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Thoughts on Poken & Off-line Social Networking

The Marketing Blog

While, the diary still scored over cellphone in some of the features the socially conscious consumer just wanted to have a single device. Fast forward to 20 September 2010 i.e. today where I just finished reading Kapil Ohri’s latest write-up on afaqs.com which talks about Poken – a USB enabled pen drive type social business card device. The device allows users to exchange their contact details and social networking profile within a few seconds.

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Revisiting the Web 2.0 Dictionary - Part I

The Marketing Blog

29 am Revisiting the Web 2.0 Dictionary – Part I Jump to Comments ‘Web 2.0′ ′ and related concepts have been the most heard, most searched and most talked about terms on the web & otherwise. Since the time I first heard about ‘Web 2.0′, Search frequency for Web 2.0 So ‘RSS’ essentially acts as pipeline and it pushes web-content to us in the RSS feed readers.

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Survey says. Marketers are tired of Web 2.0!!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In a recent survey conducted online among the members of MENG (Marketing Executive Networking Group). One of the more interesting highlights for me was when MENG executives were asked what industry buzz words, if any, they were most tired of hearing Web 2.0 In addition, many terms related to Web 2.0 were also frequently mentioned (Social networking, blogging, etc.). Does this mean the luster of Web 2.0, Web 2.0

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

Socialized

Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. Does it occur to anyone that children six to ten years old (Togetherville’s target) don’t need social networks, and to encourage them to use one is the antithesis of responsible social networking? Togetherville is also the Web 2.0

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Top 100 Most Innovative and Influential People in the Web 2.0 World

Bill Hartzer

Internet Evolution has come up with their first-ever list of the top 100 most innovative and influential people in the Web 2.0 In the social networking category, Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder of Facebook , beat out Kevin Rose, the Founder of Digg. Internet Evolution has narrowed down the list into 10 different categories, which include the most innovative and influential people in each category: Social Networking. World: 1) Social Networking.

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The Next Big Thing in Social Networks

Socialized

How much information are you willing to make public in order to improve your social networking experience? What capabilities might the next social networks have to “improve&# our intimacy with our online friends? Creddy is a social network that makes your FICO credit score available to all of your social network friends. Pollygraf, as its name implies, is the truthful social network. But some imaginative Web 2.0

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 Web 2.0â??the the social webâ??has I heard this message at a conference on global health in Geneva last week, but I also heard that the barriers to these potential achievements are social and cultural, not technological. t tell you much about Web 2.0â??despite The essence of Web 2.0 Most websites are firmly Web 1.0â??a Bmj.com has its Web 2.0 Web 2.0 ll be more Web 2.0

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Monetization: Social Network Advertising

Laurel Papworth

Social Media Monetization is becoming THE hot issue in online community chatter. Social Ads are driving down the price of regular online ads: A recent analysis by ComScore shows social networks, primarily Facebook and MySpace, have over the last year drawn an average CPM of only 56 cents, compared to the $2.43 for every 1,000 views; social sites dragged down the average online CPM by as much as 18% over the last year. Web 3.0, RocketOn and Living Web (1).

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Web 2.0 and Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) " Learning Matters!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Web 2.0 Onto the good stuff… I was fortunate enough to be asked to contribute at the e-Learning Guild in two different forums this week: Tony Karrer , hoodwinked Brent Schelenker , Steven Downes and yours truly to talk about Web 2.0 (and This is also one of the coolest things about Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Tony O’Driscoll has remarked that: This is also one of the coolest things about Web 2.0 Web 2.0

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Forget the Social Network, It’s Just Etiquette

Socialized

A piece on Forbes.com titled Are You Practicing Proper Social Networking Etiquette? The article goes on to ask, “(is) it wise to accept a colleague or higher-up as a ‘friend’&# on a social network? While some of these questions have been brought on by new methods of communications, others are just plain common sense, and do not need to be thought of in the context of social networking.

