#HootSuite – Social Media Dashboard – Announces #HTML5 Rollout and host of other features (#FaveApps) (#InCaseYouMissedIt)
29 Jun[REPRINTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MEDIA MENTORING SOCIETY AUDIENCE]
- Filed under #Homework #FaveApps #Dashboards #ThirdParty Apps
- Credit/Source: Ryan Holmes – HootSuite [newsletter@hootsuite.com]
HootSuite5 with HTML5
HootSuite users will see significant changes to the social media dashboard today beginning with a completely refreshed HTML5 user interface, plus geo-located search, native Twitter ReTweets, and integrated Google Analytics.
With the recent announcement of Google’s HTML5 site and many other brands like Apple on-board, HootSuite has made a substantial investment in this new technology standard. HTML5 allows us to release unique features like geo-search and drag & drop, plus improve performance with more responsive tabs and streams.
Geo-Searchable
Now, search for tweets by proximity based on geo-location information sent by some (not all) users. Using this HTML 5 powered feature, you can narrow down results to messages sent from your area, wherever you are. This feature will help you learn about local resources, get tips while traveling, and find new customers or followers.
Analytics in Dashboard
Google Analytics users no longer need to switch screens to analyze site traffic and performance because all the data is now available in HootSuite’s dashboard. Using OAuth secure login functionality, you can track conversion to sales, lead generation, or other metrics from your Google Analytics, using advanced URL functions.
More Tools
Other new tools to help broadcast messages, monitor conversations, and track results include:
Interface Re-creation and Themes
The most noticeable change is a fully re-imagined dashboard, with more space for updates and an intuitive arrangement for HootSuite’s many features. Additionally, you can now choose a design theme which suits your tastes.
Options include the familiar green & blue “Classic,” the sleek & stunning “Blue Steel,” or the darkly cool “Magnum.” Which one will you choose? Switch at your leisure to find your favorite.
Facebook Media Preview
Include a photo when you upload a link to Facebook, and then add titles and descriptions to make your update more meaningful and inviting. BTW, this media preview functionality was one of the most requested features on the Feedback Channel.
New or Ol’school RTs
When Twitter launched, early users created shorthand to define actions and attributes, including @replies for addressing, #hashtags for context, and RT for Re-Tweeting or quoting a message which became a powerful way to spread messages beyond users’ local networks.
To standardize the process, Twitter.com added an auto-Re-Tweet functionality, which HootSuite has now integrated. HootSuite users can choose whether to Re-Tweet with initials “RT” or to use the Twitter web native auto-Re-Tweet tool.
We can now check this one off the feature request list.
Drag it, Drop it, Send it
Quickly attach an image or other file to your social update by dragging directly from the desktop and dropping into the message box — this simple act will auto-upload the file to Ow.ly file sharing and add a pre-shortened link to your message. Then you are ready to send your enhanced note to any of your social networks.
Language Localization
Konnichiwa! This release also features interface localization in Japanese, allowing more users to enjoy HootSuite in their native language. More linguistic choices are coming soon, to spread the international enjoyment.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Clicking Shift+Enter on the keyboard now sends the update, saving mouse-clicks and time — another popular user-requested feature.
Handier Help
Listening and learning from HootSuite’s userbase is an important part of making decisions which meet the needs of social media marketers and enthusiasts. HootSuite offers assistance via a Help Desk and and gathers opinions via a Feedback Channel.
With the new release, these channels are easier to access directly right from the HootSuite dashboard. We invite you to share your ideas, and to enjoy a sense of pride when your requested feature is added to a future release.
Twitter Status
The World Cup football/soccer tournament in South Africa has shown the worldwide popularity of Twitter as fans everywhere document their opinions and the nuances of each match. This popularity is also evidenced in the massive demand on Twitter’s systems especially at gametime.
Keep tabs on uptime and performance via Twitter’s status blog and API Status on dev.twitter.com.
