Entreprise2.0. How to manage your social network addiction. Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Friendster, Tumblr, Xanga… the list goes on and on. And if you are any sort of tech savy, there is good chance you are a member of multiple social networks. Even I have accounts with at least 5 of these. While there is a lot to be gained by using these services, there is also a lot to be lost. In case you hadn’t heard, Facebook users share not only a social network of over 200 million, but also significantly lower grade point averages (GPAs) than their non-member classmates (according to Time Magazine).
You may think, “I’m not addicted, I can quit anytime!” Obviously the first step in your rehabilitation is to admit there is a problem. You need to realize that these systems are in place for you to use, not to use you. Here are a few tips that can help you monitor your social network use, and ensure that you are being productive instead of wasting time. It’s time to take back your free time. The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers. How to manage your online social life – Part 2. How to manage your online social life – Part 1. The more I started using social networking sites, the more I began feeling disoriented. After a while, I lost count of how many “˜Web 2.0′ services I had signed up with. Multiple login-password combinations or single passwords across multiple sites, photos scattered everywhere, and bookmarks in disarray. I no longer knew what I had dugg, found delicious or stumbled upon.
Keeping track of groups of friends on multiple networks, commenting on their updates, updating my status, responding to email, and pretty soon, I had “˜social networking fatigue‘. If this sounds familiar, don’t lose heart: these tips may help. 1. Use pen and paper or mind mapping services like MindMeister to better define your social networks or your social map. Don’t be disheartened because it may be a mess. 2. For each network where you share data, define your target audience. Use multiple accounts in Twitter so that your tweets are relevant to your followers. 3. 4. 5. If you are starting afresh, check out Twine. 6. Social Networks Around the World. Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. Below is a map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country. The map was built using Alexa and Google Trends for Website traffic data in June 2009 and we think it shows some interesting trends.
After all, our world is becoming smaller and it's good to know what services our friends on the other side of the globe are using to connect with each other. World Map of Social Networks (June 2009) IBM legal | view data | 21 comments Top 3 Social Networking Sites by Country: Australia: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter Canada: Facebook, MySpace, Flickr India: Facebook, Orkut, Hi5 (Twitter is a close fourth) France: Facebook, Skyrock, MySpace, China: QQ, Xiaonei, 51 Germany: Facebook, StudiVZ, MySpace Italy: Facebook, Netlog, Badoo Russia: V Kontakte, Odnoklassniki, LiveJournal Spain: Facebook, Tuenti, Fotolog United Kingdom: Facebook, Bebo, MySpace Patterns:
How to build your personal brand on Facebook. Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. With over 200 million active users, Facebook has become a personal, product and corporate branding hub. Every brand that exists on Facebook has the same core features and benefits, such as the ability to create a page, share resources, add multimedia and much more. You have a unique opportunity to leverage this platform for career success or as a playground for you and your closest friends. The social graph is filled with CEOs, celebrities, entrepreneurs and people just like you who can be reached through Facebook’s messaging system without any boundaries or restrictions. Facebook is also a talent search engine and part of the college admission and corporate recruiting criteria. What follows is a guide to building your personal brand on Facebook.
This post is part of Mashable’s Facebook Week. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. How to find statistics on social media. Selling management on the value of investing time and resources into building an online community using social media is a challenge, and you need all of the support you can get. One way to convey the value of corporate social media participation is to leverage published statistics about who’s using social media platforms and how they are using it. There have been a host of new studies published recently that you can use to help make the case for your own company’s involvement: The Society for New Communications Research recently published their report titled, “New Media, New Influencers & Implications for Public Relations” that provides several case studies illustrating how social media has benefited organizations like the American Red Cross, the Mayo Clinic and Quicken Loans.
Among their findings, “Social media is rapidly becoming a core channel for disseminating information. Rapleaf released the results of their study examining the gender and age of social network users. "The future of social networks: Social networks will be lik. By Charlene Li On Monday, I gave the kick off speech for the Graphing Social Patterns West conference on the topic, “The Future Of Social Networks” (slides are available on SlideShare, summaries available on News.com, ReadWriteWeb, and allfacebook.) Note that this is still ongoing research, so I welcome your comments. I set my time frame for the long term – five, even ten years out. That’s because unless we know where we want to end up, how could we ever craft a strategy to get there? For inspiration, I thought about my grade-school kids, who in ten years will be in the midst of social network engagement. Instead, I believe that in the future, social networks will be like air. There are four components of what I’m calling this idea of “ubiquitous social networks”: 1) Profiles; 2) Relationships; 3) Activities; and 4) Business models.
The ubiquitous social network isn’t going to happen overnight – in fact, it’s going to take five+ years to come to fruition. 1) Universal identities. "Ouverture des réseaux sociaux, la route sera longue…" Décidément, pas une semaine ne passe sans que l’on nous annonce une nouvelle révolution sociale. Ce mois de Mai s’annonce tout de même comme une très bonne cru avec pas moins de trois annonces majeures dans le domaine de l’intéropérabilité des réseaux sociaux.
Data Availability : un pas en avant, deux pas en arrière Contre toute attente, c’est donc MySpace qui a ouvert le bal avec le lancement de Data Availbility, une initiative visant à partager les données des membres de My Space avec les services partenaires (Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter). Comprenez par là que MySpace ouvre une partie de son système d’information pour laisser d’autres services accéder au profil des membres, à leurs photos, à leurs vidéos et à leur liste d’amis.
Plus d’infos ici : MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter. Voilà donc une belle illusion d’ouverture que nous offre MySpace. Pour en savoir plus, je vous recommande la très bonne analyse suivante : Thoughts on Data Portability. Comment révolutionner les réseaux sociaux ? History of Social Network Sites. Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget, Challenges Lock-In. There's a war being fought over ownership of your identity. Today Netvibes launches the Facebook Widget, which lets you view your Facebook notifications and friends within Netvibes. Data displayed includes links to your profile, friends and networks, and the usual counters for the number of unread messages, friend requests, group invites, pokes and events invites. Birthdays are also included, plus the ability to search all your friends. You can browse your friends using Detailed or Photo views. Meanwhile, Netvibes points out that you can't view your news feed within Netvibes, and asks users to petition Facebook and change this.
Here's the thing: Facebook is now one of Netvibes' biggest rivals. So now that Facebook has stolen some of that sheen, they'd obviously like to create a mini-Facebook within Netvibes, rather than losing users in the other direction. YASNS-Yet Another Social Network... Mots-clés : Social Network Service / réseaux de communication / en ligne / hors-ligne / graphiques sociaux / virtuel / réel / hyperréalité / Galaxie Internet / Web Résumé : Le développement des technologies de l’Internet et du Web ont permis l’apparition de nouveaux outils de communication : les services de réseaux sociaux en ligne.
Ceux-ci connaissent un large succès auprès des internautes, mais les enjeux qu’ils soulèvent sont sous-estimés. Ils pourraient permettre aux Hommes de s’affranchir des contraintes cognitives et physiques à la communication, et remettent en cause l’opposition virtuel – réel. I A l'origine : de l'invention d'Internet au Web 2.0 Je reviens sur l'Historique d'Internet dans une première partie, en essayant de montrer qu'à chaque étape de son développement, les utilisateurs ont inventé de nouvelles manières de communiquer qui n'avaient pas été prévues par les concepteurs (apparition des mailings lists, des forums, de l'email, du Chat, des blogs...). II Les SNS.