: this is a really great post and identfies a number of key themes including - keep it simple, keep it personal, dont spread yourself to thin and work out how to monetize..
Conversation Agent
"Receiving isn’t easy. If it were, more of us would do it with grace andgratitude. Is there a way to change that? Can we learn to receive so wecan be nourished and empowered? These are crucial questions, not justbecause the holiday season is a time when giving and receiving are partof our daily experience. The ability to r (Read More)
Social Media Marketing Strategy, Tactics, and Tools
I’m fairly new to Social Median but I am already a huge fan. I’m not too active in terms of commenting, submitting content, or networking. I use Social Median for a different reason, news and updates. When you join Social Median you are given the opportunity to subscribe to various topics by viewing them on a tag cloud. (Read More)
TechCrunch
Over the weekend a lot of tech bloggers got into a tizzy over a suggestion that Twitter search should rank Tweets by authority, with Tweets from people who have the most followers coming up first. Some bloggers quickly objected that this was somehow undemocratic or would give spammers more of an incentive to trick people in (Read More)
: I thought the entire "conversation" if you will was a bit out of sorts. It appeared, to me that, the over all conversation was about the number of followers and tweets an individual had that conveyed on them some sort of "authority." That sort of authority is certainly a shallow one in my understanding and thinking. Now, numbers of retweets might be a better measurement and yet even that appears to be lacking in substance. Wouldn't "authority", like Porn be in the eye of the beholder for those of us who hold up certain individuals to be Authorities in certain subject areas. What I did see missing in the entire conversation was the current or conventional wisdom on how we convey or give authority to those we know. I'm thinking here of, what a person has accomplished, schooling, businesses started, books written and other tangible accomplishments. These items seem to be a much better yardstick of authority, than numbers of followers, tweets and retweets on a fledgeling Web 2.0 internet tool.
Submitted by Infodiva:
In what may be a first for any government the world over, the Consulate General of Israel in New York will be holding a public press conference about the war in Gaza via Twitter. On Tuesday, December 30 during the hours of 1-3 p.m. EST, David Saranga, Consul of Media and Public Affairs in New York, will answer questions wri (Read More)
GigaOM
This past weekend, we had yet another tempest in a teapot here in the blogosphere, this time over what, exactly, determines the authority of a tweet on Twitter. Some argued that the number of followers is the best yardstick with which to measure how important a tweet was, while others argued that it is who you follow that (Read More)
delicious.com/tag/photography
earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India". Images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a (Read More)
Mashable!
Rachel Cunliffe runs blog design company cre8d design and is co-founder of TV community network Throng.In 2008, Twitter really started to hit the mainstream and bloggers began adding widgets to their sidebars to display their latest tweets. In 2009, Twitter will become much more tightly integrated with the rest of the blog (Read More)
A VC
Two of my favorite twitter add-ons are Tweetscan, which I check at least once a day for twitters that have my name in it (ie messages being sent to me), and Twitlinks, which I check throughout the day for interesting links being passed around on twitter.
What I need is a mashup of sorts between the two that shows me all th (Read More)