Social media, public relations, trendwatching and common sense
Posted in wieck on Jun 4th, 2008
I found a great post over on ProBlogger that lists the 20 types of blog posts, and seeing them all laid out in a convenient list has given me an idea for mixing up the content on this blog - I’m going to write each type on a card, and draw randomly from the stack [...]
Posted in wieck on Jun 3rd, 2008
A great feature-length dissection of the Emily Gould/Gawker Media empire, via an interesting post by AdAge.
Posted in wieck on Jun 3rd, 2008
In this episode of Heads Up!, Laura discusses Twitter’s trends, interesting feeds, and the top 10 applications for the service.
Our Top 10 Twitter Applications:
1. Twistori
Twistori scans Twitter and anonymously displays users’ dreams and desires.
2. Twappi
Twappi show’s twitter’s mood status based on the day’s messages.
3. Hashtags
Using tags, this service is a great way to track group [...]
Posted in wieck on May 14th, 2008
Yahoo! has just opened up the platform that powers the geolocation features on Flickr and Upcoming.org. I am fascinated by geolocation and it’s one of the trends I pay the most attention to. I think it has amazing potential for, among other things, immediately impacting our daily lives through tagging news stories that happen locally [...]
Posted in wieck on May 13th, 2008
Smartmobs provides a great links summary of how Twitter helped spread the news about the earthquake in China faster than traditional news media, providing many real-time reports and videos.
Posted in wieck on May 13th, 2008
Resourceful Idiot explains the progression from Web 1.0 to 2.0 from a development standpoint, and speculates about the next wave.
The main question that drove this movement, “How can I take this data and share it with other people?” Since this question was asked, sites have popped up all over the internet trying to answer this [...]
Posted in wieck on May 13th, 2008
Another Pay-as-You-Wish Success Story with tips and caveats about this type of tale, and this BBC piece, via this LIST-onomics post.
Pope Benedict XVI will send religious text messages to thousands of young Catholics when he attends World Youth Day in Australia, organisers say.
The move aims to help the Pope connect with his technology-loving audience.
Digital prayer [...]
Posted in wieck on May 13th, 2008
On May 8, Sony customer Dustin wrote in to the Consumerist about receiving a form letter to every query made about a broken piece of hardware.
It looks like someone within Sony reads the page, because by May 12 Dustin received a personal phone call offering to replace (instead of just repair) his machine.
Appeasing the single [...]
Posted in wieck on May 13th, 2008
Jeremiah Owyang offers some great strategies and tips for talking to executives about social media. One of the most frequently-asked questions I’ve heard is how to deal with the legal department, which he addresses here.
(via WOMMA)
Posted in wieck on May 9th, 2008
Textually.org reports:
Africa surpasses North America in terms of mobile subscribers, reports Total Telecom.
“The number of mobile phone users in Africa exceeded 280 million in the first quarter of this year and will reach the 300 million mark next month, according to Wireless Intelligence.
As a result, the continent has surpassed North America in terms of mobile [...]