Entries tagged with: social media
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3 Questions: Using Twitter to Raise Money & Awareness for Charities
There was an interesting piece in Tech Crunch earlier this month on how charities can leverage Twitter to raise awareness and money. Twestival which raised $250k for charity:water was featured as was Blame Drew's Cancer and others. The bigger question...
4 Keys to Developing a Manageable Social Media Plan
Clients regularly ask us for help in creating a social media approach. "Twitter. Facebook. Blogs." "Where do I start?" We get that. And if we're honest, we have to admit that navigating the various social networks and trying to stay...
Socialtext Appliance Brings Twitter-like Microblogging to the Enterprise
Private Twitter-like services - also known as microblogging - are now available for the enterprise in a new offering from Socialtext....
Clay Shirky: Impact of Social Media on Politics (Video)
In a recent TED Talk, Clay Shirky suggests that the social web's impact on how information travels among groups, individuals and media formats has -- among other things -- fundamentally changed the way politics works. Shirky points out that the...
What the Trend Simplifies Tracking of Twitter Trends
If you're like me, trying to make sense of Twitter trends can be a bit daunting. The tools at Twitter Trends give me an idea of what's hot but not necessarily why. Enter What the Trend....
Video Site Usage Up 2000% since 2003; Social Media Usage Up 883%
Nielsen just released its Global Online Landscape study which underscores the growing shift toward video and social media....
Nielsen: Twitter Retains Only 40% of Users
Nielsen reports today that despite exponential growth at Twitter in recent months, the microblogging service retains of late only 40% of users. However the report points out, "...For most of the past 12 months, pre-Oprah, Twitter has languished below 30...
Web 2.0 Carrots (Tweet)
Web 2.0 carrots...McKinsey researchers find desire to help peers more powerful than mandate from management http://bit.ly/187Q3Q Posted at 2:11 PM by WebDrivenGuy (D.J.)...
Social Media Gets Presidential for Barack Obama
The guys over at CNet have compiled reports of web usage during the Inauguration of President Barack Obama which indicate record traffic for the period leading up to and including President Obama's swearing-in and speech....
New WhiteHouse.gov Launches as President Obama is Sworn In
As Barack Obama was sworn-in as the 44th President of the United States, a new WhiteHouse.gov was inaugurated as well....
TwitScoop Monitors Twitter Trends
Twitter aka the twitosphere seems to grow as a metric for predicting web trends or hot topics, at least among certain segments of the web audience. TwitScoop gives you the ability to see in "tag cloud" fashion just what tweets...
Bleacher Report Offers Open Source Sports Network
If you've ever had the urge to out-clever those guys on SportsCenter or simply want to channel your inner sports analyst, Bleacher Report may be the place for you....
Obama Launches Change.gov to Aid Transition Effort
A few days after his historic election, President-Elect Barack Obama has launched a new website -- appropriately dubbed Change.gov....
Current TV Unites Social Media for 2008 Election Coverage
At long last, Election Day is here and to cover it in all its social media, Web 2.0 splendor, the gang at Current.com/Current TV is bringing together Twitter, Digg, 12seconds.tv and even a live DJ set from Diplo...
Researchers Outline Security Risks Posed by Social Networking Sites (eWeek)
As part of their coverage of the Black Hat security conference, eWeek's Brian Prince has written on the perils of "friend-spoofing" and some of the other security risks presented by popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace....
WebDriven Launches 'Spread the Word' Social Networking Initiative for JDRF
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) partnered with WebDriven to build a viral recruitment application to help increase their advocate base....
Scrabulous: Social Media & Intellectual Property Realities
There are no more Scrabulous invites for anyone these days, courtesy of recent legal action by game maker Hasbro, which owns the Scrabble board game and concept in North America. There will be likely be lots of hand-wringing and gnashing...
What's that: Tweet
A tweet is a short message sent via Twitter, a social network most often employing cell phones or instant messaging platforms. You can see tweets on a map of the world at http://twittervision.com/ ...
'Generation Virtual' Creates Challenges for Online Marketing
In recent research completed by Gartner Group, analyst Adam Sarner adds Generation Virtual or Generation 'V' into the alphabet soup of generational grouping (e.g., Gen X, Gen Y and so on). Sarner suggests that companies and organizations have to dramatically...
German Wikipedia Goes to Print
Monster & Critics reports that the German edition of Wikipedia (Wikipedia Deutschland) will soon be available in print form....
My Data is My Data Offers Privacy Controls for Facebook Users
Growing out of ever-mounting concerns about privacy and user tracking on social media sites in the wake of Facebook Beacon, an initiative called 'My Data Is My Data' (MDIMD) has released an IE plug-in (read "cookie crusher") to help users...
Web 2.0 Meets the Corporate Enterprise: Five Questions to Consider
As Web 2.0 matures beyond blogs, feeds and photo sharing, many organizations are considering how to leverage social media within the enterprise to improve information sharing and employee productivity. Yet, as with most cultural changes, the move to social media...
Blogging of the TV Stars
Blogs on and about popular TV shows are nothing new. The new, new thing is setting up the show's characters as bloggers, passing on tidbits on subplots, story lines, fellow characters and other often random stuff in an attempt to...
Social Media Users' Bill of Rights: Good idea?
In an attempt to get social network users and providers alike discussing -- err, debating -- what constitutes a truly 'open' social media application, a blog post at Open Social Web has outlined a "Bill of Rights" for users of...
WikiHow: User Generated How-To Content
Wikipedia is a great resource if you need to know facts about the world or popular culture -- like say the capital of Moldova or William Shatner's musical career. As the wiki platform grows in popularity, so too its range...
