• PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
    Bing Moves Past Google on the Social Side of Search
    For example, Bing will now suggest friends who might be knowledgeable about a specific topic by considering their listed "likes" on Facebook. feed will also let you see and respond to your friends' Facebook updates and questions. And users will be able to ask their Facebook friends questions via Bing. percent of U.S.
  • INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE  |  FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
    Setting priorities
    Share this on Facebook. In academic libraries, there are usually so many levels of priorities. There are the priorities of the university. There are the priorities of the library. Each unit probably has its own priorities, as does each individual. Neither is a completely satisfying choice. But how? This is fantastic! Tweet This!
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
    Reference Services Review: twittering
    Information literacy on Facebook: an analysis. There's a Twitter focus in the latest issue (vol 40 no 2) of Reference Services Review : - Libraries atwitter: trends in academic library tweeting: by Darcy Del Bosque, Sam A. Leif, Susie Skarl (pp. 199 - 213) - To tweet, or not to tweet? by Susan Jennings (pp. by Steven Bell (pp. by Lori S.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
    European companies embracing enterprise social, reaping rewards, report shows
    First off, it should be noted that the report includes both consumer social products like LinkedIn and Facebook used for business purposes and social tools geared specifically for organizations under the banner ‘enterprise social’ So what are the details? We are not suggesting that this is some sort of panacea.”.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
    “I will never stop learning”
    Larry Lessig on Facebook, Apple, and the Future of Code – via @RossDawson. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. gapingvoid – “Marketing is not mathematics. There are no solutions, only experiments.” will never stop learning. Which is it? Can Anyone Present?
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012
    The Internet Big Five: Up $272 Billion in Six Months
    Since that time, the Five have only gotten stronger, adding a cumulative $272 billion in market cap (much of that is Apple, but Amazon and Facebook – assuming the offering does as expected on Friday – have also increased quite a bit). All In fact, there are four main criteria for making it into the Big Five.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012
    A new view on lurkers
    This is the Facebook effect, which I have noticed since the service became mainstream. For several years, there has been a rule-of-thumb, called “90-9-1″ , that 90% of online participation in groups/community consists of “lurkers” or more politely, “passive participants”, and only 1% are active creators.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012
    The Audacity of Diaspora
    Last Friday Businessweek ran a story on Diaspora , a social platform built from what might be called Facebook anti-matter. – Facebook. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? Media/Tech Business Models facebook Internet Big Five Book Related Independent Web diaspora Policy
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012
    Comedy facebook privacy video
    He has carried out two focus groups with his peers about how and why they share information on Facebook and Twitter (no further detail yet, as he hasn't finished writing it up, but I will add some more in the future). I had an interesting talk yesterday with one of our third year BSc students, whose dissertation I'm supervising.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012
    Curtain Raiser: The CM Summit in NYC Next Week
    Clara Shih , Founder of enterprise social media software company Hearsay Social and New York Times bestselling author of The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell and Innovate.  The Soho Skylight, awaiting its incarnation as site for the 7th annual CM Summit. Day one’s sponsor spotlight is Luminate.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012
    Awareness Report on Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital
    75 percent of Facebook users have “Liked” a brand, and 53 percent of Twitter users have recommended companies or products. Awareness has released an interesting free report, 3 Keys to Influence: Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital. It began with some useful statistics: 90 percent of all purchases are subject to social influence.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012
    Larry Lessig on Facebook, Apple, and the Future of “Code”
    But even as Lessig was putting the finishing touches on the second version of his manuscript, a new force was erupting from the open web: Facebook. That word was “Facebook.” But the word Facebook isn’t in the text. What do you make of Facebook, given the framework of Code v2? It’s worth your time.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012
    Jaron Lanier: Something Doesn’t Smell Right
    He worries about the fragmentation of our online identity, and warns that Web 2 services – from blogs to Facebook – lead us to leave little pieces of ourselves everywhere, feeding a larger collective, but resulting in no true value to the individual. don’t. Not entirely, anyway. But more on that in a moment.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012
    On Thneeds and the “Death of Display”
    Pinterest recently hired Facebook’s original monetization wizard to create its own advertising model, separate from standard display. And of course there’s Facebook, which has gone so far as to call its new products “Featured Stories” (as opposed to “Ads” – which is what they are.) Easy, right?
