On the off-chance you’ve been living under a rock, Flipboard is this amazing tool that allows you to aggregate your social feeds – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Tumblr, SoundCloud, Vimeo, etc – into one, intuitive interface. It’s a really an amazing experience and now has around 20 million users. On the off-chance that there is a rock on top of the rock...
This is a great video from Altimeter, outlining the benefits of being a social enterprise as opposed to simply using social media. Enjoy!
I posted about App.net back in August and have noticed a serious drop-off in Tweets from @daltonc – for painfully obvious reasons – in recent months. This is a great conversation and if you want to get to the App.net conversation, it begins at 16:30.
I’m not a huge fan of using SoLoMo (short for Social Local Mobile) but there are some interesting numbers in this infographic. Enjoy!
Check out these Goggles from Zeal Optics with a built in HD camera. More than a novelty, this type of technology is going to extend the real-time experience of social networking. This is one of the things Google’s Hangouts/Project Glass wants to promote. Imagine logging in to Newschoolers to watch some amazing new skiing talent pull off some tricks real-time, from his viewpoint. The usage...
It looks like Hugh MacLeod has launched his own animation studio called the Social Object Factory. I’ve blogged about social objects (Hugh’s invention) and I like the sounds of this. The quote below is from the site and lets you know what it’s all about . . . Social objects become your touch points. They are the rally cries that call your community to action. They inspire...
Social is not something you do; it’s something you are. Or in the case of many CEOs, it’s something they aren’t. CEOs of the future are going to look very different. I think they’ll have started as product managers with a knack for online interaction. (This video/infographic is based on stats from this report.)
I was someone who benefitted from Klout’s new algorithm released on August 9th, with my score increasing by 10 points! What’s most interesting is the concept of Moments, which hasn’t been released yet. The idea is simple; show me the impact of the content I create. Think of it as analytics for what resonates. This will help Klouters – important point here -Â focus on what...
Marketing Is Dead – blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/mar… Excellent post from Bill Lee on Harvard Business Review #socialmedia #socialmarketing
— MichaelMyers (@MichaelMyers) August 11, 2012
One of the biggest changes that social media brought about was around content creation. In the early 2000s, anyone with access to the Internet and a minimal amount of technical skill, could be heard. Blogs were one of the first mediums people utilized to express themselves and from there the evolution continued. This evolution has gone through two distinct phases and I believe we’re about...