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Co.mments - Recently added conversations

Co.mments - Recently added conversations

http--www.infousabilidad.com- State of the Blogosphere 2008 Welcome to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2010 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed growth and trends in the blogosphere. For 2010, we took a deeper dive into the entire blogosphere, with a focus on female bloggers. This year’s topics include: brands embracing social media, traditional media vs. social media, brands working with bloggers, monetization, smartphone and tablet usage, importance of Twitter and Facebook, niche blogging, and changes within the blogosphere over 2010. The 2010 edition of State of the Blogosphere finds blogs in transition—no longer an upstart community, now with influence on mainstream narratives firmly entrenched, with bloggers still searching for the next steps forward. The significant growth of mobile blogging is a key trend this year. Another important trend is the influence of women and mom bloggers on the blogosphere, mainstream media, and brands. 7,200 bloggers responded to our survey this year, our largest response ever. New York: 8%

useit.com Jakob Nielsen's site (Usable Information Technolo Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool Blogging for all intents and purposes has been around for about the ten year mark. During that time it has gone through many changes as more platforms and tools became available that made it easier and easier for just about anyone to become a blogger. Styles of blogs have grown as well with everything from the original personal weblog style right through to today’s political blogs, tech blogs, and one of the hottest niches around – mommy blogging. Through all this though, there have been those who have wanted to make blogging even easier and as such we see things like tumblr and now a new one called posterous , which allows you to email your thoughts to the service and they get posted automatically. Then amongst all this we have the arrival of things like Twitter , Pownce and Jaiku , which strove to lower the bar even further by making everything we typed into their character limited text boxes a new form of blogging. I’m not suggesting that there isn’t a place for Twitter.

eCuaderno v.2.0: Cibercultura, Medios, eComunicacion, Weblogs y 10 Suggestions On What To Write About When Blogging For Business By Tom Polanski, EVP, eBrand Media and eBrand Interactive Rob Jones has written a several articles regarding blogging for business and I thought I’d jump in with this real life story that I came across in the eBrand Media library. Although this case study relates to a B2B business, I think the tactics discussed are applicable to the B2C world as well: SUMMARY Can business marketers use the blog world to get more site traffic from highly targeted prospects? CHALLENGE Like many niche B-to-B marketers, David Aferiat’s first online marketing efforts focused around search engine optimization. His team’s efforts were rewarded. As Aferiat studied his Web analytics reports to see which terms pulled the best targeted traffic, he was startled to notice something else. He wondered, was there a way to get more of that targeted blog traffic? “Some people were delighted to hear about us, but some were vitriolic.” Tactic #1. Bloggers want to make their blogs more interesting and surf-worthy. Tactic #2.

Otra vida es posible: anarcas, rebeldes, emboscados... Ensamblaje: nuevas pasos y huellas de las palabras Este tiempo es como todos de transición. Y las palabras siguen influyendo en el devenir de los seres. Podemos abrir nuevas posibilidades en el interior de la vida, el cuerpo y el lenguaje disminuyendo la superficialidad de la asignación repetida de significaciones. Estos nuevos mecanismos derivan de la consideración de que los conceptos pueden ser descompuestos y re.ensamblados en otros conceptos que son ciertamente nuevos y que tienen referencias y antecedentes que abren nuevas asociaciones. Bosque hay en todas partes. El bosque siempre esta presente. ¿Hay rebeldes, emboscados y anarcas en el ciberespacio? Llamamos emboscado a quien, privado de patria por el gran proceso y transformado por él en un individuo aislado, está decidido a ofrecer resistencia y se propone llevar adelante la lucha, una lucha que acaso carezca de perspectiva. El anarca no se guía por las ideas, sino por los hechos. ¿Líneas de fuga o una simple huida?

How do you Argue? As an analyst, we undergo training then are put to the test to stand by our calls, and back it up with data, insight, experience, or facts. I found this diagram published by the create debate blog, and by using the creative commons license they have on their blog, am sharing it with you. The graphic is spurred by the essay written by Paul Graham How to Disagree, start there. Since I tie just about everything back to internet strategy, let’s take this fictional example of one of your colleagues who has spent significant budget on advertising popups on a C rated media site in your market. You, the social media strategist at your company, is less than thrilled to see this, but you need to think about different ways to approach this Using Graham’s Hierarchy, here’s some fictional arguments you could use to persuade your colleague with the advertising-popup plan: Caveat: I’m not slamming the pop-up marketing industry, this is just an example, I could have used blogs too.

Google and the Human (/Social/Cultural) John Naughton's just posted on something I've been turning over in my mind, too — Google growing up?: Robert Scoble has paid another visit to the Google campus. And he was impressed … For example, … every interaction I had with Googlers this time was different than the last time I was on campus. They seemed more humble. If asked to identify quickly the Google/Yahoo! … today, Sergey Brin of Google appeared in my Search class as a surprise guest … He really rattled some feathers … with his response to the semantic web, tagging and librarianship. Then this, from Tim O'Reilly, yesterday: The launch of Google Image Labeler, a "game" that asks people to label images, and figures that images given the same label by multiple people are likely to be correct, continues the Web 2.0 trend towards bionic software, that is, software that combines machine and human intelligence. Thomas wrote (back in May): I really do not see the battle as being between Google and the others.

Health Check: How Trusted Is Your Corporate Blog? Today, I’m going to play doctor, in fact, I’m a specialist: A corporate blog doctor. Most corporate blogs aren’t trusted, and here’s a very simple heuristic health check to gauge whether your corporate blog is going to be trusted by your readers. This is a quick and dirty scorecard, if I was going one for a real Forrester report, it would be far more conclusive, weighted , detailed, quantitative, and scientific, but today, this is just a quick example, to illustrate a point we already know, let’s get to it, please, turn your head and cough: Health Check: How Trusted Is Your Corporate Blog? 1. Great: Blog is written in a human voice Bad: Content looks vetted by corp comm Horrible: Rehashed press release 2. Great: Discusses the lifestyle (or workstyle) of actual customers Good: Discusses the wider industry topics Horrible: The corporate blog exclusively talks about the company 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. What’s missing? The Doctor’s Diagnosis:

Ghost Sites [November 1, 2001] Update 9/26/2008: Paul Newman has died at his home in Connecticut. (original article, posted 8/13/2008) I'm certainly not alone in being troubled by news that Paul Newman is gravely ill. Paul Newman is a great actor and more importantly, a great human being, who's given almost a quarter of a billion dollars to charity and has touched many lives with his kindness. To celebrate his life, I've been watching a lot of Paul Newman movies recently. 1. (1962) This classic, atmospheric film has much more than electrifying performances from Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason, and George C. 2. (1963) Newman's Hud is the unforgettable Texan anti-hero, an unprincipled man of absolute self-centered nastiness. 3. (1982) Paul Newman's breathtaking performance as a 50-ish, washed-up alcoholic lawyer who realizes that his one path left open for redemption is through a trial by fire. 4. 5. 6. (1969) The quintessential Western buddy film that was a monster hit when it was released and still charms. 7. 8.

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