Social Media - The Challenge of Adoption - [@robpatrob] Rob’s Dummies Guide, Rob asks, why is adoption not more evident?
Clip: "Most of the tools that are central to social media are very easy to use. Each year they get easier. Each year their power increases as well. Each year it becomes more obvious that any [...]
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How to Jailbreak your iPhone to OS 3.0 | via @rww
Clip: "PwnageTool versus Redsn0w versus Ultrasn0w: What?!? If you're new to jailbreaking, you might be confused by the names being tossed around out there: PwnageTool? Redsn0w? ultrasn0w? What are these people talking about?! Simply put, they're all tools that either jailbreak (allow you to [...] -
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Not Nice…Necessary | Tara @missrogue Hunt's take on why Twitter 'Rawks' resonates.
Clip: "It’s the connection I feel to the people I follow when they make me smile, or feel sad or feel passionate about something. It’s the constant display of humanity sliding by on my screen daily. I know when someone thousands of miles away [...] -
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Eyetrack III - What You Most Need to Know
Clip: "News websites have been with us for about a decade, and editors and designers still struggle with many unanswered questions: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? … When is multimedia appropriate? … Are ads placed where [...] -
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India's massive general election - The Big Picture | Stunning photostory of scenes during the elections #indiavotes09
Absolutely stunning photo story of the Indian elections. A set of 40 pictures of scenes played out during the course of the recently concluded elections in India
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Crisis planning now incomplete without social media | @euan calls for crisis mgmt teams to be connected to the social media world
Clip: "It would be naive to give the impression that there are no issues with this “crowd sourcing” approach to disaster communications and recovery. Panic can be spread using these tools just as effectively [...] -
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hack for #fixreplies - shows what Tweets you’re missing | @mrblog's hack to bring serendipity & discovery back to Twitter
Clip: "I put together a little hack that shows the tweets you’re no longer getting.
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Mobile creation & crowdsourcing in Japan (link via @grahamdbrown)
Clip: "Japan, on the other hand, joined the digital revolution from a position very different from the rest of the world, generally by-passing the PC and embracing a mobile culture that is just beginning to evolve elsewhere. Devices are becoming more functional, computers are getting smaller and [...] -
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Zero for Advani 2.0| #indiavotes09 brilliant & pithy take on BJP's online campaign by @rjauhari. (via @additiyom]. i hated the ads too
Read the full post for sure! Here's an excerpt:
"It didn’t work.
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After the elections… « Lost! | not-so-lost @wanderer08 ! it’s a good post by a BJP supporter on looking ahead. #indiavotes09
“Lets take protests beyond the domain of the NGOs and do our own jobs beyond candle light vigils.
Lets ’stay awake’ , beyond a one day ‘jaago re’.
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Greendex: Survey of Sustainable Consumption - Nat Geo | Nice green map. India has top score on Greendex. USA, Canada, Japan low.
"In this second annual survey to measure and monitor consumer behaviors that have an impact on the environment, National Geographic and the international polling firm GlobeScan have found an increase in environmentally friendly consumer [...] -
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Megacities Threaten to Choke India - WSJ.com | Lucknow as a case in point. (via @stuarthenshall)
"What's happening in India is part of a world-wide challenge. Megacities are sprouting around the globe. But in billion-person India, the trend is on steroids. The country already has 25 of the world's 100-fastest growing urban areas, according to City [...] -
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Twitter Bible: All You Need To Know About Twitter - great set of links via @jeanlucr
(tags: twitter business socialnetworking howto Social media marketing twittertools tips)Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google | Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data? - NYTimes
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Open Translation Tools 2009 | Aspiration. Call for Participants. [disclaimer: OSI is a funder & am on the sub-board of the Info Program]
"The event will convene stakeholders in the field of open content translation to assess the state of software tools that support translation of content that is licensed under free or open content licenses [...] -
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How David Beats Goliath: Malcolm Gladwell [RT @shivsingh & others. don't know much abt basketball; interesting lessons in the story]
"Eurisko was an outsider. But it was precisely that outsiderness that led to Eurisko’s victory: not knowing the conventions of the game turned out to be an advantage. Eurisko was exposing the fact that any finite [...] -
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The Obvious? | if you're a fan of @euan as I am, make sure you update the feed!
"Welcome to my shiny new blog home. Well. I say shiny new but I have chosen to keep the look and feel of it much the same. However I have now been able to move the address to [...] -
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when was the last time you had a conversation with a brand? | @kumeugirl on conversations
"But qualitative researchers now face some a similar challenge. Running a successful community is not just asking a barrage of questions, but being able to start conversations (more in the style of a salon than a focus group). Plugged In talk about:
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The End of the Destination Web Era | pple take action more when reading articles that have brand info than by search engine or banner ads
In the post-destination web era the secret to breaking through won't be advertising. A new study from ARAnet in conjunction with Opinion Research Corporation confirms what PR execs have known [...] -
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Ethnography of Literacy (Precis).often wonder abt how "literacy" is defined. readwrite simple text & numbers (india def) makes u literate?
"But as Szwed claims, “we do not fully know what literacy is” we teach our children something we know very little of. Literacy has been viewed as a yes or no matter where either one can [...] -
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The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism | by @digiactive - some interesting case studies including recent Moldovan protests
Interesting examples, including references to Evgeny Morozov's analyses of the recent use of Twitter in the Moldova protests [http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/10/moldovas_twitter_revolution_is_not_a_myth]. Will do a detailed post on this later this week!!
"The guide provides a wealth of information on [...]
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