Presentation: The Real Life Social Network

Paul Adams is a Senior UX Researcher at Google. In the slides below he shares some findings from his research, focusing on what’s important to keep in mind when designing for the social web. It’s chock-full with insights on how relationships work online and offline. It’s a fantastic presentation. Must read. The Real Life Social [...]


Nobody is interested in your Social Media stuff

7 harsh realities in Social Media View more presentations from Bart De Waele. It’s a truth that needs to be said, over and over again. And then once more: “Nobody is interested in your social stuff, as long as you do not interact constantly, honestly and wholeheartedly.” Great deck by Bart De Waele. (via)


New School: Crowdsourcing 101

At a recent meeting, Trebor Scholz, curator of the Institute for Distributed Creativity mailing list (IdC), host of collective.net and organizer of the Internet as Playground and Factory Conference, kindly invited me to give a brief talk at an undergrad class he teaches at the Eugene Lang College of New School University. So while I [...]


What the F— is social media?

What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later View more documents from Jacquelyn Cyr. A nice little presentation about the power of social media. It’s trying to me a bit more provocative than it really is, but the fun pictures make up for it. Some good stuff in there. (via). (Also, just after posting [...]


Presentation: Internet und Politik

Today I gave a presentation on internet and its role on politics at ISWA. In the talk I’m laying out the basics of online politics: social networking, new rules of engagement, and a (very brief) view on the state of the political web in Germany. It’s all in German, so I’ll just post the presentation [...]


Presentation: How To Do Social Media Right In 2009

There are many, many, many presentation on how to get Social Media right. (Trust me, I’ve seen a lot, and given a few myself, and let me tell you: it’s not pretty.) This one, however, nails it. It’s on the point, it provides case studies, and it’s honest. (“There are no best practices!”). Brands, agencies, [...]


CeBIT 2009 Wrap-Up + Panel Recordings

CeBIT 2009 is over, so it’s time to see what worked and what could be done better. Also, there’s a few videos in case you want to see some panels I moderated. Since CeBIT has been losing some of its importance of the the last few years, with most tech news being available elsewhere before [...]


eCommerce (the New School of…)

At Barcamp Hamburg, I saw Stefan Betzold of Pier314 prese these slides. Stefan shared insights about the new school of – or rather: some trends in – eCommerce. Namely, the trend is to move away from one centralized shop on a company’s website towards a more decentralized approach that works through widgets, rich banners and [...]


Charlene Li on the future of social networks

The Future Of Social Networks View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: advertising media) Charlene Li‘s presentation about the future of social networking, touching on general trends as well as the opening of networks and how to monetize. As always, excellent stuff. (via mashable)


Webby Awards: Wrap-up & Slides

So last night I was at the German Webby Awards event in Berlin. (Thanks to Upside, the agency that serves as the German Webby ambassador, for inviting me as a speaker. Also, thanks to David!) What the Webby Awards do these days is branching out internationally. A logical step, if you ask me. So how [...]