  • FUTURE OF WORK  |  SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012
    Is “Operational Strategy” an Oxymoron? (Part Two)
    Just look at how companies like Amazon, Intuit, eBay, Visa International, Google, Facebook, Ford, and Apple have completely re-invented business models in industries as diverse as publishing, banking, music, home-based businesses, retail sales, and even manufacturing. Jim Ware. An “Oxymoron” (from the Greek ????????, Major impact on cost.
  • FUTURE OF WORK  |  SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012
    The Future of. (May 2012)
    It’s no small thing that in this era of mobility and flexible work programs companies like Google , Apple , and Facebook (all based in Silicon Valley) are going out of their way to create corporate offices that their employees want to use regularly. Here is a small sample of the stories and developments we are paying attention to these days.
  • COLLABORATION 2.0  |  THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
    Asana: speedy, stable and very well connected
    Well funded and connected ‘task management for teams’ firm Asana could make waves through their Facebook roots, quality code and cultural fit
  • INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE  |  WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012
    No, we can’t do it all
    Share this on Facebook. So many of us struggle with determining priorities in teaching. Few of us have a workload that would allow us to do everything we would like to do. and we think: wow, I’d love to do that. But can we? And then that goes to the broad vs. deep argument. Neither option is particularly satisfying. model better?
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
    Get Ready for Some Pictures, Folks
    Now, I can’t exactly replicate what Twitter and Facebook have created here on this blog, so I’ll continue to use those platforms as I have in the past. A wine we enjoyed last weekend. That, I hope, is about to end. Allow me to explain. And what are we getting back? free service. And about that many on Instagram.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012
    Enterprise 2.0: Freemium first, enterprise second (Part 1 of 3)
    Incorporate data from outside sources such as Google Apps (email and contacts), Salesforce.com (accounts and status), Facebook or LinkedIn (contacts and relationships). The market for Enterprise 2.0 apps has taken off in the time since I first alerted consumer software entrepreneurs to this huge new opportunity ( “ Enterprise 2.0:
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012
    6 secrets for building a super team
    Web startups: How to guard against security breaches Personal tools lead to practical business Facebook’s IPO filing: ideas and implications. Every tech company tries to hire the best talent available, but there is a lot more to building a great team than just putting a group of talented individuals in a room. Everyone gets a veto.
  • INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE  |  THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012
    Reflections on year one at PSU
    Share this on Facebook. Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of working at Portland State. I’d wanted to write a post yesterday reflecting on it, but I was driving three hours (to Bend, OR) to give a four-hour preconference. didn’t leave for a promotion. left because I was looking for new challenges. And I have gotten a lot done.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012
    Social Media Marketing May Need to Adjust Measurement
    The report looked at sites like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, YouTube, and Yelp. Adobe has released second Adobe® D i g i t a l I n dex report, which provides marketing, e-commerce and retail executives with digital marketing data. The most common measure of impact is the last-click attribution.  
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012
    Alfresco Now Offers Cloud-based Open Source Document Management
    You can push content directly to: Flickr, SlideShare, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and even twitter. Alfresco started in 2005 and has been offering open enterprise content management (ECM) to an increasing number of clients to where they are now the largest open source content management company in the world. would certainly agree.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
    Microblogging or Macroblogging…or simply messages
    Facebook is similar in that it has Facebook Notes, which is a long-form, but only it has more a blog post like feel compared to the online page like feel of Neudesic Pulse Articles. Microblogs are status updates…which kind of blur the line between chatting and broadcasting (eg Facebook and Twitter). Why do I like Google+.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012
    Direct Mail Ain’t Dead, Says Facebook
    Perhaps the most interesting piece of mail came from a very familiar brand: Facebook. almost tossed it, but then I thought, why is Facebook using snail mail to message to me? guess Facebook can’t grow using only its own platform to market its wares. For the record, if nothing else.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012
    Using social media for onboarding
    When the organization didn’t support networking after training, the employees created their own Facebook group. Pairing with another worker or even tripling with two experienced workers and getting to work immediately, in order to reduce formal training (Menlo Innovations). Start the process as early as possible. Tweet.
  • KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
    What does a feed reader need today?
    How many times has it been mentioned and discussed on Twitter / Google+ / Facebook / etc. People are playing with Pinterest and finding friends with Facebook. A reader of my blog asked me to update my thoughts on what I'd like to see in a news reader today. First requirement: It has to work and work consistently. Navigation. Threading.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
    A Coachella “Fail-ble”: Do We Hold Spectrum in Common?
    ”), tweeting or Facebooking a message to followers (“Neon Indian is killing it right now!”), For the “hardwired” Internet – the place that gave us the Web, Google, Facebook, et al, we built upon what was arguably a publicly common infrastructure. Neon Indian at Coachella last weekend. ”).
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
    Novell GroupWise 2012 Offers Enhanced Collaboration Capabilities
    GroupWise also provides icon badges for emails from such tools as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Vibe. The first question I had was the relationship between GroupWise, Pulse and Teaming. The answer allowed Kari to explain how they have regrouped their collaboration product line. to really work. It comes with both GroupWise and Vibe. 
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012
    Following the LILAC conference #lilac12
    The conference website is [link] and there is a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lilacconference (there is currently a picture of last year's conference - I'm crouching in the front, 5th right). The UK's major information literacy conference, LILAC, is on for the next 3 days. The hashtag is #lilac12 https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23lilac12
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012
    Facebook Buys Instagram, Checks Off A Swath of 2012 Predictions In One Move
    Thanks to our pals at Facebook, a few of them are now pretty much in the bag. further singled out Instagram as a company that would likely be bought, and figured there’d be a battle between Twitter, Apple, Facebook, and Google for the prize. Facebook won, with a billion dollar price tag. wonder if that will hold.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012
    Facebook Buys Instagram, Checks Off A Swath of 2012 Predictions In One Move
    Thanks to our pals at Facebook, a few of them are now pretty much in the bag. further singled out Instagram as a company that would likely be bought, and figured there’d be a battle between Twitter, Apple, Facebook, and Google for the prize. Facebook won, with a billion dollar price tag. wonder if that will hold.
  • INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE  |  MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012
    Up to my neck in… well, everything.
    Share this on Facebook. You know you’re a real blogger when, no matter how absurdly busy the rest of your life is, the thing you can’t do that you miss the most is blogging. It’s been a crazy almost two months and isn’t looking to get any better in the near future. The lovely Megan Oakleaf was the PI. Tweet This!
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012
    My Favorite Tweets for March 2012
      10 Reasons Business Blogging is Better than Facebook [Infographic] bit.ly/HkTDuo. Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren’t Moving As Much News As You Think bit.ly/FPwjty. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.  hope this is also useful for you. 
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
    The Conversational Marketing Summit, Seventh Edition: A Searchblog (Deep) Discount
    Past speakers have included Dick Costolo, CEO Twitter, Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook, John Hayes, CMO American Express, Laura Desmond CEO Starcom Mediavest Group, will.i.am, and many, many more. Each year at Internet Week in New York , I curate a conference on media and marketing called the CM Summit  (video from last year above).
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
    The Conversational Media Summit, Seventh Edition: A Searchblog (Deep) Discount
    Past speakers have included Dick Costolo, CEO Twitter, Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook, John Hayes, CMO American Express, Laura Desmond CEO Starcom Mediavest Group, will.i.am, and many, many more. Each year at Internet Week in New York , I curate a conference on media and marketing called the CM Summit  (video from last year above).
