On being social: The Twelve Do's after Christmas. Opinion By Mark Gibbs December 11, 2009 01:04 PM ET Network World - In this season of goodwill to all men, it's a good time to reflect on our relationships.
Whether we're talking about friends and family or acquaintances and business colleagues, how we manage our social relationships matters enormously. If you manage your relationships right you'll have friends, be popular and happy, and make money. Where IT pros do their social networking Now, we all, to greater or lesser effect, know how to manage our real-world relationships. Here's the problem: Many of you are failing at the virtual side of the coin: online, computer communications-mediated relationships. I recently gave talks to a couple of professional groups in Los Angeles on the topic of Twitter and social networking (you can see my presentations here), and it is clear that, despite the huge amount of publicity surrounding these topics, most people have only a rough idea about what they are and how to use them.
Top 12 Twitter tools. Emergency 2.0 Australia » Blog Archive » Twitter/Social Media Du. Guest post by George Hall ( ) February 2009 was such a surprising and shocking time for Victorians. Everyone was affected by the bushfires of that time in some way, if not directly, then indirectly by having friends or family who were in the middle of the danger zones. After Black Saturday, some Victorians utilised the newest technologies and social media services to either keep in some contact with loved ones, or to help do something constructive to help.
Twitter had already shown itself a credible communications service during the Mumbai terrorist attacks and when an aircraft ditched in the Hudson River in New York in the six months to a year prior. Most Twitter users in February 2009 had been using the service since its inception…others pretty much jumped straight in the deep end and learnt it quickly. Initially I used Twitter on Black Saturday to get a heads-up on the Churchill fires, as my niece lived in that area of Gippsland. The Strength of Weak Ties: Why Twitter Matters in Scholarly Comm. Mark Zuckerberg and John Battelle at the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit. Photo by Michael Clarke. “Is Twitter a feature of Facebook?” This was the question put to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, by John Battelle during an onstage interview at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Summit last year.
This question seemed particular apt to me at the time. Though Battalle was asking the question partly in jest, in reference to rumors (which were later confirmed to be true) that Facebook was seeking to acquire Twitter, it nonetheless brought to the fore what I saw as the central problem with Twitter. Zuckerberg didn’t have a good answer to this question at the time (though to be fair he was in ongoing discussions with Twitter, necessitating a certain level of diplomacy).
A few weeks later I was astounded to learn that Facebook offered Twitter $500 million (mostly in Facebook stock) to acquire the company. Especially when you’re a start-up.