Twitter. 7 Technologies Shaping the Future of Social Media. Mike Laurie works as a Digital Planner at UK Integrated Agency JPMH where he helps brands get the most from digital media. You can follow Mike on Twitter. In 2019, when you look back at the social media landscape ten years earlier, you might laugh at how hard you had to work. You had to type things into forms (ha! Remember those?) , type URLs in the address bar (how archaic!)
1. Arduino is a small circuit board commonly used to prototype electronics. The revolution of objects notifying human beings of their state (e.g., The Internet of Things) isn't happening in the R&D labs of large multinational conglomerates, it's happening in the spare rooms, garages and bedrooms of developers. 2. While Arduino will help household items become involved in our social media world, transponders such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are truly breathing life into our objects. But RFID tags have potentially valuable real-world applications. 3. But the real world applications are many. 4. 5. 6. Jared Cohen: Is "Social Media" Really Changing the Wor. I dislike the phrase "social media.
" "Social media" is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached. This lends itself nicely to competitive obsessions over who has more Facebook fans, whose blog gets the greatest number of hits, whose video goes the most viral, and who has the largest number of Twitter followers. And who are the people who focus on these things? It is those who like to use the technology as opposed to those who need it. I just returned from the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit in Mexico City, which is the world's only event that brings together young leaders who emerged from virtually nowhere to achieve remarkable grassroots impact by using technology as a tool.
Those in attendance were non-traditional leaders from a cross-section of socio-economic, age demographic, and educational backgrounds. Isn't connection technologies--or ConnectTech--a term far better suited for the 21st century? Direct democracy or digital mob? A spectre is haunting Eurasia - the spectre of activism. As cyberage sets in, the mentality of old Eurasia grapples to grasp the power of the people when politics enters a new age and arena. Is this truly the case or are we but suffering from the same delusions as we tend to when lured by novelties, choosing the complex over simplicity, iPhone and 3G over pencil and paper? Paraphrasing the 1848 Communist Manifesto may seem out of place addressing the dramatic changes that our Eurasian continent has undergone over the last decades. In essence though, it illustrates the difficulties of the old political and economic establishment to come to terms with new rules of the game, where citizens enjoy and use ever expanding tools of empowerment, where the Great Communicator is not necessarily the President, but the People.
What this people is, still remains to be determined. Why? So, have all the powers of old media and politics entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre? Defining Digital Activism: Part 2 – What Are We (Thinking)? | Di. 10 Must-Haves for Your Social Media Policy. Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com. A few weeks ago, I wrote that your organization should have a social media policy, and one of the things I heard among all the great comments was: "Okay, but what should it say? " There are generally two approaches to social media policy making. Some organizations handle social media in an evolutionary way. Other organizations, meanwhile, feel more comfortable establishing a clear policy from the outset. Whether you're writing your social media policy from the get-go, or letting it develop organically in reaction to situations as they arise, here are 10 things you should definitely consider. 1.
All policies need to address what's in it for the reader/user — what should the reader take away after reading the policy? But that’s the spirit of social media — it’s all about leveraging the positive. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. You’re NOT a social media expert, you idiot • openpresswire.com. Are you tired of hearing it yet? I sure am. It seems Twitter has fostered an extreme steroid fed bacterial growth of social media experts, social media gurus and super follower magnates.
Unfortunately there isn’t much of an antibiotic floating around to separate the experts from the idiots. If you weren’t aware already, most of these experts are just idiots that have found a stool to stand on and shout their garbled rehashed crap they read from TwiTips.com and rewrote it on their own “pretty” blog. I believe there are five different types of what is perceived to be social media experts. Please note: I’m excluding the idiots above because they’re not experts and they don’t need to be discussed, just ignored.
Type One: Authoritative Expert This first type of expert has the lucky ability of transferring their authoritative status in their field over into the social media world. Type Two: The Power User Expert Now this second bit of explanation is going to hurt a little more, so bear with me. Seth's Blog: Who you are and what you do. The neat thing about the online world is that you are judged almost entirely by your actions, usually based on just your fingers. If you do generous things, people think you are a generous person.If you bully people, people assume you are a bully.If you ask dumb questions, people figure you're dumb.Answer questions well and people assume you're smart and generous.... you get the idea.
This leads to a few interesting insights. 1. If people criticize you, they are actually criticizing your behavior, not you.2. The biggest takeaway for me is this: online interactions are largely expected to be intentional. Be clear, be generous, be kind.