Social Network Strategy Talk Today at 8am EST: Streaming Online
I’m giving a talk this morning from 8am EST to 11am EST about developing strategies for using Social Networking Sites. If you’d like to watch follow this link.
I’ll post the slides and notes a bit later. Hope to see some of you there!
Podcast and Challenge: How do we move the social media conversation past the converted?
The Intellacast is back! I don’t podcast as often as I’d like but when I do I try to make it worth it. So here’s a doozy. It’s a challenge to three of the best social media evangelists out there: CC Chapman, Joseph Jaffe, and Mitch Joel. All three deliver great insight into the ways [...]
Response to Jenkins, Prensky Regarding Digital Natives
Henry Jenkins’ awesome blog “Confessions of an Aca/Fan” has once again brought up the topic of the digital natives and immigrants initially conceptualized by Marc Prensky (See link here to read Henry’s very thorough post). As I travel around speaking to groups about Web 2.0, Second Life, and other technologies that are changing education, [...]
Facebook Announces New Advertising Plan: Are Relevant Ads Less Instrusive?
On Wednesday Facebook announced a new advertising plan that allows users to be marketers for their favorite bands, products, stores etc.
According to the Facebook blog:
“Engaging with businesses and buying things are part of your everyday life. Advertising doesn’t have to be about interrupting what you’re doing, but getting the right information about the purchases you [...]
Digital Makeovers!
Phew! The last few weeks have been insane with travel, talks, and lots of writing other than writing here. It’s nice to be back on terra ferma and on the good ol’ blog talking to my favorite people.
I’ve had a bit of a brainstorm lately and I’m still working through the details but I thought [...]
Google Buys Jaiku!
If you’re interested in microblogging ala Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, you might be interested to know that Google purchased Jaiku today. Besides making all the Jaiku employees dance around in celebration of their upcoming stock options, this could mean something big. Other smart folks are talking about it too:
BlogShmog
Guardian
Reuters
Mashable
Read/Write Web
OReilly
This could mean some serious improvements in [...]
Fmail: Gmail in Facebook… You will be assimilated into Facebook. Resistance is Useless!
Yep! The social network which is fast becoming all things to all people has assimilated and absorbed another part of your life. You can now check your gmail from inside Facebook with a new app called Fmail. Now you need never leave Facebook! Evaaar!!!
Facebook to add new Grouping tool! Reed’s Law in full effect!
According to the “In the Works” page on Facebook there will soon be a tool that allows you to sort your friends and customize what updates/info is released to each kind of friend/contact. Finally a social network that really gets it! We all intuitively know that we have multiple identities in online spaces. I’ve blogged [...]
Corporate Research Misunderstands the Mechanics of of Collaborative Sites
The McKinsey Quarterly Journal recently released a research paper summarizing a study of 573 users of contributory video sites. In addition to their findings regarding why people contribute videos, the report includes the table below which shows the supposed rates of participation in many web 2.0 applications. This is a prime example of corporate [...]
Who do you Blog for?: Tips for Increasing the Conversation
If you blog then you know the feeling of sitting at your keyboard staring at an empty Word doc or Wordpress page, thrumming your fingers on your coffee cup, and trying to decide what to write. Some days I have a hot topic in mind and I can’t wait to get to my desk. [...]
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