cafes, communication, and more
This one has been in my to-process file for a few days: Jason falls from social media explorer writing on why people talk about brands, and why they don’t. I polled folks on Twitter Saturday, asking what compels them to talk about brands. Almost to a person, the answer was something along the lines of, …
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Was watching a few online videos this morning, and stumbled upon this song from zefrank. Surprisingly effective.
A lot of people are linking to this article about twitter usage patterns based on a relatively large sample of users: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets. Perhaps I’m only following people who are in the 10% of users who are making over 90% of the tweets, but these numbers seem high to me.
[ barb ] Tips For Managing Multiple Social Media Accounts – some simple things here, but ideas that are worth noting.
Why Your Message Fails In Social Media. When a brand engages someone in a social media context, the opportunity is there to make use of a great deal of data. It is possible to engage people across a much broader segment of their life and interests than simply throwing a generic message at them. This …
The sheer length of this list of Aussie/NZ PR people on Twitter (66+15 = 81) surprised me. Perhaps it shouldn’t: clearly twitter is becoming more popular for some professions in Australia (and NZ).
A diagram that attempts to explain the nature of influence: the Influence Landscape framework (Beta)
Rapid turnover in the Web 2.0 space – just how many of those fancy web 2.0 companies have disappeared, and how many have been swallowed up?
Matt commented at length on an earlier post about the changing nature of friendship in the face of social media. He points out this Guardian article about the impact that video games and social media sites may have on children’s brains. I think there are two separate discussions to have here: one on the topic …
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Social Proof: A Tool for Determining Authority – a librarian discusses how it might be possible to apply offline methods for determining trust in a source to websites and other online phenomena. With bibliography!