InMaps – a priceless gem
LinkedIn released InMaps this week, a very nice visualisation method that divides your linkedIn network in companies, networks, groups, etcetera. I think it’s fantastic. I try to keep a moderate network on LinkedIn as well, and it’s depicted above. My Capgemini network is up there, ex-Capgemini people, my University friends, my Highschool alumni, my LinkedIn [...]
Improving the Time Suck of Social Media
Social media, albeit being a great boon in many regards, has also become a massive time suck for almost everyone involved! Sure, news is up to date, down the minute, real-time almost with every single little bit of craziness right there to read about right now! The t0-read, to-do, to-make, to-code lists all keep getting [...]
Presentation and content hardly ever go along
After the publication of Digital Surgeons’ Facebook versus Twitter infographic this week, it got quickly republished everywhere, and ReTweeted. Currently, the words “facebook twitter infographic” still get 4.2 tweets per minute Pretty huge hey? GigaOm, TheNextWeb and ZDNet are a few of those who republished the nice and shiny graphic- apparently called infographic these days [...]
2010 Consumer New Media Study by Cone
Earlier this month Cone released the results of their study on how consumers are using new media tools. Cone conducted an online survey of 1050 adults and defined “new media” as: “Dialog among individuals or groups by way of technology-facilitated channels such as social networks (e.g. Facebook); blogs; microblogs (e.g twitter); online games; mobile devices; photo-; audio-, [...]
The Social Network: “Good Artists Borrow. Great Artists Steal.”
The other day I saw the Facebook film about Mark Zuckerberg “The Social Network” based on Ben Mezrich‘s 2009 nonfiction book The Accidental Billionaires. Fact or fiction, the film paints a very human portrait of seemingly insensitive Mark Zuckerberg. The film could have easily had a different name such as “Good Artists Borrow. Great Artists [...]
Defrag Keynote: Alex Wright
The opening keynote at Defrag will be given by Alex Wright. I’ve been emailing back and forth with Alex a bit about the topic, title, etc — and thought I’d share The Deep History of Oral Culture and Social Networks As the Internet continues to evolve into a global real-time conversation, we are witnessing the [...]
Promiscuous online culture changing social interactions
If you do not need O’Reilly Radar – you might want to subscribe. This morning O’Reilly Radar was bringing up the idea of how social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed and others are changing not just how we hire,
Now We Know Why The City Never Sleeps
Now we know why The Citi Never Sleeps: they are busy censoring their customers. If you are a Citibank customer and they dislike your blog, you may just get in trouble. (Disclosure: I do have a Citi account… so am taking a risk by writing this post.) That’s just what happened to fabulis, a social [...]
Social Media as Storytelling
The more I look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. A person can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with the subject and the better [...]
Twitter Marketing Hell: New Site by Steven Hodson
Steven Hodson has to be one of my favorite people to read online, and over the holidays he put together a “Wall of Shame” for bad twitter marketers. I hope he lets me write for him on this one, as I have plenty of good examples, not just from my Techwag Twitter, but from my [...]
FriendFeeds Visitors might be down but its quality is back up
Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr Imagine a company that built one of the coolest social networking apps I have used all year got bought out by Facebook. In the fear and panic that followed that buy out, many people migrated to Facebook wondering what was going to happen to the company that got bought [...]
Just a quick note about Twitter SEO and Social Marketing
If you are planning to use Twitter to help raise buzz for your company, there are some things you do need to note. Many Twitter users use Autofollow – but many do not, and fake following is quickly becoming a scourge of Twitter, meaning you will be blocked by some users. As some folks know [...]
Crowd Source Your Next Job – Looking for Your Stories
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Looking for input from readers on how they conduct a job search using social media tools. While I have road tested just about every job tool out there from Monster in 1999 through Dice, Career Builder, Linkedin and other job sourcing tools – the bottom line is that all [...]
