social media

Web 3.0 Density with Clima.me

June 21, 2011
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Over at Total Social Media, and as part of their Web 3.0 Lab, they’ve developed a pretty cool mashup of location and social/semantic data called Clima.me. Clima.me is a tool that measures the density of location-tagged data from a number of web apps (Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Yelp, and Foursquare) and kicks back a Web 3.0 [...]

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Social Strategy: Time for Some Little Thinking

April 8, 2011
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Imagine you’ve been invited to the most anticipated cocktail party of the season. Well in advance of the event, you anticipate the people you will meet and the exciting conversations you will have. Finally the evening comes and, as you arrive, the hostess greets you at the door and offers to take your coat. Before [...]

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Social Media: Your Peripheral Nervous System

March 8, 2011
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Remember when you were in school and sat there confused while the teacher continued teaching something you didn’t quite grasp? Then, after the first student raised their hand and said, “I don’t get it,” a number of other students raised their hand and said, “We don’t get it, either.” Remember how much better you felt [...]

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What Chefs Can Teach Us About Social Media

January 21, 2011
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It’s easy to begin using Social Media and the cost of entry is very, very low.  As a result, many organizations feel compelled to begin using social channels without thinking through exactly how they will use them.  Even though it’s easy to begin using social media, using it effectively can be difficult at best.
At the [...]

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Melting Rock with RockMelt

December 3, 2010
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I’ve been using RockMelt for a week or so now.  For those of you unfamiliar with RockMelt, it is a new browser that functions as a social desktop.  If you’re wondering what that looks like, consider a browser with social functions built right into the chrome of the application.  The far left border displays the [...]

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What’s your social footprint?

June 9, 2010
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At my day job, we’ve been looking at mobilizing our people to get the most benefit from our social channels.  We’ve encouraged people to begin blogging internally and we promote particularly salient posts to the outside world.  Blogging started slowly, but it’s picking up speed now as people begin to see the value in it [...]

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Zeitgeist from the Cloud – Tapping your audience

March 17, 2010

Jeffrey Veen has an interesting post over at his blog discussing a stream of Twitter data coming in while he was speaking at a conference. He says he felt as though he was cheating on an exam by “listening” to what the audience was saying as he was speaking. By addressing audience concerns [...]

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Making People the Molecule is Key (Even for the Enterprise)

March 4, 2010
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Bill Ives wrote an interesting initial look at Booz Allen’s Social Knowledge Management software.  Booz was wrestling with the task of getting 18K employees worldwide to collaborate more effectively and intimately.  They are solving it with a solution they call Hello.
My day job is working for a professional services firm.  Although we are much smaller [...]

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CIO Twitter Dashboard

June 12, 2009

Chris, the CIO/CTO of my day job brought his blog in-house. He is active on Twitter and wanted to provide a resource for other CIOs to find each other on Twitter. So, the concept for the CIO Twitter Dashboard was hatched. The idea is to consolidate on one page as many CIOs [...]

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