We get fired up about your app when it can be modified into something that will do some real good for people – or living things, at least.
What We Think About Social Media
We’re only in it where we are part of the signal and none of the noise.
Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a powerful yet inexpensive spectrum of methods for getting attention, keeping attention, keeping your company and products in front of eyeballs making consumers and distributors feel that they are listened to building and monitoring product/brand interest, sales, and loyalty building and modifying corporate/brand image, reputation management, image management and loyalty conducting market research retrieving feedback from all sales channels, all levels, faster than ever before in history.
Transactional Email Issues. I will relay a story on transactional email, something experienced by my friend Dave, paraphrased from memory, below… Tell me what’s been bugging you? Email. Ah what a nightmare! Inevitably we’ll want some bit of software to react and send off a pearl of wisdom in the form of an email message. Naively perhaps, a bit idealistically, I would like to see that email lands in the recipients inbox. Bliss that would be to do it consistently and reliably. Myths or legends get started from who knows when by who knows whom and has a tendency to stick around longer than it should. “For an application to send off an email, just send it through the smtp server.” Lets see how that goes: 1) Hey are you an smtp server. 2) Oh hello!
3) Sure whatever. 4) OK (not to be confused as an indication of success or failure) or unrecoverable epic crash; 5) Done. After all this back and forth, don’t even know whether the email was sent successful or not. Side-step the bureaucrat? For most of us, smtp is our only option. Internets Startups: Just tell us when you stuff up. Taken from a recent Megan Berry Interview, just after her exodus from the foundering Klout: Customers: They are the lifeline of any business.
No matter what kind of business you are running, keeping your customers happy is key. How can brands, big or small, do just that? Megan Berry, founder of LiftFive and former Senior Marketing Manager at Klout, explains to genConnect how to create a conversation with your customers and how not to piss people off: Megan Berry “The first thing is to start a conversation with [customers],”Berry told genConnect.
So what happens when you slip up? “Recognizing your mistakes, stepping up and saying ‘We did X wrong and here’s how we are going to remedy it’ is great,” Berry said. We notice. About Saul Fleischman Founder of emerging social media tool sites. Related OsakaBentures Must-Reads. StumbleUpon, Not Pinterest, For Page Views. People are motivated to visit blogs from Pinterest by one thing: image quality Let’s remember, every action in liking, re-pinning and sharing in Pinterest is visually-driven. Recipes, kittens in coffee cups, hot infographics, and inebriated people removing themselves from the gene pool – along with brilliant photographic and video work will get seen, shared (read: lifted and “repinned” to others’ boards) and make you the cat’s meow in Pinterest.
Seldom-discussed fact: Pinterest is hardly new. Private beta invites went out in the beginning of March, 2010 I think its just a matter of how long I’ve been using Pinterest and perhaps the OsakaSaul name that people have “seen around” that has caused me to collect likes, repins and a slew of followers within Pinterest. I have been kicking their tires for nearly two years, and while they’re gotten flashy, I would love to see them be more thoughtful to the user in their user experience.
For me, words are my strength. About Saul Fleischman. Benefiting #jpquake Survivors: Gambatte365 Kizuna #HeartJapan Project. After the 3.11 disaster, I started an NPO called Ganbatte 365 to increase awareness of the recovery and renewal of Tohoku. The content is a combination of 15 second videos (especially suited for outdoor digital media) and longer videos for the web. It’s all Creative Commons licensed so anyone can freely use it on any media world-wide just by downloading it from the Ganbatte 365 web site.
Since last summer we have made almost 300 videos in English and Japanese, which have been played on screens at hundreds of locations in Japan and around the world. As we come up to the 1st anniversary of the disaster, the focus will once again be on Japan. We’re taking a break from our usual activities to run a special crowd event called the Now is the time to send another round of messages. Your Message on outdoor signs in Tokyo with a reach of 30M per week It’s a Global multi-platform event, and we’re putting out the call through our fantastic outdoor media partners, the Web, and various social media.
UX Ideas For Human Reproduction. The Japanese inspire me with their drive to continually improve – everything. Even packets of catsup open better in Japan than in America. Might it be time for the Great Heavenly Father to rethink a couple things about how we increase our number? I think so, and while I am supposed to be working on the user experience issues with a social media sharing tool that I am designing, I wonder if I might offer God a few thoughts. Mind you, these are not prayers, nor are they what I would wish upon my own reproductive “user experience,” but since it occurs to me that the deal is rather flawed, here are my ideas: If the female is going to bring the child to term, and suffer the pains of pregnancy and childbirth, why not demand more from the male?
Again, in my lifetime, there’s no need to implement the human reproductive UX ideas I have for you – and what’s more, I think many would agree that you might do well to start an entirely new type of “us,” Human 2.0, say, on a different planet. Unleashing Crowd Power, Part 2. Part two of a five part guest posts series,“Unleashing Crowd Power”, by Michal Hudecek. Crowdsourcing General web directing principles described in the previous article apply to crowdsourcing projects without any exception. However, in case of crowdsourcing, thought process of a contributor has a specific pattern, which can be further analyzed. Web screenplays for crowdsourcing projects look similar as the basic thought process of contributors is also similar.
The order might vary in different projects though. When to use crowdsourcing Not all the services can be delegated to the crowd. 1) What am I asked to do? Firstly, it must be possible to divide the work load into very tiny tasks. Example of a good answer: “Write an article or edit an existing one.” 2) How is the final output being assembled? The system for integrating the outputs must be easy to understand and cheap to maintain. Everything that can be automated should be automated. 3) What do I need to overcome to start working? It Isn't All Social Good We're Doing When Tweeting. Via the ScoopIt curation magazine: Gaming Social Media for Results For Every 1,700 Tweets, Someone Dies #BlameTwitter What happens when you compare Twitter’s most recent usage stats to all sorts of other terrible things that are bad — toxins in the environment, death rates, cigarette and drug usage, obesity? Thanks for the contribution to Gaming Social Media for Results, Greg @socialgreg Viloria The Best News?
There is… (courtesy Marshall Hayes in Quora) We are working on solving many issues around natural disaster data management and disaster relief at and what we saw during the wildfires in Boulder, CO last summer was a huge amount of data coming through twitter, at a rate of around 2 tweets per second that contained the #boulderfire hashtag. This information is helpful, but it needs organized and presented in a manner that people can easily see and understand.
Overall, I would say that Twitter is a useful tool for emergencies. About Saul Fleischman. Group Invites: Facebook Vs. LinkedIn | | OsakaBenturesOsakaBentures. That’s what it reads, in Facebook Groups In Facebook, why can we not “recommend” or “invite” friends to groups in which we are a member? Why does no one blast for this…? The only thing we can do – unless we take pains to first write people, ascertain their group interest and then use Facebook’s “Add Friends to Group” button… is to inflict groups upon our Facebook friends. In LinkedIn, I can pre-approve people for easy entry to my groups – in case they elect to join. I can invite people as well, and if I do so, they are pre-approved and may join with a click of a button in the invitation message sent to them. Case in point: The Danes, the Danes. Darling Danes, “why did you inject me into your group,” I’d like to know? I opened Facebook one day to discover that I had been added to a group that: 1. 2.
Why will Facebook not allow me a privacy setting – “send NOTHING to my email” – to affect any groups I join (or am with…?) Is any of this okay with you? Hej! Hmm, and now, to categorize this post. Participants: KdL Web2.0 Social Media.