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Friday, March 19, 2010
Image by Scoobymoo via Flickr Nobody reads your blog unless the content is valuable and relevant, you have conversations and you build loyalty over time Your Twitterstream is boring unless you make it interesting with content that is relevant to your target audience and have the right mix of personality and conversation Your Facebook A lot of people are excited about social media and think it could have a hugely positive impact on their brand, their marketing and communications, the insight they get, the way in which they deal with customer service and many
 
Monday, March 15, 2010
server technology (Opera Unite, Firefox POW, etc) as a breakthrough technology, so people can put their own data into the cloud without paying Flickr or whomever. With rudimentary publishing possibilities provided by such programs as Opera Unite and Firefox POW as mentioned by Downes, we have a good beginning, as people can put on the cloud their own content. Something similar to bittorrent comes to mind, where anyone who Netsukuku is a p2p based new routing protocol that could - for the purpose of linking users’ computers in a p2p cloud - replace the IP numbers-based addressing and routing that is the system currently in use to link servers to users in the internet.
 
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
We use this model in a number of ways: As a mental model for understanding all the areas and skill sets required for community management and hopefully, to remind community managers that it is about assembling a internal team to gather all the required skills – not to try and be the expert in all of them individually As a tool for community managers to educate and set the expectations of colleagues and advocates within the organization As a roadmap for community managers looking to understand what is important to do given their current state of evolution, and in what order To organize
 

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ProtectTheHuman.com is a social platform that asks users to carry out a range of online actions in support of Amnesty’s campaigns, and to upload video and photos and bookmark content from all over the Web. This involved an audit, mapping and optimisation exercise of all official (Amnesty-run) and supporter-run groups and pages on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Bebo and blogs. Made by Many has worked with Amnesty UK since January ‘08, and helped them design and build ProtectTheHuman.com - their digital activism community. You can read more about it
Other examples are self-publishing services like Lulu , photo-sharing sites such as Flickr , video sharing sites such as Vimeo and  YouTube . Of course, a team of writers and technologists might be able to create cool DIY ideas, tips and tricks like Reader’s Digest did, but that centralised method of content creation simply doesn’t satisfy any more. Tags: Social Web opinion design digital DIY flickr fun Make Magazine If you want to understand ‘the social web’ and where it’s going, take a look at what the DIYists are up to. For years, DIY
It is the insight into the attitudes to branded content, pages and applications that is, however, most interesting from a social media marketing perspective. Rather than a brand trying to engage people separately in Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and every other social network and forum site, it is better to use these as gateways to somewhere else. Tags: Matt Rhodes Online communities Social Media Social Research released by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in the UK suggests that people are growing increasingly tired of requests to join brand pages or install brand applications in Facebook and other social networks .
Image by Kaptain Kobold via Flickr What makes this site particularly interesting, though, is its use of Twitter, Facebook and Flickr as a way of generating content for the site and promoting participation. They can contribute images by tagging their Flickr contributions with the same tag. LEGO is a brand that many people are very passionate about, a brand people love and we’ve written before about how they use segmentation to engage their consumer base from children to enthusiasts in an innovative way. Now they have continued their innovative approaches
Helping People Find You, Content as Mere Conversation Fodder, Letting Users said the success of Flickr depended on the premise that "you have to greet The value of the content itself, he says (in a message everyone in the 'Knowledge Content is just something to talk about." And BLOG Clay Shirky on Helping Users Identify Their Needs, and the Formula for Effective Social Networking
By coincidence, two articles on the issue of copyright in journalism have landed in my inbox today: one by Joel Postman in socialmediatoday concerning the legal and ethical issues of live tweeting from conferences and events (where Twitterers effectively publish a portion of the speaker’s presentation), and the other From Steve Myers at Poynter Online , about a recent case of an image from Flickr sourced by the Chicago Tribune. Either practice is more like reporting than reproduction, and would involve the “copying” of relatively small percentages of the content .” Web 2.0
Probably, Flickr or Picasa Web Albums. But I don’t know how to meaningfully manage streams of content ". It is just about the fact that we probably don’t know how to manage streams of content that just matter to us and the social networks we are part of. To train and educate, through whatever the learning activities we can come up with, our knowledge workers about the shift that we all It looks like this is going to be one of those weeks where I sense I will be putting together more than one blog post on one of my favorite topics as of late; of course, living " A World Without Email ".
Why do I feel so alone on a travel site like Dopplr , while I’m constantly meeting people all over the world at a photo site like Flickr ? It’s not enough to read case studies or understand the technology behind the multitude of online communities out there to find the answer to those questions – the social interactions, exchanges and content creation will always form the core experience of any community. Second Brain promises If you’re going to have any success building healthy, active and engaging social communities online, you’ve got to be endlessly curious about how they work.
They're taking content that lives elsewhere and not just mashing it up, but transforming it into something new. But there's also a new opportunity to innovate, beyond viralizing, mashing up, or recontextualizing content. Some of my favorite tools go another step further, transforming the content itself. I realized recently that several of my favorite things on the web have something in common. I've started to think this approach might be part of the next generation of social media services--tools that take advantage of data portability in new ways. We talk about data portability
Image by djfoobarmatt via Flickr Of much more importance is how you use it, the way in which you encourage people to engage with you and the quality of the content, comments and conversations that you have on your site. Tags: Matt Rhodes Required reading Social Media Word of Mouth Blog Business co-creation customer communities Cyberspace freshminds FreshNetworks innovation lee aase marketing Marketing and Advertising Mayo Clinic On the Web online communities podcast social media user-generated-content Virtual community web2.0 We highlighted Mayo Clinic in a recent post of examples of online communities in healthcare .