(nearly 100) Here’s a list of journalists from Australian (mostly mainstream, some New Zealanders) media who have embraced, indeed are head over heels, in love with Twitter. Julie Posetti Trevor Cook put a dozen Australian Journalists on Twitter together. Let’s sit here and watch them. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes . Who watches the watchers themselves? By the way, the first social networking book I ever read was The Republic by Plato, mashing’up and misquoting Socrates.

Tweehive : ‘Fashioned by a group of creative nature enthusiasts,  Tweehive  is a mass role play by human beings of a bee colony on Twitter, which will be played on three specific days in July, August and September with a view to raise bee awareness, wonderment, interest, actions and to generate traffic to bee related sites and resources.’ 8217; This is one of the more creative activist interventions on Twitter, definitely! Here we go: 1.

There’s nothing quite like using Twitter to rally your supporters in a time of crisis — just ask the Mythbusters — but author Alice Hoffman seems to have gone a bit too far. The writer took her grievances to Twitter after Boston Globe reviewer Roberta Silman issued a mildly negative review of her new book ‘The Story Sisters.’ Julie Posetti wrote One of the rules of journalism that gets broken, unthinkingly, by us online is the name and shame convention . Journalists name senior executives for their naughtiness but tend to keep  junior

Two companies with very different results use Twinterns – interns who Twitter. She has increased Pizza Hut’s Twitter followers from 3,000 to more than 13,000 and successfully executed a sales promotion over the Fourth of July weekend . In London, a twittering intern for home-furnishings retailer Habitat got in big trouble last month after he sent out misleading tweets that included commonly searched words related to the protests in Iran . I guess there is a point in using (temp) interns – they are young, presumably social media savvy, cheap, and bring

Culture. Home About Subscribe jump to navigation A community of community managers on Twitter? Tags: twitter trackback So, I was about to beat my insomnia by falling asleep when I (for some reason) decide to go over my Google Reader and look what I find, a blog post I had to blog about. Now, couple that with my most recent post where I drew attention to the fact that social media sites Marketing Nirvana Marketing. Technology.

  The reaction that I often get when I introduce Twitter to my students is that it is something silly. Anyone who is being introduced to Twitter is likely to have such a reaction. But what I have also noticed is the creativity of some of my students in how they use Twitter. I get to hear remarks such as “you can’t do much in 140 characters” and “I’d rather be doing something instead of simply telling others what I’m up to.”

In case you missed them, find below our top five posts in July. Our most popular post is July highlights a great video from Guy Kawasaki presenting tens steps to innovation. Twitter 101 – a guide to Twitter for business July saw Twitter launch Twitter 101 ; a guide for businesses of how to use Image by Visentico / Sento via Flickr At FreshNetworks we aim to bring you the best posts in social media, online communities and customer engagement online.

Twitter — or, rather, the idea of a pervasive, public short messaging network — could be too important to be left under one entity’s control. The people behind the OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) movement say it’s time for the 140-character, publicly-subscribable format pioneered by Twitter to become an open standard, in part because, as last week’s attack showed, Twitter is as vulnerable as it is vital. After the Twitter outage in Farhad Manjoo (excerpts): “ Dave Winer , the pioneering programmer and blogger who runs Scripting.com, has been arguing for months that Twitter is untenable in its current form.

July 5, 2009 This is a collection of links and tweets Don't Twitter: Goldman Sachs is BLOG Links of the Week -- July tweets since the start of the month (I've been away), so it's much longer longer than usual.

In fact the 55+ age-group is the one that has seen the largest growth in the six month to July 2009 – an impressive 514% increase in users. Matt Rhodes Social networks customer communities facebook freshminds FreshNetworks istrategylabs On the Web online communities online networks Population social media Social network Social network service social networking Twitter Virtual community web 2.0 Image via Wikipedia The biggest group on Facebook are not university or college students, or even people in their 20s in their first job.