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Curation is Not Aggregation

Firebelly

Curation is the big new buzzword this year in social media circles — collecting information in a strategic amassing of selected information that’s presented in a new way to draw out the subtleties and patterns that might not otherwise be noticed when looking at the group in toto. Curation is an art form into itself.

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8 creative ways to use customer feedback to improve your business

Socialmedia.biz

Lindsay Bremner / Creative Commons BY. 1 A pattern of product issue dissatisfaction may indicate a problem with your product or simply a problem with your advertising. Make sure you run your product past a group of beta testers at each stage of release. How to evaluate & act on the information you gather.

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5 essential books for geeks…

The Way of the Web

And whilst the names and people involved may have changed in the last 20 years, it’s still relevant – the motivations and aims of each group continue to this day. Pattern Recognition on Amazon. Both are available to download under Creative Commons via Doctorow’s site. One of Creative Commons founders?

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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

When I first started blogging in 2003, I had a small group of blog friends and we all commented on one another's blogs. I've noticed this pattern for the last four years so I haven't really given it any thought that they might be dead. Thomas I like comments. 250 discount if you use "JUST25" when registering!

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Shel cites a brief published by the Aberdeen Group , titled Web 2.0, I divided my group of about 25-30 people into 6 teams (it was supposed to be 8, but apparently we had problems counting) and gave each team a deck of cards and a learning scenario. and learning ( Go here to download the game cards if youre interested in using them).

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Customer Anthropology: The Art of Observation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Wear Patterns: Evidence of stress or overuse, e.g. damaged power cords or hinges. Social Software Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. -->. Robert Paterson. Frank Patrick. Steve Pavlina. Dick Richards. James Robertson. Evelyn Rodriguez. Paul Schumann. Robert Scoble. Doc Searls. Jeneane Sessum.

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How to Promote Your Content Across Owned, Earned, and Paid Media

Convince & Convert

While it’s become a something of a buzzword, thinking about your content promotion plan in the ‘Paid-Earned-Owned’ matrix is a useful cognitive pattern. The Altimeter Group Converged Media Model. but now everyone is part of one big group of people with online audiences. These categories aren’t mutually exclusive anymore.