Google Wave is going to take this digitally-enabled conference back-channel a step further. At the recent Ecomm conference delegates were provided with Google Wave accounts. Sprinkeled with a good dose of integrated offline and online real-time social media .   <– way too many social media buzzwords. Image courtesy of Shutterstock Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat.

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It’s a 6-month-old presentation that Charlene Li made at SXSW’09, but with Google launching Sidewiki recently, I thought it would be very useful to re-visit the concept of how a social network is going to change. Here’s what the official Google blog says about it: If you’re curious, you can read more on I found this while going through Slideshare over the weekend. With Sidewiki, you can write your comments to a post alongside it, and they’ll be ordered according to relevancy, preserved for all time.

Which is exactly why their own sign-on link is below Google and Facebook in the hierarchy I mentioned earlier. Designing For Social Traction Tags: Social Web design Facebook Google signup socia Signup forms are always a pain in the arse. For For a long time, the volume of email addresses captured (as if they could get away) has been a pointless little metric.

One clear and valuable use for them has become clear – as a free social media monitoring tool. Twitter Lists for social media monitoring Social media monitoring is the best way for brands to understand who is currently talking about them online, what they are saying, to whom and where. So Twitter Lists Image by koalazymonkey via Flickr We’ve posted before about why Twitter lists are great and some of the uses that can be made with them.

Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn , and the Ning family of social networking sites are the most popular social networks with wide business appeal. have taken the time to position my self on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Ning, with approximately 1K, 33K, 3K and 2K connections on each network respectively, consistent with my online social networking strategy . Each social networking site The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.

You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . I’m finding tools like IBM’s Activites and Google Wave as the new email/IM/attachments space…where conversations take place using a multitude of tools, are threaded in an open place, and don’t have to take place in an existing group space, but instead can be created on-the-fly when the activity arises. A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it.

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In social media it is becoming clearer and clearer that the big thing for 2010 is location-based tools. We’ve posted before about how businesses can use Foursquare and only yesterday about Fourwhere , the Foursquare and Google Maps mashup. Of course, there is a serious downside to location-based tools (as we saw with Please Rob Me ) and people should be aware of and sensible about any information they share in social media. It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody makes predictions at the end of a year about ‘the big thing for next year’.