Archive for July, 2008
Getting social on the Web
Here are some social media articles that I have found on the Web which I hope inspire you as this week kicks off to a firing start.
Chris Brogan writes about 50 Steps that can be used to establish a consistent Social Media practice while Information Week has a look at Google’s online encyclopedia offering and the New York Times reports back [...]
Engaged Learning Communities
In the age of social networks, wikis, podcasts, blogs, search engines - to name some - people, both young and old, have access to an ever-growing repository of data and information. The ability to make sense of this information through the development of the right skills and digital literacies is becoming ever more important through all phases of [...]
Social Design Explained
In a video post trio for today, I love this video by SocialDesignSite.com that shares insight into what social design is.
Watch it. Share it.
Thanks Kate
Using Multimedia to Illuminate Cyberbullying
Every day, children are inappropriately targeted by peers on the Internet, mobile phones and similar technologies. This behaviour is called Cyberbullying, and its effects are felt across the globe.
To help spread awareness of online bullying, Sony Creative Software, The Ad Council and the National Crime Prevention Council organised the Cyberbullying PSA Development Contest. As winners of the content, the below two videos help relay a very [...]
The LinkedIn Common Craft Video
Mario Sundar, a Community Evangelist at LinkedIn, points us (via Lee) to a Common Craft video that explains the business social network. These guys are good!
Be sure to also check out Common Craft’s “Social Media in Plain English” video as well.
Twitter Grows by 500 Percent
If like me, you’re on Twitter, you’ll know that the micro-blogging service is often down due to one or other technical problem. In fact, just today it went down for a bit. However, these downtimes have not prevented Twitter from growing at an alarming rate, with Hitwise reporting that year-on-year visits have grown 500% from [...]
Still around . . .
So, things have been a bit quiet on this blog lately. Here’s why:
For those who don’t already know, I am enjoying the pleasures (and headaches - got to love SARS) of self employment, focussing my days on Cosmedia. As a result, I have been actively working on getting back into the being-ones-own-boss game, and things have been [...]
Blogs Fail Because of Dull Material
According to a report by Forrester Research (via), business-to-business blogging took a nosedive this year. However, don’t start thinking that this is because business blogging is a bad strategy. Instead, as Forrester themselves say, corporate blogs fail because they read like “tired, warmed-over press releases,” resulting in users’ experiences with them being “simply awful.”
Blogging is a [...]
What Joan Rivers Teaches Us
I’m a fan of Joan Rivers. Her energetic self confidence - to put it mildly - wins the hearts and smiles of many fans worldwide, myself included.
As with many celebrities, Joan Rivers has a blog. Sadly, like most celebrities (and some companies), Joan Rivers also demonstrates a bit of cluelessness. Here’s why…
Blogs are about connecting with people [...]
There Is Nothing New About Social Media
”We toss around these terms and definitions to try to give shape the world around us, and when we come across a neat new interesting way in which people are communicating we like to slap a new label on it. Social Media is no different - we all love it, it sounds cool, it’s the [...]
Pay Attention to How Branding Fuels Social Media
Ask yourself what the following brands all have in common: Apple, Virgin, Facebook, Google, Sony, Nintendo, Coca-Cola, Ford, Kulula, Nandos …
They push the boundaries of creative genius, stir emotive reactions from their customers, pay copious amount of attention on quality, and are very in tune with their customers’ needs - all for the sake of creating products and [...]
(RED) to fight AIDS in Africa with Digital Music Service
(RED), the nonprofit organisation co-founded by Bono, is starting a new digital music service (via NYT) in September that will contribute a share of profits to fight AIDS in Africa. For a monthly fee of $5, “(RED) Music” will deliver three new pieces of content a week through bespoke music software . Half of the monthly fee will [...]
