Flickr Tests Twitter Integration With Email Uploads. Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Organiza. Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. She asked me if I would write about it or Tweet it. She included a handy " retweet " link. (I asked how she did that and she pointed me over to these simple how-to instructions ). I get a lot of requests like this and I don't have the capacity blog or tweet them all. It's all about the relationships.
I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective . " What does this look like at an organizational level? Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. Listening is not just a one-way activity. The FASTForward Blog Zappos: A 2.0 Company: Enterprise 2.0 Blog. Just before flying home from FASTforward ‘09, in February, I took advantage of being in Las Vegas to visit Zappos, an online retailer that has been repeatedly recognized for its unique culture (not to mention their own book on the subject) and embracing social media .
CEO, Tony Hsieh, was even on Oprah last October. So what more could I possibly add here? I focused ‘between the lines’ and ‘outside the box’ — the larger experience of what makes Zappos, well, Zappos. I’ve watched a lot of videos about the place , follow Tony on Twitter , and even did a brief piece on them before, but as with other 2.0 experiences, immersion makes all the difference. The Zappos environment is a full-blown corporate anomaly: full of things that most corporations would dismiss as being “unproductive”, “chaotic”, “unmanageable” and “unprofitable”. Between the Lines: Note on video…the flags on poles…critical artifacts of the culture. The results: 2008 sales = over $1BIL My driver, Zack, was the Shuttle Manager. Integrate Google Latitude with Your Google Profile.
If you want to display the location from Google Latitude on your Google profile, follow these steps: * set your location using the iGoogle gadget or the mobile application. * enable the public location badge, by selecting "Enable and show city-level only" or "Enable and show best available location". You should be aware that your location is now publicly available and it can displayed in a variety of ways using Google's API. * edit your profile and select "Display my Latitude location". Google mentions that "your location appears on your profile, below your name, occupation, and city where you live, as long as you've updated it on Latitude within the last 24 hours. " In other news, Google started to show rich snippets for the results from Google Profiles.
Google extracts structured data about jobs from profiles. What Social Media Isn’t. David Finch Social media is everywhere and for a lot of businesses they approach it likes it’s the magic wand that’s going to be the savior to their business. When you begin to talk to them, usually the conversation starts like this. “Can you help us with that Twitter thing and that Facebook thing, not to mention it’s vital if you can produce for us one of those viral videos. Second, this has to help our business look hip and cool and last but not least, we don’t have the time to really be involved in any conversations.” The other component that comes out in this conversation isn’t just what they want, but also what they don’t want. I’m still amazed when I hear the fear factor about the potential of negative comments being made about their brand or products. These conversations have led to think not just what social media is, but what social media isn’t.
Here’s are my thoughts on what social media isn’t. It’s not a short term fix. It won’t fix a poor business plan. Five reasons why your business/social media conference sucks - T. Longtime readers of The Viral Garden know that when I speak at a major business/social media conference, I try to recap my experience to help not only conference-goers, but conference organizers as well, to help them better structure their events. With that in mind, here are five areas that the Business 2 Business Forum nailed, and these are areas you should pay close attention to as you plan a similar event: 1 - You have boring, cookie-cutter sessions. Every session is a speaker standing behind a podium addressing an audience.
That's a lecture, not an optimized learning experience. Now granted, some speakers can speak well from behind a podium, and this will happen often, but the point is, if every session is like this, it tends to blend together and become fairly boring. At the B2B Forum, the MP staff was smart enough to shake it up a bit. 2 - After the sessions end, so does your event. 3 - You have boring meals. At 5:17 PM, Tom Martin said... Mack At 5:21 PM, Mack Collier said... p.s. Are Trolls Ruining Social Media? You may have heard the news this morning about Trent Reznor quitting Twitter due to the behavior of internet trolls who made the experience both uncomfortable and upsetting. OK, he didn't quite use those exact words - his rant was much more profane - but you get the drift. However, Reznor is not alone in wanting out of the social media scene. Popular author Stephenie Meyer also recently ditched her MySpace page for good, lamenting how she missed the early days when she could hang out with people online.
