Social Media Updates: Page 435

  • Le business model des réseaux sociaux

    Le business model des réseaux sociaux L'une des principales tendances de l'année 2007 fut sans nul doute l'explosion des réseaux sociaux, FaceBook en tête. Le principal enjeu en 2008 pour ces plateformes sociales de plus en plus utilisées par les internautes sera de monétiser leur trafic tout ...

    By • June 19, 2008

  • How to Twitter (the right way) on Behalf of Your Brand

    Twitter in a nutshellTwitter is a messaging platform, also referred to as micro-blogging. Information is exchanged between users in the form of messages comprising 140 characters or less. Updates are sent and received via web, SMS or third party applications like Twhirl. The basic idea is you c...

    By • May 12, 2008

  • 4score and . . . how would Lincoln do on Twitter?

    I received a call today from a friend who asked for assistance in brainstorming a two-and-a-half hour presentation on a topic she was very familiar with. She doubted that she could keep the attendees' attention for that long, though she knew the material.My first suggestion was "engage them."So...

    By • April 28, 2008

  • Microblogs are the world's fastest instant global mass media.

    Microblogs have now grown into a category of their own. English, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Russian microblogs are all available. http://microblogs.ning.com Any information can be pasted on globally within 5 minutes. The feedback loop o...

    By • April 18, 2008

  • The Wall Tweet Journal Twitterzine Set for Launch in May

    The Wall Tweet Journal Twitterzine Set for Launch in May To Fill Niche as an Unofficial Knowledge Base for Twitter Fans SMT members with a unique Twitter story to tell are invited to be Guest Bloggers The Wall Tweet Journal, [www.walltweetjournal.com] a Twitterzine created to help people under...

    By • March 19, 2008

  • Building A Twitter Following

    Lots of people ask for tips on building a follower base in Twitter. If you are wondering about this, you should also ask youself another question: what's your goal? My colleague, Lisa Creech Bledsoe, and I are both avid Twitterers. However, we Tweet for entirely different purposes, and our comm...

    By • March 14, 2008

  • Best of 2007: Web 2.0 Sites

    A number of new social networking, social search, social bookmarking, and other Web 2.0-related websites and tools either got their start or got traction in 2007. Here are some of the most notable new sites and tools that made it onto the radar last year.Go2Web20.netBilled as "the complete Web ...

    By • Feb. 28, 2008

  • Should Bloggers Be Held to the Same Standards as Traditional Media?

    An interesting thing happened to me on Friday after I began following @amandachapel on Twitter. Yes, that "Amanda Chapel", the one who loves to rail against all things social media. In reviewing "Amanda's" last 20 posts (or "tweets") -- something I do before following anyone on Twitter -- one e...

    By • Feb. 8, 2008

  • Six degrees of LinkedIn

    This is just too random to keep to myself. You know the game people play, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? This morning, I searched LinkedIn for Jake McKee (making sure we had connected in LI), and I got two results in my network: Jake (no surprise) and Kevin Bacon. Really, I wasn't looking for a pa...

    By • Feb. 6, 2008

  • Twitter For Business Communication

    My Confession...Hi, my name is Jeff, and I'm a Twitterholic! So exactly what is Twitter?Twitter is a free online social networking service used to send/receive short messages within a specified group. Very much like sending an email to a distribution list, a Twitter post conveys a message to ...

    By • Feb. 5, 2008

  • Sociology 2.0: Creating a Model of the Twittering World

    I thought I'd say hello and kick off my presence on SMT with my a post on my my favorite theme around social media: developing good mental models of the sociology of the technology. It is surprising how little attention this gets, despite the many bits we expend on commentary on technology.Cons...

    By • Jan. 29, 2008

  • A bad user interface can kill your site for some

    The additions blog has a post up from yesterday comparing the user-interfaces of Twitter and MySpace when you land on their home pages. It's hard to come at this comparison without some sort of bias, and I'll admit, I think Myspace is a visual quagmire, especially in comparison to Twitter. The ...

