social networks
Influencers? Forget about them. Paid Members Public
Are you obsessed with finding “influencers” for your brand or journalism? Forget about it. It’s a fiction, an seductive idea that science does not support – according to a recent post on the Harvard Business Review: > Duncan Watts, a researcher at Microsoft who co-created one of the most important
The long, slow Ello Paid Members Public
So, Ello [https://ello.co], then. I’m on there [https://ello.co/adders]. Lots of people are on there (even if they’re not really using it yet [http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/29/no-people-are-not-leaving-facebook-in-droves-for-ello/] ). But I’m very far from convinced just yet. Being wary of Facebook’s
Reports of Google+'s death have been greatly exaggerated Paid Members Public
Google+ is still being developed. For now.
Nostalgia meets satire in pre-social media Paid Members Public
That’s a rather pretentious title to sum up a rather excellent XKCD cartoon that manages to both make me nostaligic for the chatrooms that made up some of my first experiences of community interaction on the web – and satirise the worst excesses of what passes for social these days.
#RSAcommunity - Zachary Neal and the problem of diverse communities Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/zachary-neal.jpg] Liveblogged notes of Zachary Neal [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415881425/]‘s talk on community integration and cohesion at the RSA. In this talk he’s going to focus on micro networks. Are diverse communities possible?
#b2bhuddle : Livia Giulia Zuppardo on Google+ Paid Members Public
A liveblog of Livia Giulia Zuppardo talking at the B2B Huddle
The privacy and publicness problem. Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/04/h-pop.jpg] Interesting look at the problems of keeping your personal life hidden away from your online presence [http://www.purplecar.net/2013/04/losingconnections/]: > Last week, I lunched with different former coworkers (yes, I keep friends from
The Guardian Unlikes Facebook Paid Members Public
The Guardian has killed its Facebook social reader [http://gigaom.com/2012/12/13/guardian-kills-its-facebook-social-reader-regains-control-over-its-content/] – which is interesting, given that it appeared to be something of a political hot potato inside the company, with some people very keen to have control of it. Martin Belam tells the story of its
