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Image by coleydude via Flickr Still more people are contacts on LinkedIn where they know when I change job roles, qualifications or publications and speaking engagements. Tags: Matt Rhodes Online communities Social Media Social networks customer communities facebook freshminds FreshNetworks linkedin marketing On the Web online communities social media Social network social networking Twitter Virtual communit Some people follow me on Twitter, where I invariably write about work-related things and my interests in social media, marketing, branding, online and such like.

LinkedIn tells you how many ties you have at each degree of separation, but other than that you are not given much information about those ties. LinkedIn has another problem too: It makes it difficult for you to connect with your weak ties. No wonder LinkedIn is being eclipsed by other social network services! Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About February Issue, 2009

In this episode of Social Media Business podcast, the concept of freemium is introduced – what it is, how Flickr, LinkedIn, SecondLife are making millions of dollars from giving stuff away for free. On Flickr, maybe a 100 meg of uploads is fair, more is not. LinkedIn, in October 2009 had over 50 million members (plus 385 staff)   $75-100m – 1/4 from We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it?

Distributed Social Networking" (DiSO) is what a growing number of people are calling the move to aggregate and integrate our activities, data and social connections built up on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter and our personal blogs. (See Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard .

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In their website , they integrated flickr photo sets, Youtube videos, and a link to the weblog and wiki . sites are Youtube , Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning, and many others. Some time ago, I compiled some examples of what you can do with web2.0 tools for communication within a development project. In this

Image by jessamyn via Flickr Monster vs LinkedIn vs Twitter battle heats up ...Tags: It wasn’t the invention of the printing press per se that caused a revolution; it was when everybody learned to read. This extract from Antony Mayfield ’s excellent WOMMA presentation on social web literacy sums up nicely my thoughts on social media tools.

Flickr (including third party Flickr toys) - I love flickr. LinkedIn - I use it again because peers I care about do. Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use.

These social objects form the frame of focus for discussion and social interaction, be it a photo in Flickr or a post in a persons blog that is being discussed in the comments or tagged, annotated, or blogged about in another post, much of the social web is built upon social objects or the creation of sociality around objects. In the past I have describe Flickr as a narrow folksonomy , which is a rough synonym for collaborative tagging. Personal InfoCloud « Remote Presentation and Perception Matrix for Social Tools | Main | Selective Sociality and Social Villages » Getting to Know Collective and Collaborative One of the things that has been a little bothersome in the last year or two and has been the lack of understanding between the difference between two terms, collaborative and collective.