Help. Pearltrees videos. The Great List Of Chrome Extensions For Google Plus. There is a very useful collaborated document being developed for users to get started with Google Plus. A Collaborative Document: (or how 120+ people wrote a book at the same time) is a shared file on Google docs and is being written/edited/modified while I am writing this. Oh, talking about books, check out a free ebook I wrote for google chrome users – 100 tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and Chromebooks So, when I was making a list of Google Chrome Extensions for Chrome, 1.
I could make it easily 2. I could get you the best because these were picked by a large number of Google Plus users, most of them early adopters. So, here goes. Thanks everyone who made this awesome document. Replies and more for Google+Surplus Features: * Post or respond from within the pop-up * Desktop Notifications * Notification sounds * Switch between multiple Google accounts Annotations(?) Color Bar Changer Features: * Changes color of Google Plus bar to green, pink or blue. Summify - Social Media’s Role in Company Crisis Management. As more and more case studies and ‘how not to do’s’ emerge, more companies are beginning to realise the importance of social media in a crisis.
I recently spoke at a seminar on crisis communications, and every single presenter, whether from a traditional background, B2C brand, state body, ended by stating the importance of using social media when your company faces a crisis. It’s certainly encouraging that so many practitioners are advocating the use of social media beforehand, instead of waiting to figure it out when the crisis hits, but there still seems to be confusion over how you can effectively use social media tools and platforms to effectively communicate, or control a crisis. Based on first hand experience and an awareness of other case studies in this space, I wanted to provide some best practice guidelines for using social media in a crisis.
Own your front Page The second way that you can do this, is by reaching out to your network and ensuring the right information is spread. The birth of the ‘Alive Web’ Edit Note: this column originally appeared on the Namesake blog, but is reprinted in full here. This morning I awoke to an email newsletter in my inbox from Om Malik. The title of his post said it all, “Say hello to the alive web!” For the past year I’ve been thinking deeply about this concept as it relates to Namesake and the consumer Internet as a whole. I believe we’re at the beginning of an exciting shift in how we experience and socialize around content. First, let’s look at the evolution of the Web in a very simplistic fashion: we started with static, yet beautifully hyperlinked pages. The “Alive Web” is about to completely displace the way we’ve previously experienced content, community and media.
Each and every data source will soon be mashed up and re-framed as a social object. So what’s changed, you ask? What’s also important to me is the impact these trends will have on culture. Brian Norgard is founder and product lead of Namesake, a real-time conversation community. Using Twitter as Your Database. For the 2010 election, we built a continuously updated election guide that let readers explore data related to each of the 509 congressional and gubernatorial races. After adding candidate information, race ratings, polls, election forecasts, campaign finance numbers and historical election results, we wanted a way for our political reporters to contribute live updates. We imagined them writing short news items and finding links to related stories from The New York Times and other sources, so that each page would reflect the most recent developments in that contest.
Normally, this would involve building a small content management system — setting up a database and building an interface where a reporter could post an update, associate it with a specific race and add related links. We’d have to show reporters how to use it, and, once we launched, remind them to post regularly. But we realized there was already a CMS of sorts that had all the functionality we needed. Storing user data. Peer Index vs. Klout. I’ve just learned about a new influence measurement tool called Peer Index. It is attempting to “help you discover the authorities and opinion formers on a given topic.” It’s pretty interesting because it allows you to search by topic, by person, by region, and by sources (i.e. blogs, social, etc.). Say, for instance, I want to know who the authority is on tree frogs in Singapore, I can search that term and find 10 people who might fit my needs.
I take a look at Tree Frog Treks, because they have the highest peer index, to see if they have anything that might behoove my client who sells tree frog food. Turns out, they are a “wild science adventure” camp for kids in the Bay Area. So they’re not in Singapore and they have nothing to do with real tree frogs. Now, let’s say, I want to do the same thing on Klout. So far, so good. Now, let’s say I want to find public relations professionals in Chicago. Lo and behold, it gives me the top five results. Peer Index vs. Connect: Authored by: L’inevitabile sconfitta di Google contro Facebook « GOOTENBERG. Un probabile futuro Il futuro sarà senza Google, abbiamo scritto tempo fa, senza voler sembrare apocalittici. La Grande G in realtà non è destinata a scomparire ma di certo sarà indebolita dalla concorrenza (Apple, Facebook su tutte) e dal nuovo web social.
