Jeremiah: Having been a community manager, I’ve real soft spot to those that are on the front lines, embracing customers using social media tools. Every so often, I hear of really excited folks that landed new jobs, and David thanked me for my blogging and … Continue readingGuest Post: “How I Became a Community Manager” by David Peck
On my twitter profile page, I have a link to a post that indicates how I use Twitter. I try to be forthcoming on what to expect. It’s also no secret that I tweet links to just about anything I think is interesting, add anyone … Continue readingGetting mixed signals about my Twitter Usage: Tell me what you think
This series of posts tagged On The Move (see archives) is to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions in the social media industry. Congrats to those on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Kris Smith is now … Continue readingPeople on the Move in the Social Media Industry: March 6, 2008
I would love to do some formal research on this on the day job, the following is just highlighting a probabble definition and formula, it certainly doesn’t include any formal methodology or practiced process. There’s been a great deal of talk about ‘virality’ or ‘word … Continue readingSocial Media Measurement Attribute: Defining Velocity
I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an analyst. I’ve created a new category called Digest (peruse archives). Start with the Web Strategy Summary, then quickly scan the succinct and categorized headlines, read … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: March 5, 2008
Shifting to Onboard Camera on N95 Just about every year, I drop, lose, break, my camera. This time, I dropped my Canon IS700 in the streets of San Diego, and now it only takes blurry pics. No worries, I squeezed 10,000 (estimated) thousand photos out … Continue readingDitching the Digital Camera for the Mobile Phone (Onboard camera)
(I’ve shifted back to blogging, as some folks were overwhelmed with my tweet updates, this makes more sense rather than a blow-by-blow tweet report) What is OpenSocial First, if you don’t know what OpenSocial is read this: Explaining OpenSocial to your Executives. Forrester will be … Continue readingOpenSocial, by Google’s David Glazer
Live notes as I sit in the front row at Graphing Social Platform. Web Strategy Summary MySpace continues to beckon to developers to build widgets and applications on their social networks. They are friendly to industry-wide specs such as OpenSocial and are putting efforts to … Continue readingMySpace Developer Platform: Jim Benedetto, MySpace
Many interactive marketers and web strategists are unsure of what to do, either to create a campaign on existing social networks (like Facebook, MySpace or Bebo) or to create their own branded social network around or on their corporate website. Charlene’s keynote yesterday outlined that … Continue readingForrester Report: Online Communities: Build Or Join? (The answer is ‘When’)
The four panelists did a great job yesterday handling my barrage of questions in the Widget Strategies and Social Platforms session, Hooman Radfar (Clearspring Technologies, Inc.), Walker Fenton (NewsGator), Pam Webber (Widgetbox), Ben Pashman (Gigya) discussed widgets strategies. I asked each of them to suggest … Continue readingWidget Strategies Panel
