Blogs - Social Media Professional

Murmurs at The Seen Gallery

I would like to invite you to an art exhibit I am involved in. It is an exhibit of my abstract oil paintings as well as Kimberly Dean's ceramic pieces.

Here are the specs:

WHAT: Murmurs This exhibit showcases abstract oil paintings by Denise Wellenstein and figurative work by Kimberly Dean.

WHEN: the exhibit premieres Saturday, July 24 at 7pm and runs through August 14.

WHERE: The Seen Gallery, 415 Church Street i

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Added by Denise Wellenstein on July 4, 2010 at 5:08am — No Comments

Star ratings are dead?

Hopefully with YouTube ditching 1 - 5 star rating we can all move to thumbs up and thumbs down.
This for most people will be no shock as most 1- 5 voting tends to end up around the 3 mark anyway.

Will you be changing your sites to use Thumbs up...

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Added by Tony Wood on April 1, 2010 at 8:42am — No Comments

Spammers please get more imaginative

This is for the spammers who send me regular requests to join this community.

"I check every member personally, which means the daily requests that look like the below will not work.

About me: 7nosmd b4f f6m29jfq i1 xn v8fb78ah1uxjx
My Favourite Social Network: http://n46 8o
I am interested in: csccepv39wna13tkxlkb5xct9m2scdca6mxnzz2w
Linked in

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Added by Tony Wood on March 26, 2010 at 2:13pm — 1 Comment

Some lessons for us all in how Nestle handled their twitter customers.

I am going to let the screengrab do the talking.

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Added by Tony Wood on March 21, 2010 at 9:35pm — No Comments

Do you think Google Social search will get traction

Google social search gives us another way to be social. It allows you to store, sites you are linked to and customise your search using your connections. I just finished updating my Google Social page, I will see how many of my friends or connections do t… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on January 28, 2010 at 7:11am — No Comments

Latest videos not intentially google focussed

Hi, I just posted some more videos around to areas, online document collaboration and online email collaboration. Google docs and Google wave. I only just realised that may have been very google focussed for this site, which is open to all. I wanted to state that I think both of these tools have and will continue to change the way we work. I hope this is something that continues as we get more and more productions in our roles. Has anyone used the Microsoft version of Google Docs? And is there… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on September 13, 2009 at 11:23pm — No Comments

Social Media use in US Teens

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

Added by Tony Wood on July 1, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Where should a community live?

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

Added by Tony Wood on June 23, 2009 at 10:14am — No Comments

New report from Nielsen on Social Media usage

Interesting to see that Social Network traffic accounts for almost 10% of all internet time according to this Nielsen report nielsen_globalfaces_mar09.pdf Continue

Added by Tony Wood on March 10, 2009 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Life is not certain in the Cloud - "Going to Bed with Windows and Waking up with Vista"

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

Added by Tony Wood on January 17, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Google vs Facebook. Let the contest begin

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

Added by Tony Wood on December 6, 2008 at 7:26pm — No Comments

Working with Rules and Guidelines

I am currently working to get a list of rules, guidelines to propose to the group that can be used a base for online communities. This has lead me to some great minds and interesting people. I will post it here when it is ready for your valued feedback. In the meantime I saw this from Skype and thought it would be useful to discuss. http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2008/11/introducing_some_guidelines_fo.html… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on November 20, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Business Social Media activity

Just found an A-Z list of companies involved in Social Media at: http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/09/ive-been-thinki.html # 3 Italia. Social networks: Facebook Business and La3 DVB-H groups.80 # Abbott Labs. Social networks: Facebook Labs Are Vital scholarship contest.45 # Absolut Vodka: * Online video: ABSOLUTworld.20 * Social networks: Top Bartender page on Facebook.56 # Accenture: * Blogging: Nine corporate blogs.19… Continue

Added by Tony Waghorn on October 16, 2008 at 5:03pm — No Comments

The nature of online communities - Part 1 - The Rules

I think the fascinating thing about communities is how they are formed. One of these elements that I seek to understand and would love to discuss are the rules that exist at the beginning of a community, why these rules exist and how they evolve over time. Here are some questions that vex me. - Where do these rules come from? - Do they evolve over time if so why? - Do the rules reflex the rules of the physical location where the founders exist ie could you find the similar groups… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on September 23, 2008 at 9:05pm — No Comments

Say Goodbye to Yahoo's Social Network "Mash"

Well Yahoo's social network "Mash" has hit the dust. This is probably one of many, but with Yahoo's high profile they get noticed. It is a shame but I think it defines one of the big issues. Why do people want to network? I loved the comment underneath the story, that pretty much sums it up for me. "social networking" paradigm has a fundamental problem, and that is that keeping in touch with other people shouldn't be an obj… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on September 11, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Building passionate communities

So what happens when you get the job of building a community for an audience that is extremely passionate about a subject? What do you do? Lets face it, passionate is not a word you could use to describe all the offices or workplaces today. If you are lucky you will be surrounded by them, however this is not always the case. Most of the work in a normal social network build is getting people inspired, proving to people that this is the place to collaborate to get things done. Aft… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on August 27, 2008 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Online Social Intelligence

I have just been watching an interview with Daniel Goleman as he discuses Social Intelligence. You know, I thought That's us. We are all about Social Intelligence, after all the people in the social networks we foster have to have this to get on with one another. In fact we have a harder job, because we know that the written word is only about 7% of communication we loose 93% o… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on August 14, 2008 at 8:48am — 1 Comment

So how do people learn in Social Networks?

So we have a great place where people can talk in Social Networks, but how do they actual learn? This is a question that has vexed me for a long time. It seems that the act of learning is mis-understood. It seems that much of the world believe that just by giving a lecture or reading a book you can gain the learn stuff (or gain knowledge). Well this is wrong. I believe it is much more involved and simple than that. I have ironically written a document that outlines my thinking as a share. This d… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on August 10, 2008 at 10:43pm — No Comments

We are now live

After a lot of preparation Social Media Professional is now live. I look forward to sharing and ensuring we as a group are able to create better communities. Tony Continue

Added by Tony Wood on August 8, 2008 at 8:08am — No Comments

Why does this community exist?

Why we exist? To forge the future of social networks from the perspective of people who manage, create, pay-for or run them. Why create a group? For a long time now I have wanted to discuss various ideas to ensure that communities get better and better. As a believer in making good use of time I hate to see the waste when people re-invent the wheel. As all of us here are involved in professionally or about to create a social network it seems like a perfect opportunity to discuss a… Continue

Added by Tony Wood on August 5, 2008 at 5:11pm — No Comments

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