News from the Twitter Farm
Five journalists using only Twitter and Facebook as news sources to provide their reporting, that’s the basic setup of an experiment going on for five days. The headline, by the way, of this post is just a translation of “Nachrichten aus der Twitterfarm“, the title of a blog post announcing a news-gathering experiment by five [...]
Social Media Campaigns: My Facebook Is Mine
Working with companies on their social media campaigns can pose a tricky dilemma for the consultants: on the one hand you’re hired because you know your way around the social media sphere, which of course you do because you’re very active there. On the other hand, you don’t want to abuse your personal social network [...]
German Market Can Be Tricky. Try Anyway.
Recently I’ve noticed a lot more inquiries coming in from agencies abroad, mostly the U.S. or UK. Two Three things I found noteworthy there. photo credit: Seite-3 1) There’s more and more agencies specializing on Social Media. Over are the days where one ad agency covers all web needs. The agencies are going niche, which [...]
Domo Eats Twitter Bird, looks funny
Image by kopp0041 (some rights reserved) I’ve been looking for a good reason to post this image ever since I stumbled over it a few days ago. Against all odd, I couldn’t find one, except for it being an awesome picture. I love it. The whole Domo Eats The Twitter Bird analogy doesn’t really seem [...]
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)
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 [...]
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 [...]
Learn from the Fail Whale: failing doesn’t need to hurt
If there’s one thing all Twitter users have in common, it’s that they’ve experienced down time. Twitter is famous for it’s long and regular down times, and since the service is growing so fast, it will continue to be unavailable fairly frequently for quite a while. Usually, with the fickle web audience, this would mean [...]
perspctv: Who’s talking about McCain, Obama?
perspectv visualizes who’s being talked about more: McCain or OBama. Or as TechCrunch calls it: “An Election Mashup That Proves Nothing, But Looks Good Doing It“. And guess what? It’s just that: This project presents different perspectives in our world, including that of Mainstream media and user-generated content on the Internet. (…) What we think [...]
12seconds: Twitter for video (and video for Twitter)
A new day, a new video service. Today: 12seconds, which has a refreshing take on web video: Record a video message of exactly 12 seconds, the moving image equivalent of a 140 character message on Twitter. It’s a video micro blog. hello world on 12seconds.tv My first test post on 12seconds. You see the parallels [...]