But "hanging out with people online" is supposed to be the promise and the potential of social media today, not something from days gone by...so what's going wrong here? Have the trolls ruined social media for good? Hating Celebs is Now a Social Activity In our culture, celebrity-bashing has almost become a sport of sorts. That hate has extended out from the traditional gossipy sites to the very platforms and pages that the celebs themselves maintain.
How Can We Fix This? The King is Dead, Long Live the King - O'Reilly Radar. I’ve been resisting the temptation to write about Android. But after reading some of the blogs about Android netbooks, I can’t keep quiet. Aside from being a Really Cool Idea, I don’t have a lot to say about netbooks themselves. I’ve got an Android phone (thanks, Google), and I like it, and it would be nice to see the operating system move from the cell phone world onto other hardware. Netbooks are a logical step. What would have to happen for Android to become a developer operating system? A few other tools would be needed. Think about how that would change the game. So–what does this have to do with royalty? For a long time, I thought that “The King is Dead, Long Live the King” was a funny bit of irony, or cool dadaist humor. It’s clear that Java’s center of gravity has moved. Google is exercising leadership and vision in the Java space in a way that reminds me of Sun in its best years.
Google is not exercising the other kinds of leadership that Sun has displayed during its tenure. Engadget veterans’ new site drew 4.7M pageviews during. Peter Rojas (left) and Ryan Block made Engadget one of the top two consumer-electronics fan sites on the Internet. After leaving Engadget separately, the pair are working together again on a new site called gdgt. Engadget was the first website to liveblog Apple keynote events in a rapid-fire style that gave readers a you-are-there experience. (I was the original typist for these Steve-blogging stunts, so I’m biased.) Gdgt hasn’t officially launched yet, but that didn’t stop Rojas and Block from liveblogging Monday’s keynote event. Rackspace’s cloud-computing service proved itself by delivering nearly five million pageviews in less than two hours. Local Mobile Content Users Grow 51% - MarketingVOX. TheWayoftheWeb Why is mainstream media still confused by the 8. Facebook bans scammy ad networks but problems persist VentureBe.
On Monday, Facebook banned SocialHour and SocialReach, two of the larger advertising networks on its developer platform. A main reason: These companies were running banner advertisements within applications that purported to show users things that their friends had done — but actually hadn’t. A common example: “Hey Anthony! Dean’s IQ is 156 and he challenged you to an IQ quiz, are you smarter than Dean?”
But without Dean ever having taken the quiz in the first place. A lot of application developers aren’t happy, as a result of the ban — some are seeing revenue declines of more than 50 percent following the ban. And, there’s a deeper issue that Facebook, like the rest of the web, hasn’t fully dealt with yet: Deceitful advertisers. The scam ads are the evil cousins of perfectly legitimate affilate marketing done on Facebook and around the web.
Both companies were confronted by Facebook within the last couple of weeks — after having been active on the platform for many months. iMedia Connection: The undiscovered marketing power of Google Wa. Google has rarely made missteps in its 11 years. Sure, the search giant has shuttered some business plans over the years, but often those failures were either too grandiose and fell outside the company's core strengths, or too simple and rudimentary to ever grasp scale. Google Wave doesn't fall into either of those categories per se. It's grand, yes, but it's also a complex new service that capitalizes squarely on Google's depth of expertise. Since its beginning, Google has been on an unrelenting quest for thinking outside the box and introducing new products and user experiences to consumers that they didn't even know they needed.
Success can be measured by how often these products become entrenched in people's daily lives. Brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen are the minds behind Google's latest and greatest feat: Google Wave. Months later, the team has a working prototype. Admittedly, one bad thing going for Google Wave is its complex nature. Next page >> Aviary launches Firefox plugin for image editing, audio editor c. The 10 Commandments of Social Media | The Ten Commandments Of So. As an author of The Social Media Bible, I am often asked, "What do I need to do engage my company, my products, and myself in social media?
