Get connected: Three professionals in Brussels on the power of networking. “Develop your personal network first” “Casual conversations are the best way to build a network in Brussels,” says Kevin Bradley, an Irish-born public policy and regulatory affairs consultant, and director (energy and environmental affairs) of Hume Brophy. “When my brother-in-law arrived in Brussels in 1985, he knew just one person; when I arrived five years later, he introduced me to many friends and contacts and I grew my own network from there.” From public policy contacts to trade, Bradley has developed an impressive mental Rolodex, which he uses to cross paths with the interesting and influential people who converge in the European capital every day. For him, networking is not all about closing business deals – he advocates having an open mind and being able to connect other people.
Bradley is passionate about his work, but also about football and golf. “Be prepared to talk business anywhere” “Brussels is a fantastic place to raise a family,” he says. “Get on Twitter!” When-liking-a-brand-online-voids-the-right-to-sue. Photo Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights? General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, “join” it in online communities like Facebook, enter a company-sponsored sweepstakes or contest or interact with it in a variety of other ways. Instead, anyone who has received anything that could be construed as a benefit and who then has a dispute with the company over its products will have to use informal negotiation via email or go through arbitration to seek relief, according to the new terms posted on its site.
In language added on Tuesday after The New York Times contacted it about the changes, General Mills seemed to go even further, suggesting that buying its products would bind consumers to those terms. Has Facebook's Reign Come And Gone Already? A smart friend of mine, a longtime industry veteran, once shared with me an interesting observation about the companies that dominate the computing industry. His idea was that there's always a top dog, a company that Bigfoots over everybody else, instills fears in rivals, attracts the best talent and so on -- but that with each turn of the wheel, each new ruler's reign gets shorter and shorter. So: first came IBM, which ruled for 25 to 30 years, then Microsoft, which ruled for 12 to 15, then Google for six to eight years, and now Facebook, whose reign arguably began in 2010, when its traffic surged past Google's and it bullied Zynga, its biggest partner, into accepting Facebook Credits.
But is Facebook's reign already drawing to a close? That's the impression I got from reading a thoughtful blog post by YouTube exec Hunter Walk titled, "Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your hand. " It's a great piece and really worth a read. The Hacker Way. Has Facebook's Reign Come And Gone Already? A smart friend of mine, a longtime industry veteran, once shared with me an interesting observation about the companies that dominate the computing industry.
His idea was that there’s always a top dog, a company that Bigfoots over everybody else, instills fears in rivals, attracts the best talent and so on — but that with each turn of the wheel, each new ruler’s reign gets shorter and shorter. So: first came IBM, which ruled for 25 to 30 years, then Microsoft, which ruled for 12 to 15, then Google for six to eight years, and now Facebook, whose reign arguably began in 2010, when its traffic surged past Google’s and it bullied Zynga, its biggest partner, into accepting Facebook Credits. But is Facebook’s reign already drawing to a close? That’s the impression I got from reading a thoughtful blog post by YouTube exec Hunter Walk titled, “Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your hand.”
It’s a great piece and really worth a read. The Hacker Way. Industrialsocialmedia. Politiek - Overheid motiveert achterhouden aantal taps sociale media niet. App.net Raises $600K to Build an Ad-Free Alternative to Twitter. Twitter is planning to restrict access to its API, and developers are worried. Some are publicly protesting via their blogs and group petitions. One bold group is seeking to build a full-featured social network to compete against Twitter and other ad-supported social networks. After having raised $600,000 (and counting) through crowdfunding, the team behind App.net is ready to build a "real-time social service where users and developers come first, not advertisers.
" The solution? An open, ad-free network funded by users (who pay $50 per year for basic access) and developers (who pay $100 year for API access and support). The campaign was inspired by a widely circulated entry that App.net co-founder Dalton Caldwell (who is also a co-founder of picplz) posted on his personal blog.
In the post, Caldwell argues that Twitter has failed to reach its potential because it has sold out to advertisers. Caldwell's vision and ambition is commendable, but can it work? App.net - Intelligent App Marketing. LinkedIn Continuing to Shine on Wall Street as Facebook Struggles. It’s not how the script was supposed to read. Facebook was the ‘it’ company, LinkedIn just the warm-up act. Yet LinkedIn is stealing center stage from Facebook, attracting all the glamour and love. How’d that happen?
LinkedIn has turned itself into the social media darling of 2012, stepping over the near-dead and wounded, all down substantially from their highs, including game maker Zynga (its stock price down 81%), coupon dealer Groupon (down 77%), radio service Pandora Media (down 37%), and local service-rater Angie’s List (down 33%).
Oh, yes. And Facebook, down 45% from its IPO price and 54% from it’s fleeting high of $45. Meanwhile, LinkedIn began the parade of social media companies back in May 2011, debuting at $45 and then doubling in its first day of trading. (MORE: Do Facebook Ads Work?) What’s LinkedIn got that Facebook hasn’t? A Clear Vision. Investors also like that LinkedIn’s user base of 175 million members, though relatively small, is made up of professionals. Mobile. Untitled. The Google Plus 50. If you’re curious about Google+, the new social network platform from Google, you’re not alone.
I’ve logged several hours already on the platform, experimenting, testing, and observing. It sparks my attention from several angles: marketing, technology, community, media, mobile, advertising, and more. To that end, I wrote down 50 things to think about with regards to Google+, in no particular order: The purpose of this list is to get you thinking about a bunch of different possibilities. You’re welcome to dispute them all, but that really wouldn’t be the point. Instead, make your own similar post and link back.
