Are you using website widgets effectively? listed 10 Types of Widgets for Your Blog or Website . Now, I discuss strategies for employing widgets on your site. While using website widgets is not rocket science, here are some important concepts worth keeping in mind: I Widgets Are Content - Recently, a Twitter connection told me he liked my content and use of widgets.

A variety of iWidget widgets available in the catalog - after you read the 5900+ word licensing agreement - it's pretty straight-forward. Also, in the Twitter widget -I read this, " When prompted provide your Twitter account information.This will be stored into Notes account preferences and will be a one time setting." Do you like the widgets that are available on Lotus Connections in the Greenhouse, like the Facebook, Flickr, But I'm looking for a statement of direction on OpenSocial. Which leads to a question - will people be comfortable providing their

While you are reading the presentation outline below I’d like you to think about the Twitter change today. Today Twitter turned off “see replies to those I’m not following”. Twitter are planning changing it - you won’t see my tweet at all. Therefore if I’m having a conversation with @garyphayes , and you follow me but not him, you used to see my conversation, even though it’s “one sided” for you. This has sever impact for Twitters “ripple-ability”.

Somewhere during the discussion, I wondered aloud how OpenSocial should be compared/contrasted and put into perspective within the enterprise as the most viable widget/gadget effort around. The asymmetric model used by Twitter, where each individual chooses people to follow, to manage their own attention. In particular, there was a lot of discomfort with the assumption that the container During the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last year, I moderated a discussion between IBM and Oracle on the topic of portals and its relation to Enterprise 2.0.

Your mission - go to the social network Twitter, write a haiku about English summer (or their approximation there of), tweet it, with the hashtag (label) of #kingsplace.  From Twitter People travelling into Kings Cross in the mornings are invited to submit  Haiku-style poems  on the subject of the  British Summer  from their mobile phones, using  Twitter , and gain a chance to see their work displayed From Kinsgplace website : Welcome to the Great British Summer Haiku Competition!

So this is what I see happening on Twitter: Have you seen our new “I LOVE TIM TAMS” widget, you can add it to your blog! RedTulipLovers : @SilkCharm Our “family favourites” pack has been tweeted about 2,456,987 times on Twitter - follow me at @RedTulipLovers for… Salesforce is integrating the Twitter API into it’s CRM. Social networks meets market intelligence meets customer relationship management systems might just equal spam. Spam: food for thought GaryPHayes : @SilkCharm Watcha doin’ Silk?

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To conclude Twitter week on Portals and KM, I want to share 10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009 by Rachel Cunliffe on Mashable. I find that many people already list their twitter feed – I do. am suggesting to my blog clients to list all the active twitters in their firm on their blog in this manner. I am reorganizing her content to reflect its availability and then providing my thoughts in most cases.

Another was distributed communications through social media - Twitter, widgets, RSS, whatever.  Homeland Security Terror Alert Widget The American’s have Homeland Security Preparedness and Response including colour coded widgets: This might reach the iPod generation who only If you are looking to download Social Media and PR Crisis Communication courseware for your workshops, it’s here .  I’m watching 4 Corners program on the Marysville bushfires.

I recently posted my initial Twitter Lists  and we also created l ists for @darwineco. Here are some useful Twitter List ideas from others.  0160; First, Rob Paterson posted,  Twitter Lists – 1st Twitter feeds   and the Darwineco one.  We 1st Insight?   0160;  Among other things he wrote, “What I have immediately