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2012 social media predictions: Part One
No, that doesn’t mean I’m going to list over two thousand predictions for social media. If I did, however, I would be almost certain to get some of it right. Instead, I’m going to list my predictions for the year ahead. Which means I’ll probably get most of it wrong. However, just to lend some [...]
Which are the most important social media metrics? (Hint: they’re nothing to do with social media)
I could write a book on this one. But there’s little point because a) I don’t have time to write a book, and b) other people have already written them. So, I’ll be brief, not least because this is a blog post and not a book: the most important social media metrics are nothing to [...]
If Your Team Hates Blogging, You Need A New Team
My friend Steve Farnsworth recently shared a link to some tips from Matt Ceniceros at Applied Materials about how to encourage blog posts from team members who hate blogging. Something about that concept got me thinking. It wasn’t encouraging team members to blog, as that’s critical for all organizations seeking to embrace the notion that [...]
And now Tweetcloud.com is gone?
It seems to be a bit of a watershed for social media sites right now. Google+ is nibbling away at Facebook, which itself might be about to undergo radical change. Delicious has introduced a new look and feel that hasn’t been entirely well received. Social Mention disappeared for a short while, making us realise how [...]
New Delicious – sweet eye candy but a bitter aftertaste
As if by magic, Delicious has relaunched. I had that sinking feeling when I powered up my laptop this morning and noticed that the Delicious add-on that I use to navigate the web wasn’t loading properly. It didn’t take long to figure out that there are some fairly radical changes going on. Superficially it looks [...]
3 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Social Media Architecture
via mashable.com This is pretty good, from my ex-employer Fleishman Hillard. Everyone likes graphics because they (usually) make things clearer. In this one, anything big and green in the centre is good, because it’s a nice, living social media presence. Anything red is bad, because it’s dead. The FH solution is simply to delete the [...]
Facebook’s F8 changes: a slight case of oversharing? | Econsultancy
Facebook is renowned for rolling out new platform changes at a moment’s notice, but if early buzz is to be believed, this Thursday’s F8 developer conference will offer something a little bit special. Major changes are expected that could fundamentally reshape the way content is found and shared on the world’s largest social network. Will [...]
Gamers solve puzzle in 3 weeks that stumped scientists for a decade
This is only the first time that online gamers have figured out the solution to a complex scientific problem. Foldit co-creator Seth Cooper said that their spatial reasoning skills allowed gamers to succeed where powerful computers had failed before and expressed hope that their game, and others like it, would lead to many such accomplishments [...]
YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious
via nytimes.com These are your new social media pin-ups. They’re the guys who are going to save Delicious – by quite some way the most powerful, effective and yet simple way of sharing content online. It was also by quite some way the largest, but the dolts at Yahoo couldn’t figure out what to do [...]
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