social networks

On The Web, Social Media is Just Media Members Public

On one of the training course I teach in sunny Sutton, I make the point that, from its earliest days, the internet was a social medium: usenet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet], irc [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat], BBSes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
anti-social media

Social Networks Eroding Forums? Members Public

Forrester’s new Social Technographics Profile report [http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,55132,00.html] hit the interwebs a few weeks back. (I’m catching up on my Safari tabs, can you tell?) A couple of key points in the accompanying blog post [http://blogs.forrester.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
community

TEDxTuttle: Measuring Social Media Members Public

**[![TEDxTuttle](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/IMG_1272-thumb-500x136-1438.jpg?resize=500%2C136)](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/IMG_1272.jpg)** **Eigenfactor** – not just how many, but who they are.**Betweenness** – I have a friend who seems to know

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
metrics

#TEDxTuttle : Tales of Tuttle Members Public

[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/lloyddavis.jpg] Tuttle Club [http://tuttleclub.wordpress.com/] curator and founder Lloyd Davis [http://perfectpath.co.uk/] is talking about what Alan Patrick just described as the “Groucho Club of this” – this being social media. Tuttle has survived for

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
lloyd davis

On Twitter, Media and a BrandNew Identity Members Public

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/09/brandnew-1420.html] As well as trundling off to [Twestival](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/09/london_twestival_2009.html) last Thursday, I also stuck my head around the door of the [BrandNew](http://brandnewlondon.wordpress.com/) launch event, and jolly interesting

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
brandnew

How To Lose a Fortune in Social Media Members Public

Social media: you’re doing it wrong [http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/938043/BusinessWeek-sinks-16m-social-media-project/] : > NEW YORK – As the bid deadline for ailing BusinessWeek magazine approaches the McGraw-Hill title is revealed to have spent $16m on creating its social networking site, which is generating little cash. BusinessWeek launched its social

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
infrastructure

The Hole in the “Twitter is Inane” Argument Members Public

Good piece of analysis from danah [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/08/16/twitter_pointle.html]: > Twitter – like many emergent genres of social media – is structured around networks of people interacting with people they know or find interesting. Those who are truly performing to broad audiences (e.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
ambient intimacy

Simon Heffer: Missing the Social in Twitter Members Public

Oh, yawn. Yet another newspaper columnist has a go at Twitter [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/5524402/Facebook-Everything-you-never-wanted-to-know....html] and social networking generally.  This time it’s Simon Heffer of the Telegraph, and you can predict the main beats of the article: shallow, pointless, empty… At least

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
daily telegraph