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All in Social Media

School Communications & Emergency Response: What are the Implications for Social Media?

Aug 21

Aug 21 School Communications & Emergency Response: What are the Implications for Social Media?

Dennis D. McDonald

Best Practices, Disaster Response, Emergency, Homeland Security, Policy, , , communications, eGovernment, Security, Communications

I’ve been reading documents from a page of links relevant to emergency planning for schools that is maintained by the Texas A&M University’s Integrative Center for Homeland Security. According to the Center’s blog, the list was started in response to the Virginia Tech shooting. I’m looking for information on the implications of using social media and social networking systems as part of the “mix” of communication tools that are relevant in an emergency.

Aug 13
Aug 13 Facebook: Beware the Rocking Chair Factor

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Change, Demographics, Facebook, , , Web 2.0

My good friend Jeremiah Owyang, with whom I wrote an article in early 2006 that is STILL regularly among my weekly top ten posts (this past week it was number one), has written Web Strategy: What the Web Strategist should know about Facebook

Jul 29
Jul 29 Do We Need "Portable Relationship Maps" for Social Networks?

Dennis D. McDonald

Definitions, Identity, Personal Data Ownership, Privacy, , , Standards

In Yet another reason why we need a single, trusted, and protected identity system Jeremiah Owyang voices the common complaint about social networks. At one point he writes:

Jul 26
Jul 26 Age, Association Member Retention, and Social Networking

Dennis D. McDonald

Associations, Demographics, , , Strategic Planning, Strategy, Web 2.0

Tony Rossell in his blog post The Ageless Question reviewed a published research study that appears to show that age related differences in professional association membership haven't changed as much over the years as some people have been saying.

Jul 25
Jul 25 DC CopyNight, July 24, 2007

Dennis D. McDonald

700 MHz, Apple, Copyright, DMCA, DRM, FCC, Facebook, RIAA,

We met again last night at a downtown DC bar, a group of policy analysts, bloggers, lawyers, activists, and geeks. I reported on last month's discussion here. Last night's conversation covered several topics:

Jul 9
Jul 9 Why Google Scholar Adding Elsevier "ScienceDirect" Data is Significant

Dennis D. McDonald

Associations, Elsevier, Google, Industry Analysis, Journals, ,

This deal between Elsevier and Google may be further evidence of how disruptive the web has become to traditional publishing, research institutions, and professional membership associations. Web access and the proliferation of systems offering collaboration opportunities via social media and social networking are forcing management to make tough decisions about how much to give away for free and how much to restrict to paying customers.

Jul 2
Jul 2 What department should manage a corporate "social networking" program for lead generation?

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Collaboration, Facebook, Metrics, Sales Management, , , Web 2.0

What department should manage a corporate “social networking” program for generating business leads? I thought about this while responding to the question posed on Linkedin Answers by Dave Biskner, How would you implement a staff-wide networking program?

Jun 1
Jun 1 The Use of Codevelopment and Networking to Improve Professional Association Membership Services

Dennis D. McDonald

Associations, Blogging, , , Strategic Planning, Strategy, Web 2.0, communications

Ana Caraveli in the Journal of Association Leadership has published a lengthy and thoughtful article titled Building the Future on Member Value: Codevelopment as a Key to Customer Relationships in the 21st Century.

May 22
May 22 RSS Feeds: Results of a "Full" versus "Partial" Experiment

Dennis D. McDonald

Advertising, Blogging, Facebook, Market Research, Metrics, Publishing, RSS,

Dave Munger in The end of the RSS experiment presents the results of data collected to analyze what happened when his web site turned off partial RSS feeds and substituted full RSS feeds. A reduction in site page hits corresponded to the publishing of the full RSS feeds, presumably because feed reader users had no need to return to the web site -- where ads are visible.

May 21
May 21 Best Podcasts I've Heard on Enterprise Adoption of Social Media

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Collaboration, Content Management, Knowledge Management, Network Effects, Project Blog Survey, Project Management, , , Web 2.0, Wiki

The best podcasts I’ve heard recently on enterprise adoption of social media are two interviews with Toby Redshaw of Motorola by Dan Bricklin. One is from March of 2006 and the other from March 2007.

How Important is Web Usage Data To You?

May 14

May 14 How Important is Web Usage Data To You?

Dennis D. McDonald

Collaboration, Demographics, Facebook, Market Research, Metrics, , , Web 2.0

Robert Scoble in his May 13, 2007 We Need Better Statistics post does a nice job of starting off a discussion of the problems currently experienced by anyone who tries to make sense of web usage statistics.

Five Factors That Influence Successful Corporate Adoption of Internal Social Media and Web 2.0 Initiatives

May 7

May 7 Five Factors That Influence Successful Corporate Adoption of Internal Social Media and Web 2.0 Initiatives

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Bookmarks, Change, Collaboration, Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, , , Tagging, Web 2.0

While tracking adoption of “web 2.0” applications such as internal blogs, wikis, and social book marking systems by large organizations, I’m seeing a couple of factors emerging that, anecdotally at least, appear to be associated with successful adoption.

Is DRM a "Tax" on the Intellectual Property Supply Chain?

May 2

May 2 Is DRM a "Tax" on the Intellectual Property Supply Chain?

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Copyright, DRM, Risk Management, SMRM,

Like it or not, the current controversy over the publication by Digg of a decryption key for unlocking DRM-equipped high definition DVDs might give some companies pause about how to handle threatening "take-down notices" in the event an employee blog or wiki is used to publish a protected or controversial work.

Scholarly Communications and the Social Media Genie

Apr 27

Apr 27 Scholarly Communications and the Social Media Genie

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Journals, Publishing, Science, , , Research Data

Marketing, customer communications, and inside-the-firewall collaboration are not the only processes subject to "disruption" by social media and social networking. The worlds of research, scholarly communication, librarianship, and publishing are also being impacted, and not just by Google.