How to Use Amplify for Content Curation and Thought Leadership Oh no, you’re thinking, not another social media tool I have to know about! Well, yeah, but Amplify is a really good one to actually use. You know how you’re always being told you need to engage with your followers, fans/likes, connections, etc. via social media? Amplify actually focuses on the conversation aspect, making it easier to do as you’re told. To put it another way: You can get a conversation going on Twitter, but it’s really hard to maintain a meaningful discussion when you’re limited to 140 characters. On Amplify, you can have that conversation.
40Billion.com Creates Social Business Rating System as Alternative to Credit Scores You are here: Home // Advertising // 40Billion.com Creates Social Business Rating System as Alternative to Credit Scores Atlanta, GA, January 24, 2011 -(kazor.com) 40Billion.com, a micro-funding platform that facilitates business capital fundraising through gifts and loans from an entrepreneur’s network of friends and family online, recently announced the launch of the Social Business Rating System, a novel approach to rating businesses based on social and financial criteria other than personal credit scores. The Social Business Rating System (SBRS), is a proprietary system developed exclusively by 40Billion.com to rate businesses based on criteria that really matter for success, rather than traditional credit scores.
Curation is the New Search is the New Curation In the beginning there was curation, and it was good. People found interesting things on the web, created directories of those things, and then you found what you were looking for inside those curated lists. That was the origins of the original lists and directories, from Yahoo on outward. But then that got too hard. The web got bigger faster than anyone could keep track. We Me We – Why the Curation vs Aggregation Discussion is Messy In Aggregation Is Not Curation – There Is A Big Difference , Tom Foremski provides definitions of curation and aggregation: is a person or persons, engaged in the act of choosing and presenting things related to a specific topic and context. An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museums is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection.
McDonalds, obesity and curation of the social web McDonalds – is it a great restaurant chain serving tasty food, or the purveyor of a socially destructive obesity pandemic? Well that really depends on your point of view. However what we do know is that human opinions are reflective of the current moods of society. How to map out your social business strategy Vanessa DiMauro guides us through a strategy map for social business initiatives to help organisations frame this emerging field in a larger business context. Many businesses are now sold on the value of social media, if not most. But how many of these are developing strategic intentions for social business and social media? In a call to action, Vanessa DiMauro, CEO of Leader Networks, recently wrote: "The time has come to expand our understanding and use of social media from marketing tactics alone to a higher order strategic initiative. What other efforts in your organisation have the potential to impact customers, product or service innovation, reduce costs and increase shareholder value?
Twitter Chats and Hashtag Conversations By – February 1, 2011 Posted in: Curation Firstly, Twitter chats are awesome. A great dialogue is made possible because such a wide variety of people can participate. About Aggregage is building the next-generation of business media, deploying web sites/newsletters that are each focused on a specific business segment topic, and each aggregating the most engaging online content. The aggregated content on our topic-specific sites comes from a number of interesting and relevant sources: blogs, white papers, peer recommendations, social networks, and discussion groups to name a few. That content is auto-curated by our readers based on their social media activity, so that the best rises to the top. Personalized newsletter versions of each content community deliver a customized version for each and every reader.
Rethinking the Future of Business Part 1: The State of Corporate Social Media « Brian Solis Brian Solis inShare806 Whether you know it or not, the path that social media follows within the organization is in your hands. But as we’re learning, mastery of the latest social tools does not guarantee a place in the ranks of upper management let alone a place on the team period. The role of the social media champion is not timeless; in fact, the days of its designation are numbered. Blogging Is Dead (Again) Did you read the news? Blogging is dead. Mostly because young people are just not that into it. Why go through the hassle of thinking up unique thoughts, trying to formulate them into sentences and paragraphs, and then pull it all together in a text-based Blog post?