Social Media Updates: Page 447

  • 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

  • What's the future for youth on Facebook?

    So everyone is talking of Facebook. My Twitter is abuzz with it. My aggregator is bursting with blog posts around it. The social media blogworld is freaking out in it. Even my 79 year old aunt who sent me an add as friend invite! Reminds me of the old days when we all moved from one socia...

    By • May 30, 2007

  • Facebook and On Demand platforms

    I may be way behind the curve on this one, but I am now on Facebook, and am finding it fascinating on many levels. For those interested, my profile is here ... feel free to invite me as a friend. Here is a recent article passed on to me by a colleague. Also, what is very interesting to me is tha...

    By • May 30, 2007

  • Be careful what you wish for, iLike

    It has to be pretty great to see your application become the new hot thing â€" with everyone wanting to sign up all at once â€" and to be able to piggy-back on the success of something as huge as Facebook's new F8 platform in order to get there. And hopefully that feeling of joy and well-being w...

    By • May 27, 2007

  • Facebook generations

    At the risk of alienating readers, I have a confession. I'm on Facebook. At 54 years of age you've got be wondering with Howlett has completely lost his marbles. If I have, then so has CNN writer David Kirkpatrick who shares my age. In his reporting about Facebook's F8 (fate, get it?) event, he...

    By • May 26, 2007

  • I've deleted my MySpace account - long live Facebook!

    I'm also going to expound on the glories of social networking sites in a moment, but first, here's why I left MySpace:1. No one else I knew used it in a meaningful way (or, at least we were never motivated to find one another).2. The spam! Egads, the spam! Between malicious "friend" requests th...

    By • May 25, 2007

  • Will Facebook take over the World?

    In the current, connected world you are bombarded by content, and new services competing for your attention. I'm a big proponent of social networks, and I've been trying out Ning as both a user (with OpenCoffee Club) and a provider (with London Wiki Wednesdays), and it looks to be quite a reaso...

    By • May 25, 2007

  • Could Facebook eat Yahoo's lunch?

    As promised, Facebook has launched an ambitious effort to transform itself from being just a social network into a platform with all kinds of services from other companies running inside its network. In a sense, Facebook will be the frame of the car and the engine, and other companies will provi...

    By • May 25, 2007

  • Find Young Adults On FaceBook

    College kids spending more time in social media sitesWhere do college kids go for their breaks? According to Youth Trends 17 - 25 year olds are spending a significant part of their break time online.Facebook is now the first choice of nearly 70% of females and 56% of males aged 17-25. Two blogs...

    By • May 25, 2007

  • Twitter suddenly becomes relevant

    (Originally posted on the Big in Japan blog)For a while, I've struggled to find an explanation for the reason I was using Twitter, even in the very minor way I was. It seems like everyone that I talked to about it said: "I don't know what the point is", yet they were using it somewhat regularly...

    By • May 22, 2007