Social Media Updates: Page 423

  • Can I Catch Happiness from my Twitter Community?

    A year ago, Clive Thompson wrote a provocative article in today's NY Times Magazine, Brave New World of Digital Intimacy on the social realities of Twitter and Facebook. This was the article that introduced the term, Ambient Awareness. You may recall how he described the myriad relationships o...

    By • Sept. 14, 2009

  • Michael Wesch : La culture Youtube et les politiques de l'authenticité

    Largement plébiscité par les invités, récompensé par une standing ovation, Michael Wesch semble avoir fait sensation lors du Personal Democracy Forum 2009 en juin dernier. Sa présentation, "The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube Culture and the Politics of Authenticity", avait notamment été rem...

    By • Sept. 13, 2009

  • How to strike the balance between your blog and Twitter

    Do you feel like Twitter is stealing the oomph from your blog? That you don't blog as much as you used to? Yea me too. A lot of good topics get thrown under the 140 character bus in the form of epiphany like sound bites. So what do you do about it? How are you striking the balance between the 2...

    By • Sept. 12, 2009

  • Twitterary aspirations

    This morning The Mrs and I took The Boy to the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (as I was required to write it when I was a reporter) for the North Carolina Literary Festival. The two of them went to listen to children's book authors and I went to a panel called "Tweeti...

    By • Sept. 12, 2009

  • How Social Media Does Hostile Takeovers: Facebook vs. Twitter

    First they offered vanity URLs, then they purchased Friendfeed, and now they are offering @ replies. I would wager the ability to "favorite" a Facebook Status is probably right around the corner. It's pretty obvious that Facebook is performing a hostile takeover of Twitter, and they're doing i...

    By • Sept. 11, 2009

  • Feeding The Social Media Beast

    Ever felt a "need" to be active on Twitter? Do you feel guilty for not publishing to your blog for a few days?Sometimes there can almost be a compulsion to keep feeding your social media accounts. Go away for a week and watch your blog plummet down the AdAge Power 150, your visitors fall and you...

    By • Sept. 11, 2009

  • Why You Should be Worried About Twitter's New Terms of Service

    In a sign that they may finally have come up with some ideas about how to make money, the nice folks with the unlikely names at Twitter have changed their terms of service. Forthwith:Now that we know more about how Twitter is being used, we've made changes to our Terms of Serviceâ€"these are t...

    Sept. 11, 2009

  • Twitter, comment suivre des milliers d'usagers et les Twittersnobs

    Pour revenir à la question de Twopcharts qui discrimine négativement ceux qu'ils considèrent des spammeurs parce qu'ils suivent trop de gens à leur goût, permettez-moi d'enfoncer le clou une fois de plus. Je disais à propos de ce classement que s'en était un pour Twitter snob. En fait, l'exp...

    By • Sept. 10, 2009

  • Facebook Launches Government Best Practices Page

    In an attempt to get government agencies more involved on Facebook, the social network has launched a new page, Facebook and Government. While the page is still new and largely devoid of content, it's easy to see how this page could soon become a great resource for many agencies that use Faceboo...

    Sept. 10, 2009

  • Bit.ly lowers the bar on URL shortening

    With the speed of development in the social media space (especially that ever-growing corner that pertains to Twitter), it's difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. When this announcement first hit last week, my initial reaction was, to be frank, that this is just a bit of a gimmick. The...

    By • Sept. 9, 2009

  • Using Twitter to harvest ideas: MyIdea4CA.com

    Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr One powerful use of online communities is to help get new ideas into a business; taking advantage of the fact that many (if not most) of the best ideas for your business are likely to come from outside, from people who don't work for you. There are some well...

    By • Sept. 8, 2009

  • RSS, Twitter and lifestreaming: Is there an engagement somewhere?

    Quite a bit of buzz today over the news from Matt Mullenweg that WordPress.com supports RSS Cloud, a new development in the evolution of RSS.Created by Dave Winer, RSS Cloud basically involves the push-notification to subscribers of your RSS feed that there's new content available. Dave Winer's ...

    By • Sept. 8, 2009

  • Twitter Auto DM: Just Say No!

