Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
conferences
This post has lurked in the drafts folder of MarsEdit for the last couple of weeks because, well, my current state of under-employment is making me more nervous than normal of offending people. But if thereās one thing the last six weeks or so has taught me, thereās
analytics
Given that I spent most of social media week hammering at the keyboard of my MacBook [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/02/like_minds_at_social_media_week_london.html] , bashing out liveblogs for the good people at Like Minds [http://wearelikeminds.com/], Iām faintly surprised to discover
Blogging
Itās like 2005ās blogging world came backā¦ (Snark aside, itās interesting that both are still around, despite social mediaās relentless neophillia, and that Jeff Reine [http://jeffreine.typepad.com/] has some interesting things to say. Watch part two [http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/typepad-gm-jeff-reine-talks-social-media-with-technorati.
hipsters
Iām participating in Social Media Week [http://socialmediaweek.org/london/], through the Like Minds events [http://wearelikeminds.com/socialmediaweek], which Iāll be liveblogging on their site. Hope to see some of you thereā¦
curation
Iām finding new social media darling Pinterest compelling and entertaining. It does what so many people use Tumblr for ā visual curation ā better, and in a moreĀ agreeableĀ layout.A few relevant links:- Some [Pinterest Demographic Data](http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-networks/pinterest-demographic-data/) - How [Pinterest is changing website
BBC
Liveblog of a panel debate about social media from news:rewired in February 2012
hashtags
Liz Heron tells the news:rewired audience that the social media landscape is changing so fast that it's unrecognizable year-to-year
B2B
A quick book recommendation for you. [John Bethune](http://www.b2bmemes.com/) has recently published his New-Media Survival Guide for Journalists. Itās a short, focused and useful read for any journalist still in the process of transitioning from the traditional print or online skill sets, to ones more suited
change management
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/01/adur-sunset.jpg] My post on paywalls yesterday garnered a good amount of interest. Kevin Anderson suggests that journalists need to be a little more self-critical about the value of their own work [http://charman-anderson.com/2012/01/09/unique-content-part-of-metered-paywall-success/
corporate social media
Is your business ready for social business? You wouldnāt trust a pilot, a surgeon or even a member of your shop staff if they didnāt have training. Yet many do with social.
marketing
From Dan Frommerās progress report three months into his excellent SplatF [http://www.splatf.com/2011/10/month-three/] blog: > Top traffic referrers include Techmeme, Twitter, and Daring Fireball. Iāll probably write about this in more depth someday, but itās amazing how much Twitter influences how someone
metrics
 Fascinating how social media has come to dominate web use ā and how the old āporn drives web innovationā maxim is clearly no longer true.More cogent [analysis at