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Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity
Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and has studied this space extensively for years. With Buzz, Google found the social equivalent to the famous “uncanny valley” (where things seem almost natural, but aren’t quite close enough, so they’re creepy). Boyd also called out the presence of racism in social media. Today at SXSWi, keynote speaker Danah Boyd took the stage to talk about privacy and publicity, and how they intertwine online. It was a compelling talk that challenged the notion that personal information is on
TechCrunch - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
Moreover, a full slate of parties and receptions during the evening hours help to accelerate the social aspect of the event. The topic of the event is the emergence of digital activism for fostering positive social change. 15 – 16 March 2010: London, England 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum — London The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus.
ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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#140tc: A Conversation with Ben Parr
Parr stressed that social media is a tool. Twitter, and social media networks in general, have gone mainstream to such a wide audience, that many large corporations are finally learning to use it more effectively. One of the most compelling outcomes of this social media shift is how we get our news. “The This is the first of several posts covering TweetHouse’s 140 Twitter Conference that took place on March 8, 2010. The 140tc focused on everything from Twitter basics to advanced tools and uses for business and beyond. Steve Broback , one of the minds behind
Lockergnome Blog Network - Friday, March 12, 2010
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  • Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
    A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens in such a way that users can't communicate or share content or friends across networks; put simply this is what keeps a Facebook user from being able to send a message to a MySpace user. This is the same model that destroyed AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy's ISP businesses when normal people chose the Internet itself versus their thoughtfully curated walled gardens.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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  • Active Facebook Users By Country
    According to Alexa, Facebook is now the 2nd most-popular site in Indonesia , displacing Friendster as the country's leading social network. Tags: facebook hardnumbers platforms research socialnetworkin Since I last posted numbers on Facebook's user base six week ago, the company has added close to 20 million active users. I've I've had a few requests for detailed numbers by country so I quickly assembled an update for each of the regions shown above.
    OReilly Radar - Sunday, April 19, 2009
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  • Debunking Social Media Myths
    He said "I was selling in the idea that social media is free, until the community manager headcount came in." This underscores a fundamental truth to social media that many organizations underestimate-- being social means having real live people who actively participate in your initiatives. The economics of using social media in business require the participation of people to fuel it. I recently spoke at and attended the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC. On day two, I heard something from Brian Wallace of Blackberry that echoed thoughts I've been preaching
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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  • How to Extend Your Customer Experience Through Social Media
    On Sunday, my wife, son, and I had a delightful meal there, one that would not have happened without social media. How can social media augment, fill out, and improve the customer experience? Two companies who lead the way in using social media, Southwest Airlines and Zappos (disclosure: Zappos is a client of Adaptive Path ), empower their staff to engage with social media on the company's behalf. I'm in Toronto this week on business. Arriving a few days early to play tourist, I tweeted for recommendations for places to eat and things to do.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, August 24, 2009
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  • When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media
    Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 platforms, consider the following two scenarios based upon real examples and ask how the executives at your company would react: An executive publishes her first blog post, primarily addressing his employees, but open to the public. She intends for the blog to help the survivors of a recent
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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  • How Social Is Too Social?
    While this scenario is extreme, it seems to suggest that maybe not everything is better with friends, despite the fact this seems to be the approach, so far, of social networking services. Over the past few weeks the technology world made big steps forward in making your world even more "social." Buzz also socializes other services, such as Reader, so others can follow what what you read. Imagine walking up to an ATM — you insert your card and begin to check your balance before you put in the amount of cash you want to withdraw from the machine. As you do this, a small
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, February 22, 2010
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  • 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
    "Social media" was the term du jour in 2008. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media books, and social media firms. It is now common practice among corporations to hire social media strategists, assign community managers, and launch social media campaigns, all designed to tap into the power of social media. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. But social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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  • 10 Ways to Build Social Media Expertise Using Personal Web Projects
    When Timex sponsored a Twitter party in late 2009, it leaned on the social media expertise of Stefania Pomponi Butler and her partners in Clever Girls Collective to deliver a conversation that would engage women consumers with the Timex brand. But Stefania's social media smarts weren't born from a corporate campaign or formal training: this former marketing pro got her start in social media by blogging about life as an urban mom . The success of her personal blog brought forth paid blogging gigs, which turned into editing gigs and then production gigs. Eventually, she
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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  • Facebook as a Learning Platform
    He points us to a Fortune Magazine article that describes a Stanford class being offered by BJ Fogg that studies Facebook as a platform: "Facebook is the most convenient and respectable way to feel connected to friends, get updated on existing friends, find new people, build relationships and express identities." Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about
    eLearning Technology - Monday, October 15, 2007
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  • Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform
    But is Twitter truly a conversational platform? Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the knowledge co-creation seen in wikis than the dynamics seen with conversational tools like instant messaging and interactions within online social networks. Wikis are causally thought of as platforms for "collaborative" document creation. Perhaps the most common reason given for joining the microsharing site Twitter is " participating in the conversation " or some version of that. I myself am guilty of using this explanation .
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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