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Social OODA Super Speedway
fishpond.jpg By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In our previous article we painted the image of people walking on the OODA highway, continuously performing OODA loops, interacting with the environment, in the search for information packages that help them adapt to changes. In this posting we want to extend ...
9 Mar 2008, 3:36 pm | click here for more
SAP Global Survey: Dr. Nora Barnes
Dr. Nora Barnes (Dr. Nora Barnes. Photo from her file) I didn't listen Dr. Nora Barnes' keynote speak at the SNCR Symposium in Boston, last month. Other business took me out of the room. But for the next day-and-a-half, I regretted that. Just about evry attendee I met told me how interesting ...
9 Jan 2008, 6:17 pm | click here for more
Would you hire a social media strategist? Discussing emergent themes (Part 3)
Would You Hire A Social Media Strategist (Part 3) Welcome back to Part 3 of “Would you hire a social media strategist?”. We’re halfway through, and I hope it’s been useful to you as it has been for me. Episode lead Part 1 introduced the initial survey questions. Part 2 featured responses ...
7 May 2008, 9:38 pm | click here for more
Information Advisor interview on social graphing
I was interviewed for the December issue of the Information Advisor (knowledge management supplement), this is subscription only…still awaiting my copy. The interview was edited to fit the supplement format, but it has been posted in full at Robert Berkman’s Intelligent Agent blog, the post is John ...
7 Jan 2008, 9:36 pm | click here for more
On the Convergence of Virtual Worlds and Social Networking Sites
Bobprofile200 We're starting to see a convergence of virtual worlds and social networking sites in the new wave of virtual "social" worlds (e.g., Kaneva, vSide, Virtual MTV) and new 3D Facebook applications (ActiveWorlds, Gaia Online). This might be dismissed as fad. After ...
7 Feb 2008, 12:32 pm | click here for more
How to Target the Right Social Media Sites
This is a guest post on targeting Social Media Sites is from Steven Snell. Steven writes about social media marketing at Traffikd . Social-Media.jpg Most bloggers recognize the incredible potential that exists with social media marketing. Many want to maximize the ...
7 Apr 2008, 9:14 am | click here for more
Social Media Marketing: Small Business, Collaboration Tools and Recruiting - Bill Vick Interviews Robin Good
Social media marketing can be toughest thing to grasp if you are not heavily active and exposed to the many new social media communities blossoming out there. It's a wild world of fascinating new stuff and I do understand that for most it may see more of a waste of precious, rare ...
6 May 2008, 6:48 am | click here for more
The future of social networks: Social networks will be like air
by Charlene Li On Monday, I gave the kick off speech for the Graphing Social Patterns West conference on the topic, “The Future Of Social Networks” (slides are available on SlideShare, summaries available on News.com, ReadWriteWeb, and allfacebook.) Note that this is still ongoing ...
6 Mar 2008, 5:50 pm | click here for more
Social Media Design: Best Practices To Build Your First Open Social Widget
OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications across many websites which in the end makes it very easy for a large number of individuals to begin developing their own social web applications. Google-Open-Social-485.jpg Photo credit: UK Open University ...
6 Dec 2007, 7:20 am | click here for more
PR Roundtable Discussion: The Challenge of Social Media
Last week was a tough week for the public relations community dealing with social media. I even contributed a bit to the fuss, though independently of Chris Anderson or anyone else. It’s really quite easy to fire people and make bold statements enjoy, “PR people, You’re blocked“. It’s quite ...
5 Nov 2007, 5:35 pm | click here for more
The sound and fury of Open Social
opensocial While Google’s Open Social initiative has caused a surge of commentary, it hasn’t raised much more than a ripple in the PR/communications corner of the blogosphere. I’ve read a few posts about it by PR bloggers, but otherwise Open Social seems to have produced a ...
5 Nov 2007, 3:25 am | click here for more
Google Announces API Connecter For Social Networks
Google has decided that when it comes to Facebook, if you can’t beat ‘em, API ‘em. Google’s OpenSocial, which will launch at code.google.com/apis/opensocial tomorrow, will be a set of APIs that developers can use to create applications that work on any participating social ...
31 Oct 2007, 1:30 pm | click here for more
It Takes a Gathering to Build a Crowd
In this guest post Steven Snell (who writes about social media at Traffikd) examines the topic of generating readership for your blog through social media. gathering-crowd.jpg Image by shoothead If you spend much time on social media websites, I’m sure you’ve noticed that ...
3 May 2008, 10:06 am | click here for more
Facebook Right, Scoble Wrong: Social Network Interoperability and the O'Reilly Social Graph FOO Camp
I’ve read a number of stories this week that highlight that interoperability between social networking sites will be a “top ask” in 2008 (as we say at Microsoft). Earlier this week I read the Wired article Should Web Giants Let Startups Use the Information They Have About You? which ...
