Jul 26, 2008

Submitted by Hyperkinesis: Though women and men are creating blogs in roughly equal numbers, many women at the conference were becoming very Katie Couric about their belief that they are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts at, say, Daily Kos, a political blog site. Nor, they said, were they making much money, even though corporations se (Read More)

Jul 17, 2008

Submitted by Netzoo: Craig Stolz, formerly a journalist at The Washington Post, has been blogging for one year. On the occasion of his blog’s anniversary, he wrote this succinct list of lessons learned, which is rather brilliant... (Read More)

Jul 22, 2008

Submitted by Nikki Pilkington: I understand why people find it hard to see twitter as anything more than ‘fun’ and a ‘waste fo time’ - and indeed it can be both of those things (separately and together in fact!). But Twitter can also be a great business and marketing tool. (Read More)

Jul 19, 2008

ReadWriteWeb The Blogher conference for and about women bloggers kicks off today in San Francisco and in honor of this important event, we decided to share some links to some of our favorite women bloggers here at RWW. Gender is an important lens through which people communicate and that's still the case online. Below are links to som (Read More)

Jul 20, 2008

louisgray.com Last night was not the kindest of schedules. I had the great opportunity to leave the house and see "The Dark Night" yesterday evening, but the film didn't start until 11:15 p.m. Allowing for previews, credits, and the two and a half hour runtime, it was 2 a.m. by the time the movie ended. Following a quick trip to Safeway, (Read More)

Jul 20, 2008

A VC   Paris :  01.07.2008 22:13    Originally uploaded by Olivier Colas. We are leaving Paris today. Taking the eurostar to London for a few days and then back to the states. I thought I'd say goodbye to Paris with a list of my favorite things about Paris. I got the idea from the Gotham Gal who is composing a similar list.He (Read More)

Jul 17, 2008

Mashable! Many companies are intrigued by the concept of social media, but have no idea how to actually integrate it into business practices. In an earlier post, we explored one approach to putting a simple social media plan in place.Changing employee behavior is challenging, and social media participation is often looked at as an (Read More)

Jul 17, 2008

ReadWriteWeb How An Unknown Artist's Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of CommunityTwitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This social object has been latched onto by Twitter fans not just as a representation of Twitter's downtime, but also as a representation of the community's love f (Read More)

Jul 17, 2008

Submitted by J Deragon: The result of applying the four critical components is quantitative, measurable success that drives your business forward in the Era of Social Computing. You will be surprised at what kind of results you can produce. Surprised pleasantly if you successfully apply the previous components. (Read More)

Jul 16, 2008

Broadcasting Brain Is it all smoke and mirrors or is there any substance to it after all? Or are there just a bunch of hucksters out there trying to make a few bucks off naive people who want to get ahead in life? Is social media just next iteration in hucksterism and pyramid style marketing scams? Or is it something more?Greg Davies, aka (Read More)

Jul 14, 2008

Mashable! In my previous post, we discussed how to build a social media strategy for your business in five steps. The first step every company needs to do is start listening.Of course, this is a process that can be outsourced, but even if you choose to hire someone to assist with this task, it’s important that the people who will ac (Read More)

Jul 15, 2008

Mashable! I was going through my normal routine this morning of IV’ing my daily allotment of caffeine into my system, reading my email, going through my blog feeds in FeedDemon and then finishing up with a good round of FriendFeed when I realized something. My Twitter client wasn’t running, and in fact, it hadn’t been running for alm (Read More)

Jul 11, 2008

Mashable! Social media can be an incredible tool for your business, providing you with more customer insight, direct communication channels and the ability to measure the effectiveness of these conversations very closely.But as the proliferation of social media platforms grow, participating can turn into little more than a giant ti (Read More)

Jul 04, 2008

SMC:posts As part of Green Thing's strategy of going to where people congregate to apply the twin powers of delightful content and peer pressure to encourage green behaviours, we have built a rather neat Facebo... (Read More)

Jul 02, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Posterous is such a simple microblogging platform, it almost makes Tumblr look overly complicated. The Y Combinator funded startup is a bit of a mix between a blogging and lifestreaming service, with a little dose of Twitter thrown in for good measure. To start using it, users only have to send an email to post AT posterous (Read More)

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