Media Resources
Press release - meda announcement about this release:
http://ow.ly/21XAc
Media Kit – company descriptions, logos, executive bios and media contact info:
http://blog.hootsuite.com/media
Social bookmarks – media and blog articles referencing HootSuite:
http://delicious.com/hootsuite HootSuite is a Trademark of HootSuite Media, Inc. More: HootSuite Online Media Kit.
@ExaminerCom: #LocalOnLocal Initiative (#MMS & #SMCPBC Members: FYI)
11 Jan
Dear Local Examiner,
Examiner.com is the insider’s guide for everything local, and we are committed to being the single, largest source of locally-relevant content on more topics than any other site on the Web via local people writing locally.
Local on Local. Your subject-matter expertise combined with the passion you hold for your city and community are the cornerstone of what we stand for, and what consumers are learning to expect from us.
We have two important tiers of Examiner content: Our National Examiners, who we continue to value and support, and you, our core contributors of locally-relevant content.
Some Examiners have been vocal about the lack of incentives for writing on the local level, and we’ve noticed many slip and write topical content without local relevance. To help, we are introducing a new program to reward effective locally relevant, quality content.
And, we’re making this as easy as possible: All Local Examiners are eligible to participate in the new Local on Local Examiner Incentives program.
To qualify for incentives, you must follow four simple rules of the road:
1) Topical
Articles are written in a manner that is knowledgeable about their assigned subject matter, and provide useful, relevant information to readers who might share a passion about it.
2) Local
If it’s not locally relevant, it’s not a local article. The combination of your topic and your city is the most important aspect of your Examiner contributions.
3) Length
Articles should be 200-400 words on average, and no less than 150 words. Use Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? as a guide.
4) Credibility
Use external sources whenever appropriate; quote and reference them when you do. Tip: Build real relationships within the community to use as ongoing source material – their credibility will build and strengthen yours.
On January 24, 2010, we will launch the Local on Local Examiner Incentives program.
Effective immediately, we will evaluate content published by Local Examiners to ensure it meets the rules of the road. After January 23, articles that do meet the guidelines will be paid a flat fee per article in addition to the normal performance-based incentives. After January 23, content from Local Examiners which does not meet the rules of the road will not be eligible for participation, and will be subject to removal from the site.
More information will be released over the next two weeks. In the meantime, all Local Examiners should use the rules of the road as their guide whenever they write an article.
We are very excited about this added benefit, and are excited for you to join us in this extremely important initiative.
Warm regards,
Suzie Austin
SVP, Content & Marketing
Examiner.com
saustin@examiner.com
#InCaseYouMissedIt: #SeenOnAWallNearYou Series: On #FourSquare, #FTF – And the Rise of Location-Based Services
6 JanFrancisco Jose Palacio just checked-in @ Sushi-Yama – BEST Chirashi ever had in this lifetime; FRESHEST Ginger, MODERN and unassuming decor, are some of the reasons I’m glad I’m so CLOSE to this BEST japanese -ever!… did I say best and ever already?
10921 North Military Trail
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
11 hours ago via Foursquare · View Feedback (5)Hide Feedback (5) · Francisco on foursquare
Stephen Higgins and Yajaira Vanessa like this.
just started using foursquare how do you like?
I was there tonight too! Just posted how we ran into a couple of friends there and ended up eating with them! Too funny. Our first time there and, yes, it was really yummy!
@ LS
Wait!
Were you on a table with four gals and four guys? eight people total?… definitely sounded like a “run-in” kind of deal, as the conversation was so lively, with overtones of “catching up”… … See More
We were on the booth across!!! jejeje!… this all happened after 2130 EDT? (930p?)
Amazing!… and that gives me a perfect segue for Stephen’s query…
@ SH
Above illustrates one of the functions of FourSquare; when we all check in [AHEM, AHEM TO LS!] then the app/site is supposed to facilitate FTF’s (Face to Face’s) as it notifies friends that are at the SAME location.
