In an earlier post ("Israel Turns to Social Media in Fight against Hamas") I described how the Israeli Consulate in New York is using Twitter in the battle for public opinion regarding the conflict that partisans on both sides seem to be calling the "War on Gaza."

It turns out there's some social media savvy on the Palestinian side as well.

GazaTalk.com (warning: if you click around on the site you'll see gruesome photos) launched January 1. I...

I came across this video from Scott Drummond from Sports Hydrant in Australia when it was posted in the Online Community Manager LinkedIn group. It was filmed at a Barcamp session in Australia last year, where Scott is presenting about what an online community manager is and how to define community management. This video, Scott’s approach and the discussion in the room fits very really well with our attitude to promoting community management.

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Besides playing experimenting with some new (sometimes cloudy) collaboration services and technologies (and I didn’t even make it halfway here), battling a nasty cold and family time I’ve been reading my share of Enterprise 2.0 outlooks for 2009 lately, starting off with Gil Yehuda of Forrester (”Predicting the battle over collaboration infrastructure in 2009“) who [...]

He comentado en alguna ocasión como en la literatura y filmografía de la ciencia ficción han aparecido todo tipode tecnologías, excepto... el teléfono móvil, pero gracias al agente 86, tengo que hacer la honrosa salvedad de que en la comedia apareció en la década de los 60 y en Mortadelo y Filemón (gracias Ibañez) en los late 60 (no tengo el dato exacto), o sea casi simultáneamente... Tomo prestado amistosamente el siguiente post de Internalcomm...

The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications (how’s that for a committee?) has approved an iPhone app called iBreviary.  The application, which is a virtual version of the Catholic liturgical book, was created by an Italian priest, Reverend Paolo Padrini, and is available in Italian, English, Latin, Spanish and French, with German and Portuguese coming in the next version.

If The Vatican can capitalize on emerging technolog...

Note: Written by Aaron Newman, President & Found of Techrigy SM2 This morning as I connected to Twirl, I got a few odd DMs. Below they are listed: davidlower hey look at this funny blog http://rosalierebyb.blogspot.com/ jeffreynew hey look at this funny blog http://rosalierebyb.blogspot.com/ bretbernhoft hey look at this funny blog http://rosalierebyb.blogspot.com/ And: AntiqueCellar Hey, i found a website with your [...]

Everyone is talking about Twitter and how rapidly it is growing. But in the 12 months ending in November ‘08, Ning is growing at a faster clip.

Ning has grown 667% compared to Twitter’s 640%.

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"A combination of good strategy and poor execution is like a Ferrari with flat tires"
~Marty Neumeier, The Brand Gap

I've been thinking about the one prediction I contributed toward Peter Kim's 2009 Social Media list and it's been haunting me. So I went back to some basic personal inspiration and truths. A truth that we all probably know but are often times hesitant to admit is that it's really HARD to do something right. If you chew on Forrester...