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- Monetizing Social Media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthlessSomething is worth exactllywhat someone else is willing to pay for it.Couldn't be because they stink?Their revenue shortfall and lack of growth could just as likely be traced to their notorious right wing bias. As the neocons fall...
- Tags: MySpace, social media, advertiser, social networking, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Monetizing Social Media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless
- News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...
- Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- 59% of internet users use Social Media to vent about customer-care experience
- 59% of internet users use social media to “vent” about a customer-care experience. 74% of internet users choose companies/brands based on others’ customer-care experiences shared online, according to Society for New Communications Research. 72% research companies’ customer care online prior to purchasing products and services at least sometimes. 84% consider...
- Tags: Internet User, Social Media, Customer, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Upcoming panel on exploiting the social graph
- At a conference I attended last month on social media law (I have some interesting notes I'll post soon), I was struck by how lawyers for social media giants such as Facebook, MySpace, Google, find speedy ways to accommodate powerful copyright holders on infringement issues. When it comes to...
- Tags: Social Media, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Interesting Social Media profile data
- Interesting social media profile dataScreencastsRegarding the use of video in the enterprise, I'd suggest that once the concept of screencasts becomes more common, along with the tools to make them, video usage will soar.I say that because screencasts are an extremely effective mechanism for conveying how to do something--the ultimate...
- Tags: Corporate communications, social media, video
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Interesting Social Media profile data
- Dale Vile of boutique analyst house Freeform Dynamics has released raw data from a social media survey his firm conducted in September, 2007. Given the data is six months old, the patterns may have changed. However, some of the inter-relationships are worth noting. The following graphic indicates the different patterns...
- Tags: Data, Blog, Social Media, Dale, Wiki, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Social Media and enterprise power relationships
- Social media is a magnet for hype because it embodies the specifically Western desire to create democracy everywhere. Blogs, wikis, Twitter, and other "flattening" tools transfer power from IT to users, giving social media practitioners the special fervor of those fighting for their own version of...
- Tags: Social Media, Dennis, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and Social Media
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social mediaMaybe the root problem is......The seemingly total inability to spell or proof read? This blog is unreadable on its face apart from the blather of whatever the argument might be -- "argingerging," "ligs anogs," "chaineasinleasing hhuge," "Onoblem. Onlat can retrocan." Is this insider...
- Tags: poverty, social media, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, incoherence, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and Social Media
- Over the last few months I've been listening with growing alarm at the claims made for enterprise 2.0 and social media. Or rather the lack of claims coupled to an incredible amount of posturing. What concerns me greatly is that in the mad rush to all things X2.0, we seem...
- Tags: DNA, Network, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, CXO, Social Networking, Biotechnology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other Social Media
- Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social mediaWell when you are comcast..isnt it COMCASTIC!?and providing the level of service (wait what service?) they do..you need to keep your name from totally going down the tubes. Look at their latest FCC debacle and how they "changed" to avoid further regulation and/or...
- Tags: Blogging, Comcast Corp., Comcast monitoring Twitter, social media, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other Social Media
- Have a complaint with cable company Comcast? Don't bother calling their helpline: Instead write a blog entry or, better still, send a 'tweet' or two via Twitter threatening to "expend significant energy over the next three weeks trashing Comcast." That's the lesson taught by TechCrunch founder and co-editor Mike Arrington,...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Comcast Corp., Blog, Social Media, Twitter, Blogging, Internet, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Fox Interactive reshuffles: Social Media and making money tough
- Fox Interactive confirmed Friday that it has reshuffled its management and ad operations--a sign that problems monetizing Myspace persist. First, the generic headline from the statement that confirmed a lot of coverage. Fox Interactive named Adam Bain to be president of Fox Interactive Media Audience Network. Key...
- Tags: Revenue, Fox Interactive Media, Social Media, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., MySpace, FIM, PaidContent, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Are trolls the rednecks of the Social Media world?
- Are trolls the rednecks of the social media world?Calling a troll a 'redneck' would be entirely too graciousWhile one can make the argument that trolls and rednecks might not "know no better" when it comes to minding their manners, I have a troll who deliberately visits to make pointed comments...
- Tags: Blogging, redneck, troll, social media
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- News to know: Microsoft, Apple update techniques; Ubuntu; Hacking Java; XP SP3
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates Compare and contrast gallery right. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta - making life easier for Windows users Nate McFeters: Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2 ...
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Technique, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Hacking, Social Media, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Are trolls the rednecks of the Social Media world?
- The topic of trolls, people who take time to leave inane, usually abusive comments, that kill conversation on blogs, and forums, and other types of social media is interesting. Check back later this week for more on trolls and my theory about troll culture... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Social Media, Troll, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- IT failures and Social Media
- Shel Israel, co-author with Robert Scoble of the influential book on blogging, Naked Conversations, recently interviewed me regarding social media and IT failures. I used the interview to consolidate my views on several IT failure-related issues. Here's a summary of the interview; the topics are Shel's, but...
- Tags: Information Technology, Social Media, Failure, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- The music business is dead. Or dying. Or morphing. Or all of the above
- Five hundred music business execs gathered today at the Digital Music Forum East conference in New York. To read Nate Anderson's account in Ars Technica, attendees differed on the matter of the importance of record labels. Sentiments were expressed that because the record companies...
- Tags: Social Media, Music, Music Business, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Will Web users flock to Flock?
- On Working Webware, ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Webware editor Rafe Needleman sit down with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin to find out about the company's social media browser, its role in the open-source community, and how it plans to compete against rivals Microsoft and Mozilla. Farber and Needleman...
- Tags: Web, Social Media, Rafe Needleman, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Personal Technology
- Videos 2008-02-22
- 34% of health searchers use Social Media to find useful information
- 34% of health searchers use social media resources to delve into health-related topics, with Wikipedia and online forums and message boards the most important individual tools, according to iCrossing. Social media holds a particular appeal for 18-to-34-year-old health searchers. Men appear more likely than women to use online social media...
- Tags: Social Media, Health Care, Health Searcher, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, NB
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Naked IT: Shel Israel on Social Media and IT (includes podcast)
- Naked IT: Shel Israel on social media and IT includes podcastDeja Vu all over againYou said: "Many IT departments have already discovered users adopting social media tools, perhaps bypassing corporate policies in the process."Were you around when PCs were first being introduced to organizations through the back and side doors...
- Tags: Podcasts, Shel, IT Organizations, social media, podcast, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
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