Please read/comment this article (talk) about how Social Media communities are chosen and what it means about us. I particularly like the concept that Social Media will not solve everything. I prefer to think that communities will do that.

We sometimes forget that the number of people with internet access and using social media websites are just a drop in the ocean compared to the number of people on this planet… Continue

During a great discussion with a knowledgeable client on communities we discussed "Where should a community live?". This seemed like such a simple question when there was the "Social Media Land-grab" they live on our site. But now we have a handful of main community infrastructures. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and MySpace (others in other languages) it is a little more in-depth.

It seems dated to expect your community to only talk in your environment, the community will talk where they want and… Continue

Interesting to see that Social Network traffic accounts for almost 10% of all internet time according to this Nielsen report

nielsen_globalfaces_mar09.pdf

I recently posted a comment on the Linked in group for this Community and was greeted with lots of HTML Markup in my comments.

Now, I have no control over this, in fact I did not even know Linkedin was making any changes, and yet every comment in the Discussion has this markup and… Continue

Wow! What a great time to be in Social Media.

This week saw the launch of the two big players in the Social Media market going head to head. Facebook went first with Facebook connect on the 4th of December followed quickly by Google with Google Friend connect on the same day.

Everybody who signed up for google Friend Connect would have got an email like this:

"We appreciate your interest in G… Continue