  • WWW.FMYI.COM  |  TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
    Your online social workspace | Your collaboration software | FMYI
    Be a fan on Facebook. Share on Facebook. FMYI | For My Innovation. Pricing. Why FMYI? Company. Username. Password. Or Sign up. Forgot your username or your password? love thy. inbox. Never bother filing emails again. Never worry about where the latest file is again. Never let that pesky inbox give you the shakes again. Take the tour ».
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
    Social business and the valley of disinterest
    host of business-specific collaboration offerings from Yammer to Rypple are aiming to capture the interest of firms, while nearly every business is trying to figure out how to best utilize the likes of Facebook and Twitter. But are all companies equally engaged in figuring out how to do social? percent. 1,000-5,000 employees: 13.6 percent.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012
    Architectures of Control: Harvard, Facebook, and the Chicago School
    In the preceding paragraph, change “Harvard” and “university” to “Facebook” and – there you have it. Facebook was the product of a Harvard mindset – and probably could never have come from a place like Chicago or Berkeley (where I taught).
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012
    Architectures of Control: Harvard, Facebook, and the Chicago School
    In the preceding paragraph, change “Harvard” and “university” to “Facebook” and – there you have it. Facebook was the product of a Harvard mindset – and probably could never have come from a place like Chicago or Berkeley (where I taught).
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012
    Sharing beyond the classroom and cubicle
    That number can be surprisingly small, even in a very big network; for example, you can connect two random Facebook users, on average, with a chain that’s less than five friends long. Tweet Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter this past week. John Medina” via @chriscognito. But it shouldn’t be.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012
    Yammer and why activity streams are a key foundation for integrated applications and organizations
    The foundation for this integration is the Open Graph Protocol established by Facebook. I caught up with some of the Yammer team this morning, including Chief Customer Officer David Obrand, while they are in town for the Yammer on Tour series. . was particularly interested in talking with them about Yammer’s shift to activity streams.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012
    Enterprise activity streams…sometimes it is about the technology
    facebook type of activity stream does not have enough functionality to suit the enterprise. This is why I think the notification stream or the interactions stream that we are familiar with when using Facebook and Twitter; when in the enterprise context actually needs to be the default home stream. The funniest part is “2.0
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012
    Awareness Offers Its Social Media Command Center
    Awareness can be used to support Facebook campaigns. You can control custom tabs in Facebook and add functionality. For example, you can allow a white paper to be downloaded from Facebook.  See a sample Facebook download screen below. I have covered  Awareness, Inc. See sample below. There is a 2,800 sq ft.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012
    Introduction to Google Analytics – Online Workshop
    Number of “socially engaged” visitors (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In). Google Analytics is a popular free tool from Google that provides a wealth of information about the visitors to your website. It can take a bit of time to uncover its full use. want to alert you to a useful online workshop offered by my friends at Pioneer Training.  
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012
    The Yin and Yang of Audience
    As readers  know , I’ve been thinking out loud a lot about the future of the Internet, and whether the rise of “walled gardens” like Facebook and Apple’s iOS (what I call AppWorld) are ultimately the future the web. PS, I have ten, and only ten, half price tickets available. So here goes. Hence the theme.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012
    The Yin and Yang of Audience
    As readers  know , I’ve been thinking out loud a lot about the future of the Internet, and whether the rise of “walled gardens” like Facebook and Apple’s iOS (what I call AppWorld) are ultimately the future the web. PS, I have ten, and only ten, half price tickets available. ” ). So here goes. Hence the theme.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012
    CM Summit White Paper from 2007
    It’s a summary of musings from Searchblog circa 2006-7 on the topic of conversational media, which is much in the news again, thanks to Facebook. I am in the midst of writing a post on the history of FM, and I thought it’d be fun to post the PDF linked to below. ” Enjoy. CMManifesto2007.01.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012
    Le futur de Facebook et le rôle de la France
    Voici ma première vidéo en francais, qui est à propos du futur de Facebook. Quelques miettes du video : * L’introduction en bourse de Facebook a des implications très importantes. La France est le deuxième pays en Europe par le nombre des utilisateurs de Facebook, avec 25 millions d’internautes sur ce réseau social.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012
