If you are thinking of setting up a Facebook or MySpace page to promote your business, brand, association, or agency, you should first read Jeremiah Owyang’s Why You Need to have a Strategy before you make a Facebook Fan Page NOW!
What I'm Learning About Applying Social Media to Disaster Response
I’ve been researching applications of social media and social networking in local disaster response. Here are some of the things I’ve found.
Courtesy of Google Maps, here are locations of some bars and restaurants within walking distance of the King Street Metro in Alexandria, Virginia (you may need to zoom in 7 or 8 times with the “+” control to see the details):
On September 21, 2007 I published My Five Favorite Podcasts Right Now. Here are another five of my favorites:
The most interesting statement Forrester’s Charlene Li makes in Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant is this:
Phil McKinney’s podcast on Finding and Keeping Innovation Champions got me to thinking about a client project I recently completed. The deliverable included a model for assessing an organization’s readiness to adopt technology-enabled collaboration.
One of the feeds I monitor is provided by MobileActive.org:
China as Manufacturer to the World ... and Beyond
Author James Fallows, who lives in China, was a guest on NPR’s Fresh Air on October 30. He discussed aspects of his Atlantic Monthly article China Makes, The World Takes.
How To Develop a Business-Aligned Social Media & Social Networking Strategy
This document describes a process for helping organizations define and prioritize the steps involved in applying social media and social networking to their operations.
Jeremiah Owyang has an interesting discussion going on over at his blog in The Challenges of Social Media in the Enterprise, why Business and IT need to align.
Potential Applications of Social Media and Social Networking in Local Disaster Response
People use the tools available to them when a crisis hits. Increasingly these tools include blogs, text messaging, and social networking systems such as Facebook. The use of such communication tools in disaster and emergency situations is evidence of an obvious fact: the people most involved in an emergency are going to communicate about it. The question is, how can those in an official capacity take advantage of these communication channels?
On October 16, 2007 Matthew Ingram posted Jay’s lessons on news “crowdsourcing”. Ingram described some of the difficulties reported by Jay Rosen in “Assignment Zero,” an experimental attempt to involve “citizen journalists” in creation of a story for Wired.com.
James Robertson’s recent post Collaboration tools are anti knowledge sharing? got me thinking about the introduction of technology-enabled collaboration into large organizations. (Thanks to Jack Vinson for bringing this article to my attention via Twitter).
I wonder if someday -- perhaps sooner than later -- we'll see a rejection by some groups of social networking technologies that many, including me, now view as evolutionary and inevitable.
It's unusual for me to be interviewed. I usually do interviews in connection with my own research or my own client work. Over the past month, however, I've been interviewed five different times by five different people:
While walking the dog this morning I listened to the Scientific American Science Talk podcast for September 26 where psychologist Robert Epstein talked about being fooled by one of the many automated “chatterbots” that exist on the Web as artificial intelligence demonstrators. The interview made me think about Twitter and the disjointed nature of some of the “conversations” one can follow online via that service.
Getting Real about Social Networking Adoption
Professional networking guru Scott Allen left a thoughtful comment on my blog post Network Unto Others As You Would Have Others Network Unto You a couple of days ago. He noted that people don’t share the same personal and professional networking priorities.