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Technology, Community, Relevancy: The 3 Social Pillars
Why do some social sites thrive while others fail? Why do you find some networks have you dedicating hours every day to participate, while others couldn't get you to raise an eyebrow? And why don't your friends see with you eye to eye on what the bes...
Technology, Community, Relevancy: The 3 Social Pillars
Why do some social sites thrive while others fail? Why do you find some networks have you dedicating hours every day to participate, while others couldn't get you to raise an eyebrow? And why don't your friends see with you eye to eye on what the bes...
Inefficiency of Interaction Driving Need for Social Leverage
"It is a complete joke how we interact with people on the computer right now," believes Brad Feld of the Foundry Group. With multiple devices and scads of Web services needed to consume information and engage with others on the Web effectively, Feld ...
Inefficiency of Interaction Driving Need for Social Leverage
"It is a complete joke how we interact with people on the computer right now," believes Brad Feld of the Foundry Group. With multiple devices and scads of Web services needed to consume information and engage with others on the Web effectively, Feld ...
Leveraging Social Marketing for Business, Sales and Startups
Following on to the post last month on leveraging social networks to build Web traffic, courtesy of YourBusinessChannel, filmed while in the UK with Ecademy, three more short videos have surfaced from our extended interview on the impact that social ...
Leveraging Social Marketing for Business, Sales and Startups
Following on to the post last month on leveraging social networks to build Web traffic, courtesy of YourBusinessChannel, filmed while in the UK with Ecademy, three more short videos have surfaced from our extended interview on the impact that social ...
Search: Less Useful Due to Massive Info Growth, the Flow?
In a forward-looking presentation at the Defrag Conference this morning, Stowe Boyd pushed attendees to think about how the Web would look by the year 2019, with the aid of seeing the massive amounts of change that has taken place over the previous d...
Search: Less Useful Due to Massive Info Growth, the Flow?
In a forward-looking presentation at the Defrag Conference this morning, Stowe Boyd pushed attendees to think about how the Web would look by the year 2019, with the aid of seeing the massive amounts of change that has taken place over the previous d...
Skepticism Over Current State of Social Web at Defrag
At the Defrag conference in Denver this morning, there was an acknowledgement that social elements are infiltrating practically every aspect of businesses and interpersonal engagement online, but unlike other events, which have seen a practical hugfe...
Skepticism Over Current State of Social Web at Defrag
At the Defrag conference in Denver this morning, there was an acknowledgement that social elements are infiltrating practically every aspect of businesses and interpersonal engagement online, but unlike other events, which have seen a practical hugfe...
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...
