What Google is trying to tell us.
Posted 14 July 1st, 2009
WHAT GOOGLE IS TRYING TO TELL US. FOCUSING ON FUTURE MARKETS. The 28th of May this year may end up being one of the most influential 24 hours periods in web history. It was on this day that Google launched a new communications platform called Google Wave, and if Wave lives up to it’s promise [...]
Advertising is Dead : Long Live Advertising.
Posted 14 June 4th, 2009
Brand leadership through social media Customers are very publicly talking back and it is making the management teams of some brands very nervous. Not so long ago the relationship that brands had with their customers was a one way street. The brand was the boss. They told their customers what they liked and how to [...]
Quick Twitter tutorial
Posted 14 June 2nd, 2009
Many people are still find Twitter confusing. See the video below for the basics
10 ways Twitter will change business
Posted 14 May 30th, 2009
A recent Time magazine article: “Microblogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, an increase from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement services show that figure increasing 50% to 100% month over month. While it is not clear that Twitter will become as large [...]
Don't get social media? Too late, it's all about to change.
Posted 14 May 29th, 2009
Social media is everywhere. There is a huge amount of talk about Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Skype, Ning and all the other platforms out there. If it all seems like some crazy fad, think again. The human race is built on social interaction. We evolved to communicate with each other. Being social is what the world [...]
Facebook vs. Twitter
Posted 14 May 4th, 2009
From BNET Blog “This one has been developing for some time now right before our eyes, but the titanic nature of the faceoff between what are arguably the two most aggressive representatives of Web 2.0 ‚Äî Facebook and Twitter ‚Äî has only recently heated up to the boiling point. As Brad Stone, of The New [...]
The fastest growing social networking sites
Posted 14 May 1st, 2009
Read the article “The fastest growing social networking sites”
The founder of Twitter, Biz Stone keynote address
Posted 14 April 30th, 2009
Biz Stone, co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter, presents a keynote address at the 2008 play Digital Media Conference. Word of warning, it’s an hour long but really good if you have the time.
Twitter's growth in Australia 'phenomenal'
Posted 14 April 28th, 2009
From The Sydney Morning Herald: “With celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey helping fuel Twitter mania, the micro-blogging website is soaring to stardom around the world, according to Hitwise. Twitter’s growth in Australia “has been nothing short of phenomenal,” rocketing 1067 per cent since the start of this year, reported Alan Long, research [...]
Is Twitter the start of Web 3.0?
Posted 14 April 27th, 2009
The World Wide Web. You can find recipes, connect with old class mates and buy practically anything. There seems to be every bit of information available you could possibly want, and more. In fact there seems to be too much information. Web statistics seem to be showing that the number of failed searches, that is [...]
Facebook, Twitter, other social media help drive business for small firms
Posted 14 April 27th, 2009
Recent article from the Chicago Tribune (April 27, 2009) “While just a few years ago the mediums were associated with the teenage and 20-something sets, that’s changed. Two-thirds of all online users visit social networks and blogs, according to data from Nielsen Online. And the largest growth in social media users last year came from [...]
Best Buy, GE & EMC: Using Social Media to change their internal cultures
Posted 14 April 26th, 2009
Interesting video…
