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. Since just before Christmas we’ve been working with Amnesty UK’s web team on a project to optimise the use of external social media services. 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 here - in Charlotte’s blog

Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Editorials Columnists Contributors Letters The Public Editor Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos February 15, 2008, 1:18 pm Is MySpace Good for Society? Dubner Two little words — “social networking” — have become a giant buzzphrase over the past couple of years, what with the worldwide march of Facebook and headline-ready stories about Web-assisted suicides

Facebook , MySpace , Twitter , LinkedIn and Ning are ranked 4th, 11th, 25th, 89th and 154th among all websites in the world, respectively. Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn , and the Ning family of social networking sites are the most popular social networks with wide business appeal. From a business point of view, MySpace has become primarily a niche site for the music industry. The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.

Myspace Music Australia has launched. It socializes the find-filter-forward mechanism a lot better, apparently. Kevin Rudd’s MySpace Music Playlist My Happiness’ by Powderfinger Kevvie On MySpace Music Find cool music, filter through it (list friends), and then forward on. Also makes it discoverable. 

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When brands are getting started in social media , they really benefit from understanding who is currently talking about them online, what they are saying, to whom and where. After auditing what your brand footprint currently is, you can begin to make decisions about where you should have a presence, the issues of interest to people in social media and the discussions and debates that your brand can both benefit from and contribute to. Image by clownbastard via Flickr A

Social media monetization is a funny thing – most people don’t understand that where there are people, there is money. Nick Roshon asks why Facebook revenue is so low compared to MySpace. venture to guess that MySpace Google ad dea l is included in their $2.17 It is highly improbable that the day will come when millions of people together will not mean money. Why?

common debate among those working in marketing and social media is between engaging people on your own domain - in an online community that you build and manage yourself - and engaging people where they are - out in social networks like Facebook and MySpace or on YouTube, external blogs or forums. There is, of course, a place for both of these things - engaging people in social networks can often be more suitable for campaign-based activities. Image by MattRhodes via Flickr A

After what feels like an inordinately long labour (mostly because Facebook kept on changing), we’re proud to give birth to our latest white paper: ‘Moderation in Social Networks’ - free to download from our website. Marketing to consumers on social networks is a fast-growing area for brands, who now want to “fish where the fishes are” as Coca-Cola’s recent social media strategy put it. The aim of this guide is to arm brands and agencies with the knowledge they need to deal with user-generated content on social network pages. We’ve been moderating an increasing number of Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and YouTube pages and channels on behalf of agencies and brands, and, to be honest, it’s not as simple as it might at first appear.

Episode 1 of Social Media Business: What is “the experience economy” – is it the next step on from agrarian, commodity, service…? The first episode of my new podcast, Social Media Business, looks at revenue stream associated with providing your online community or social networks with a real world experience such as a meetup, conference or party. I’ve started a new podcast called “Social How does value – and therefore money, currency – shift when people are more willing to pay for intangible experiences than physical goods?