Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category
Afraid of What, Exactly?
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 11th, 2009
I constantly hear people talk about their fear of letting their employees talk to the public via social media.
As if most of them weren’t talking to the public every day in the course of business, either in person or on the phone.
Tags: enterprise, Social Media
CubeTree Launches As A Facebook + FriendFeed + Twitter For Enterprise
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 11th, 2009
As they mature, social networks are increasingly becoming viable systems for information management. We’re seeing this with Facebook, and with FriendFeed and even to some extent with Twitter. The combination of social graph plus information is a powerful one. And that’s exactly why CubeTree wants to port that idea over to the enterprise world.
Tags: enterprise, launch, Social Media, tool, tools
The Art and Science of Blogger Relations – Updated eBook
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 11th, 2009
I’m happy to announce an updated version of my free ebook, “The Art and Science of Blogger Relations” is now available on Scribd and Docstoc as a free download. For all of you Kindle enthusiasts, it is also available in Amazon’s Kindle Store.
Tags: blogger, blogging, ebook, Social Media
Teenagers who made Facebook may also destroy it
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 8th, 2009
Facebook might not hold onto its huge success for much longer, thinks Malcolm Gladwell, author ofThe Tipping Point, Blink andOutliers.
The author, whose books have dealt with what defines popularity and what underlies decisions, told RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium that what makes Facebook different is not just the social networking phenomenon or the number of users it has, but the age and attention span of those users.
Tags: facebook, gladwell, malcolm gladwell, Social Media
Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared?
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Business, Social Media on May 8th, 2009
While everyone is talking about social tools and services in the consumer market, things have been comparatively quiet in the enterprise market. Yes, there are very noteworthy case studies out there (Sun, Wachovia, TransUnion, and also some of our clients), but the number of initiatives and scale can’t stand up to the things happening in the consumer market.
Tags: Business, social, Social Media
Examples of online communities in the TV industry
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 8th, 2009
There is a lot of talk about the way ‘old’ and ‘new’ media combine – how newspapers are using Twitter and how television broadcasters and production companies are working with online media. So this week we take a look specifically at examples of online communities in the TV industry
Tags: communities, social, Social Media, social networking, tv
United Methodist Church Listens, Responds to Social Media
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 8th, 2009
… the United Methodist Church, has opted for a boldly redesigned web presence to ask users, “What if church wasn’t just a building, but thousands of doors? Each of them opening up to a different concept or experience of church – and a journey that could change our world. Would you come?”
10ThousandDoors.org goes far beyond a Facebook page or Twitter account. It pulls in information scraped from the web to track trending topics, then curates collections of articles on those subjects.
Tags: church, social, Social Media, social networking
Ning Apps Bring A New Dimension Of Flexibility And Power To The Social Network Platform
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 7th, 2009
Ning’s social network-building platform is getting a huge boost today, with the private beta launch of Ning Apps, a new suite of applications and features that Network Creators will be able to deploy across their networks with only a few clicks.
Tags: ning, Social Media, social networking
Microsoft Vine: Social Networking Now Saves Lives
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 7th, 2009
Pretend for a minute that you’re not already up to your ears in social networks and take a look at a new offering from Microsoft (news, site). Aptly named Vine, the social tool is designed to connect strings of people for the specific purpose of passing along news.
But this ain’t no 140 character good time. Fashioned as a sort of life-support system, Vine’s shtick is to connect users with the people and places they care about the most, when it matters the most: in times of crisis.
Tags: humanitarian, microsoft, Social Media
Top 5 Ways To Screw Up When Using Social Media To Build Your Business
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 7th, 2009
Almost everyone is using social media in some capacity to promote themselves and their businesses because the various forums offer an immense opportunity to network. However, there are some things to avoid when using social media for business purposes.
Tags: advice, Business, list, Social Media
Firefox Could Be the Real Facebook Challenger
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Social Media on May 5th, 2009
Firefox doesn’t keep track of the number of users it has but Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, said today that the company estimates that there are 270 million people using the browser. That’s 35% more users than Facebook has signed up for accounts (200 million), and almost triple the number of people Facebook says log in to the social network every day (100 million).
Tags: browser, facebook, firefox, Social Media, social networking
IDG creates social media ad opportunities
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Advertising, Social Media on May 5th, 2009
The world is all a-twitter with social media. If only someone could make money off it.
IDG Communications is going to try. The publisher ofComputerworld and other enterprise IT publications and Web sites has teamed with SocialMedia.com, a social media advertising company, to launch a social media-oriented infrastructure for b-to-b marketers on IDG Web sites.
Tags: ad, Advertising, Social Media