Why Social Media Will Help (Not Suffer) in the Crisis
Ever since the financial crisis hit the stock and real estate markets, there’s been a fair bit of discussion about its impact on the web scene. Venture capitalists Sequoia made some powerpoint slides that became quite famous. That was one month ago. (Others, more recently, have been way more positive. Describing the atmosphere at Web [...]
Interview with Stowe Boyd: Why email is broken
At Web 2.0 Expo, Stowe Boyd took the time to sit down with dotdean and me for an interview. (Some thoughts on his session “Better Media Plumbing for the Social Web“.)
Email is dead - Stowe Boyd from dotdean on Vimeo.
Disclosure: The interview was shot as a shared project between blogpiloten.de and Berlinblase, both in which [...]
Berlinblase summarized in one Moo card
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Berlinblase is back. But as of now, we have a Moo card that says it all:
Image by dotdean, licensed under Creative Commons (by-nc)
Not enough info? There’s (a bit… work in progress…) more on Berlinblase > About, as well as a brief intro to the crew.
Vaynerchuk on Social Media ROI
Gary Vaynerchuk strikes with another awesome rant: “You Down With ROI?… Yeah You Know Me“. Are social media in trouble because of the U.S. financial crisis? Nope, it’s magazines, radio and TV who are in trouble, say Vaynerchuk. And guess who agrees: Yours truly.
Because social media have a number of clear advantages over traditional [...]
Next-generation content management for newspapers (is in the making)
Steve Yelvington helps newspapers get the web. Newspapers have a hard time adapting the new ways of the web, what with all this user-generated content, changing consumer habits and dropping sales. It’s a huge cultural problem - traditional vs new vs social media - too. (And it’s not that newspapers, their editors or their management [...]
Seven rules for a corporate presence on Twitter
Twitter still seems to be one of the bigger mysteries for many folks out there, particularly in the corporate sphere. No surprise, it’s one of those phenomena that aren’t easily understood at a first glance. (When looking at a few hundred web 2.0 services for a study I was working on, Twitter was one of [...]
Netiquette in one picture
A lot of smart stuff has been written about netiquette and behavior in social networks, blogs etc. But when all is said and done, it boils down to this:
Photo by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (aka Designswarm)
Bits exist to be copied / LIFT Talks
Through Oriol Miralbell’s blog I just stumbled over this conference talk. Maybe the headline sounded familiar to you? Right, it’s Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management, here filmed at LIFT ‘06. As always it’s a great talk.
(update: I removed the embedded video because it automatically started to play. Please click here to watch Cory [...]
Workshop on social media in higher education (follow-up)
As mentioned before, earlier this week I had the chance to hold a workshop on social media in higher education at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). (Slides below or on Slideshare). It was a great group, very active and engaged despite their completely different backgrounds and the language barrier. (Thanks guys!)
Special thanks, again, to Josep [...]
Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education
Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual university with students all over the world, so they’re very web-savvy to begin with. I’m very curious about their feedback on my two cents on Web 2.0 and social media. Also, [...]