The Google+ 50 Google+ is built to take you away from either Facebook or Twitter (or both), and it could do it, in time. “A question to ask yourself is, ‘Should I get in early, before anyone’s there to bother with? “Would all Google’s efforts in building an OS plus their commanding growth in mobile point to a potential rapid leapfrogging of either Twitter or Facebook? And thanks! The Biggest Secret of Social Media. Here’s the biggest secret of social media: if you don’t like people very much, it won’t work very well. I did an interview for a magazine recently, where the first (not the second or subsequent question) was how one might automate all their social media usage and save time. Can you imagine? The very first question, rewritten by me, would have read: “How does one take this very human medium and robotize it the way we’ve done that with all the other communications methods in our life?”
I’m not some kind of kumbaya, let’s-hug-the-whales guy, but at the same time, if you’re thinking that social media’s going to bring prosperity to your business, and yet your first thoughts are on how to mechanize it, you might be looking at the wrong tool. The purpose of the toolset is to provide a way to communicate in a more directed way, to communicate in a more narrowly defined way, to be able to respond in two-way modes instead of use the single direction modes that came before. Automation Isn’t Wrong. Untitled. 5 Trends Affecting How We Connect Through Social Media. Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC. She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and tech at YuliZiv.com. Follow her on Twitter @yuliz. No matter how much we open up on the web, creating new connections online can be intimidating.
Just as not everyone can start a conversation with a stranger at the bar, not everyone can comfortably start conversations in social media. Luckily, there are hundreds of online services and apps popping up, trying to solve our social awkwardness and help us discover new connections in new ways. These tools allow even the introverts among us to communicate, find friends, business partners and, yes, dates.
One thing is most definite, online networks will continue to help us connect in more effective ways, collaborating with and inspiring each other. Below, we've taken a look at at the five ways we connect using social media. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Social media strategy. When YOU Are the Brand. We’ve gone through a strange change, from people not realizing that they need to be their own brand, to people not realizing how being the brand impacts the way they do business. It’s interesting, really. Tom Peters was the first person I recall talking about it, back in the Alan Webber days of FastCompany (The Brand Called You).
Back then, we were all cubicle farmers and beige employees of the cog-world (okay, not true, but that’s what it felt like). But now, we’re getting the opposite, where people have all the tools to make a brand and do so, but don’t really know how to leverage that brand into anything resembling a business. So, in some ways, there’s been a bit of a see-saw. We Got There – Kinda In a way, lots of us have found our way to the tools that allow us to try and build a brand. But What About Business and Personal Branding? I’ve got a recognizable personal brand. I met Kathy Ireland a few months ago. It’s Still Not About You Be a Value Brand, Not a Name Story Story Story. Social Media Today | Gaining internal support for social media. We're often asked how to build corporate support for social media projects.
There are many social media advocates that find it hard to sell internally. What's the best approach if you're a Marketing Director selling a social media proposition to the Board? Or a Department Head keen to include social media in your 2010 budget? I have recently coached a client in selling his social media business plan internally. As previously explained (see my selling social media series), a key component in the sales process is to associate the business needs to the social media proposition. I see this often overlooked as people present their long lists of features and functions, many of which are superfluous, in the hope that quantity will overcome quality. So, to do this exercise properly with my client, we booked a meeting room for half a day, and we spent a couple of hours considering his business strategy and the corporate needs of the company. Link to original post Connect: Authored by: Matt Rhodes.
Burgerlijk Nieuwjaarsboodschapje - Ambtenaar 2.0 netwerk. Nieuwe media zijn geen bedreiging van de sociale samenhang, integendeel. Terug naar de goede (?) Oude tijd is geen oplossing. Een visie op Samenleving 2.0 en het gebruik van sociale netwerken is wel gewenst. Nu “twitteren” en “ontvrienden” de woorden van het jaar 2009 zijn geworden, is duidelijk dat sociale netwerken niet meer zijn weg te denken. In haar Kerstboodschap betreurt de Koningin het onpersoonlijke van de nieuwe media. Twitter is een voorbeeld van het doorbreken van nieuwe contactvormen en het doorbreken van de scheiding tussen instrumenten als computer en telefoon.
Ondertussen roepen de ontwikkelingen bij de nieuwe media wel degelijk vragen waarop men ook een antwoord verwacht van de overheid. De uitdagingen van de nieuwe media voor overheid zijn dus gelegen in zowel het stimuleren van creatief gebruik in de eigen bedrijfsvoering, als in de kader stellende rol voor de samenleving die typisch des overheids is. Over een ding zijn we het allen eens: De tijd dringt. Geest uit de fles? Of op naar een nieuwe overheid. Abdul Advany: Informeel Delen (Social Imagineers) Bijeenkomst Groep Handreiking Ambtenaar 2.0 - Ambtenaar 2.0 netw. Drijvende krachten voor de ict tot 2020: globalisering - Ambtena. Vandaag hield het ministerie van EZ een bijeenkomst over de drijvende krachten op ict-gebied tussen 2010 en 2020. Gespreksleider was Daniel Erasmus van adviesbureau DTN, Jeff Ubois deed de verslaglegging. Er waren 25 aanwezigen vanuit de overheid, het bedrijfsleven, wetenschap en belangenverenigingen en enkele zelfstandige trendwatchers.
De bijeenkomst begon met een film waarin enkele tientallen denkers uit de hele wereld (vooral oudere mannen uit het westen en Azië, zo werd geconstateerd) aangaven wat volgens hen de meest cruciale ict-vraag voor de nabije toekomst is. Eén van hen noemde bijvoorbeeld als grootste vraagteken de rol die de overheid gaat nemen op internet. Doelstelling van de dag was om zoveel mogelijk ideeën en kennis te verzamelen over de toekomst van de ict en op basis daarvan tot een aantal scenario's te komen, niet tot één voorspelling. Exponential improvements in price and performance (bijv. Globalization Een aantal inzichten die ik heb ingebracht:
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