Col quale il mostro di Larry Page ed Eric Schmidt non hanno mai avuto grande confidenza (recentemente il secondo ha confessato di “aver fatto casino” cercando di dotare Google di un social network). Nemmano l’Atlantic ci va leggero, comunque, e condanna l’azienda simbolo del 2.0 alla sconfitta nella sfida contro Facebook. Il suo algoritmo di ricerca (di Google, ndr) analizza pagine e link cliccati dagli utenti ma non ha una conoscenza diretta di nessuno degli utenti che hanno creato quel contenuto. Ma come si può considerare spacciata un’azienda che possiede il motore di ricerca più cliccato al mondo e servizi come Gmail, GMaps, YouTube e Blogger? Secondo Elowitz il database di Google. BUEDD.
Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay. These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum recently published a book, Curation Nation that has sparked a tremendous amount of conversation on the topic. Likewise a post by Brian Solis has been retweeted thousands of times.
Oliver Starr is the Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. With all the attention curation has suddenly received, people are probably wondering if this is just another fad or is it something bigger? First, curation is one of the underlying principles of the Web. Allow anyone to access any type of documentAllow everyone to disseminate his or her own documentsAllow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents The graphic above illustrates this process of democratization. Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. I was, in short, infatuated with my new device. I’d been similarly infatuated with my old device, of course; but over the years the bloom had faded from our relationship.
I’d developed trust issues with my Pearl, accountability issues, compatibility issues and even, toward the end, some doubts about my Pearl’s very sanity, until I’d finally had to admit to myself that I’d outgrown the relationship. Do I need to point out that — absent some wild, anthropomorphizing projection in which my old BlackBerry felt sad about the waning of my love for it — our relationship was entirely one-sided? Let me point it out anyway. To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.
Its first line of defense is to commodify its enemy. L' Oppio tecnologico e le Passioni della Vita. Archivio storico La lettura Prodotti sempre più sofisticati corrispondono alle nostre fantasie di un rapporto erotico ideale, slegato dalla realtà Un paio di settimane fa ho sostituito il BlackBerry Pearl che avevo da tre anni con un BlackBerry Bold, molto più evoluto. Inutile dire che i progressi fatti dalla tecnologia in tre anni mi hanno molto colpito. Anche quando non dovevo chiamare qualcuno, o scrivere messaggini o mandare email, continuavo ad accarezzare il mio nuovo Bold.
Osservavo lo schermo meravigliosamente nitido, sentivo la scorrevolezza del track pad, provavo la sconvolgente velocità delle sue risposte, ammiravo la seducente eleganza della grafica. In breve, ne ero infatuato. Ero stato infatuato anche del vecchio, ovviamente, ma nel corso degli anni la passione era scemata. FACEBOOK E GLI AMICI GIORNALI. 5 Changes That Could Make Lists Twitter’s Most Powerful Feature. Goodbye social media... welcome back mass-media. There have been quite a few studies lately on what people Tweet and post on Facebook, and the large number of links that people share.
Invariably, the links that most people share belong to large media organizations -- what used to be called mass-media. For example, Nate Silver recently analyzed links to news sources and found that of the top 30 news sources, nearly all were traditional large news sites such as AP or New York Times, only TMZ and Politico were new. A recent Yahoo! Research report found just 20,000 elite Twitter users produce 50% of Tweets (Twitter has 150 m users). Sounds very mass-media like to me, I bet 10,000 of those users are journalists Tweeting about their stories. [Study Shows How Social Media Amplifies Mass Media - SVW] Yet we seem to have convinced ourselves that we are living in the age of "social media" where citizen journalists are producing tons of great content and upsetting the balance of power in the media world.
