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Social Media for Internal Communities

Social Media for Internal Communities

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A couple of weeks ago, I opened a talk for the Isle of Man Social Media Club entitled Enabling Social Media for Internal Communities. The speaker was Mr Chris Gledhill from PDMS who gave a talk about an off-the-self collaboration package called Microsoft Sharepoint and presented a case study around his organisation’s use of the product. Here are the slides from the presentation: My opening slides with some example of different technologies. Social SharePoint – A Case Study I hope…

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Social Media and the Real World

Social Media and the Real World

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A friend sent me a link to a great presentation about Social Media, particularly how Social meida sites today work and how this maps onto the real world. It contains some great advice for people working in this space, especially if you’re thinking about designing a service for people to use. Check it out: The Real Life Social Network v2 View more documents from Paul Adams.

Twitter Ads described as intriguing

Twitter Ads described as intriguing

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Image via CrunchBase Interesting post on Bloomberg about how the industry is intrigued by Twitter’s new ad serving strategy. The aspect that has people interested is the concept of “resonance”, i.e. using a metric based on how other people react to the advertisement. The interesting side of this is that popular adverts will get broadcast more, while as soon as people start losing interest in something, the ad will get dropped. The same concept would apply regardless of if you’re…

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Social Media, the next wave of business

Social Media, the next wave of business

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Here’s an interesting set of videos I came across that talk about a variety of subjects related to Social Media and their impact and effect on business today. It’s been interesting to watch this subject develop, from the early days of blogging all the way through to today. Blogging opened up self-publishing to the masses and coupled with a cheap camcorder one could even start to produce videos. Business has had to come to terms with User Generated Content, the…

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Is it time to quit Twitter?

Is it time to quit Twitter?

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I was reading an interesting post entitled “When to Quit Twitter“, which zooms into the fact that traffic on Twitter is generated from 10% of the user base, implying that 90% had abandoned it. It talks about Twitter’s main problem, that people sign up without a clear idea of what to expect and how to measure what value it’s adding to their life. The article outlines a couple of points that can help you decide Twitter, or any other social…

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Come share your Social Media experiences

Come share your Social Media experiences

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If you’re based in the Isle of Man, then you might be interested in a Social Media themed event next Thursday 13th September. It’s a meet-up of Social Media Club who meet every Third Thursday for a casual lunch. Everyone who comes is interested in some shape or form of Social Media, be it blogging, microblogging, social networks etc. With social media entering every part of our lives, both personal and professional, it’s a great opportunity to meet and discuss…

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