ReadWriteWeb
The online world is an imperfect place. Gmail goes down, chunks of blog posts disappear, and user are deceived on a regular basis. Most of us who spend time online are aware - and have come to expect - these foibles and hiccups. But now, throngs of mainstream media outlets are entering the fray with a bit of naivete, rushin (Read More)
Submitted by Evanwolf
from Digg:
Finnish Skype friend Nokia today announced a new Nseries mobile phone, the N86 8MP. As its name suggests, the 3G 149-gram slider packs an 8 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics) and features autofocus, flash, a built-in GPS, FM radio, 8GB of internal memory and a microSD slot, WiFi, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, plus (Read More)
Online Journalism Blog
I will soon begin teaching my annual module in Online Journalism and one of the first things I get the students to do is set up a Twitter account. It’s often a struggle to demonstrate the usefulness of Twitter, so this time around, in addition to following each other, I’m going to give them 10 people to start fo (Read More)
Portals and KM
Dan Schawbel wrote an excellent post on Mashable on the Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For. I have reviewed one of them on the AppGap – see Radian6 – Monitoring Social Media. You can find Dan’s view of Radian6 and 9 others through the above post. I list the complete ten below in this cross-post from AppGap wi (Read More)
Submitted by Whitecube:
When you think about where to go on vacation, there are thousands of places where you can go. But what are the places you could talk about for years? And what vacation photos would be interesting forever?. (Read More)
Submitted by Vcfreak
from mixx:
A great list of the top five Online PR and Social Media ‘buzz’ monitoring (and engagement) tools of 2008. (Read More)
Submitted by Vcfreak
from Twitter:
How To Sell Social Media to Cynics, Skeptics & Luddites - Tips, Resources & Advice (http://ping.fm/eGw89). (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Today Mark Ramskill (@ramskill) from SubHub, takes a look at some of the steps that new Twitter users can go through to get going.Twitter, having been quickly adopted initially by key influencers, has grown into a mass-market communication tool, with millions of users.If you’re publishing content, undertaking online marketi (Read More)
: @jasongoldberg, @alpesh, @iamdb a nice article to start with. Though Iam not a newbie, I haven't used it extensively. It would be great to hear from you how you use twitter to its potent.
Bwana.org
The masterminds behind Google are pushing an initiative known as OpenSocial which aims to connect many different types of web sites using one single API. One of the fruits of OpenSocial is Google Friend Connect which seems like a technology demo on the surface, but I’ve found a couple of possibly useful gems to utilize. F (Read More)
: Is it just me? Most sites want to be social? I never heard this. Why would a web site want to give its CRM data to Google or facebook or anyone else? Why do people want to give their personnel data to a vendor? Is it just me? Why do I want to be a walking billboard for a company?
Submitted by The Puck
from Google Reader:
This is Part of a series: The 13 Skills of the Public Relations Professional of the Future. It's also the subject of a panel we ran at PR Week's Next Conference a couple of weeks ago. You Gotta Walk the Walk It's one thing to know or talk about social media. You can gather the right graphics from Slideshare that (Read More)
Submitted by Pitchengine:
A few weeks ago I discovered PitchEngine through Twitter. (These two services are my favorite new social media tools for 2008, by the way.) I read that you could create and issue a social media news release for free. Working for a small company, I will try anything that is free or a low-cost alternative to a pricier and non (Read More)
PR Squared
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. There’s something about a 4–day weekend that makes me think that every weekend ought to be 4 days long. It not only allows for DOWN time, it allows for THINK time. Here’s what I thought about…There’s no question: Social Media is having an enormous, life-altering impact on the communic (Read More)
Delicious/vatark
One of the most effective ways to build your credibility, attain search presence and create quality backlinks to your website is through ‘Article Marketing’. Article marketing involves writing a series of well crafted, knowledgeable articles within your area of business expertise and publishing them not only on your own web (Read More)