    Explorer le futur en France et en français
    Je vais faire régulièrement des vidéos en français, commençant avec une vidéo à propos du futur de Facebook, que vous pouvez voir ici. Ceci est le premier billet de blog que j’écris en français. Je suis Australien, né à Canberra, mais mon père travaillais pour l’ONU et j’ai passé presque tout ma jeunesse à Genève.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012
    Tools for the future of work: Salesforce bets on social
    You see it at fast-moving companies like Facebook or LinkedIn. If you’re talking about, ‘what are you working on at Facebook?’ One of the reasons Facebook liked Rypple so much is because, even though [employees] are moving around a lot in the company, they have a better sense of how what they do contributes.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012
    SXSW Notes: No Brochures: Digital Storytelling for Nonprofits
    They hope to modify these stories to better fit each channel, such as Facebook Timeline.  Here is another in my series on SXSW events. am pleased to be attending SXSW for the first time. am grateful for Adobe Acrobat for enabling me to attend. will be attending a number of Adobe sponsored sessions. Here is the session description.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012
    Insights and real-life case studies in effective crowdfunding for change
    The only reward offered was to be invited to a screening in an Australian capital city They eventually hit $6,551 in funding, helped by actively seeking out groups and individuals on Facebook and Twitter interested in permaculture. This evening I spoke at the Crowdfunding for Change event run by Avis Mulhall ‘s Think Act Change.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012
    LinkedIn, The Media Company?
    All those media bells and whistles combine to create a robust advertising business, complete with a Facebook-like self service platform driven by your social graph. Quick, what’s LinkedIn? If you’re like me, the first thing that comes to mind is “a professional social network.” And that’s a lot of marketers.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012
    Net Work Skills
    This is where blogs still remain superior to many walled information gardens, like Facebook. Tweet Imagine if we limited our conversations to only those in the same office. We would miss out on so many learning opportunities. Well it seems some people are still missing out. This is life in perpetual Beta. Most of us are not.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012
    10 ways big data changes everything
    Amazon Arago Autopilot big data Cloudera Facebook Foursquare GigaOm Hadoop Jana MeLLmo MongoDB Myspace Nathan Eagle Netflix next-big-sound OPower Oracle Parse.ly A yottabyte isn’t what happens when the Jedi master starts gnawing on your leg. Enjoy: Can gigabytes predict the next Lady Gaga? How big data can curb the world’s energy consumption.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012
    Who Controls Our Data? A Puzzle.
    ( image ) Facebook claims the data we create inside Facebook is ours – that we  own  it. In fact, I confirmed this last week in an interview with Facebook VP David Fischer on stage at FM’s Signal P&G conference in Cincinnati. Microsoft has a deal to use our Facebook data on Bing, for example. He said yes.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012
    SXSW Notes: Copy Matters: Content Strategy for the Interface
    This is the session on Copy Matters: Content Strategy for the Interface led by Amy Thibodeau, Content Strategist Facebook, Andy Chung, Designer Facebook, Dan Zambonini, Partner & Dir Contentini, and Tiffani Jones Brown, Content Strategist Facebook. But actually there is a lot of content about how to use Facebook.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012
    SXSW Notes: The Curators and the Curated
    People use their Facebook and Twitter friends that think as they do. Here is another in my series on SXSW events. am pleased to be attending SXSW for the first time. am grateful for Adobe Acrobat for enabling me to attend. will be attending their all day Creative Camp Event on March 12 , as well as some other Adobe sponsored sessions.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012
    Tracky wants to be your one-stop collaboration shop
    All it takes to sign up is an email address or a Twitter or Facebook account. If you’ve ever found yourself frustrated over the need to constantly switch between apps to manage your calendar, collaborate on projects, assign tasks, chat, share files — you name it — Tracky wants to be your savior. Sign up for a free trial.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012
    Social Media: Strategies in Higher Education
    A new free book: Cheal, C., Coughlin, J., & Moore, S. Eds) (2012) Transformation in Teaching: Social Media: Strategies in Higher Education. Informing Science Press. This is not specifically about information literacy, but some of the chapters are particularly relevant. It includes chapters about a variety of Web 2.0 web 2.0 Pedagogy
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012
    On the State of Twitter Advertising: Adam Bain
    Just recently, Twitter has expanded its roll out of what CEO Dick Costolo calls its “atomic unit” of advertising, the Promoted Tweet, to its mobile base , a significant move mirrored by Facebook at nearly the same time. Today I’m focusing on Adam Bain and his role as President, Global Revenue at Twitter.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012
    Why Hath Google Forsaken Us? A Meditation.
    It’s been caught with its hands in Apple’s cookie jar , and despite the fact Facebook and others previously condoned the practice , it was savaged for doing so. It’s Or rather, the fact that Google doesn’t have a direct relationship with us, in the way Apple or Facebook does. It’s why Facebook is winning.
  • JON HUSBAND  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012
    "Go With The Flow". CIO Magazine (NZ & Aus.) Interview
    Take a look at Facebook and see how many companies have an employee group up there already, even companies we all know are resistant to the notion of wirearchies in any form. I was interviewed by IT journalist Beverley Head in the summer of 2007 about the early emergence of social networks and the networked knowledge workplace.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012
    Enterprise social tools are garbage, says Red Hat CEO
    In fact, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst recently described them as garbage, reports Business Insider : Everyone’s talking about the importance of engaging employees, and the Facebook generation and collaboration tools. But as hot a topic as the likes of Jive , Yammer and Asana are, not everyone is a fan of the concept.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012
    World Book Day (UK & Ireland) #WorldBookDay
    WorldBookDayUK/ and Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/worldbookday2012 Picture taken by me, in Second Life. Today is World Book Day : at least in the United Kingdom and Ireland (elsewhere in the world it is on 23 April "for on this date and in the same year of 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died").
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
    On The State of Google’s Advertising Business: Neal Mohan at Signal SF
    Also, below are a few more links for you to peruse on the topic of Google and its advertising business (as well as that of its main competitor now, Facebook). Risk and Riches in User Data for Facebook  (NYT). Google to Pass Facebook in Display Ads in 2013: eMarketer  (eWeek). I’ll be listening and integrating your input.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
    We’re hiring a startup reporter
    Sure, like any other tech site, we’d love to “discover” the next Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox or Instagram. We’re looking for an energetic and enterprising reporter to cover startups in Silicon Valley for GigaOM and paidContent. We want a reporter who is a great networker and who has a knack for picking up nuggets of news along the way.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
    Facebook News (Livestream): The Brand Spaces Are Bigger, Bolder, More…Ad Like
    Facebook is holding it’s first ever “fMC” today – that’s Facebook Marketing Conference, and it’s announcing widely expected new ad formats. From the release just sent to me: Today, Facebook announced a new design for Pages, giving brands and businesses more ways to tell their story.
