At LIFT we talked about Internet addiction, that turned into an article on the BBC. I spoke up and said that my addiction got me lots of benefits. More friends. Invites overseas. And lots of interesting experiences including dinner with Douglas Engelbart (still one of the highlights of my tech tour).
Ning – Rise Of The Social Niche-Work
Ning.com is a site that enables users to create their own social networks on any topic they want useing a log of social media tools like photo sharing, video sharing, blogs etc.
There are an amazing array of features avalable and all customizable through a nice ajaxy interface. Basically if you want to create your own version of myspace or facebook for your own college you can, think of it like yahoo groups 2.0. Check out the Battlestar Galactica group on Ning
Advanced PR Forum – Social Media Takes Center Stage
Bulldog Reporter, Advanced PR Forum, Olympic Collection, Los Angeles
USA Today Goes Social
With the significant redesign of USA Today’s website, the Gannett publication has taken steps to making its audience part of the news presentation.
Product (RED): Smart Social Marketing?
In a great post over at PSFK – Piers publishes the content of a conversation he had with Julie Cordua, the VP of Marketing for the often talked about Product (RED) social marketing campaign.
Survey: Corporate Use of Social Media
Internal communication research and training firm Melcrum is conducting a survey on social media usage in large companies.
A note I received today from MD Robin Crumby said:
Social Media Marketing – the Latest Buzz
When Strategic Marketing Montreal (SMM) came on the scene in 2002, there was very little confusing competition for that acronym, SMM.
Ning – The Social Networking Engine
For something that was created by legendary Netscape founder Marc Andreessen — the Blake Ross of his day, for you Firefox fans — the social-media “engine” called Ning has kind of been flying under the radar for awhile.
Health, Search, And Social Media
People who search for health related issues online are exposed to a large amount of user-generated media. They are frequently relying on corporate, nonprofit and government Web sites along with blogs and other social media according to a study from Envision Solutions done in December.
Can the Next President be Elected by Social Media?
Way back on February 9, 2004, I wrote a famous (well, Doc Searls
linked to it) post called The Internet Does Not Scale/The Internet Is Not Random (scroll down) on the collapse of Howard Dean’s mostly internet-fueled campaign in the cornfields of Iowa. It said, in part: