"Going Google" with Google Apps. Every morning, millions of people wake up to a very refreshing experience at work. They don't see "mailbox is full" errors in their email. They don't worry about backing up their data. They can get to any file they need from any computer, anywhere with Internet access and a browser. They can all access and edit the same documents and spreadsheets at the same time as their colleagues. They use Gmail and Google Calendar at work as fluidly and easily as they use their personal Gmail accounts. They video, voice and text chat with their peers globally as naturally as they send email. The IT people at these companies and organizations don't waste time or money buying, installing or managing email servers.
Here at Google, we have a term for the moment a company realizes there's a better way and goes for it: "going Google. " Visit www.google.com/appsatwork to get more information about the benefits of going Google. WordPress › Blog WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release. Twitter Starts Filtering Malicious URLs. One of the most popular activities on the microblogging service Twitter is sharing links. However, this activity is also one of the most dangerous, too. Ever since Twitter gained in popularity, hackers and spammers have been using the service to direct traffic to their unsavory websites. For the end user, clicking on those bad links could result in, at best, an annoyance as they're directed to some spammy website or, at worst, a full-on malware attack on their PC.
Today, it appears that Twitter is starting to do something about the problem. With the new malicious URL protection built into Twitter, you're no longer able to posts links to known malicious websites. Since the company has not made any official announcement about the new protection, it's unknown at this time if Twitter is using a particular service to provide the lookup capabilities for the malicious URL identification or if they are managing this process in-house. Good, But Not Good Enough Well, at least that's something. How user data, links & document scoring may be used in the & Ever since the brand update hit the UK last month thousands of people have been trying to analyse exactly what signals Google is using to give certain sites a boost in authority & rankings.
A lot of people have even been looking at this data since the changes were first noticed in January on Google.com but nobody really seems to have found the answer. There are many SEO companies claiming credit for their large brand clients jumping from obscurity to a top 5 ranking for a big generic keyword, saying that they predicted the change and have been actively optimising towards it for months. Ask them exactly what they have been doing and you won’t get a straightforward answer. We can guess at a lot of the signals but a lot of the sites ranking for major terms seems to be doing so for absolutely no reason at all. Some of the pages don’t even have any of the target keywords in the title tag and others have zero inbound links. From this graph Richard concludes: What’s really happening. Trends: Twitter Changes Language Much Like the Telegraph Did - Now on YouTube - Local News.
Google Apps Campaign: How Not to Influence IT Experts. Google just launched "Going Google" - a marketing campaign similar to the Spread Firefox to encourage companies to switch to Google Apps in the workplace. While millions already use Gmail, the campaign is aimed at luring business and enterprise users away from Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. Google already claims to serve more than 1.75 million companies and judging by the flashy campaign, it hopes to increase that number in the near future. Surprisingly, despite Google's success in online and web advertising, one of the company's key ad vehicles is the billboard.
The company has reserved 4 billboards in major US cities and will run a new Google App-related message each day for a month. The campaign is expected to celebrate the benefits of Gmail spam protection, filters, high storage limits, email threads, Google chat, Google Docs and of course, what the company has always done well, search. Sites that drive the most USA traffic to UK newspaper sites ma. I pointed out that the nine UK national newspaper sites get 1 US visitor for every 3 UK ones. Here's a breakdown of what drives that traffic, again using Compete.com data. Overall, Google drives the most US traffic - 19.1% of the total traffic to the 9 UK national newspaper sites.News aggregator Drudgereport.com is the 2nd highest source of US traffic, accounting for 12.7% of the total.Next is Yahoo at 5.2%, with Facebook 4th at 1.6% (see methodology at the end). Here are the US traffic numbers for each site, with the top 5 referring sites.
