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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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Pixelpipe Gets Into The Location Game With Foursquare Integration
Pixelpipe, the service that lets you syndicate text, audio, video and image files to 120 different social networks, blogs and sites, is adding geolocation functionality to its site with a Foursquare integration. The true virtue of Pixelpipe’s service is the fact that it lets you publish all types of files to various social networks and sites from a centralized place. And the startup offers its service on mobile devices, including a nifty Android app, as well. Using Foursquare’s API, Pixelpipe now allows you to add check-in to a location with a link to media captured
TechCrunch - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Foursquare Opens Up Its Firehose. Social Great Takes A Drink.
Social Great , a service which tracks trending places in cities back on location data, has just gotten access to this firehose of data. As Polaris Ventures EIR Jon Steinberg notes (who helped build Social Great), “the numbers look crazy.” Tags: Uncategorized foursquare gowalla social grea There’s been a lot of hoopla over the past couple of years about Twitter’s so-called “firehose.” 8221; Essentially, it’s an open stream of all their data that is provided to developers to use for third-party apps.
TechCrunch - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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  • Six Social Media Trends for 2010
    In 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. So what could social media look like in 2010? In 2010, social media will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive — at least, that's my guess. Social media begins to look less social With According to Nielson Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February , registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month. Meanwhile, Facebook continued to outpace MySpace.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, November 2, 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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  • Yes, Your Social Media Strategy Needs Design
    In nearly every conference room across the business landscape it's inevitable that at some point the phrase "social media" enters the discussion. What if we looked at "social media" as a design problem? As someone who started a career as a designer (graphic design and user experience design) and is currently exploring business opportunities in social media — which I think of as social business design — I can't help but Marketers, PR and salespeople are among the first to engage in the discussions, trying to figure how networks can be leveraged to sell more stuff.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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  • Three Instantly Effective Social Media Strategies
    If you've got an experienced social media team, a solid budget and an appetite for innovation, you can create an original online presence that engages your customers or supporters in an entirely new kind of online experience. That doesn't limit your social media options to a generic corporate news blog or a standard-issue Facebook page. But many organizations lack the time, budget or experience to start from scratch. Here are three great options for robust social media presences that let you manage cost and risk by building on existing tools and established best practices.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 27, 2009
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  • Intel's Social Media Training
    Are you exploring how to create a social media strategy for your company? One employee in particular, Josh Bancroft, started to build out our social infrastructure in 2004. Over time, Intel created a comprehensive set of social media policies simply called the Intel Social Media Guidelines . These guidelines Are you looking for a company to benchmark? One you might consider looking at first is Intel Corporation.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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  • Why Non-Profits Are So Good at Social Media
    Online community and social media are hot areas for business these days, as companies recognize the Internet's potential to deepen customer relationships , share knowledge and strengthen teams . NGO-run online communities and social media presences offered nonprofits a new way of stoking and harnessing their members' loyalty and passion; and in their many successes, businesses can find key lessons for using social media to enhance customer relationships, too: In the nonprofit sector, relationships have always been the key currency: the relationships with the members, donors and supporters that NGOs depend on for volunteer labor, financial support and advocacy muscle.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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  • How Ford Got Social Marketing Right
    The Fiesta Movement promised to be the most visible, formative social media experiment for the automotive world. And this shows us a way out of the accusations that now preoccupy some discussions of social media marketing. Encourage them to distribute this content on social networks and digital markets in the form of a digital currency. Ford recently wrapped the first chapter of its Fiesta Movement, leaving us distinctly wiser about marketing in the digital space. Ford gave 100 consumers a car for six months and asked them to complete a different mission every month
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, January 7, 2010
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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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  • Hire Smarter with Social Media
    Social media can help you focus your recruitment efforts to get great results in any economic climate. Here's how you can use social media tools to make the most of your next hire: Reaching To make efficient use of your time and attention, reach out through the social networks you and your employees already use, and through the online channels that reach your key audiences. A recession might seem like good news for employers looking to hire: with unemployment rates up, you've got more people to choose from and the opportunity to hire at a lower price. While the current
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 13, 2009
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  • Do You Live Social?
    Some have asked, Where does social media live? Social media is still emerging and being defined in real time. There's a question missing from that litany, one that organizations or individuals rarely ask themselves: Do you live social? Many organizations simply skip this question because they assume that they themselves don't have to be social (open and collaborative) to reap the rewards (cost savings, Is it marketing? Is it public relations?
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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