Which is PRECISELY what has made it so interesting, this whole new ‘sphere’ of Location-Based Services; Gowalla I heard was first, then came FourSquare, and from the look of things, Dr. Schmidt’s hordes are paying attention – and cash, as I hear they were buying Yelp!, the first-to-market (and the one with the largest database of reviews and people, hence the largest established community)
[LOOKS... THREE PARAGRAPHS... YUP... BLOG & EXAMINER-WORTHY!]
So… makes sense now?… and al-So… mind if I blog about this?
Think it illustrates what the service is ALL about – well, besides us Crowd-Sourcers giving away a few minutes filling out these for a few ‘points’ and the ‘illusion’ of authority they vest you with, as in FourSquare the ‘game’ part is taken care of by badges, points, stars – and a future ‘mayorship’ if you’re the one that hits a certain place the most within 60 days or so, yadda, yadda, yadda…
Yup, word count fits… blog-worthy!….
[PICTURES THIS HITTING THE HOMESTREAM THIS MORNING...]
Anyone else?
C-ya!
</:O)~
#Happy10, everyone!
#InCaseYouMissedIt: @ExaminerCom: #SoCruise’s @GregCangialosi, CEO, Blue Sky Factory – on #GoogleWave and Social Media
29 DecThese were originally posted in my blog as a set of notes on the sessions occurring at the maiden #SoCruise /@SoCruise voyage; and now here on Examiner.Com as a series on the value these events bring to marketers and individuals who are venturing into this nascent industry.
GregCangialosi is the CEO of Blue Sky Factory, a leading provider of email services, and as such, his keynote titled The Future of Connectivity encompassed a series of thoughts about different communication mediums- and how they become most relevant as we move forward; Greg then illustrated it with the current controversy surrounding the Beta Launch of GoogleWave which for many does not even make sense at all, but according to Greg contains “big implications that people miss out”
These kind of statements come from having “a passion that develops from how business communicate out” as he remarked and ellaborated on previous comments made by Chris Brogan apropos “you live and die by your database” and Lyell Petersen about Twitter remarking “this means you could end up with nothing.”
Cangialosis sees Email “as the glue” yet his company is always thinking about the new tools for business: prospects, current customers, the media, “whatever the audience may be”
His company’s been thinking about how businesses communicate during this whole shift from an organization turning into a publishing organization: where content/engagement marketing as the barriers to entry have been lowered to the point where “you have a webcam and you’re a content producer!” So how do we business people think about them in an integrated fashion is key also to when we think about the future: “A GoogleWave invite, It’s an interesting concept that it’s going to change the way we communicate: And the core piece lies the fact that behind all of this Google has published it as an open standard/protocol for the web (Open Source)
Greg’s intimate knowledge of the current SMTP standard which is in his view “laden with all sorts of issues and the implications for integration are there; so it’s necessary to know enough to be dangerous to one’s current email strategies.”
He concluded by stating that in a few short years, “companies are going to run their own wave servers: in other words, they will follow the mantra of integrate, integrate!” and if needed businesses will also take advantage to combine these google wave servers – all without the issues of current SMTP e-mail.
You can hear the entire audio transcript on my blog
Apropos the above interaction with key social/new media marketers there is an upcoming Social Fresh conference coming to Tampa on February 8, 2010
Social Fresh flagship events will have on average 30-35 speakers split between two rooms of content, stand alone featured speakers and panels. Check out http://socialfresh.com/speakers for a look at all past SoFresh speakers.
See the #SoCruise Album at my PhotoShelter Website
#SeenOnAWallNearYou Series: Why We #Facebook #Fan #Brands – and for some, why we should be a ‘Fan’ of the Process! #InCaseYouMissedIt
28 DecSomeone recently commented on my being/becoming a fan of Dell; as I’m unable to do short answers, here’s what I commented on my Facebook page…
“Yup; if you’d like to stay updated on promotions and new products, then updates from the Dell Business (a.k.a. Fan Page) Page will show up on your Live News Feed here in Facebook, much like everything else does.
Are you a fan of Dell? or any other major brand, for that matter?