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Australia Job: Social Networking Guru

Laurel Papworth

Online Marketing & Social Networking Guru. Build our Social Networks. High-level experience with Facebook, Twitter and other social networking media. Develop and implement creative, Online Marketing strategies including all channels of Social Networking, email, promotional ideas, advertising & blogs. Australia Job: Social Networking Guru is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Web 2.0

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When Familiarity Breeds Familiarity

Direct Marketing Observations

On the web, we as digital marketers and change agents, worry that the sites, applications and networks that we build, share and promote aren’t intuitive enough. Be it a utility like email, a social network like Facebook, or a site where we buy stuff like Amazon or sell stuff like Ebay, people who want to, neigh need to use that site, will figure out how to use that site, no matter how difficult is it. Social Networks Social platforms networks social web.

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Directory of Social Networks for Learning Professionals

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Knowledge, Skills and Tools for the Learning 2.0 DIRECTORY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR. SOCIAL LEARNING. SOCIAL LEARNING. Directory of Social Networks for Learning. social networks aimed at learning professionals. of networks for both educators and workplace learning professionals. Use the list to find one or two relevant networks to join. The list is ordered by name of network. 2.0 : for those interested in Web 2.0

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Social Intranet: Open Atrium social network for internal use

Laurel Papworth

I’m about to install and muck around with Open Atrium as an social network intranet product for a client. It’s based on social networking software Drupal, and is free to download: Social Intranet Open Atrium. Social Intranet: Open Atrium social network for internal use is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. White Paper: Social Networking Primed To Go Mobile (0). Web 2.0

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What Do They Mean by Social Any Way?

Socialized

Many of us take for granted the meaning of the word “social” when we think of social media and social networking. For the techie, social software is most likely built using Web 2.0’s And while this definition might impress your friends or help you in a game of Internet trivia, it isn’t very helpful in determining the socialness (sociability?) By this definition, Facebook is probably the most social site. It’s encouraging that Web 2.0

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Tips for Using Facebook Fan Pages

Socialized

I think one of the issues here is the inflation of language so pervasive in social networking. On the home page of its regular web site is a link titled Community Hub , which leads to the company’s blog as well as providing links to its Facebook , Twitter and YouTube accounts. You have a Web site, maybe a blog, perhaps a Twitter account and a few other social media vehicles. Web Business Fan Pages

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The Four Semi-Truths of Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Now what if we applied these to the world of social media? Semi-truth #1: Our infatuation with the next, new, shiny, thing in social media depreciates as soon as we realize that it’s just another engagement, aggregator, application, thingy requiring more time, increased effort, permission to access, another profile creation etc., Whether you use social media or not is not going to determine your success in business. Social Networks Web 2.0

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Social Media is not a campaign it’s a commitment!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

A while back I created a post called – There is no “campaign&# in Social Media because when marketers use the word “campaign,” it tends to suggest an initiative to get a message out to a targeted group of constituents. And I still believe that is the case … And despite a number of comments I got about that post both positive and negative – I think I stopped short of really nailing the issue which is – social media is more than a campaign it a commitment!

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The other side of Social Networking

The Marketing Blog

47 am The other side of Social Networking Jump to Comments Social networking is making a deep(er) penetration in our lives,(our? Consultants are enjoying the social-media revolution. However, a couple of bitter events, connected with Facebook and Orkut, the biggest community sites question the growth of social n/w. Young Indian teenager has lost his life and social n/w site Orkut played a big role in his death. However, I still review some Web 2.0

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Social Branded Applications – build it once and leverage on several social networks

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This is a recap of a presentation by Michael Lazerow of Buddy Media from the Web 2.0 Expo Social Networks are clearly here to stay with almost 50% of the population is using these sites (70% of teens). Social Network have all opened up their platforms which means that brands have cost effective access to more than 500M engaged users (250M of them on just Facebook and MySpace alone!)

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Who is your Social Media lightening rod?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I have been in talks with a few companies lately about their social media efforts especially when it comes to supporting customers using social media ( the topic of my new book ). At the highest level there is really 2 ways to organize your social media efforts: Centralized or Decentralized. Do you have a team that is very loosely coupled with no clear leader that coordinates your social activity and it feels strained or hard to hold together? Enterprise 2.0

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How to Delete a Ning Network – Removal is not possible

Laurel Papworth

None of those emails tell you how to remove or delete your Ning network: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY. Today is the final day for free Ning Networks. We would like you to stick with us and keep your Ning Network running: [link]. We are contacting you one last time in the hope that you still want to keep your social network. Your Ning Network will be blocked after midnight tonight unless you choose a new plan. Social Media and SMBs (11).

