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The Blog\'s Place In A World of Microblogging: Not Dead Yet!
Even as the microblogging space seems to be white hot these days, the world of longer-form blogging is still seeing impressive growth, with all major blogging platforms showing greater than 20 to 40 percent growth year over year, and record users, bl...
How To Rally Your Community, Leveraging Social Media
Social media is a tool. Last month I said social media is infrastructure, and I have compared Twitter to the new e-mail or a parallel Internet. Because of this, enterprising folks are finding ways to leverage these new tools for practically every fac...
The Era of the Faceless Giant Corporation Is Over
It wasn't all that long ago when the names of companies were more likely to make me think of unfeeling skyscrapers reaching toward the heavens with their steel and glass than I was to think of the people inside who made the brand stand for something,...
Why Would I Say to "Stop Talking About Social Media"?
Two weeks ago, the second in a pair of guest blog posts from me for Brian Solis' PR 2.0 site suggested that people should "stop talking about social media and go do it already". For those of you who know me, and this blog, you know we actually use (a...
I Don\'t Want To Hear About Distributed Conversations Any More
This morning, Google introduced a feature called SideWiki for Google Toolbar users that lets people add comments and annotations to Web sites. This is not a new approach, and it has been tried with varying lacks of success in the past, as most people...
International Man of Social Media? Would You See that Movie?
As previewed on Tuesday, I spent the last few days in London, England, meeting the Ecademy team and talking about what we called "social media for business" and "world-class blogging" for a changing Web. Although I was wary of the prospect of speakin...
Social Media Is Infrastructure: PR, Marketing, Ads Safe
Practically the only thing guaranteed that social media will kill is your free time. Maybe it will kill your real-world social life too, but that's only if you choose to have an intimate relationship with your computer, at the pure neglect of the wor...
Google Reader Wants Me to Send My Shares Everywhere
My favorite RSS feed reader and jumping off point for information discovery and sharing, Google Reader, has caught the social bug. Fresh off their big push last month that saw a spike in the number of people exchanging shared items and finding contac...
Won't Be Long Before These Future Marketers Major In New Media
Sometimes, it doesn't seem all that long ago that I myself was in college. On other days, it seems like I am talking about somebody else, when looking back on my time at UC Berkeley. With my 10 year graduation anniversary having passed a few months a...
10 People To Follow On FriendFeed For The Month Of July 2009
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)This is the eleventh edition of the monthly FriendFeed to follow member list. Louis Gray has done a superb job covering for me for the past three months, and has kept the tradition alive. Th...
Gmail Should be the Hub of Your Company's Social Media Strategy
Back in March, I talked about how you can cleanly separate personal and work social media personalities, and suggested a list of tools that I use to make sure I don't blur the two. But as I talk with companies getting started in the big world of soci...
Blogging Is Still the Foundation In A World of Streams
Last week, Edelman's Steve Rubel made an aggressive jump - away from traditional blogging, turning over his site to a lifestream, which captures all of his activity from around the Web. His move, he reported, was due to a feeling that blogging "feels...
ClaimMyName Mines My Social Media Identities
By Ken Stewart of ChangeForge (Twitter/FriendFeed) With the proliferation of so many social media services, identity management has become a full time job. What sites do I participate in? What sites do I stake my claim so someone doesn’t swipe my ...
Podcast: TheSocialGeeks: I Want the Post, Not the Pre
Thanks to bumps in my schedule, including work, and of course, the twins, combined with the complexities of trying to get seven people in three time zones to get synched up, it has been some time since we got to participate in TheSocialGeeks podcast,...
Video: The Social Web TV: Early Adoption and the Open Social Web
On Thursday, I got a chance to visit Plaxo headquarters in Mountain View, and site down with two smart folks - John McCrea and Joseph Smarr, to talk about the open, social, Web, including how communities are improving with single sign-on capability, ...
DandyID Provides a Path to Social Identity Management
By Ken Stewart of ChangeForge (Twitter/FriendFeed)In January 2009, I stumbled across a wonderful little company with a big idea: Create one place to collect, control, discover, and analyze your social profiles – a LinkedIn of social media, if you...
Qajack Presents Fun Videocentric Social Q&A Service
Advice and answer sites like Yahoo! Answers, and the long-since defunct pioneers such as ExpertCity and EXP.com have served the Web by providing a hub to ask challenging questions and getting answers from the registered community. But they haven't re...
SlideShow: How To Optimize Your Social Data Flow for All Networks
Following on to this weekend's post on knowing and mastering your social media data flow, I updated the information and have created a presentation for download, for easier portability.How To Optimize Your Social Media Data Flow for All NetworksView ...
Know and Master Your Social Media Data Flow
This Is How My Social Media Data Flows. I'll Explain.If you're anything like me, you are constantly creating social data. From your blog posts and your tweets, your photos and videos, bookmarks and status updates, you are creating new information, bi...
Social Media Outposts: Maintenance
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)This is a continuation of last week's post regarding creating social media outposts. The first part was creating outposts or as I refer to them, tollbooths. The core objective is for organic...
Online Transparency Leads to New World of Group Dating
Guest Post By Micah Baldwin of Learn To Duck (Twitter/FriendFeed)Like most everything, even dating has been changed by social media.Before the explosion of the Internet, a man (or woman) had to find a woman (or man) that they were interested in spend...
Creating Social Media Outposts
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)Roll-Your-Own Social Media Campaign: OutpostsI recently started a new job at a software company. One of my responsiblites is creating and launching an effective organic SEO & social medi...
