Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
My top 10 tweets of 2013 Paid Members Public
My Top Tweets of 2013 [https://twitter.com/adders/timelines/418152823969177600] What can we learn from this? 1. Mocking social media gurus is really popular 2. Humour generally goes a long way 3. People like shared pain – like the treatment of freelancers 4. Liveblogging and exclusive interviews still carry value.
Are you ready for your corporate approved social interaction experience? Paid Members Public
Cliff Watson [https://medium.com/understandings-epiphanies/aae8d5f880cc]: > You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to mean the exact opposite of what it’s meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define “social” as once- or twice-removed ego validation
Social Media Verification is journalism's new frontier Paid Members Public
I missed this last week [http://newscorp.com/2013/12/20/news-corp-acquires-social-news-agency-storyful/] : > Accelerating News Corp’s digital transformation and video strategy, the company has acquired Storyful, the world’s first social news agency. Storyful, of course, are a brilliant lot, who have made the skill of verifying stories and
#leweb - Go wide, not deep says Gary Vaynerchuk Paid Members Public
Allegedly Gary Vaynerchuk [http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com] hadn’t slept for two days before his talk at LeWeb. I well believe it given how rambling it was. This isn’t a conventional chronological liveblog, as I’ve tried to gather together his thoughts into subject groups… Go deep not wide
#leweb - Guy Kawasaki on social media and entrepreneurship Paid Members Public
Liveblog of Guy Kawasaki [http://www.guykawasaki.com] talking on stage at LeWeb 10. A few years ago people were predicting that MySpace would be the operating system of the internet. Now Facebook is close to that. Would you really have invested in Twitter 7 years ago? Predicting the future
Teenagers and tech: look at the trends, not the tools? Paid Members Public
Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagers’ use of tech is [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/why-the-youth-market-matters-for-snapchat-and-facebook-despite-what-the-wsj-thinks/] : > […] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technology’s future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time don’t
Twitter welcomes careful curators Paid Members Public
Twitter launches custom timelines [https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-custom-timelines]: > Custom timelines are an entirely new type of timeline — one that you create. You name it, and choose the Tweets you want to add to it, either by hand or programmatically using the API (more on that below). This
Event organisers hijack attendees Twitter accounts Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/10/10258650884_5753ba04ec_z.jpg] Mashable reports on a complete abuse of New York Comic Con attendees’ Twitter accounts [http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/new-york-comic-con-promotional-tweets/] : > Fans, celebrities and press attending New York Comic Con on Thursday sent out