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In B2B Marketing: Content is Media

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Its the content that gives you the opportunity to have a discussion with the Media, its the content that gives you the opportunity to create conversations socially, its the content that gives you the opportunity to re-engage with leads in your system that you may be nurturing on that sames topic, and its the content that allows your sales team to start a conversation with their accounts about that topic. Social Media is not a campaign it’s a commitment!

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News: Our Facebook Research Featured in Hindustan Times

The Marketing Blog

Quotes from the story: A study conducted by Iffort, an India-based strategy and social media consulting firm, which was released on Wednesday, declared Delhi Traffic Police and MTV India as the most active and popular brands respectively. Iffort recently conducted a similar study on brands, using Twitter, another popular social networking site. Filed under: Iffort , Itemperance , Web 2.0 Tags: Iffort Itemperance Web 2.0

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" Some Thoughts About Effective Networking Online The Networking for Success Project: A W.TEC project, teaching Nigerian women to use Web 2.0 tools and other ICTs effectively to develop and advance their work.

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The Networking for Success Project. A W.TEC project, teaching Nigerian women to use Web 2.0 Some Thoughts About Effective Networking Online. I’m very honored to be spending the week with you and having a conversation about effective networking online. That’s a photo of me from last summer teaching a workshop in Cambodia about Web 2.0.  I believe in the power of online social networks to help you get things done. About NFS.

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What’s your Social Media diet?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

My advice would be don’t let Google Reader (or any social activity) over run your life – remember you are in control! Related posts: Social Search could it be a Google Killer? Avaya makes Business Communications more Social It’s a very exciting day for me here at. Social Media speeds Onboarding I am officially up and running now in my. Blogging Facebook Social Media Social Networking Twitter Web 2.0

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The evolution of the employee-employer relationship

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The emergence of Web 2.0 As Bill writes: In fact, as the rise of social network-based learning has demonstrated, employees no longer need the company to develop their knowledge, skills, and abilities. Here’s another piece from the archives, this one from April 2004.

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Australia: Number of Australians on Facebook 2010

Laurel Papworth

Australia: Number of Australians on Facebook 2010 is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Technorati Tags: Australia , Australians , Facebook , Online Communities , social media , social networks , statistics. Web 2.0 Twitter: Reputation Management in Social Networks (18). Tags: Australia Facebook Online Communities social networks statistics Australians social media

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Internet , Opinion , Social Media > Every Social Network is Different: Here’s What You Need to Know Every Social Network is Different: Here’s What You Need to Know by Tamar Weinberg on January 25, 2008 Share Over at the Blog Herald , Chris Garrett says that Twitter is changing his news consumption habits.

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Facebook: Reputation and friends or family

Laurel Papworth

We can be as careful as we like, swearing not to put things online, not to respond negatively, not to reveal personal information in social media sites. Facebook: Reputation and friends or family is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Technorati Tags: Facebook , photos , reputation , social media. Twitter: Reputation Management in Social Networks (18). Social Currency: What am I worth? (8). Web 3.0, Web 2.0

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Next Generation Companies

Buzz Marketing for Technology

For example, look at how children with their social networking are growing up and how that will change the way businesses collaborate. There will be no separate networks for voice data etc – the network will become the platform. Web 2.0 Collaboration is nothing more than a group of people working toward a common goal – that's what Web 2.0

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Election 2010: GetUp Tony Abbott Mashup

Laurel Papworth

In 2007 I blogged on Kevin07 portal: We will see more of ‘static portal hybrid hosted social networks’ for a while – companies and government distancing themselves from the challenges of social networks by outsourcing to social network platforms. Election 2010: GetUp Tony Abbott Mashup is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Web 2.0 Video 3.0 – Social Video (2).

