This week Gordon Brown made a major announcement on YouTube that totally backfired. That he used YouTube to do it is a sideshow. It’s the same for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and online communities. Tags: Charlie Osmond Social Media charlie osmond facebook freshminds FreshNetworks Gordon Brown iwexpo Member of Parliament online communities The UK press has been right to jump on this poor use of social media as a disaster for the Prime Minister. But let’s be clear, this is an example of how not to use a social media tool, it is not an example of the tool being

Can anyone name a corporate video on YouTube that does responds actively to comments?  Actually, which major Australian companies have actually responded on a YouTube video, anyone got an example? A nice positive article from Asher Moses, Sydney Morning Herald, with some stats on Natalie Tran, most viewed Australian on Youtube. This video has nearly 8,000 comments. A

Here is an interesting video on the social media revolution that I learned through my friend Don Lesser .  Many 0160;Many of you may have seen it as it had over 1.3 million views when I looked. There are some useful stats.

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As often happens with YouTube music videos, Rob’s link inspired me to look for more Jefferson Airplane live performances on YouTube. I recently found a link via Twitter to a live video of Jefferson Airplane doing White Rabbit in the 60s. It came from my fellow Fast Forward blogger and Twitter friend, Rob Paterson . Like the Chambers Brothers

He explains how Firefox developments my disintermediate YouTube: “ 8220; Although videos are available on the web via sites like youtube, they don’t share the same democratized characteristics that have made the web vibrant and distributed. I believe that problems like the ones we see with youtube are a symptom of the larger problem of the lack of decentralization and competition in video technology - very different than where the rest of the web is today. Nearly everything on the web is open but there is one exception to this, writes Christopher Blizzard of the Mozilla Foundation: “ There’s one exception to this: video on the web .”

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. If you find somebody posting videos about your product in YouTube then this is a sign that they care about you, your product and what they do. Image by MattRhodes via Flickr A

And they can suggest ideas by video by tagging on YouTube in the same manner. Tags: Innovation Matt Rhodes Social Media Social media case studies cocreation facebook flickr FreshNetworks ideas ideation innovation lego lego click legoclick social media social media case study Social network Twitter Virtual community YouTub Image by Kaptain Kobold via Flickr LEGO is a brand that many people are very passionate about, a brand people love and we’ve written before about how they use segmentation to engage their consumer base from children to enthusiasts in an innovative way.

Tags: Uncategorized IPTV projectcanvas social media social networking YouTub Last week, the BBC Trust gingerly announced provisional approval of the BBC’s Project Canvas . The aim of Project Canvas is to define a set of standards for set-top boxes that will allow integration of web and TV. Although, it isn’t clear exactly what the standards will consist of and what Project Canvas’ vision

In a world where fame can be had for the price of a YouTube video, being ignored means you don’t exist. Technorati Tags: Competition , gen y , generation y , u@30 , video , youtube ...Tags: Tags: Online Communities social networks u@30 video gen y youtube generation y youth Competitio When I wrote about Generations of Fear : Each generation is motivated by a hope and a fear.