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All Required Ingrediants to Set Up Your Social Media/Web 2.0 Strategy

January 24, 2010

Image by thekenyeung via Flickr how to build you perfect ‘customer strategy’ mix In his past blog posts, Jeremiah Owyang has started building a base-line for what an excellent company social media strategy should be build and based on. The first rule is to generate a ‘social media strategy’ and not a ‘facebook strategy’ or [...]

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Social networks as Hardware

January 18, 2010

Image by bre pettis via Flickr Paul Confer, a close colleague of mine, can tell you the entire history of computers and the net on it’s tiniest detail. If you want to host a Trivia game with the rarest, most cool details of the history of hardware and software – he’s your guy. In one [...]

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WordCamp NYC – BuddyPress in Local/HyperLocal Journalism (NJ no less)

November 20, 2009

Image by cloneofsnake via Flickr I wrote this as a draft when live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  but have not had a chance to publish since. This was one of the best sessions, demonstrating how BuddyPress was used to create a social networking to support citizen journalism. Speakers:  Ted Mann, @turkeymonkey What’s HyperLocal – neighborhood [...]

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Twitter Best Practice: follow everyone as courtesy. hang-on. no, actually don’t.

October 10, 2009

Image via Wikipedia 6 months ago, the Best Practice around following and getting followers on Twitter was that you must follow those who follow you as a courtesy as well as interest in others, and that the goal is to achieve as many followers as possible. It was days when Conversational web took a new [...]

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Community and Groups Rules of Existence and Success

September 13, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I was reading the fabulous article Asher Idan posted on Facebook about group dynamics, specifically examining group dynamics and how sometimes group can be its worst enemy despite having a mutual goal. The classic article was written by Clay Shirky One of the interesting stories described in the article is the sad [...]

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Twitter is just pointless babble and Facebook ruins your friendships – our lives reflected in Social Media

August 31, 2009

Image via CrunchBase To Continue the discussion and Ideas that developed in my post from 2 days ago about ‘Facebook as the Freindship killer app’, I just read Danah Boyd’s post about Twitter as an aggregator of ‘pointless babble’. The marvelous Boyd makes the point that sites such as Twitter and Facebook are our online [...]

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Social Media: the friendship killer app

August 30, 2009

Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr @econwriter5 has shared a great article today on Twitter: WSJ‘s ‘How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships’. This article has been on my mind all day. Media Panics have been a natural part of Media and Culture evolution: Waltz will curropt the youth, Radio will degregade our values, TV will [...]

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Execute command: Forget My Network Activity

August 16, 2009

Image by Johannesen via Flickr Wired has a great article (that wasn’t formally pushlished online yet) in this month’s issue from Clive Thompson, talking about maintaining your privacy and allowing social networks to ‘forget’ your activity on the network. “What happens in Vegas stays in… Twitter, Flicker, Digg, Facebook, YouTube, etc” is one of the [...]

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Rules of Twitter Following

July 22, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Looking for interesting posts around Twitter Policies and Guidelines in preparation for Connected Social Media Policy week, I ran into this interesting guidelines around the rules of following are posted on http://restaurantcoachingsolutions.com/rcs-university/rcs-social-media-policy-twitter/ By @JeffreySummers. [Update: these are suggested rules for not following someone]. The suggested rules include: do not have a website. [...]

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Community – from start up, to borg; from an idea to embedded behavior

July 20, 2009

It’s so sad when your local neighborhood café becomes a massive international chain. The Barista that used to be the owner as well as waiter, the face of the café, who knew your name and exactly how you like your espresso, is now gone, sitting behind a desk somewhere or vacating on some sandy beach. [...]

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