Update: The Times says is doesn't recognise the OptMD figure and has given me its internal data, which is below. FT: 5,960,589 unique USA visitors in June drudgereport.com 15.53%yahoo.com 11.05%google.com 8.37%wsj.com 2.29%bloomberg.com 2.23% Daily Mail: 5,199,078 google.com 22.44%drudgereport.com 15.94%yahoo.com 4.70%facebook.com 3.14%digg.com 1.95% Daily Telegraph: 4,087,769 Guardian: 3,676,498 Times: 2,805,815 The Sun: 2,419,319 Independent: 1,317,298. eModeration Blog: ROI in Social Media: A Look at the Arguments. Ian Shapira -- How Gawker Ripped Off My Newspaper Story - washin. A few weeks ago, I scored what passes these days for one of journalism's biggest coups, satisfying a holy writ for newspaper impact in the Internet age.
Gawker, the snarky New York culture and media Web site, had just blogged about my story in that day's Washington Post. I confess to feeling a bit triumphant. My article was ripe fodder for the blogosphere's thrash-and-bash attitude: a profile of a Washington-based "business coach," Anne Loehr, who charges her early-Gen-X/Boomer clients anywhere from $500 to $2,500 to explain how the millennial generation (mostly people in their 20s and late teens) behaves in the workplace.
Gawker's story featured several quotations from the coach and a client, and neatly distilled Loehr's biography -- information entirely plucked from my piece. But when I told my editor, he wrote back: They stole your story. I started thinking about all the labor that went into producing my 1,500-word article. When you are doing good, it’s time to think about char.
It's often overlooked but big part of being wealthy is knowing how to use the wealth. In case you never did before I suggest finding an interesting charity and donating to them. It is very easy as most of them will accept Paypal today (over at networkforgood at least) and you can have your donation sent in a matter of minutes.
Here are some good sites to find a charity you feel like helping: Of course if you feel like loaning to people in need, there is always Kiva. More like this: Posted in: DebateTAGS:about charities, charities accept paypal, comments charities, doing good, good charities donate, how think about charities, how think doing good, machote morgan, marian valk, people need loan, show good charities, think about charities, time doing good Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. Realtime And Wrong Time. Enterprise Web 2.0 mobile edition. Social software platforms, including services such as Facebook and Twitter, have become one of the primary channels for communication amongst consumers this year, even eclipsing e-mail in some parts of the developed world.
It was companies that either open sourced eventually or took open source and then made it enterprise class that often scored the best.The same however, can't quite be said yet for the workplace. While the adoption numbers for social applications are still impressive in business (about half of all large organizations), actual adoption and use is lagging significantly behind the non-business world as organizations take the time to assess a range of issues with enterprise social computing, including appropriateness, security, control, management methods, and roll-out strategies.
However, given the widespread interest and popularity in social tools these days, it's becoming a pretty safe bet that you'll be seeing them in some form on a workplace intranet near you. RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More? Mark Ormond can’t get his “followers” to do anything. After they increased to several hundred only days after creating a Twitter account, the Internet marketer was encouraged by the prospects.
Now he wonders how much influence he really has over the fast-growing but unproven community. “They don’t click on anything I share,” he says of his followers, admitting that he sometimes propagates links to online ventures he’s involved with. “I get a way better response from RSS subscribers,” he adds, “regardless if I’m genuinely sharing something or commercially promoting it.” It’s a fair criticism. “Under a direct comparison, I would say that RSS subscribers are worth more than Twitter followers,” says Daniel Scocco, proprietor of Daily Blog Tips and purveyor of 8,000 Twitter followers. As it stands, Twitter followers are at a significant disadvantage over RSS subscribers, because the former are less engaged than the latter. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Should you trust health advice from the web? - tech - 29 July 20.
IF YOU regularly turn to a search engine to find out whether, say, you should put ice on a twisted ankle, you're far from alone. Sixty-one per cent of American adults seek out health advice online, according to a survey published last month by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Around a third of those surveyed admitted they changed their thinking about how they should treat a condition based on what they found online.
