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 temperature for your location or, for that matter, any … [Read more...]
Social Strategy: Time for Some Little Thinking
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 you head into the party, however, she stops you and hands you a … [Read more...]
Social Media: Your Peripheral Nervous System
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 after the teacher addressed the issue? The Silent Many and … [Read more...]
What Chefs Can Teach Us About Social Media
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 core of the problem is that most organizations ignore … [Read more...]
Melting Rock with RockMelt
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 profile pics of your Facebook friends online, while the border to … [Read more...]
What’s your social footprint?
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 and start to see that it's not just firm leadership … [Read more...]
Zeitgeist from the Cloud – Tapping your audience
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 as they hit the cloud, he was able to turn the audience in his favor. I saw this … [Read more...]
Making People the Molecule is Key (Even for the Enterprise)
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 than Booz, we wrestle … [Read more...]
CIO Twitter Dashboard
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 using Twitter as possible.We decided to leverage TwitStamp to create a grid of CIOs. TwitStamp offers … [Read more...]