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Category Archives: social media
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
This diagram, entitled The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook shows what has happened to the default privacy settings on Facebook over time. Before you start sharing things, make sure you’re aware just how far they might go.
Canabalt – a social app
You may not have heard of Canabalt – a flash game that has been ported to the iPhone. I played the flash version a long while ago, and found it to be a fun, compelling game, but nothing to write home about. Then, while checking twitter, I saw this tweet from a friend: @becjeeRebecca Jee …
KinoKuniya Australia – a story of poor customer service (and how they fixed it)
A friend of mine – karen – is one of the most book-oriented people I know. She has a massive book collection, is thoroughly well-read, and is also a big advocate of comic books and graphic novels. As such, she has long been going to KinoKuniya and advocating that others do the same. It’s her …
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community design patterns
An excellent presentation on a “pattern language” for communities shows a number of common touch-points in building a community website. If you’ve ever struggled to explain a social media site to someone, reading through this presentation will help you understand what all social media sites have in common. Knowing these patterns is important not just …
The Social Landscape for Marketers
[ Servant of Chaos ] The Social Landscape for Marketers – a chart that explains the strengths and weaknesses of a number of different social networking sites, across categories of customer communication, brand exposure, traffic to site, and search engine optimisation. For good measure, here’s a chart with some facts and figures about Google.
character limits on twitter
I was looking around for a short post that summarised the character limits on the various twitter fields, and I couldn’t find it anywhere, so I worked it out. Here it is for future reference: Username: 15 characters Full name: 20 charactersLocation: 30 charactersURL: 100 charactersBio: 160 characters Tweet: 140 characters (obviously)For a retweet, the …
Have an objective, not just a tactic
Some diagrams to help you think beyond “we need to be on the latest social media site” to having an objective, and reaching that objective.
tweeting at conferences
Has tweeting at conferences had its day already? Good discussion in the comments there too. This post goes beyond the talk of *sigh* tweckling (twitter heckling, where the audience teams up against the speaker, saying increasingly harsh things) and looks at whether you are giving the proceedings your full attention if you’re trying to sum …
thoughts on sharethis
[ zesty ] Are you sharing for the sake of it? A few reflections on the “ShareThis” button and its competitors: do people use this button on a regular basis, or is copy-paste of URLs still easier / better?