Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
I logged into Facebook this morning to the usual flurry of messages, notifications, pokes and friend requests. As I was responding to each point of contact, I noticed a couple of distinctly weird new behaviors.
First, in my notifications, I was told that someone by the name of Derek had joined ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Microsoft has produced a hilarious ad that perfectly encapsulates the major issues facing advertisers and consumers:
One of the five possible goals of online community building covered in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's new book Groundswell is listening, which is not something some advertisers are doing very well these days.
[Via Ken ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
It is an ongoing question, highlighted earlier this week by both Blogspotting and Adweek. Social technologies have always had trouble finding good advertising schemes.
One of the big issues with advertising in online social networks is, as both posts point out, a lack of reliable metrics. Adweek points out that ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Facebook has launched a new feature that shows users who they might be friends with based on their existing connections. Based on my connections, Facebook has recommended 26 new friends. Of those, I actually know four and could appropriately consider being "Facebook friends" with another three.
I'm curious, how accurate has ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
I'll be speaking along with a lot of amazing people at the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives: Business Applications of Social Networking event this morning. If you're interested in watching, join us via Ustream.
Update:
Here is video from the entire event split into two.
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I just ran across one of Brian Clark's posts on Copyblogger from last July titled Blogging is Dead (Long Live Value Blogging). I think I got there from Paul Chaney's monster size post about what change is afoot in the social blogomediasphere.
Brain put his finger on something in that ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
In case anyone reading this blog is interested or amused by my social media ramblings (actually, I guess that would be all of you, almost by definition), you can hear the lovely timbre of my voice on this podcast over at MySuccessGateway.com.
Jim Peake interviewed me at the beginning of ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
It's been popping up here and there for a few days. The first time I heard about it was on Twitter, although for the life of me I can't find that tweet now, nor do I remember who posted it.
Then I read about it in an article from USA ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I made a video this morning that details how Facebook's new Friend List Privacy feature works. It's a really cool way to customize the experience your friends have of your Facebook presence depending on how well you know them.
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
In the long view, anything that makes the Facebook user experience better is good for everyone involved, including marketers who are using the site to engage with potential customers. But in the short run, the newly announced privacy improvements present some new challenge for marketers and community builders.
Up until this ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Content on the internet is always portable.
I have no idea how you are reading this blog post. It could be in a feed reader (which one?), it could be on our web site, it could be in an e-mail, it could be on a mobile phone, it could be re-posted ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Six months ago, I interviewed Linkedin CEO Founder Reid Hoffman at the first Graphing Social Patterns conference where he keynoted. I'll be in the Bay Area next week and I'd very much like to swing by Linkedin's offices -- or wherever he's at -- and interview him again.
What do you ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Next Tuesday, I'll be on a panel moderated by Forbes' Erika Brown along with Karen Appleton, Katie Jacobs Stanton, and Lena West. Other incredible speakers include our good buddy Jeremiah Owyang and Ning CEO Gina Bianchini.
If you'd like to join me at the event for a discount of $50 off ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Aspiring iPhone developers are getting rejection letters by the thousands. Meanwhile, developers who have made it into the beta program are reporting that the shallow integration leaves next to no opportunity to build anything meaningful. Update: Developer Craig Hockenberry has a very interesting perspective on one of the major issues ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Wow I'm tired! I just wrote up a big long post about online community building best practices from last nights Online Community Round Table. Then I accidentally posted it on my personal blog instead of here. This is what you get for spending way too much time traveling on business.
Rather ...
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