Where? Where is the social media? 10 Power Tips For CEOs On Twitter. Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey and the Ideas that Sparked a Revolution Brian Solis. InShare458 Part two in a four-part series on innovation and change as the new schools of business management… Jack Dorsey is the co-founder of Twitter and Square. He has since rejoined Twitter as Executive Chairman and will focus on product development to further Twitter’s mainstream appeal. He also remains CEO of Square. Maybe you have to have helped conceive Twitter to be bold enough to take on a change-resistant industry like the financial sector. Sarah Lacy, Silicon Valley pundit and Web 2.0 author, once noted of tech entrepreneurs, “Once you’re lucky, twice you’re good.” Before Twitter hatched, Dorsey’s lifework focused on developing dispatch software to track ambulances and taxis to visualize where they were and what they were doing.
In 2000, Dorsey realized that his work was missing something vital to these cities, the very citizens who populated them. Dorsey put the idea to rest. Tweet This: An Idea Reborn Don’t Call it a Social Network: Twitter as an Information Network 1. 2. 3. Contrappunti/ Twitter contro tutti. Roma - Sono giorni difficili per la reputazione di Twitter. Il sistema di cinguettii californiano, che continua ad essere un grande successo specialmente negli Stati Uniti e viene continuamente citato come baluardo informativo nelle emergenze del pianeta (qualche volta a ragione, qualche volta no), dichiara ormai qualcosa come 175 milioni di utenti e, nella vulgata riassuntiva di molta stampa, è spesso paragonato a Facebook quanto a successo, diffusione e possibilità future. Tuttavia non serve un esperto di social network per comprendere come Facebook sia chiaramente definibile come un luogo sociale di rete ampio e variegato, mentre Twitter fatichi ad allontanarsi da quella idea di semplice colonna cronologica informativa in eterno aggiornamento così come è sempre stato fin dagli esordi nel 2006.
Il primo lo ha pubblicato Yahoo! (leggero conflitto di interessi, ok) e parte da una analisi di 260 milioni di tweet pubblicati fra il 2009 e il 2010. Massimo MantelliniManteblog. Color Commentary: The End of the Friend | Endless Innovation. Whoever said there’s not much new on the Web should have been around last week for the much-ballyhooed launch of Color – celebrated as one of the most exciting Web concepts to appear this year.
If it lives up to its initial promise, Color represents a fundamentally new type of mobile social network that, in many ways, is almost the polar opposite of Facebook. So what’s so radical about Color? For one, Color has done away entirely with the notion of the Friend – one of the most closely held pillars of the social networking crowd. In the Color world, the “Social Graph” has been replaced by something far different – a constantly changing social network that dynamically changes in relation to your geographic location. Not only that, in the Color world, your social relationships with others are based almost entirely on your photos: you are able to see the photos of people around you, as well as take photos and share them with users around you.
Why Social Media Innovation Has Hit a Plateau [OPINION] Twitter Drops The Ecosystem Hammer: Don’t Try To Compete With Us On Clients, Focus On Data And Verticals. For much of the past year, the Twitter ecosystem has been in a state of flux. Ever since Twitter bought Tweetie and turned it into their own native iPhone app, third-party developers have been wondering where this would leave them. Further moves by Twitter into Android, iPad, Mac, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and other spaces have only compounded some of this fear.
So Twitter has taken some time today in their developer forum to talk a bit about the state of the ecosystem and give some guidance. It’s blunt, but necessarily so. Specifically, Platform lead Ryan Sarver has a fairly lengthy outline of Twitter’s line of thinking with regard to third-party clients and services. And while there’s a little bit of dancing around the topic at first, it quickly gets very clear: third-parties shouldn’t be creating straight-up Twitter clients any further. Sarver notes that Twitter views a “consistent user experience” as very important to them. Publisher tools. 40 Bloggers to Watch in 2011. How to Back Up Your Social Media Accounts. Imagine if your Facebook account were suspended and deleted.
What would you do if your entire LinkedIn network suddenly disappeared? If your Flickr photos were no longer accessible or if Twitter crashed yet again, only this time for good? Online networking and collaboration have become a dominant part of our daily routines. According to a recent study conducted by Nielsen and released in early August, social networking occupies twice as much of our time online as any other activity. But while the data you upload and share is inherently personal to you and your network, you don't actually own the information. "Some people might not want to admit it, and others may just forget, but our social interactions today very much defines who we are as people," notes Julian Ranger, founder and CEO of SocialSafe.net, a social backup service based in the United Kingdom. who just launched their newest version this week. How to Back Up Your Social Media Accounts: Why It's Important for Your Business.
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