    The absolute #1 pain in the neck Twitter nuisance for me these days are the hordes of Twitter auto direct messages I receive after following someone. It has practically made Twitter DM a useless tool for me. If anyone actually sends me a legitimate DM, it's lost in a sea of spammy auto DMs en...

    By • Sept. 7, 2009

  • The Top 100 UK tech folk to follow on Twitter: Pocket-lint

    3 September 2009 10:00 GMT / By Dan Sung Twitter's a pretty big yard these days. So, with no time to go chasing wild geese around, your friendly neighbourhood Pocket-lint has compiled a list of the finest geek minds and microblogging wordsmiths in the UK that you should follow...

    By • Sept. 4, 2009

  • Le dur apprentissage de Twitter

    Une vidéo amusante de chez HubSpot sur comment utiliser Twitter.

    By • Sept. 4, 2009

  • Twitter hires ex-Googler as COO; yet another reason I believe they will sell to Google

    (Eric Schmidt, Google CEO and Evan Williams, Twitter CEO)Twitter just hired Dick Costolo to serve as their COO, according to the New York Times. Costolo helped found Feedburner, a company that was sold to whom? Uh, that would be Google of course. He then worked at Google following the acquisitio...

    By • Sept. 3, 2009

  • Is Twitter Causing More Accidents?

    Image via Wikipedia I don't normally fall for press releases unless they have some new data or information in them that's interesting. Nationwide Insurance and Harris Interactive conducted a survey recently, though, that stood out in the inbox. It seems 80% of Americans say they would suppo...

    By • Sept. 3, 2009

  • Is It Just Me Or Is Twitter Not Ready For Prime Time Yet?

    Over the past few days I've seen about a million re-tweets of the big news: Twitter is about to roll out business accounts. I seem to be the only one who finds this news disturbing.I feel like I'm in the social media version of the Emperor's New Clothes or something. Twitter's shortcomings--whi...

    By • Sept. 2, 2009

  • Quel est l'antonyme de "média" ?

    Citoyens ! Une réflexion commence à me perturber : quel est donc l'antonyme de média alors que le web social est en passe de venir l'environnement ombrelle pour tout ce qui concerne de près ou de loin la communication ? ? C'est donc sur Twitter que j'ai eu mes premières réponses, que je commen...

    By • Sept. 1, 2009

  • Twitter, c'est le temps du ménage de la rentrée

    Cela va bientôt faire deux ans que je fréquente Twitter et j'avoue qu'il m'est très difficile encore d'en cerner tous les aspects tant le service est insaisissable et mutant. Ma collègue Michelle Blanc a repris une étude très pertinente de eMarketer sur le profil socio-démographique des « twitte...

    By • Sept. 1, 2009

  • Ted Kennedy and Twitter

    A telling sidenote of the events over the last week to honor Ted Kennedy was the family's use of Twitter and a website to keep the media and public informed. @kennedynews was updated 137 times between the evening of August 26 and the late senator's arrival at Arlington National Cemetery the even...

    By • Aug. 31, 2009

  • Facebook: Active users in Australia

    There's always a lot of questions around statistics and in particular how active "active users" actually are. Facebook has what, 200 million? 250 million members? How many of them log in regularly? Well, let's look at Australia and our massive growth since May 2007. From a few thousand users th...

    By • Aug. 31, 2009

  • "Tweet it" le nouveauhit de JcFrog

    Tu ne connais pas JcFrog?Le mec qui ne sort que des tubes?Bon, c'est pas totalement vrai mais j'adore ses reprises :)twit it from jcfrog on Vimeo.a short pastiche which is more a humble tribute to this poor guy. Link to original post

    By • Aug. 30, 2009

  • How to Increase Revenue with Twitter Integration

    "How will it make me money?" is, overwhelmingly, the single most asked question I get when I suggest a brand open a Twitter account.There are 3 ways brands can increase revenue on Twitter:Create AwarenessFirst, you need to know who your target audience is: what they're interested in, what they...

    By • Aug. 30, 2009

  • Best Practices for Corporate Twittering

    Many companies want to start using Twitter to promote their brand and business, but don't really know where to start. As most companies are starting to realize, Twitter is a great way to reinforce your brand, share news and important information, gather feedback , advertise and most importantly...

    By • Aug. 28, 2009