  • BLOG.PODIO.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
    See how the world's fastest growing social network uses Podio - Podio Blog
    facebook. Podio. Product. Pricing. Customers. About App Store Log in. What could they be working on? Podio designers @Pollas and @chopeh [link] Follow us on Twitter. See how the world’s fastest growing social network uses Podio. 24.02.12. Posted in App Stories , Featured. by Ryan Nichols. The impact? About the author. Twitter. Podio.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012
    Online community ethics
    Tweet Are you on Facebook? Here’s a question about using Facebook as an extension of work or classroom learning. Is it ethical to force people (over whom you have some power & authority) to use Facebook, a proprietary platform that tracks users & sells their data to third parties? Who isn’t these days? Here’s
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
    Xobni raises $10M ahead of mystery product launch
    Xobni allows users to integrate Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Skype and other services with their Outlook inboxes. Contact management startup Xobni has raised a $10 million round of funding, according to an SEC filing. That brings total funding to $42 million , according to Crunchbase. ” Ok! Sign up for a free trial.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
    A Funny Thing Happened As I Was “Tracked”
    After all, Facebook and Google offer up exactly the same kind of ads on their owned and operated domains – ads that are relevant to you – based on data you provided to them (the search term, or your Facebook profile). Now, why am I telling you all this? Now, is that creepy, or is that useful? Seems fair to me.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012
    Apple Gets Into (App) Search
    Or Facebook, for that matter? It took longer than I thought it would, but it’s finally happened. Apple’s admitted that it needs real search to bring it’s tangled app universe to heel, and purchased Chomp , a leading third-party app review and search service. From it: …but it will build the equivalent of an app search engine.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012
    Google Docs for Android adds real-time collaboration
    Facebook’s IPO filing: ideas and implications 12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012 Connected world: the consumer technology revolution. Android smartphone and tablet owners can collaborate on documents from their devices with the updated version of Google Docs for Android , released on Wednesday. The software, supporting Android 2.1
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012
    Rapportive officially bought by LinkedIn
    That includes social connections such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as well as their address books. NewNet 2012: companies and technologies set to disrupt Facebook’s IPO filing: ideas and implications NewNet Q3: Facebook remakes headlines in social media. Sign up for a free trial.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012
    the new electric media
    Social media like Facebook provide identity from the in-crowd of friends that one can amass: that attention is the identity dynamic. Tweet Of course we can live without a bodily identity, but the body confers a particular kind of identity. Without the body, then, individual identity is not possible. Laws of Media chapter one.) Eric McLuhan.
  • BLOGS.HBR.ORG  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012
    Why We Use Social Media in Our Personal Lives — But Not for Work - Tammy Erickson - Harvard Business Review
    FaceBook. When we use Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and most other personal social software applications, we share these experiences: Were usually invited to participate by people we know and trust. Facebook. See all newsletters » HBR.org on Facebook. HBR on Facebook. Harvard Business Publishing. |. iPad. |.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012
    Why is Facebook addictive but enterprise social adoption a challenge?
    It hardly takes a raft of studies or in-depth research to prove that consumer social media like Facebook and Twitter can be hugely addictive. NewNet 2012: companies and technologies set to disrupt Personal tools lead to practical business Facebook’s IPO filing: ideas and implications. And that’s a paradox.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012
    My Favorite Tweets for February 1 - 15 2012
    movie studios now embrace social media like Facebook and Twitter [link]. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.    Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. link]. link]. link].
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
    A Sad State of Internet Affairs: The Journal on Google, Apple, and “Privacy”
    I’m as saddened as the next guy about how Google has broken search in its relentless pursuit of beating Facebook, among others. But these shenanigans are predictable, given the dynamic of the current food fight between Google, Apple, Facebook, and others. The news alert from the Wall St. ” Wow! What’s going on here?
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012
    San Francisco In The Spring: Come To Signal
    Others represented include Instagram, AKQA, Babycenter, Intel, Tumblr, WordPress, ShareThis, Facebook, and many more. Internet Big Five Random, But Interesting Site Related The Conversation Economy advertising Conferences digital marketing facebook Federated Media Google Instagram marketing Microsoft Signal Twitter Yahoo
  • INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE  |  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012
    Classic Blunder #2 – Assuming resistance is a bad thing
    Share this on Facebook. I remember when I was in library school, a lot of people talked about librarians who were resistant to change and would try to derail your exciting and innovative projects. Why do people resist change? There are lots and lots of reasons, many of which have nothing to do with being a “stick in the mud.”
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
    The lessons of Virgin Media’s flexible working initiative
    The company’s B2B provisioning group, for instance, has found that forming a Quad community (somewhat akin to a Facebook group) has eliminated organizational hassles. That’s good news for both Cisco and Virgin Media and illustrates that enterprise social is continuing to gather steam, but what does it have to do with your team?
