Creating your online experience: Don’t be the capsule hotel
When you’re creating the online experience for your organization, brand or even yourself, keep this simple advice in mind: Don’t be the capsule hotel, be the dinner party. It may sounds somewhat strange, but when I stumbled upon these two images I couldn’t help using them to illustrate this point: A shared online experience is […]
Protect your tweets - or don’t
Recently I proposed to add a little Twitter feature, namely an indicator for why you protect your Twitter feed. (Why is this important? To prevent social awkwardness.) Tapio picked up on this issue and asked (among others) me:
You folks out there must have come across that situation: a new follower request comes in, you don’t […]
Obama’s Election Campaign: It’s The Social Media, Stupid!
The U.S. elections have been an interesting spiel of old vs new, of traditional vs social media. While Republican Senator McCain and Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton have put their money on traditional media (think Clinton’s “phone in the middle of the night” TV spot and its, shall we say: mixed success), Obama’s campaign strategists have […]
Social Networks Enter Popular Culture
Social Networks have hit mainstream. (The student body on Facebook isn’t enough to really be mainstream, or is it?) How can you tell? Social Networks are increasingly becoming part of popular culture:
glumbert - Poking Granny’s Boyfriend On Facebook
And the Daily Show also tells us how, and why:
Quarterlife (the video about a bunch of emotionally, shall […]
Did Deutsche Telekom Track Journalists’ Movements?
Over the last couple of weeks, a major privacy scandal has been unfolding in Germany: Deutsche Telekom - the company that also monopolized use of the a certain shade of magenta - spied on their management. Not only their on their management, though, Telekom also spied on journalists.
(Please note: Quite a few of the […]
Re:publica 08 #4 (Wrap-up)
So re:publica 08 is over, it’s the week after and things are back to normal. I’m only posting this just now since my weekend pretty much went into moving to a new apartment, but now that I’ve settled in, I’m back on a more regular schedule after after a trip to New York and San […]
Presentation: print is dead, at least to the young
The print vs online discussion is as old as the internet, and I can’t even recall how often I’ve heard that print is dead. However, it’s not quite as common to also deliver the necessary data to back up this statement. One person who really has the science pat down and can back up his […]
Forrester: Online Community Best Practices
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Forrester’s Jeremiah Owyang shares this great presentation about Online Community Best Practices. It’s 51 slides packed with useful advices for those of you who are planning to launch an online community of any kind. Note that this presentation won’t save you proper consulting and/or experimenting. But it contains excellent […]
On Bebo.com, and why it’s important to make invitations opt-in
Web companies of the world, if there is one lesson to learn, it’s this: Be careful when sending out invitation emails.
I just spammed, by complete accident, my whole Gmail address book through Bebo. This is something that may never happen, ever. So how could it?
Given the recent acquisition of the Social Networking Site Bebo.com […]
What’ll happen to our data after Facebook jumps the shark?
Facebook has, very recently, made it possible to delete accounts instead of just deactivating them. Deleting the account is the only option to really make Facebook let go of your personal information, and until recently this was notoriously hard to accomplish.
Facebook has pretty decent privacy features, or at least privacy control features, as online social […]