Major brands are now having their ad agencies add “Digital Strategists” or “Community Managers” to leverage these interactive benefits.
Supposedly the level of granular interaction between both parties (i.e. a customer can complain or comment on a product on the Dell Page; supposed to bypass a LOT of layers, and since it’s a public complaint, the Dell team usually has to respond quicker than before, as it’s their ‘brand’ that’s now publicly being ‘asked’ about something – in ways heretofore never achieved.
For PR Firms, Ad Agencies and many others, it has become both a migraine, as well as an opportunity to monetize what advertisers have already figured out: we ain’t watching much TV, nothing more attractive than watching each other, what we do and like – and what we say, apparently beats most every other ‘broadcast’ put out there, both in print, TV, and even online, as most websites have had also to open up to Facebook and Twitter in their advertising/PR campaigns.
Makes sense now?
One word? “Intelligence” (as in ‘intel’) on those brands/product you favor… delivered right to your Homestream!” (Palacio, 2009)
#Examiner (@ExaminerCom) My Landing Site/Page… and FIRST Article!
14 DecWell, seems like I’m getting somewhere this month, as some said, may have been the ablutions off the Yucatan Peninsula, the training fortwith, or just the fact that ‘nothing but net’ works offlines as well as online…
… anyway, here’s my FIRST ever “Examiner.Com” article, as the Social Media Examiner for Palm Beach County… stop by and say hi! enjoy! (and yeah, I pulled some of this from earlier entries, you’re not seeing double!… and yeah, it’s all ‘ bout the #Twitter!)
A New Gig!
“First, one should ONLY consider using it when one would actually like or enjoy having the WHOLE world know and watch about all the minutiae that comes along with ‘something’ that anyone may have a proclivity towards speaking – or in this case, writing – about; be it an opinion, a product, or in many cases one’s existing website, blog or product, as its preeminence stems from its ability to quickly amplify most every thought that’s put out there, as the community picks it up and quickly shares it with its members…” (Examiner.Com, 2009)
Apropos, here’s the ‘video’ illustration as well
#PhotoShelter announces #Facebook Friendly API/SSO Interactions #InCaseYouMissedIt
9 Nov
Apropos my Fave Photographer’s Website ( PhotoShelter Users, here on FB and if you know her, Rachel Reiss who is a GREAT trainer and support stakeholder!)
“The business implication became clear to me last year when I posted an album of portraits, and then a “friend” hired me to photograph him. **** Posting images on Facebook is a way to passively market yourself to a qualified audience for free.**** [YUP! TELL MY ALTER EGO THAT!][PAPPARAZZO STARTS BABBLING INCOHERENTLY... AND IN ITALIAN!]
So I’m pleased to announce our new “Post to Facebook” feature that we released today. You might say to yourself, “well, duh!” And I would nod my head in agreement. It’s an obvious piece of functionality. But we’ve done it slightly differently than other implementations that I’ve seen…” (Murabayashi, 2009)
Here is the entire post, with VERY detailed instructions (which is why I’ve stayed with them, their obvious proclivity towards mentoring us into the realms of SEO and other Web-driven aspects of the imaging business…)
#ClipboardNuggets – Developing My Pitch for #SM (Social Media)
30 OctToday, whilst answering an FB-Mail about what I precisely do nowadays**… an acquaintance stated:
“…do you do web pages and the like?
Beyond the Basics of Today...
My husband and I are starting a new biz… have a website under construction… its okay for now but [we] may decide to do something a little more fancy down the road, right now our cash is tied up in getting the store open…
…just curious for future reference...”
