Business Insider眼中2012年成立的8家最酷的創業公司 - 網絡與創業 2012還剛剛過去一個半月，美國Business Insider下的科技博客SAI就總結了8家最酷、最有希望的創業公司。個人感覺非常有趣，在此翻譯出來，以饗國內讀者。 1. The Honest Company 創始人：Jessica Alba、Brian Lee 成立時間：2012年1月 做什麼：銷售無毒無化學毒性的嬰兒用品。 入選原因：一句話，Brian Lee手下沒有爛公司（之前的Legal Zoom和ShoeDazzle市值分別為8億和3億美元。） 2. 創始人：Ruzwana Bashir、Oskar Bruening 做什麼：幫助旅行者查找和預訂擁有高質量的旅行活動和場所。 入選原因：創始人Ruzwana Bashir，年輕、漂亮、聰明、哈佛MBA、前牛津辯論社主席。 3. 創始人：Paul Berry 做什麼：不知道，也沒有正式推出相關服務。 入選原因：團隊！ 4. 創始人：Sarah Lacy 做什麼：科技博客，按照Lacy的說法是「硅谷的歷史記錄網站」。 入選原因：TechCrunch的明星主編，要寫高質量和獨家的科技報道。 5. 創始人：William Mougayar 成立時間：2012年2月 做什麼：社交媒體評論收件箱，只收集那些回復用戶行動的信息。 入選原因：最初只是博客上的一個評論，四個月後已經成了一個漂亮、類Gmail的初具規模的創業公司。 6. 創始人：Amit Aharoni、Nicolas Meunier、Steve Davis 做什麼：遊艇搜索、比較、預訂工具，同時也提供遊玩意見。 入選原因：在線預訂遊艇非常困難，但CruiseWise還是做出來了！ 7. 創始人：Caterina Fake 做什麼：Flickr整合地圖之後的移動社交版。 入選原因：我們知道之前已經有很多人在做了，但這個是Hunch和Flickr的創始人Fake啊？！ 8. 創始人：Lauren Leto 做什麼：是2010的Bntr的轉型或者精細加工后的成果。 入選原因：這可能是最快的網絡分享工具了。
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Now Nonprofits Outside the U.S. and Canada Can Fundraise on Face Since the popular Facebook fundraising App Causes was built using GuideStar’s database of nonprofits in the United States and Canada, only nonprofits in the U.S. and Canada can utilize Causes’ fundraising tools. There are some amazing nonprofits at the grassroots working miracles daily with relatively small amounts of cash, but unfortunately, since no international database of verified nonprofits exists, these nonprofits are consistently unable to utilize most online fundraising tools. Not any anymore… thanks to Ammado.com. Based in Dublin, Ireland, Ammado is a social network just like Facebook or MySpace, but whose primary focus is to empower people and nonprofits worldwide to fundraise and donate online. That said, nonprofit’s inside the United States and Canada can use Ammado too. Therefore, how nonprofits worldwide can get started on Ammado: 2) After your nonprofit is approved, you then create a profile. The minimum donation amount is $5 US and donors are emailed a receipt.
NetHope » Connect. Collaborate. Innovate. The Social Web | Social Media Strategy & PR 2.0: How to Leverage Facebook's New In-Line Insights I have, in the past, accused Facebook of ‘tinkering’ , toying with minor changes to the way the platform operates so that we don’t know from one week to the next quite how it’ll work or look. It’s just made another one. But at the risk of having to eat my words, I love it! Facebook has now added in-line insights to pages, enabling at-a-glance analysis of every post that an administrator adds to their wall. Impressions is the number of page impressions that a given post has received; it is NOT, however, the number of times that post has actually been read. So how do page administrators use these two statistics? With the Feedback insight, this quite simply enables administrators to see what type of content their fans are engaging with.
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How Bloggers Are Paid Last night I took part in my first ever CommsChat, hosting a discussion on blogger relations. It was fairly fast and furious – well, what else do you expect when you invite bloggers to share their opinions – but some really interesting issues came up, I thought. You can read a full transcript here. In particular, some of the PRs taking part expressed shock at the idea of bloggers being paid for content. “Isn’t the whole point of blogging to be independent?” The bloggers in the Blogger-Ed forums (PRs can join, too) talk very openly about money, so while I don’t accept paid-for posts, I know that many other bloggers do. It’s easy when you hear ‘paid for post’ to take a sharp intake of breath and assume someone has SOLD OUT to The Man, and that their blog is immediately less valuable. So, who’s being paid and what are they being paid for? A: The Paid For Post This is where a brand pays a blogger to write on a specific topic. B: The paid link C: The competition D: Freebies E: Advertising
The 3 Pillars of Social Media Readiness All businesses are being forced to go social. Are you facing internal conflict behind the firewall? This is not a post about social media marketing. I’m not here to give you hints on how to increase your friends, fans and followers. Nor will I say that it’s time for your business to “join the conversation” and I promise not to overuse the word transparency either. I believe that most brands (large and small) get it. Friends, fans and followers are important, yes. But there’s an underlying challenge that’s not being addressed as it should be. You see, years ago when Facebook and Twitter exploded and there was an expectation from the “social” community that brands should create blogs and communities; the brands listened. And what you’ll find today is that most brands are doing a really good job on these channels engaging with their customers. They’re listening to the conversation using social media monitoring tools such as Radian6 and Meltwater Buzz. The second pillar deals with governance.
21 Tips To Create A Brilliant Business Blog In my other life running a Social Media agency, one of the first things we did was set up our blog, that was 18 months ago, and without it our business wouldn’t be what it is today. It takes us a massive amount of time on top of our regular working day to write and promote it. We spend well over 15 hours per week improving the blog in various ways and if anything we would love to spend more. It’s offered us a platform all around the world to speak about our company. We use the blog for everything from recruitment of new staff to generating new business and engaging with potential customers. This little graphic shows off some of the places we have been covered and a rough estimation on the amount of business we have brought in to the company as a result of the blog… From my 18 months of experience, this is what I consider to be the top tips for setting up your own business blog. Let’s get started: 1. 2. People are very selfish in their reasons for visiting blogs. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Power Tools for Content Aggregation and Curation Maybe you don't have the resources to develop a lot of content, or maybe you're a professional association that wants to serve its members better by being super helpful. Add that there are many more content creators, inside and outside organizations, and you see how curating information as content strategy could be a very elegant option. Noting the evolution on the World Wide Web quickly to show you a pattern that went in lockstep with use. Each set of tools building on the next, thriving when filling a specific need, and evolving or morphing into something else as appropriate. Real time logs I suppose I'm quite old fashioned to be still using a blogging platform in a blog format to publish content. Moving away from blogs and into easy-to-use real time publication and bookmarking tools, you now have a couple of solid options. Tumblr is a re-envisioning of tumblelogging, a subset of blogging that uses quick, mixed-media posts. Here's a guide to switch to Posterous from dying platforms.
Google News gets a bit more social with “most shared” section. 1 December '10, 03:23am Follow It’s quiet, but it’s monumental. It’s a section of Google News that is dedicated entirely to the most shared news stories across the network. While Google has been giving somewhat real-time displays of specific words or terms in its Updates section (seen below) for months, the “most shared” section seems to be taking a different approach. What’s so different about it? As we continue to see more aspects of Google’s social product, the “layers” that we’ve talked about here on TNW before are only getting more obvious. As you can see to the left, at the moment the Most Shared section is simply a box. We’ve talked about just this sort of problem here on TNW in the past. Our bet is that Google isn’t finished with the most shared box just yet. For now, it’s an interesting addition to Google’s News page.