3 Jan 2008, 11:51 am | click here for more
Justin Davies: The anatomy of social networks
Justin Davies I’ve done the impossible as far as I saw it a few years ago and totally changed careers. Quite a few people who read this blog would come here because of my old posts when I worked as an IT Architect concentrating on Open Source, my time at SUSE and the Linux books I wrote. But others ...
23 Nov 2007, 4:41 am | click here for more
Unleashed Session: Social Media Conversations
by Diane Aull This session started off as Social Media Marketing, but Jenn changed the name to Social Media Conversation. Don't get in a panic about this "new thing" -- all that social media is, is new technology facilitating the alike thing we've been doing all along -- talking ...
21 Apr 2008, 1:22 pm | click here for more
Social Networks, from the 80s to the 00s
Written by Brian McConnell As Facebook enjoys its moment in the sun, we should take a moment to step back and see at the history of computers and social communication. Some historical perspective is in order, both to assess the real value of social networks as businesses, and to anticipate ...
20 Jan 2008, 3:00 am | click here for more
NpTech Tag Summary: More Doves on the Map, Social Networking Debates, and Social Media Revenue Models
Ushahidi.com Screencapture - Getting More Doves on the Map NpTech Memes and Conversations Social Networking A couple of interesting social networking threads. These include: how SNS might influence changes in practice, whether to engage or not, and best tools. Change ...
20 Jan 2008, 11:33 am | click here for more
How Do You Value Social Media?
Social media is about the hottest topic there is right now in the online marketing world. Search marketers and traditional marketers are both obsessed with finding ways to drive interest and traffic using this new medium. But how many of them are actually investing in social media ...
19 Nov 2007, 10:34 pm | click here for more
SAP Global Survey: KD Paine
Measuring conversation is hard; a speak with KD is Priceless KD Paine & Me (KDPaine with admirer at Measurement Summit. File Photo) In the interest of transparency I need to tell you that KD Paine is my friend. She has been my friend for a very long time. We have both hung out in the ...
19 Jan 2008, 10:55 am | click here for more
Social Media Marketing - Beginner's Advice From Massimo Burgio
Social media marketing online is the new critical factor to deal with when wanting to increase traffic, visibility, and even more your overall authority and reputation on the Web. SEO expert Massimo Burgio, explains in simple, easy to understand language some of the key aspects of the what, ...
19 Dec 2007, 5:28 am | click here for more
Social Media Marketing - A Beginner's Guide
Social Media Marketing can be a great way to boost awareness of your brand, business or website and the good news is that it won't cost you a thing. Here's how to get started: socialmediamarketing_header_480.jpg Photo credit: Mark Stay Traditional marketing has typically taken an "interruptive" ...
18 Dec 2007, 4:19 am | click here for more
NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Reada...
What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Remember, it's not the level, but whether it is a match to your audience. Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch, Change.org, a social networking site that links ...
17 Nov 2007, 12:18 am | click here for more
Reflections on social media networking and marketing
Social Media Cartoon With Bitstrips you don't need to be able to draw to create your own comics. Alas, that's still no guarantee that you'll write something clever. These days everyone seems to be talking about social networking and/or social media marketing. Until ...
17 Mar 2008, 11:01 pm | click here for more
Using Social Media to Grow Your Blog’s Readership
Blog-Promotion - Social Media This week we’re looking at five different methods that I’d use to find readership if I were starting a new blog. So far we’ve explored guest posting, advertising and networking - but today I want to turn our attention to the explosive and dynamic area ...
14 Mar 2008, 8:39 am | click here for more
Visualizing Social Media Networks in MindManager
MindManager customer and social media guru, Andrew Shuttleworth, recently mapped out all his social media networks- from social networking/bookmarking communities (example: Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us) to photos (Flickr) to video (YouTube, Blip.TV) to to his favorite ...
13 Feb 2008, 6:29 am | click here for more
Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
Max Gladwell Logo Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Max Gladwell, of MaxGladwell.com, as a regular guest writer on sustainablog. Max Gladwell covers the nexus of social media and green living. We feel that these two trends and technological developments hold tremendous promise for improving ...
12 May 2008, 12:16 pm | click here for more
Reflections on social media networking and marketing
Social Media Cartoon With Bitstrips you don't need to be able to draw to create your own comics. Alas, that's still no guarantee that you'll write something clever. These days everyone seems to be talking about social networking and/or social media marketing. Until ...
12 Mar 2008, 11:01 pm | click here for more
Answers to all of your Groundswell questions
by Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li Our Webinar was a large party -- above 700 people joined us! Of course, that made it hard to reply all of your questions, but they were so interesting we've answered them all right here. all question here came from someone who attended the Webinar. We learned an ...
10 May 2008, 7:20 pm | click here for more
So… Would you hire a social media strategist? (Part 2)
Would you hire a social media strategist (Part 2) Two weeks ago, it started with a simple question we’ve probably all had at the tip of our tongues: “Would you hire a social media strategist? (Part 1)” The motivation to asking this comes from how social media has such a fluid ...
1 May 2008, 3:26 am | click here for more