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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The Community Roundtable A peer network for community managers and social media practitioners. Home About Membership Who We Are Partners Facilitators News & Mentions Our Mission Community Maturity Model The State of Community Management Roundtable Schedule #TheCRLive Lunches - Boston Blog Community
 
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Australia too has a massive increase in seniors in Facebook and social networks generally  in the last year or two.  Computer users aged 55 and over are the fastest growing group to sign up to sites such as Facebook and MySpace, often using them to keep up to date with the lives of family and friends, especially grandchildren interstate and overseas – assuming they aren’t among the growing number of younger users abandoning the social networking sites. Facebook has seen a surge of 513% of Senior Citizens and over 55’s joining in the USA.   I want to offer some
 
Monday, February 1, 2010
Like a hyperventilating claustrophobe stuck in a lift, the iPad pretty much sucked up all the social media air last week. This week: Facebook’s IPO ‘No’; Google’s Chinese impersonator; and Twitter’s stuttering stats. ON FACEBOOK ... ON TWITTER ... ON GOOGLE ... ON YOUTUBE ... BRANDS GET SOCIAL ... UNDER THE GAVEL ... SOCIAL STATS ... VIRTUAL AND GAMES ... THINKING ... ON FACEBOOK ... Facebook is going for gold with a mega-test of the Facebook Credits system on Farmville, the largest social game on the web. Ach. So it
 

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As Michael Brito put it, in his post: In social media, listening is only half the battle : Listening and responding are only half the battle when engaging with consumers online. Now, amongst other improved to their customer service offering, Comcast has also set up teams of employees who are encouraged to click around social networks or online forums. Chapman noticed a blemish It’s really helpful to look at what some good examples of what companies are doing with their listening skills: deflecting customer anger, researching new products, or correcting mis-information.
Bloggers and other social media contributors (i.e. After all, if our private information, discussed in our social network (with no thought for the Invisible Audience) ends up on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald, then why should the journalist remain safe from prying eyes? Let me show you what happens when social media writer /published author is aggrieved with a newspaper writer – and both have a broadcast medium to play in. One of the rules of journalism that gets broken, unthinkingly, by us online is the name and shame convention .
Last year, Forum One recognized that one of the key issues community and social media professionals face is that we (as an industry) are suffering from a lack of solid benchmarks, including compensation of online community and social media professionals. In July of 2008, as part of our ongoing research efforts with the Online Community Research Network , we conducted the first comprehensive study and gained valuable insight about online community and social media professional's compensation, team structure, and current job satisfaction. In
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A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « Here Come The Big Communities | Main | We Are Now Corporate Legit » January 10, 2008 Clearspace Alternatives I dont know if all of you know how blogs work on TypePad, but we all get a stats panel, and we can see where people are coming in. Heres Why Our core belief is that social media is 95% about people, and 5% about technology. One of the most popular avenue, not surprisingly, is searches.
Welcome to our round-up of all that's new, controversial or just plain weird on the social media scene in the last few days. THE HEADLINES… Facebook became embroiled in global politics this week, after pressure from some residents of the Golan Heights, a disputed region connecting Israel to Syria which was captured by Israel in 1967. Now users can opt to live in Israel. Social Media – it’s Chicken-Lickin’ Good. When British supermarket giant Asda discovered that an employee had posted a video of himself licking frozen poultry, it used the
After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented: As Juri Engstrom has noted, successful  social networks are not just about people connecting, but people connecting around content or information objects that matter to them. Tags: community knowledge sharing learning networks reflection social media technology stewardship skills the-big-questio It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. Nancy - I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic.
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There’s a misconception that everybody ‘gets’ social media . And that business, in particular, are all developing social media strategies. Whilst we have witnessed a monumental rise in social media use over the last 18 months or so, there are still some who are significantly more innovative than others. Image by Dan Dickinson via Flickr That everybody is taking part.
Semanti :A few months ago, after Facebook introduced Facebook Connect, Razorfish created a presentation that looked at the possibilities of a world with portable social graphs online. Portable Social Graphs - Imagining their Potential Tweehive : ‘Fashioned by a group of creative nature enthusiasts,  Tweehive  is a mass role play by human beings of a bee colony on Twitter, Here we go: 1.