Chelsea Aures #Social4Good Presentation Here is a #social4good presentation brought to you by @chelseaaures @ashlyo and @kristinmommers. Tune in December 6th at 11am to follow the live tweets. Picking the Pearltree I’m trying out pearltrees for the first time in #NewhouseSM6. Twitter Apps: First to Worst This week, let’s take a look at Twitter apps for #NewhouseSM6 and @dr4ward. 1. I love the concept of multiple streams on Hootsuite. 2. The fact that TweetDeck is a desktop application is a huge downside for me. 3. The Seesmic interface is absolutely hideous. 4. I was a little surprised to learn that there are different levels of SocialOomph, some free and some paid. 5. TweetGrid looks like it is in its beta version. 6. Monitter seems like it would work great for brands that need to keep track of consumer insights. Overall, I would choose Hootsuite over any other app. How much does Chelsea love Tweet Chats? The answer: Not at all. I do have one positive thing to say about tweet chats.
Kiersten Wing (@KierstenWing) sur Twitter Brian Moritz (brianmoritz What they told me: Newspapers are dying. It's time to jump ship. Get out while you can. There's no future in journalism. What I told them: I want to know why. I'm a former sports reporter who walked away from my beat to find out why newspapers are struggling, what they can do about it and how the Internet is changing the way the media does business. I worked for the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) and The Times Herald (Olean, N.Y.). Some day, I'll write a book.
Jaclyn Slovic So we’ve been examining all the ways people can measure us based on our social media impact. So I’m happy to turn the tables and give my opinion on social media apps. After testing out six social media management apps, I have decided that HootSuite fits me the best, by far. Here’s why: TweetDeck: Frustrating for the non-savvy-social-media user like me. Seesmic: Eh. SocialOomph: An eyesore- I would have gladly recommended this site for our Graphic Design website renovation project if I could. TweetGrid: Another poorly-designed, impossible to navigate eyesore. Monitter: Easy to use, but few tools and not much to it. But wait! HootSuite: Easy to navigate, easy to customize, easy to look at. So if you’re looking for an app to make your social media interactions easier, HootSuite is the way to go (especially if you are a beginner/intermediate user like me).
Ammy Sriyunyongwat (ammysri) MaloryAnne Lately. And because Facebook won’t let me post any photos. Posted on 24 March, 2014Reblogged from pitchfork 52reasonswhyilivehere: Reason #10: Chances to play basketball in shorts and a tank top in the middle of February. handsomedogs: My friend’s adopted mix, Jordan. Look at my lovely photo on the handsome dogs tumblr :) A few pics from bouldering these past couple of months. I’ve been promised climbing photos of myself on the next trip ;). Caveman x Vacationer Cavemantheband.com Vacationermusic.com obsessed with this guy’s work. Chey Contiguglia Diving for Pearls This weeks discussion topic in NewhouseSM6 via DR4ward at www.dr4ward.com, was about Pearltrees, the website is www.pearltrees,com if anyone wishes to make an account. I signed up for a Pearltree account and created a Pearltree for the class, check it out here: I am still trying to figure out how exactly to use this site, even though I used the help pearl and a blog, www.blog.pearltrees.com, recommended by a classmate. I don’t exactly understand the need for it other than to keep all the things you are interested in, in one place. Hopefully as I begin to understand it more I will come to use it. Try, Try, Try again This week in my Social Media Theory and Practice class, better known as #NewhouseSM6 on www.twitter.com taught by Twitter handle @Dr4Ward, we had to use six different twitter platforms. Seesmic: At first I was put off by this platform but ended up messing around a little more with it and it’s growing on me.
DR4WARD Twitter Brian Moritz How we made #SocialMediaCuration Here’s the story of how our Social Media Curation presentation came together. Lu and I, in talking about our interests, quickly realized that we wanted to focus on Social Media Curation start-ups. That was a good combination of our interests - Lu in start-ups, me in curation. We did a lot of the work in Google Docs - we had a master file where we kept our notes, outlines, next steps, etc. That helped us out, because everything was in one place. Then the question of how to contact the CEOs/professionals for our interviews came up. I also created a Storify on Sean Brannagan’s talk in our class. For Paper.li, I got a quick response saying to contact them through their information e-mail address. For Flipboard, founder Mike McCue quickly responded to me on Twitter and directed me to Christina van der Boom in their office. Social Media made this presentation possible. The speed at which we were able to do this impressed me, too.
Grace Johnson - Tumblr My first attempt at TweetChat could probably be compared to my first day here at Newhouse: scary and overwhelming. The first issue I found was how unorganized it seemed to be. I understand that there is a moderator available to facilitate the flow of conversation, but at around 20+ people, the moderator became ineffective. Another issue was the intense focus it demanded on participants, which is also tied to the lack of organization. If I could make a recommendation for the overall process, it would be to limit the amount of participants in a chat to a handful at most. The compromise that I found for my confusion and focus was to follow classmate’s retweets from the chat because I knew they were relevant and informative. Overall, I look back on my first TweetChat just like my first day of graduate school: though it showed me how everything works, the entire experience was nothing more than a requirement for a grade that I’m glad is behind me.