social|median
I am thrilled to announce that socialmedian is being acquired by XING of Hamburg, Germany.This is great news for socialmedian's members as XING is committed to growing and developing socialmedian both as a standalone service as well launching integrated socialmedian services on XING, one of the leading online business netwo (Read More)
: That's great for you and socialmedian. Congratulations and good luck. I've begun work on a new social media blog set to launch in the beginning of the new year but now I find myself itching to write about this news.
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)In this era of high-speed Internet connections, satellites, wireless connections, cell phones, and computers, our world is increasingly becoming connected. Currently, there are enough cell phone connections to cover half the world's population, and they reach places tradit (Read More)
: Granted it is a small sample size, but if mainstream media really do think like the guys Jesse was with, they really are in more trouble than I thought.
: I think the problem is that traditional media is simply slow to embrace the changing technologies that we are all obviously engrossed in. Many traditional media outlets are taking strides to incorporate new media into their routines. It's a slow process, especially given that traditional media moguls aren't exactly known to be the most forward thinking.
Journalism will not die, it will change, and indeed it has changed. Most of what we get from our "news providers" is info-tainment at this point. It's the Bill O'Reilly's and Ketih Olbermann's of the world giving us their opinions about the news. What I think we are seeing is a watershed change in the way the news is communicated, not the death of any singular form thereof.
We will always need journalists, because there is most certainly a level of professionalism that much of new media lacks. While we on the inside may think that twitter is the best place to get our breaking news, we must remember that there are hundreds of millions of people in the US alone who do not use twitter, or digg, or delicious, or social|median.
Submitted by 15minutesaday:
This article illustrates why, once a business starts down the social media road, they cannot turn back w/o risking their customers' trust. (Read More)
Submitted by 15minutesaday:
Join the Twitter-based campaign to Dump the Clutter! Details on this page! Join for fun and to get yourself organized!. (Read More)
Online Marketing Blog
Day one of the DMA / TopRankMarketing.com Social Media Smarts workshop kicked off covering a tremendous amount of information including defining social media, practical examples & case studies and blogging soup to nuts. Creating, marketing and measuring blog results was covered in 3 different modules.Social media and making (Read More)
: This is a good article with some very good basic advice for anyone wanting to implement social media tools at their company. I plan to forward a link to this article to my boss as we are trying to do something like this at work.
krynsky's shared items in Google Reader
WordPress is quickly becoming the standard software for the majority of blogs. This fact makes every major release of the software seem like a huge event, but. (Read More)
: "WordPress is quickly becoming the standard software for the majority of blogs. This fact makes every major release of the software seem like a huge event, but the thing is that this time it is. WordPress 2.7 comes with a huge number of changes, a good chunk of them making some older plugins redundant. This will be a huge upgrade for all blog owners."
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Anthony Ha at Venturebeat reported on Friday that Socialmedian has left the beta stage (whatever that means). Ha says it's an important milestone for the company. Ha went on to note, "I'm not seeing anything that will tempt me away from social messaging/sharing sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, or the sharing option within (Read More)
: This is an example of a reviewer not taking the time to erly test what they are reviewing. He's entitled to his opinion's but there is information in here that's inaccurate. I'll leave him a comment on his site when I get home tonight
: @michaelfidler Indeed! I'm sure there's a disconnect here! But, I simply cannot parse his flamepost, his problem, his defensiveness, and his lazy generalizing. I won't have it! And, I'm sure I'll forget all about it in a few weeks.
: @jasongoldberg We got your back ... without prompting! I agree with @reechard, @centernetworks still refuses to reply when he was asked directly by me to explain despite complaining that no one asked! Seems that it must only be flamebait. It is unfortunate because I am turned away from CN now.
Submitted by 15minutesaday:
This is a must-read for all new Twitterers! Just because someone either unfollows you or doesn't return the follow doesn't reflect badly on you OR them. It's just how it is. Thanks for posting the article. (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
from Google Reader:
Let’s be clear, there are no rules for who you need to follow on twitter. You follow who you want, block you want, and talk to whomever you want to talk to. I’ve had several people tell me that ... (Read More)
: Segues nicely with an article I wrote recently, spelling out my Twitter rules, which I've added to my Twitter profile. Jacob & I are in total agreement; you can't participate in every conversation and you're just being disingenuous if you follow everyone else back automatically...
: @Thechannelc I only respond to a DM if I need to. I will reply to a direct question even if only to say I don't know, as I like to be polite. However, I only follow a very few people by SMS, so I don't see tweets when I'm away from my computer, unless I scroll back thru them, and I don't usually have time. I DO see DMs though, as Tweetdeck puts them in a separate column.
: If someone was Guy Kawasaki I wouldn't expect a reply but here's what's interesting, Guy replies! If there's someone who deserves the badges he's giving out, it's Guy himself. He kicks ass.
I know we don't have to follow everyone back but I do it anyways and I'll DM new followers. No answer in 1 week = goodbye. Come now, atleast say "hi".
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