So then I replied:
“Sure, more than actually helping build sites (I can do some basic Flash for banners and the like) what I tell my customers nowadays is that the current Conventional Wisdom for driving traffic to one’s site, is to look at the Core Business Processes and the Goals of the organization, towards then creating a mix of Social Media ‘Personas’ that allow it to not only rise to the SEO rankings (Search Engine Optimization, I’m sure that has come up in the budget talks) but also to keep YOUR company in the eyes of the actual CUSTOMERS, which for SMB’s (Small-Medium Business) worldwide is now becoming more of a matter of keeping them not only informed, with the latest and greatest promotions, product news, events and the like, but also with the value of being yet another ‘content provider’ in THEIR social media home pages, one that usually brings a smile or two to their days (I’m sure you as the renowned Radio Personality that you are, can vouch for its value, correct?) and even, become the ‘hub’ for many of their ‘communal’ activities.
In other words, sites alone are no longer cutting the mustard, they need to be “garnished”, so to speak, with yummy sides of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Diggit, Reddit, Tweetmeme, Cinch, Meetup.Com, etc, etc…
Then you’ll see the value and the ROI (return on investment) of what you have already spent on the site, and much like many other local businesses that have successfully leveraged these sites, eventually find yourself focusing on them social media gateways as the actual places where the prospects are to be found.
How do we build most everything else? and why not Systems, too?
I am looking forward then to discussing with you both any eventual plans to deploy a well-thought-out social media strategy for your business.
Sincerely,
Francisco
P.S: Check out this video on my blog, explains a lot about what I said above, visually… enjoy!”
http://fjpalacio.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/socialnomics-prsa-miami-events-takeaways/
Still with me? Bottom line? Much like it was stated in yesterday’s K-Buzz Presentation, pretty soon we’ll find that SMB’s that are actually doing a LOT (specially once serious e-commerce/merchant apps are present on the FB platform) here in Facebook, may end up replacing their investments, with ‘free’ time on the Homestream…
… which is why I’ve seriously approached my peers in the Web Design biz, and mentioned that they need to UPGRADE their Toolkits/Skillsets with these “garnish” - as to avoid being sucked into a vortex of obsolescence.
- Think you’re ready for it now? need a hand, perhaps, making sense of it all?
** And why I do ask? now I realize that the INITIAL thread may shed additional light on WHY hiring someone to “draw the blueprints” of your BUSINESS SM strategy, may be a good INVESTMENT after all… ready?
Found YOUR starting point?
(Acquaintance contacted me…)
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Sole Caveat about this workaround? those who have then become fans will get the updates DUPLICATED (once for the Friend, and once for the Fan Page)
All of the above actually being the reason why I suggested it from the get-go, have seen many businessess NOT heed that warning, get to the 5k limit on the Personal Profile, and/or find some other hindrance, and end up having to manage (manually) both profiles, segregating friends, from fans, etc.
Hooked up on EDUCATION!
Serendipitiously there was a Webinar yesterday about it, and this topic came up, and no, there is no solution up to this minute…. does Facebook know? most likely… will they ever change it? dunno, maybe, everything’s kinda looking the same up to this moment (meaning, profiles, pages and groups are all following the same “Use Cases” and working very much alike)
Hope this helps… and good luck!
Francisco
P.S: BTW, were you aware that above is now my biz? I’m sure you have one or two peeps in your network that may be able to benefit from your letting them know that now I do this for a living, feel free to forward them my information, I’m covering the whole of Southern Florida (or anywhere anyone wants me to work remotely, too!)
Saludos!”
Francisco J. Palacio, Jr (a.k.a. Pancho Pepe)
If you’re here, reading this, it’s either because we know each other, for a while, and you’re wondering about my whereabouts, so yeah, things could not be better, all things considered!… however, if you’re here ‘cuz a search engine found us, ‘cuz a tweet we liked and favorited, or because @LinkedIN fed me a “Job Posting” that in turn got to you ‘peek’ at the blog, well, read on! (or again, as you may have read the whole profile there… which is what I’m ‘#Reblogging’ here!)
So I’ll start at the beginning: I’m NOT a ‘millenial’ freshly minted out of a renowned college; what I actually am is, Demographics-wise, a “tail-end #Boomer”, a Venezuelan-American Inmigrant to the U.S, freshly-minted as a U.S. Citizen, whose life and travails are centered on all things technology, so no, if you’re actually looking for a younger mind to train, skip to the next profile/blog/search - and thanks for reading!