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012
    Remote Sex: the perfect Valentine’s Day present
    His prescient books include Living Networks, which anticipated social networks and microblogging years before Facebook or Twitter were created. Our online magazine FutureofSex.net explores this fascinating aspect of the intersection of technology and society. The new technologies of remote sex can bring them together over any distance.”.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012
    Getting to Social
    Even the ubiquitous Facebook changes how we react to being apart from friends. From Facebook? Tweet You are engaging with social media for marketing and customer support. Now the hard work begins. You’re ready to be a social business; everyone is connected but few know what to do. Social Media are New Languages.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012
    Thinking together
    Tweet Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter this past week. SebPaquet – “If the computer is a tool for thinking, then the internet is a tool for thinking together.” ” @britz – “Culture, the most powerful presence in your organization, is only learned socially & informally.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
    Microsoft OneNote on Android: nice but late to the party
    NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout Personal tools lead to practical business Facebook’s IPO filing: ideas and implications. Microsoft added Android support for its OneNote mobile app , enabling smartphones and tablets running on Google’s mobile platform to take notes from their device. for unlimited usage.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
    Launch of new keynote speaker website
    We have also recently launched a Ross Dawson content page on Facebook to build some engagement and conversation around the content. If you like it, would love a Like on Facebook for the page. The site rossdawson.com has long been where I point potential clients for my keynote speaking and other personal work.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012
    Larry Page’s “Tidal Wave Moment”?
    ” I very much doubt Page wrote anywhere that Google must “match and beat” Facebook. And To continue being a great search engine, it needs the identity and relationship data found, for the most part, behind Facebook’s walls. In the memo Gates wrote: “I assign the Internet the highest level of importance.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
    Do You Have A Twitter Addiction? Do You Have A Connection Addiction?
    For respondents under age 35, 27% of those who use Facebook said they check it more than 10 times a day compared to 39% of Twitter users checking in on Twitter more than 10 times a day. certainly find Twitter more addictive than Facebook. Sameer Patel aka @sameerpatel pointed to an interesting article in the Guardian through Twitter.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
    Insights and perspectives on Facebook’s IPO
    Last week I did an interview on radio 2SER on Facebook’s IPO and its future. Revenue is currently around 85% advertising, including a significant part internal promotion of Facebook pages, and also Facebook Credits. Facebook aspires to be at the center of our lives, including for shopping and financial services
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012
    Teams in organisations need both Online pages and Online groups
    Facebook groups. BU will broadcast/inform, and gather feedback from the organisation at large by using a “page” eg Facebook Pages. NOTE: I came across this just before publishing Facebook Groups Vs Pages: The Definitive Guide. Then it hit me, “Pages”!!!! BU will do work/share in online group spaces eg.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012
    Remember When Social Media Was Simple and Mostly Blogs?
    They found that the use of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, texting, downloadable mobile apps and Foursquare are increasing while there are reductions in the use of blogs, message boards, video blogs, podcasts and MySpace. So is news an article and commentary a blog? These questions are not my real point but just a symptom of it.
  • ANECDOTE   |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012
    KM Australia 2012
    I've been told that if you share this blog post with your Facebook friends or your Twitter followers, or any other social media channel for that matter, you'll receive a 15% discount off the registration price. We are debating whether tacit knowledge can and should be captured.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012
    Facebook’s IPO and its plans for China and global domination
    Yesterday I was interviewed by Radio Australia in a piece titled Facebook IPO filing reveals China plans. BAHFEN : The question I put to Ross is…what do these excerpts from Facebook’s IPO filing say about its intentions, with regard to China? Renren is the closest equivalent to Facebook in China. DAWSON : Absolutely.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012
    It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For?
    If Facebook’s IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. The short answer is Hell Yes. Neutrality.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012
    Tales from the Trenches: Flip Flop Shops
    “People aren’t smart on Facebook. “We set up a closed loop Facebook page for shop owners only. Brian Curin collaboration tools Darin Kraetsch facebook-inc Flip Flop Shops Remote Teams tales form the trenches virtual teamsSome people start businesses because they want to get rich. It’s OK. Let them in.’”
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012
    The Facebook S1 as PDF, Should You Wish It
    You know you want your very own Facebook S1 as a PDF document, right? Facebook S-1. If so, click this link, and it’s yours! Internet Big Five
 

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