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Twitter Shows 3rd-Party Love With New Developer Site
In an announcement late yesterday, Arnaud Meunier (@rno) publicly launched the new and improved Twitter developer's site, dev.twitter.com. "Today we're launching the new version of our Twitter Developer Site. With over 1,000,000 registered applications and 750,000 developers building on the platform today, we needed a new home to support the Twitter community better. So, we listened to everyone and gathered your ideas. The new site enhances communication channels, offers improved reference material and documentation, and will foster better interaction for everyone who visits it." [read more]
Building a Social Media Framework
Question: How can you build a stronger and effective Social Media ecosystem?Answer: Designing a Social Media Framework.Have you ever thought in your social media framework?Due to the rapid adoption of social media, I’ve come up with a new Social Media Framework aimed to empower Business and Communities beyond Social Media. It’s... [read more]
Humanising the Enterprise for Greater Efficiency and Effectiveness
I'm in Austin where we just announced a partnership with the Dachis Group at their Social Business Summit. Lee Bryant is talking about how to build more efficient and effective organizations. What follows is an impressionistic transcript. I'm somewhat of a traditionalists. The 21st century corporation was an interesting experiment... [read more]
The Growth of Online Social Networks in the Real World
by Dennis D. McDonald In Tim Berners-Lee on Social Graph: Ok, I Give Stowe Boyd takes Berners-Lee to task for confusing concepts and terminology related to “semantic web,” “social network,” and “social graph.” I share some of Boyd's confusion, partly because of the technical nature of some of the... [read more]
Exclusive! The breaking news problem
Ethan Kaplan of blackrimglasses, the Warner Music Group technology shaman and all-around smart guy, has a great post up about the pile-on effect that we all see from time to time on Techmeme, as well as a related problem: the incessant desire for “scoops” and “exclusives” that companies use to play blogs off... [read more]
Social Media and the value of weak ties
Andrew McAfee recently published two great posts helping guide companies through the choices of applications available in the Enterprise 2.0 landscape. In his most recent post, How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye, he provides an interesting framework for how to match the e2.0 task with the tool, whether it is a wiki, social network... [read more]
Jonathan Salem Baskin is an author who writes a regular column on Advertising Age & posts on his award-winning blog. More »
John Bell heads up the 360° Digital Influence team & teaches graduate studies in Digital Influence at Johns Hopkins University. More »
Don Bulmer is Vice President of Communication Strategy at Royal Dutch Shell More »
John Byrne is chairman & editor-in-chief of C-Change Media Inc. & the author or co-author of eight books. More »
Gini Dietrich Gini Dietrich is the founder and chief executive officer of Arment Dietrich, Inc. More »
Vanessa DiMauro is the CEO of Leader Networks & has been creating successful online communities for over 15 years. More »
Maggie Fox is the founder and CEO of Social Media Group & was named one of the Top 100 Marketers in Marketing Magazine. More »
Laurent Francois I lead the marketing&development hub @ Express Roularta Services, a media company. I focus on 2 main brands (L'Express, More »
Rachel Happe is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable & a blogger at The Social Organization. More »
JD Lasica is a consultant who is considered one of the leading authorities on social media & user-created media. More »
Brian Solis s author of Engage and is recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders & authors in new media. More »
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“Up until this point we have always understood content through the lens of the distribution channel it sat within. The channel, in fact, gave its name to the content (TV is a form of distribution but we think of it as a form of content) - or, as per your reference to McLuhan, "the medium was the message". The social media revolution is all about the liberation of content from its means ...”
“Alternatively, and this is what I believe, GM is simply not very good at Social. The easiest way out of that situation might well be to blame the tools, rather than the craftman. From what I've been observing, GM has been using Facebook, and especially their brand pages, as little more than a glorified megaphone. ”