Yes, I have been around, know a few languages, some of them NOT spoken by machines but by people; fully bilingual in Spanish & English, conversant in German, and fluent in most every other app out there, yes.
Sorry, I don’t write nor develop code/scripts but I can manage/tweak well what others have written; so yes I can help you manage integrations and find workable workarounds in your I.T. Systems… and finally, YES, I’m looking for those in the business who consider Social Media/Networks as such: “Integrated I.T. Processes/Systems” – In Real Time & Mission-Critical to most!
Next steps? we surely can figure our whether or not I am the right guy for you; at that, continue here, check out the “#DemoReel (f.k.a. Blog); or follow @FJPalacio on Twitter? (and howzabout those @LinkedIN Recommendations? Good ones from Good Peoples, too!)
Take a peek, here, there and anywhere ~ hope to hear from some of you soon!…
Cheers!
P.S: And if anyone besides Corporate HR is here reading, perhaps:
a) I can play Mercenary for a while, help you out with a few battles, let you win the war and get a referral as a reward, too? or
b) Long Term Goal? Setup a Foundation/Network to ameliorate the gaps in the Usage of The Technologies, as some would put it… Maybe you and your partners can envision the profit potential across Demographics? Regions and Countries, too?… it’s ONE cloud, after all, no?
c-ya!
P.D. Para la Version en Castellano/Spanglish, busque en #CV, arriba!... Gracias!
Daily Encouragements (#Buddhism)
- 1st Jun May 31, 2000A coward cannot become a Buddha. We cannot attain Buddhahood unless we possess the heart of a lion. The harsher the situation, the bolder the stand we must take. This is the essence of the Soka Gakkai spirit.
Olivier Blanchard’s Blog
- In a nutshell. April 18, 2012 Olivier Blanchard
- Game change – Part 2: Moneyball and the second dot.com bubble April 18, 2012Filed under: opinion Earlier this week, I wrote about what Moneyball‘s Peter Brand called the “epidemic failure to understand what is going on” plaguing the business, marketing and advertising worlds – when it comes to understanding that social media and social business are not just extensions of traditional “digital” stra […]Olivier Blanchard
- Game-change: Moneyball and the reality of social business. April 16, 2012I finally watched Moneyball over the weekend. I’m not a big baseball fan but it held my interest, partly because it was based on a true story and partly because the movie really wasn’t about baseball at all. It was about old thinking vs. new thinking, about industry politics vs. the heresy of innovation, about [...]Olivier Blanchard
- The 5 basic rules of calculating fan (or follower) value March 20, 2012The 5 basic rules of calculating the value of a Facebook ‘fan’ A question that routinely comes up in social media circles is what is the value of a Facebook fan? (The question also applies to the value of a Twitter follower, Youtube subscriber, email recipient, etc.) Invariably, whenever the question is asked, some mathematical savant – [...]Olivier Blanchard
- Customer Lifetime Value: one of the keys to measuring long term ROI, among other uses. March 19, 2012LTV infographic by Kiss Metrics “People pay you. Not pageviews.” That pretty much says it all. (image source.) This is as badass as it is self-explanatory. For those of you who don’t know how to estimate customer lifetime value (LTV, or CLTV), this infographic should be a pretty handy little tool. (Just ignore the Starbucks [...]Olivier Blanchard
- Where are the professionals? Reflections on the #sxsmroi panel debacle. March 12, 2012I was scheduled to participate in a panel on Social Media and ROI at the #sxswi conference this week. My schedule being what it is, I couldn’t be in two places at once and had to make the painful decision last week of cancelling my trip to Austin altogether. As much as I was looking [...]Olivier Blanchard
- Strategy Reminder: Shifts in Global Media Consumption March 12, 2012This isn’t brand new data, but I came across it last week and thought it would be cool to share here. No need for me to write a 30,000 word blog post or white paper on what it all means. I will give you the main bullets but the graphics kind of speak for themselves. [...]Olivier Blanchard
