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June 17th, 2008

Will the MySpace redesign really make a difference?

MySpace is trotting out a fancy new site redesign beginning tomorrow, in an effort to be more attractive to advertisers. The redesign, to be finished by early fall, will include a new navigation bar, search tool and video player.
I’ve read that the redesign is intended to address one of the main problems of social networking […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

June 16th, 2008

Associated Press alienates bloggers all around the world

Recently, the Associated Press threw down a gauntlet and started a great big hairy fight with bloggers. The gist of the matter is that they’re they don’t want bloggers to quote from their stories.  They asked one blogger to take down seven posts from in which quotes from AP stories were used. The quoted  pieces […]

By Colleen -- 7 comments

June 13th, 2008

Signal, Noise and striking a balance between the two

Vancouver was recently hosted Jeff Pulver for one of his social media breakfasts, and we started talking about Twitter and how many people you actually pay attention to. I answered that I was following about 600 people, and Jeff asked how many I actually follow. That number is actually closer to 30.
I’ve been thinking […]

By Colleen -- 3 comments

June 11th, 2008

Free Ebook: The essential guide to social media

Brian Solis, co-author of Now is Gone, and several other social media and PR ventures, has a new ebook available for download.
The Essential Guide to Social Media is a "quick start" overview of how to listen and participate in social media and new media marketing.

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By Colleen -- 0 comments

June 5th, 2008

Gender gap in social media. More women involved in Web2.0

According to a recent Rapleaf Study, both men and women use social networking sites in massive numbers, but it’s the women who are holding down the fort.
I can’t say that I’m surprised, really. Sure, there’s several guys I’m “friends” with or “talk to” on Twitter for example, which really is my main socnet, there’s […]

By Colleen -- 3 comments

May 25th, 2008

Old school only works when…

You can find the notebook after the event.  All those notes I took throughout Convergence 2008? Yeah… I can’t find that book. it’s here *somewhere* I’m sure, but where? That’s the part I’m not clear on.
To add insult to injury, I downloaded about 400 images yesterday evening, and my system is only showing me […]

By Colleen -- 0 comments

May 14th, 2008

Citizen Journalism

 
Since I’ve been writing for b5Media, I’ve found myself thinking more about citizen journalism vs traditional journalism. I think that everyone has to face the fact that we’re entering a new world, one that is more focused on peer-to-peer communications than we are someone providing news to us. Just look at how many more blogs […]

By Colleen -- 4 comments

May 10th, 2008

Managing the beast that is RSS

Now that I’ve got a several writing gigs, I need to read, a lot. A lot of news, a lot of opinions, a lot of sites.
Tris Hussey pointed me in the direction of AideRSS, which is a very slick little tool to help calm the savage RSS beast.
AideRSS uses a slick technology which […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

May 9th, 2008

Word of Mouse

No, we’re not talking about Disney here.
I’m talking about sing the web to spread your message virally. David M. Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR has offered BuzzNetworker readers a free e-book download.
I’ll be speaking David in the coming weeks and I’m on his list for review copies of […]

By Colleen -- 1 comment

April 15th, 2008

What Analytics Do Use?

Today I had to write a response about a presentation regarding analytics specifically server houses versus web. However I think for this blog a lot of people are already rather knowledgeable about that subject so I would like to dive into what I use and why I use them.
Currently on my personal blog I use […]

By Kevin -- 1 comment

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