth (of course), local momentum and video monetization.

From the transcription on Oreilly:

If we look at the five most highly capitalized Internet companies of the world; Google, Yahoo, eBay, Yahoo Japan and Amazon.com, their market value today is 46 percent higher than it was at the march 2000...
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Are your consumers using social media?

Ad Age thinks so & has nine profiles of who your targets are and where they might be online.

This is all very interesting since marketers appear to be shifting more of their spend to online channels: "88% of marketers who use social media plan to spend more on it this year, and 31% of those said they will spend "significantly more," according to Prospero Technologies research."


By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire