Renaissance 2.0
SocialCast offers a free 10-user social networking platform for the enterprise. It includes a twitter-like micro-blogging service as well as a friendfeed-like aggregator for your social profiles on other services such as Facebook, delicious, youtube, etc. Yet Another Twitter for the Business? Yes, there are a slew of twitter clones for the enterprise available…
I just updated the map of Web 2.0 services and aggregators that most of us use on a regular basis to manage our lives online and offline. Which of these do you use? Which others do you use instead that don’t appear on here? Please share them in the comments. Note: Click the map and…
Everyone seems to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon these days. The news is full of celebrities talking about their peeps and their tweets. This includes politicians who continue to use the micro-blogging platform to express themselves and inform the people. Some are concerned about security risks or whether or not their congressman should be…
Chris Brogan’s “Unswamp Your Twitter Feed” gave some excellent advice on how to decrease the amount of “noise” in your twitter feed by changing a setting that would prevent messages sent to people you don’t know from appearing in your stream. While this will bring relief and satisfaction to many people who feel a tad…
Everyone knows that plagiarism is bad and even illegal. However, some people tend to think it’s more acceptable if the stolen content comes from an online resource such as a blog or social network. It’s a disturbing attitude that continues to spread as increasing numbers are helping themselves to other people’s work. Don’t they have…
2009 will be the Less is More year as increasing numbers of startups become shutdowns and people start to focus on using less services. The waves of early adopters has already begun to settle down and even the most excited web 2.0 proponents (myself included) realize that there are only so many minutes in a…
I’m all about making lists so this won’t surprise anyone. I love the fact that there are so many list services but most of them do not take full advantage of social networking and the inherent ability to share and build lists with groups online. Here’s a recent post I’ve done on Mashable regarding wish…
Don’t look now but FriendFeed is getting a little greedy these days. It no longer seems content to be merely a social networking aggregator. It seems to want to be a content provider instead of just a conduit for all our information. How so you ask? Well, it’s always provided a platform to post messages…
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I was tagged by Chris Brogan to contribute a post about best practices for social media marketing in response to Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation. Since I mostly blog about technology I will share my take on this question from that perspective. How does someone from a tech point of view look at social…
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Believe it or not, Microsoft can actually help you create the ultimate social media tool! If you use Microsoft Outlook 2007 as your email client then you have the basic foundation for creating a powerful social networking monster. Here’s how I use my most important communication tool on a daily basis. Most organizations have Microsoft…
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