    By • Jan. 15, 2008

  • Getting the most out of LinkedIn

    I often get asked questions about how I manage the fact people who you don't always know may want to connect to you on LinkedIn and then may want to be connected to your own personal network. For quite sometime I did look at my LinkedIn network as one that was effectively a group of people who ...

    By • Jan. 2, 2008

  • Facebook or LinkedIn: which one should you join?

    Earlier this week I received an invitation to join an online social networking community from an old college friend who is now based in New Zealand. My heart sank - not because I had just heard from her - no it was the idea of having to join another online social networking group. So I carefull...

    By • Dec. 13, 2007

  • Social Networking: LinkedIn

    Networking. That is what a man has to do. Show me your network, and I tell you who you are ;-). Yep, I still visit tradeshows, receptions, drinks, happy hours, vernisages, golf tournaments, and race tracks handing out a gazillion business cards. And yes, I did collect a plethora of shiny cards...

    By • Dec. 4, 2007

  • 2007 Social Media Top 10 List

    It's that time of year again. Time to choose the most significant social media story of the year. And keeping with our growing reliance on beta testing and soft launching, I am posting before the launch of 2008. From Facebook to Twitter and from Justin.TV to iPhone, it was indeed a busy year. ...

    By • Nov. 28, 2007

  • LinkedIn Dislikes Teachers

    LinkedIn made headlines this morning with the leak that News Corp might be in acquisition negotiations. Back at my parent's house for Thanksgiving, LinkedIn was also stirring-up conversation... <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> For the past couple years my sister was a F...

    By • Nov. 23, 2007

  • Facebook Isn't A Social Network, LinkedIn Is

    If networking is defined as "expanding one's social network or sphere of influence by initiating mutually advantageous new relationships with people," then the majority of Facebook users are not networkers. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> It's clear to me in analyzing...

    By • Oct. 29, 2007

  • Microsoft gets closer to Facebook. Intranet Implications

    This blog would be amiss if it did not make at least a passing reference to the Microsoft Facebook investment. What does this mean from an enterprise perspective? Quite simply that Facebook can get into the intranet market. Pictured above is Bill Gates's Friends page on Facebook.We rarely talk ...

    By • Oct. 26, 2007

  • Facebook bragging could get you ... arrested

    It won't be long before lawyers pull up Facebook profiles before a judge to substantiate a point.This story of students of Ball State University is an example for those who need to take FB 101: what not to post about or comment on. They attacked another student and bragged about the incident on...

    By • Oct. 24, 2007

  • Flock: Latest version is pretty sweet

    I have to give the team at Flock a lot of credit. The browser â€" which is built on Mozilla code, but has all kinds of added social features â€" has been through hell and back over the past couple of years. First, the initial release was weak, and got dumped on by just about everyone. Then Perfo...

    By • Oct. 21, 2007

  • "Fogeys" on Facebook

    So I was reading an article this morning entitled "Fogeys Flock to Facebook". Seems the traditional press is recognizing the shift of many professionals my age from LinkedIn (a valuable but rather staid, boring place after all) to Facebook. In multiple instances, the article asks if Facebook's ...

    By • Aug. 11, 2007

  • Video: "I Got a Crush on Obama"

    This one's all over the place today, and for good reason â€" it's sheer genius. Barak Obama has a new fan, and she's willing to use every weapon available to get his attention. Check out these soon-to-be-classic lyrics:You're into border securityLet's break this border between you and meUniversa...

    By • June 14, 2007

  • Facebook revista - it rocks

    The last week or so has seen a deluge of posts covering Facebook. As always the more exuberant predict it is the Next Big Thing likely to knock MySpace out the park. Yeah, yeah, maybe, so what. The posts that interest me however are those that look at this from a business perspective. In a Twit...

    By • June 11, 2007

  • I Got My Facebook!

    The New York Times had similar thoughts. Check out this really neat article there on how a daughter is pissed off because her mum gets a Facebook!"But after receiving a follow-up threat from my daughter ("unfriendpaige right now. im serious. i dont care if they request you. say no. iwill be so...

    By • June 9, 2007