If you haven’t heard the news (where have you been?), a new Twitter clone service launched today called Identi.ca. (You can read the ReadWriteWeb coverage here). Of course, because the service just launched, there are still some Twitter-esque features that have not yet been added.
A Drawing Can Launch a 1000 Words! A restaurant covers their tables with white butcher paper, and in a small juice glass on each table, they keep a bunch of well-used crayons. Most people might assume that those crayons are there to keep children behaving, but more than that actually [.
It’s not every industry that gives away what would ordinarily be the key proprietary assets: source codes, communication protocols, content. In the spirit of barcamps and podcamps before it, Jeremiah Owyang is offering to hold an impromptu trade-show-cum-unconference that defies the rules of trade shows.
One of the words you'll regularly see in my blog posts is the word "client." My agency, Comunicano, represents many of the more cutting edge companies in voice, collaboration, video and mobile. When I started this blog, I had four goals, which I've stated before: 1) Become a trusted source for the media to use to gain clarity and understanding about VoIP and emerging technology.
Do you have multiple twitter accounts that you are constantly flipping between to post messages? I do. It is pretty annoying to keep having to logout and then log back in. The Carsonified team made it a challenge to help remedy this problem with their four day development sprint which is similar to the hugs they created last year.
When speaking at events, I get the best response from talking less and asking more … in other words, encouraging the audience to share their examples and ideas. It’s more interactive that way.
The Edelman/PRWeek New Media Academic Summit, I had the pleasure of interviewing Keith O’Brien, Editor-In-Chief of PRWeek. Keith shares, what I believe to be, a great overview of why PR agencies should seek to work with academia and why experimenting with emerging digital media is so important for both students and educators.
So Seth Godin and Robert Scoble talk about a video by Fred. When you look at all the views of his videos he has over 45 million youtube views Scoble and Seth go on to say how the traffic numbers aren’t important and it’s the quality of the viewers.
Reviews are hell. Writers, actors, directors and restaurant owners hate them. And so do business owners. It’s never easy observing or taking part in a discussion about your business, especially when customers are taking potshots at you.
Lessons from Personal Democracy Forum, The "Davos of Technology": While the RIAA and MPAA have been frequent whipping boys in any debate on the failure...
The promoters of this and the believers in it will say, "Mark Cuban is the keynote speaker! Mark Cuban will be there so you know it's legit! Mark Cuban is a zillionaire and he owns the Dallas Mavericks and he's a maverick and he's the keynote speaker.
The Pendulum After years in educational publishing, I began to see a pattern. The philosophy of the day would swing from open classroom and individualized instruction to high-structure and rote learning.
Monday I started something that might take a few days to finish. I called it the human factor in social media trends. For those of you that missed it, you can find the post here, and besides the comments on there was also another great discussion going on about it here.
From bonafide marketing genius Marta Kagan. | View | Upload your own (Best tidbit: “Social Networking sites are more popular than porn sites.” And they said it would never happen.) .
Apparently, a chord was struck in this recent post “Social Software: Here come the CMS Vendors“. In summary, the post indicuates that CMS vendors are sniffing the community space, and the comments lit up (you should read them) with vendors from both camps indicating this discussions are happening behind the curtains and hands are extending [.
For most of this evening I have been watching an amazing event. It is totally fascinating to watch a group of what should be intelligent and well educated folks suddenly become drooling masses of quivering jelly like substance.
Haven’t done this for a while but I’m shutting down my machine after a few days of use and there are some interesting tabs open in my browser: Jeremiah Owyang: CMS Vendors Starting to Enter Social Software Scene - if you need any proof that CMS vendors are eyeing up the social space, check out Dell’s [.
Every time someone asks me to explain why I use and promote LinkedIn, it seems I have a good 15 or 20 minute conversation coming. Then they invariably want to check out my profile and see who I’m LinkedIn to.
One of my favorite bloggers; Alexander van Elsas, has been penning a series of posts having to do with Social Media and People. Today he wrote something that sparked a lightbulb: Instead, having instant access to information will drive a need for knowledge.
Social Media Yellow Card Originally uploaded by cethilk If you work in social media at all, you might want to have these ready for when you’re in meetings with folks who don’t get it just yet.
Yesterday’s Marketing 2.0 event in Manchester, organized by KMP, included some great presentations that, collectively, add up to a good overview of the roles social media play in the overall marketing mix.
As my regular readers know, (Context in the link) I am working with KETC, Channel 9 in St Louis on a project funded by CPB, to see how a Public TV station could use its position as a Trusted Space,...
Madison Avenue wasn't built to service brands in social media and, more importantly, Madison Avenue is not built to make money from the proper activation of social media for brands. The question is, can the system adapt, or will a new breed of agency be born in the vacuum of effective social media campaigns?
Swurl is a service for people who want to create a blog made from their activity on various social-media services. Like FriendFeed, SocialThing, or any other aggregator, you start building your Swurl blog by plugging in your usernames on each service.
A beach party organized on Facebook that was expected to attract as many as 10,000 revelers has been canceled after police warned that it was illegal.More than 7,000 people had confirmed on the social networking site that they would attend the party billed as "a night of mayhem," in the coastal town of Torbay, England.
In an effort to connect marketing professionals and share invaluable industry insights, ANA has established a presence on social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and information-sharing communities such as Flickr and Slideshare.
Shel Holtz offers good advice for companies seeking to enter the world of social media in non-threatening ways. He suggests two passive approaches: For your external communications, add a “share this” link to every article or page.
Just when we thought they've covered virtually every single social media and social networking site with their last batch, ShoZu recently added 9 new services to the mix. New services include: Snapfish - photo printing and storage site, Ovi - Nokia's personal media storing and sharing service, SnapMyLife - mobile photo sharing service, BlueString - AOL's media sharing site, Xdrive - [.
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