Search Engine Land
Social media is a powerful tool. People create great personal brands for their name and are able to get jobs in this tough economy due to their personal brands. But sometimes, Twitter and what you do online, can have a negative impact.Hutch Carpenter found one Twitter user named TheConnor say on Twitter that [...].... (Read More)
PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories
'Old-fashioned' employers are failing to support staff to use new technologies like Twitter or Facebook to communicate with peers, a survey has warned.A report by broadband provider BT Business found that one in six of employees aged between 18 and 24, and 10% of those aged 25 or over, relied on social networking sites to c (Read More)
I wrote in - good grief- is it that long ago - AUGUST 2007 that employers should "pay their people to throw sheeps on facebook". Just for kicks - here's the title:- "Why you should pay your people to waste their time on Facebook"
: "If you've never seen or used Twitter, simply go to http://search.twitter.com (or http://www.monitter.com) and type in your favorite search term. Maybe a name or two. You'll be amazed at the results.
Simply put, I now believe you can't ignore Twitter as part of your overall corporate social media strategy. Just like you can't ignore Google.
I had been postponing engaging with Twitter, and I was wrong."
: We've been using a corporate account at The Carphone Warehouse for some months now and had a lot of success with it. Our primary account www.twitter.com/carphoneware is used for communicating company news or contacting customers in need. Guy1067 is a personal account managed by one of my team who picks up customer service references to CPW and manages them through to a satisfactory conclusion if that's what the Twitterer wants. We don't 'sell' anything other than a means of communicating with a faceless company.
No-one asked me to set this up and if I had asked I expect I'd have been turned down as this is unknown territory. However, since we set this up in the Knowledge Management team our Corporate PR and Brand team are now on board and helping us share news about the company. Our partner companies TalkTalk (TalkTalkTips) and Geek Squad (GeeksquadUK) also have Twitter accounts. Use Twitter to hear what customers are saying about you. They'll be saying it anyway so it's important that you're aware.
See a recent blog from Leon Benjamin of Winning by Sharing http://bit.ly/PEhXO
AppleInsider
Once thought to be building Flash for the iPhone mostly on its own, Adobe has mentioned at the World Economic Forum that it's not only continuing work on the animation plug-in but has teamed up with Apple to make it a reality. (Read More)
: I wonder if this has anything to do with Android being Flash capable, or is Apple just listening to what their customers want? The lack of flash has been one of the biggest complaints I've heard about the iPhone since it's debut.
: Hallelujah, Thank you Jabesus!!! This means Hulu Movies, Ted.com, Vimeo, maybe even the camera (would have to moved to the front of the phone) and you could record live.
louisgray.com
By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)Recently, a question was raised to bloggers, should we shut up about Twitter? Eric Berlin responded with a simple no. He then goes on to list several reasons why Twitter may even go mainstream. Twitter actually going mainstream will be a big story as it is something different (Read More)
Mashable!
Twitter this. Tweet that. And every day, hoards of new applications plugging into the micro-messaging service.Twitter, clearly, is the next big thing in social networking. Like any growing trend, it attracts lots of buzz, and extensive coverage on sites like Mashable (see our Twitter archive for hundreds of examples). A (Read More)
Submitted by Joshchandler
from blog:
Now, according to Joystiq.com the guy who compiled the Twitter directory of video game companies using Twitter.com is someone who “knows more about social networking in gaming communities than the rest of us combined”, this said it seems a little post about video game companies not using social media written by (Read More)
KyleLacy.com
Let me run you through a scenario from my days in college.I was an Intern, an inexperienced and cocky Intern. This was my freshman year of college and my Father wanted me to complete an internship at his radio stations in Terre Haute, IN. Believe me, I wanted to go. I thought it would be a good experience to learn about sal (Read More)
Raavi's clipped stories
Three microblogging services have come to my attention recently. Here they are, with some observations. Rather than just listing a few new sites (new to me, that is), I've tried to consider how they might be useful in an educational context. (Read More)
Mashable!
The hot rumor today is that Facebook and Twitter held “several weeks of serious talks” about an acquisition recently, which have since come to an end after the two were unable to reach an agreeable price for the microblogging service. Alas, there are greater tragedies. While Twitter might be the “it” startup of 2008, it s (Read More)
: Facebook acquiring any of these would be pretty big news. Acquiring smugmug would be nice because I hate the current implementation of facebook's image hosting. Although I doubt I'd switch from flickr.
: Do you know something the rest of us don't? ;) In terms of numbers of users, Plurk would be next on the list, with Pownce following that. Neither matches Twitter very closely though. For a very Twitter-like experience, I'd suggest Identica.
Im more thinking about downtimes really, the unpredictable nature. As you said, it grows and grows...
For seomthing that so many people rely on for constant communication would do not harm and would be quite logical to have a common back-up in these down times. This would mean kinda agreeing within your own communities and adding each other sooner rather than later.
So its more a preventative measure, follow people now then you are more likely to be able to switch over and not loose much conversation.
Even it Twitter stalls for a few hours or an afternoon, which it did do last week, even that can cause difficulties. However, if everyone had one common back-up app, moving over would have been pretty painless.
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Part of the appeal to microblogging is that it enables people to send and receive information quickly. Sometimes messages and memes take on viral momentum due to the simplicity of the medium, including a case where a young girl from South Carolina went missing and users utilized their networks to spread the word.How Do You (Read More)
TechCrunch
London based uberVU is about to launch a discussion-tracking product that will aggregate comments, Twitters, FriendFeed comments, trackbacks and other information about any URL (like a blog post) on the Internet. There’s real demand for this. Any given blog post, for example, may have lots of comments and trackbacks ( (Read More)
: Im loving BackType so much. It's really got me hooked and has opened up a wonderful selection of new blogs and comments I would otherwise never had known about.
And because I follow carefully, the comments are almost certainly going to be useful to me and entice me to get involved. So looking at any other similar options with open arms.
Delicious/oliverg
A small-scale form of blogging, generally made up of short, succinct messages, used by both consumers and businesses to share news, post status updates and carry on conversations. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
The good folks at Mozilla are trumpeting a new report by global analytics service Net Applications that documented a 20% global marketshare for two out of four weeks in October. It's a new high bar of popularity for the 2nd most popular browser in the world.Firefox is safe, standards compliant, extensible...and not made by (Read More)
: 20% market is great. It's just a shame I still need to open Internet Explorer to watch FLASH videos. I'll be discontinuing ANY use of FF if it's not fixed shortly which makes me wonder just how much market share they'll give back to IE with this continued issue.
: Not just CPU usage, if I have a flash app running in a while I find the mem usage is tops of 300 MB. I know we use GBs of RAM these days, but still 300 MB just for a browser is kinda large I feel.