Yet a growing body of evidence suggests that much online health information is unreliable. "My overall impression is that the quality of health information varies wildly, almost ridiculously wildly," said Kevin Clauson, a pharmacologist at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "If [a website] is treated as an authoritative source, and there's evidence that it isn't, then it's potentially dangerous. " The Productivity Myth: Step Away From the Twitter - Get Back to. Ever since I posted a how-to on establishing guidelines for social media in the workplace, the issue that has generated the most energy concerns productivity.
Employers it seems are very worried about lost productivity due to social media usage (Facebook, Twitter etc.). I can’t really get my arms around it because I don’t think these tools bring out any really new productivity concerns (and yes I am aware of operant conditioning). The fact is that there are already tons of other outside distractions at work ranging from instant message, email, workplace socializing and the never ending cigarette break – so this is not a new problem – but an old concern applied to a new technology; similar to what we see when the ranks of psychologists hit the TV news circuit to describe some new addiction caused by technology.
I don’t buy it. Do you? Lastly, most companies don’t recognize that they often expect employees to check email after hours and bring work home when needed. Terms of Service. July 29 (Bloomberg) -- EBay Inc. is building new software to run its Skype Internet-calling service, a bid to sidestep a licensing dispute with Skype’s founders, who have threatened to take back the underlying technology.
The new software will be expensive and might not work, San Jose, California-based EBay said today in a 10-Q regulatory filing. The company said it might have to shut down Skype if the dispute with the founders isn’t resolved. The dispute threatens to interfere with plans by EBay Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe to take Skype public in the first half of 2010. EBay bought Skype in 2005, though the rights to some of its so-called peer-to-peer technology remained with the founders.
EBay’s plan to create new software is unlikely to work, said Jayanth Angl, an analyst at Info-Tech Research Group. “It would be quite difficult to replace what they already have as the underlying component to their service,” the London, Ontario-based analyst said. Lawsuit Over Code. Newsgator Shuts Down Its Online Feed Reader. Why Do You Tweet? eMarketer reports that, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate with their friends.
About 29% use Twitter to update their status, 26% to find news, and 21% for work-related reasons. Oddly, only 0.3% said that they use Twitter for fun. Significantly more women use Twitter to keep in touch with friends than men (48.4% vs. 33.6%). Besides this, though, there is little difference between how men and women use the service. About half of the survey respondents were introduced to the service by a friend or family member, and a third heard about Twitter from a co-worker. Why People Use Twitter When it comes to different age groups on the service, there are a number of clear differences.
These numbers clearly show that users under 35 are far more comfortable with the idea of publicly broadcasting their status, while older users tend to have a slightly more utilitarian approach to the service. Who Do They Talk To? I now pronounce you monetized: a YouTube v. (Cross-posted from the YouTube Biz Blog) Last week the world watched in wonder as Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz's wedding party transformed a familiar and predictable tradition into something spontaneous and just flat-out fun. The video, set to R&B star Chris Brown's hypnotic dance jam "Forever," became an overnight sensation, accumulating more than 10 million views on YouTube in less than one week.
But as with all great YouTube videos, there's more to this story than simple view counts. At YouTube, we have sophisticated content management tools in place to help rights holders control their content on our site. The rights holders for "Forever" used these tools to claim and monetize the song, as well as to start running Click-to-Buy links over the video, giving viewers the opportunity to purchase the music track on Amazon and iTunes. So, what does all of this mean? Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Guest Po. Note from Beth: This week I'm researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements. If you have written a mini-case study about nonprofit movement using social media and would like me to consider it as a guest post, please fill out this form or if you know of a good resource on the topic, add in the comments and I'll aggregate Guest Post by Valeria Maltoni: Creating Movements Content is no good - even that of the useful kind - if it doesn't move someone to do something.
The best way of movement is "let's do this together" kind of experience. This is the job description shared by Brains on Fire (how great is having a name like that?) What are movements about? 1. the passion conversation, not the product conversation - if you say this in a business setting people may not know who to react. 2. begin with the first conversation - that's why it's hard for organizations to deal with a movement. 4. there's a barrier to entry in movements - skin in the game is where it's at.
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