- Fixing The Engagement Gap. February 29, 2012Let’s jump right in: With all this push for brands to “engage” in the social media space these past few years, the endless brouhaha of so-called Engagement strategies, bizarre measurement schemes like Return On Engagement and even the creation of new roles like Chief Engagement Officers and Engagement Strategists, you would think that engag […]Olivier Blanchard
- Social Media and ROI: Some clarity. (Again.) February 27, 2012I told you I would bring back this post regularly. Here it is again, until the day when everyone understands how simple this is. Okay, here we go: If you are still having trouble explaining or understanding social media R.O.I., chances are that… 1. You are asking the wrong question. Do you want to know what one of the [...]Olivier Blanchard
- Social Media: 1918 February 23, 2012When my parents found out that I was writing a series of books that take place during the first world war (side project), my father started digging around through the family “vault.” The vault, real or figurative, contains oodles of documents, archives, family trees, heirlooms, photographs and other artifacts that touch on the family’s hist […]Olivier Blanchard
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Six Pixels of Separation
- You Can Learn A Lot From Someone Who Makes Comic Books May 30, 2012Why didn't they have commencement speeches like this when I was growing up? In the past couple of years, it seems like more and more amazingly powerful commencement speeches have been making their way online. The Steve Jobs one still gets its fair share of million of views each and every year (watch it here: Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005) […]Mitch Joel
- Facebook Should Not Be Treated like Other Media May 29, 2012What is Facebook? It seems like an easy enough question to answer, doesn't it? If you ask the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, he's likely to tell you that it's a platform which hopes to connect the world in a much more open way. If you ask the average person on the street, they'll probably tell you that […]Mitch Joel
- Amazon's Ever-Growing Long Tail May 29, 2012This is less about the tail making more money than the head. Chris Anderson's debut business book, The Long Tail - Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, came out in 2004 with one simple concept: companies could make significant profits from selling small volumes of hard-to-find products to many customers instead of only selling large numbe […]Mitch Joel
Tom Peters’ Blog
- TLBT Video #77Service: TGW and TGR May 29, 2012Now available on YouTube: the latest video in The Little BIG Things series. Tom presents an alternative to minimizing Things Gone Wrong. He suggests you maximize Things Gone Right. Which would you prefer to be remembered for? You can find the video in the right-hand column of this page or watch it at YouTube (time: 1 minute 57 seconds). Or, get a PDF transcr […]
- World Innovation Forum May 26, 2012Tom spoke at the World Innovation Forum in Leon, Mexico, on 24 May. The event was organized by his long-time friends, HSM. He said the audience "are my favorite people—owners and top executives of SMEs (Small and Medium-size Enterprises); they are the lifeblood of every economy." HSM World Innovation Forum, Final HSM World Innovation Forum, L […]
- MOAP #12 May 21, 2012Part 12 of Tom's "Mother of All Presentations," or MOAP, is available now at ExcellenceNow.com. You can download the PowerPoint version or a PDF. We'll be releasing a section every other week throughout 2012. The lessons in this, the 5th "H" in Tom's "15H Theory of Everything," include servant leadership (or, lead […]
Ben Parr’s Blog
- Happy Birthday Golden Gate Bridge! May 28, 2012TweetBen Parr
- Corroded car batteries suck May 24, 2012TweetBen Parr
- Startup Tip #2: Metaphors with @aza May 24, 2012TweetBen Parr
Franklin McMahon’s Blog
- New Episodes of “Ask Franklin” from Focal Press December 14, 2011Very happy to announce that I am working with Focal Press to bring you new episodes of “Ask Franklin”, the advice show that covers a wide variety of topics and is focused on developing your creative career. Look for the clips on many Focal Press websites including “Mastering Film“. “How Can My Creative Business Make [...]