" The answer is easy: participate. Get out there and get involved. If you aren't in the game, you can't win. Here's your Ten Commandments or things you need to be doing to get in and win with social media. Thou Shalt Blog (like crazy).Thou Shalt Create Profiles (everywhere).Thou Shalt Upload Photos (lots of them).Thou Shalt Upload Videos (all you can find). Thou Shalt Podcast (often).
Commandments 1. Commandments 2. Commandments 3. Commandments 4. Commandments 5. Commandments 6. Commandments 7. Commandments 8. Commandments 9. Commandments 10. Read more of Lon Safko's Social Media Bible blog Click here for your free Fast Company The Social Media Bible Ten Commandment Ball. Lon Safko is the co-author of The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies For Business Success. Not Everyone is Excited About Facebook Vanity URLs. Mega social network Facebook announced yesterday that it will make "vanity URLs" like Facebook.com/yourname available for users this Friday night.
Many people were ecstatic; these links are scarce, they are free, they are Facebook and they have your name in them, after all. Visions of early domain name wealth may have been somewhere in many peoples' minds, too. Not everyone is excited about the move, however; a number of critics are taking advantage of the opportunity to raise concerns about digital identity and user freedom online. Most prominent among the critical voices is Chris Messina. Messina cites three other thinkers in his critique: Vanity URLs as anonymity. Vanity URLs as too much power for the vendor. Think about how often many people now identify themselves as "@twitterusername" - is that not a little creepy? What if Twitter does something more egregious than its recent muffling of conversation via @ replies?
The Social Generation. Is It Who You Know or What They Know? Update:Aaron Brazell at Technosailor wrote a response shortly after this post. It occurred to me that writing this in a nuanced fashion, has possibly dilluted my intent. I personally feel that "networking" has taken priority over substance and that the balance needs to be restored. So in short, "who you know" has become more important that "what you know" and this isn't necessarily a good thing. Hopefully, this clarifies my intent. When I first started this blog in February of 2006, I immediately sensed that things had changed forever. Or can we? If you look really closely at the small pond of folks who make their living in "social media" or "web 2.0" related practices, you'll notice something.
But is it really about what you know, or who you know? I suspect that it's both actually, though at this moment in time—who you know is more important than ever. But I hope, it's not just about who you know. Mixing Business with Pleasure: The Potential Peril of Social Med. One of the questions I hear most often when I'm teaching a social media seminar is how to balance their professional social media presence with their personal one.
People ask me if they should blog and Tweet as themselves or as their business. They ask if they should mix business contacts with friends on Facebook and LinkedIn. They want to know if they can talk about their hobbies on their business profiles. Basically, they want to know the pros and cons of mixing business with pleasure in the blurry-lined landscape of social media. It's a question I've had to ask myself many times over the years. For the past decade, my business and personal life have mixed and mingled without incident on the web. Or at least they were until last November when I all but vanished from my blogs, Facebook and Twitter. It's the peril of letting your personal life get too intertwined with your business life on the web. It makes a strong case for keeping your personal life separate.
The Reality. New From Google: Fusion Tables. New From Google: Fusion Tables The tables overview... A single table is displayed, 100 rows at a time. Map visualization of data. (Google Spreadsheets has a related feature via Insert → Gadget → Maps.) The Google Labs have released a new tool called Fusion Tables. It lets you view, visualize, merge & discuss large tables of data.
Somewhat confusingly, this product seems like a set of features that already is, or seemingly could become, integrated in the existing Google Spreadsheets. In the Fusion Tables FAQ, Google addresses the issue of how this product is supposed to be different from Google Spreadsheets: The goal of Fusion Tables, as with other database systems, is to manage larger amounts of data than spreadsheets typically do. As far as size limits are concerned, Google in their help elsewhere says that each Google Spreadsheet “can be up to 256 columns, 200,000 cells, or 100 sheets – whichever is reached first. [Hat tip to Hebbet and Ionut!] >> More posts Advertisement. Twitter developers be aware of OAuth API changes! Ironic But True. Many On Twitter Are Just Silent. Socialreporter | Playing the Social by Social Game. Minnesota Chapter of the American Marketing Association Blog: Th. Bruceclay.com - I Don't Like Conflict (But Google Doesn.
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