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Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication

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The idea that social media allows us to engage in online conversations is getting people into all kinds of trouble, because what we’re doing when we click “Tweet&# on Twitter or “Share&# on Facebook isn’t conversation — it’s publication. Imagine you’re chatting with a real friend in a real cafe.

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Why are status updates important in internal social applications?

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I worked with one company that developed social business apps and used its own Twitter-like status update product internally. Most of the employees were engineers, many working remotely. One of the greatest appeals of external/public social media is the status update stream. This application gave them back a couple of.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Twitter recently rolled out its Geotagging capability on a limited basis. Even Google, a Web 1.0