Category: socialmedia

I'm giving a conference talk on Wednesday this week on 'Harnessing The Power Of Online Communities'. One of the things I will be saying is that I believe that almost all of the important learnings I have gained about how online communities

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David has a particularly excellent blog and writes well, notably about social media, communities and the power of the network. He has produced a snappy 10 slides which I’ve posted below on "Why Traditional Ad Models Won’t Work In Social Networks (and

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Great presentation from Greg Verdino, full of good advice about the power of people connecting with people, "even when one of those people represents a brand". My favourite: "Real people in real time…can really make a difference". http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=social-graces-1215795878012527-9 | View | Upload

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Image courtesy Perhaps this explains why Twitter service has been so intermittent over the last few months. I was scratching around for some data on Twitter user numbers the other day and realised that there’s somewhat of a paucity of information. But

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The Phoenix Mars Lander announces the discovery of water on Mars to the world. Interesting how Twitter is not only breaking news stories around the world faster than traditional news services can but is now being used for the announcement of major

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My delicious in Wordle. More visually interesting than a tag cloud and saying something about my current obsessions methinks… HT to Adriana

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Just over a week ago I put a presentation I’d done on social media up on slideshare. After a day it had had 1500 views. After a week 5000. It’s now had over 8,000. If I was to present it once a

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When I posted about how often it is forgotten that the social web is all about the people rather than the technology, Gavin left an insightful  comment: "It is just that the technology has opened the door of random opportunity. We can

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Just had an e-mail from Clay Shirky about my presentation on the impact of social media: "Your ‘what’s next in media’ slideshow is so good — i hope it is getting viewed one million times, it should be." I’m a big fan

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