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iPad scam on Facebook

Laurel Papworth

Where ever people congregate together, yes even in social networks and online communities, there will be scammers and unethical marketers. One is that when we are fools, taken in by the scam, a journogger (journalist that raids social media for linkbait stories) or some other party could go through the 335,000 fans and name and shame anyone he or she recognises – social media experts, politicians, other journalists. Social Media and SMBs (11).

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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

Crowdsourced innovation social networks. Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Technorati Tags: BP , crowdsource , deepwater , horizon , kaggle , Michael J Evans , mjevans.com , oil spill , Online Communities , public relations , social media , social network , social networks. Australia Event: Social Networks and P.R. (9). Web 2.0

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Web 3.0 infograph

Direct Marketing Observations

No matter how great a social network might be, bells, whistles and what not- It doesn’t happen without people. Tags: Web 2.0 It lives and dies by what the users do with it. How many great start-ups and applications die on the vine because no one knew about them? Is it because of a lack of marketing? technology

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Social Media Campaign: Saw7 and Hoyts

Laurel Papworth

Ok I admit, I’m a bit down on social media campaigns. If it’s agency created content, professionally edited, professionally uploaded and distributed and acts as an ad, it’s not really very social media-y, is it? Well, Social Ads, mebbe? Then again a social media campaign can be a bit of lowkey fun, and not overly produced. Social Media Campaign: Saw7 and Hoyts is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Web 2.0

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Ford & Social Media – a con? Ford Australia and spam

Laurel Papworth

It’s a mistake when companies use social media to gain email addresses to do spam email marketing campaigns. You entered your name and contact details on Facebook to become a social media reviewer – get the car for the summer, write reviews on it etc. Social ads at least have a chance of being relevant (useful to those looking) or more easily ignored (less likely to piss those off that aren’t looking). Betraying social trust. Web 2.0

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Freelancer – $25k in Australian social media competition

Laurel Papworth

Great opportunity for someone wanting to “get their social media on&#. Also some points on social media timelines. Click here to read the full details and enter: freelancer social media competition town downunder. Word of mouth, social media, tell a few people. It’s worth noting for those that are interested in pursuing social media as a career, that there is nothing like proof of the pudding. So get creative, get networking and win something.

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Journoggers: Teachers sue Newspaper Australia

Laurel Papworth

Journalists that raid social networks like Facebook and Twitter, not caring about community, will face a backlash. A few months ago, I wrote about journoggers – and tried to highlight the difference between bloggers/twitterers ( social network members) vs journalists simply using social media to source stories (not be truly a member), and how they behave differently: Participating in the online community… or raiding it? Web 2.0

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Facebook Removal of Fanpages. Community Pages.

Laurel Papworth

I teach a hub and spoke approach to social media connectivity – create a hub that YOU control, use the Facebook/Twitters/Youtubes to distribute to spokes. Don’t build your network hub on Facebook – use it as a spoke. is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Technorati Tags: Australia , brand , community , deleted , Facebook , fan , fanpages , page , removed , social media. Social Media Monetization and Revenue (29).

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 Foursquare becomes Social Work and all the better for it. Ideas have their time, and I think Foursquare might just put Achievements (a la World of Warcraft) and karma points (everyone really, starting with Slashdot) onto the Enterprise 2.0 Economies of Social Scorecards. Trust and Social Scorecards. Web 2.0

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Social Media: Web Developer and Agency Ripoffs

Laurel Papworth

What about little companies using sole trader web developers? Social Media: Web Developer and Agency Ripoffs is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Technorati Tags: agency , Australia , humor , not humor , ripoff , social media , stupid. Web 2.0 Tags: Australia Online Communities blogs social media social networks agency humor not humor ripoff stupid

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Conference: Public Sector Web 3.0 and Future of Social Media Government

Laurel Papworth

Government 2.0 I’m speaking in Canberra next week - a workshop on social media and government one day and presentation on online communities and voters/constituents the next. Public Sector web 3.0 and Future of Social Media eGov. Also includes a 12 step social media strategy section, and a 5 step social media campaign outline. social media dashboard. How do you save time and energy when monitoring ALL those social media sites. Web 2.0