This week Gordon Brown made a major announcement on YouTube that totally backfired. That he used YouTube to do it is a sideshow. It’s the same for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and online communities. Tags: Charlie Osmond Social Media charlie osmond facebook freshminds FreshNetworks Gordon Brown iwexpo Member of Parliament online communities The UK press has been right to jump on this poor use of social media as a disaster for the Prime Minister. But let’s be clear, this is an example of how not to use a social media tool, it is not an example of the tool being

Can anyone name a corporate video on YouTube that does responds actively to comments?  Actually, which major Australian companies have actually responded on a YouTube video, anyone got an example? A nice positive article from Asher Moses, Sydney Morning Herald, with some stats on Natalie Tran, most viewed Australian on Youtube. This video has nearly 8,000 comments. A

The best examples of social media marketing, and the best online communities also engage people where they are - be that on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or blogs. 2009 Matt Rhodes Online communities Social Media Social networks co-creation customer communities facebook Ford Motor Company freshminds FreshNetworks innovation market research marketing Marketing 2.0 YouTub Image via Wikipedia There are many examples of big brands in social media (in fact you can find a whole range across different industries in our online community examples), but at the Marketing 2.0

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The same kinds of massive outpourings of messages, videos, and posts are finding their ways onto other social networking sites; executives from Facebook, YouTube, and, of course, Twitter suddenly find themselves doing interviews with the top broadcasters, who themselves are struggling to understand what this is all about. 2009). When I was thinking of a title for a session on Twitter at the Enterprise 2.0 conference next week here in Boston, I, of course, had no idea what would transpire in Iran a few months hence.

As often happens with YouTube music videos, Rob’s link inspired me to look for more Jefferson Airplane live performances on YouTube. I recently found a link via Twitter to a live video of Jefferson Airplane doing White Rabbit in the 60s. It came from my fellow Fast Forward blogger and Twitter friend, Rob Paterson . Like the Chambers Brothers

He explains how Firefox developments my disintermediate YouTube: “ 8220; Although videos are available on the web via sites like youtube, they don’t share the same democratized characteristics that have made the web vibrant and distributed. I believe that problems like the ones we see with youtube are a symptom of the larger problem of the lack of decentralization and competition in video technology - very different than where the rest of the web is today. Nearly everything on the web is open but there is one exception to this, writes Christopher Blizzard of the Mozilla Foundation: “ There’s one exception to this: video on the web .”

common debate among those working in marketing and social media is between engaging people on your own domain - in an online community that you build and manage yourself - and engaging people where they are - out in social networks like Facebook and MySpace or on YouTube, external blogs or forums. If you find somebody posting videos about your product in YouTube then this is a sign that they care about you, your product and what they do. Image by MattRhodes via Flickr A

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Use it to engage people in Twitter just as you might engage people in Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and other social networks and online communities. YouTub Image by MartinPhotoSport via Flickr This week I was asked to talk to the Marketing Directors Network in London about how organisations are using Twitter. We’ve written before about how celebrities are using Twitter and how organisations