- Cable TV Goes Mobile – HBO Go May 26, 2011The HBO Go app from Time Warner has already produced more than 1 million downloads and it shows no signs of slowing down. The software runs on platforms such as iOS (Apple iPhone and iPad) and Android and allows full access to more than 1400 shows, including full seasons of many of HBOs most popular [...]
- Time Warner Cable’s Mobile TV App for iPad Finds Audience May 25, 2011TWCable TV is a new app that lets users watch Time Warner Cable (TWC) channels on their iPads. Having great-looking, HD, live content on a mobile device is certainly a treat, and while the app does not overwhelm with features initially, (new features are coming, which we’ll discuss in a bit) it does a great [...]
Harvard’s Working Knowledge
- Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency May 31, 2012
- First Look: May 29 May 29, 2012Overcoming resistance to change Most organizations contain their share of change agents—people who make things happen through smarts, savvy, force of will, or by virtue of their title. But how do these instigators overcome entrenched resistance? Researchers Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro look at the role of personal networks in providing needed l […]
- A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy May 28, 2012Published:May 28, 2012Author:Dina Gerdeman Thousands of large, profitable companies have all the right intentions of giving back to society—and yet a sizable number of them have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that provide little benefit to either the community or the company. "Of all the companies involved in CSR, the majority of t […]
Socialized Blog
- Corporate social media: skate everywhere the puck has been and is goingI've said repeatedly that corporate social media doesn't have its own strategy any more than Microsoft Word does. Social media is/are a set of really powerful tools, and therefore tactics, not a strategy. But that doesn't mean a company shouldn't be everywhere -- Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and maybe a couple of ...
- SAP: Maybe not a crisis communications case studyThe recent news that Thomas Langenbach, a VP at SAP Labs Integration and Certification Center, has been accused of faking bar codes to buy Lego brand building blocks at a discount and then resell them on eBay presents an interesting crisis communications case study. Or does it? A key responsibility of corporate ...
- AOL stock outperforms FacebookLots of fuss about Facebook's poor initial stock performance a few days after its IPO. It just goes to show that maybe the stock market isn't meant to be evaluated on the basis of just a few days' performance. In fact, if you bought AOL stock on April 5 of ...
Chris Brogan’s Blog
- What I Learned During a Brief Twitter Fast May 31, 2012I posted my 100,000th tweet on May 18th, and then left Twitter alone for the next 12 days. Part of it was so that I could leave that weird milestone (and not one that anyone need feel proud about) up there a while, and partly because I thought, “I wonder what I would learn if [...]
- How To Get More Fans (and Why That’s a Horrible Idea) May 29, 2012“How do I get more fans?” I hear this a lot. I’ve written about how to get more followers a few times, so instead of the same old, I thought I’d address this to folks who are working on growing themselves to be a person who has something of a growing (or huge) platform and [...]
- Guest Post- How to Increase Your Exposure By Defining Your Goals May 23, 2012The following is a guest post by someone I admire a great deal. Michael Hyatt is a writer, a publisher, a speaker, a mentor, and a leader. Here’s his post in support of his AMAZING new book. I’m convinced that one reason why many people fail at what they try to do (me included sometimes) [...]
GigaOm Network
- More bad news for Facebook, as site crashes June 1, 2012Facebook isn’t having a good May. First its IPO didn’t “pop” and then the stock traded down the week after it went public. And on Thursday night the social network experienced a substantial major outage, going dark for up to 80 minutes for some people. The [...]
- Are Microsoft and Nokia closet patent trolls? Let the EC decide. May 31, 2012Google has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and Nokia and is also tattling on the companies with U.S. regulators, accusing them patent-troll-like behavior. The good thing about filing a complaint with the EC is Google doesn't have to do the legwork.
- New Netflix iOS app capitulates to bandwidth caps May 31, 2012Carriers like Verizon and AT&T are trying to convince Netflix to pay for the bandwidth its subscribers consume on their networks. Rather than fork over the money, Netflix is giving its iPhone customers the option of turning off cellular access to Netflix completely.
