I’ve decided to create myself a SXSW-free Twitter. Unfortunately I only have a half-way-house solution feeding the Twitter stream through Yahoo Pipes and hacking out all SXSW mentions. For those that don’t know Yahoo Pipes it is a way of producing mashups and filters using a graphical interface for connect up “pipes of data” and little processing units. Right, that’s it. I’ve had enough of not being at SXSW and getting assailed with people going to cool lectures, eating Tex-Mex and drinking cocktails.

It analyzes and reports on daily trends within the blogosphere. BoardTracker – A useful tool for scanning and tracking within forums. Commentful – This service watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts and similar content such as Flickr or Digg. FriendFeed Search – Scans all FriendFeed activity. Google Alerts –Daily or real-time alerts emailed to you whenever a specific keyword (chosen by you) is mentioned. HowSociable? – A simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web. Icerocket – Searches a variety of online

We’ve looked at some such examples before with how organisations can use Twitter . The study gives each of these Top 100 brands a score based on their engagement across more than ten social media channels, including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, wikis, and discussion forums. Yahoo! Image by communista_unicorn via Flickr There are some great examples of brands using social media that we use a lot at FreshNetworks .

When I was thinking of a title for a session on Twitter at the Enterprise 2.0 People have turned their Twitter avatars green in support of the protests. Type "#Iranelection" in the Twitter search bar and endless tweets come up. Just since I started writing this post, 846 more tweets have come up with the same hash conference next week here in Boston, I, of course, had no idea what would transpire in Iran a few months hence. But here we are, witnessing the power of 140 characters, the energy that can be released with the greatest economy of writing.

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.

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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.

Does the Google brand have enough personality to cut it on Twitter? I’m not having a good relationship with Google on Twitter so far. And here’s Yahoo’s reaction: ...Tags: Tags: dysfunctional Google Uncategorized men brand personality Yahoo twitte Math weirdos amongst you will no doubt find this hi-lar-i-ous but I just found it remote and even a tiny bit chilling. I’m not sure - their binary code greeting makes 2001’s HAL computer seem well-adjusted.

As one commentator said: “ This will not kill Twitter , Facebook, Ning or [insert social network here].” (But if you’re still desperate to give it a go, please don’t ask this guy if he’s got a spare invite. Twitter struggled manfully with the news that the US president had been awarded the Nobel peace prize, as users went Obama-rama. The microblogging service was simultaneously 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… The blogosphere was abuzz this week after the US Federal Trade Commission ordered Celebs and Bloggers to ‘fess up if they’ve been paid to plug - or face a whopping $11,000 fine.

They’re also connecting via Twitter, LindedIn and Plaxo, and eBlogger. Nine of the Top 20 websites in Malaysia are social networking sites, and the top 6 sites are Yahoo!, Technorati Tags: Bebo , David Gibson , Facebook , Inter-Asia , Malaysia , MySpace , social media , the star , Twitter ...Tags: There’s a great article in The Star (Malaysia) by David Gibson of Inter-Asia. Malaysian Internet users like Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster.