You’ll find Reach Further partners in many social networking spaces – we “practice what we preach” and are members of many social networks and online communities. Time is finite, so we’ve found it makes sense to carefully choose the networks and communities that you belong to. Choose those that have
Blogger Alan Levine recently commented on the problems of social media and web applications letting you down just when you need them. In Don’t Cry When Social Media Flops, Just Move On he talked about what happens when the tool you use goes down, particularly in the context of conferences
Four good reasons why customers like brands to have online communities and use social media: Consumers are interested in sharing their experiences – both bad AND good. People like to tell others about the brands and products they like – in one study up to 60% of those questioned said
Tony Karrer and Michele Martin have just announced the launch of Work Literacy – a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. Their goal, they say, is to “create a
Free Rice http://www.freerice.com/ Test your knowledge of vocabulary – for every word you get right, the sponsors donate 10 grains of rice through the UN. Great for anyone who enjoys words! The spelling (and the dictionary by the feel of it) is American, though.
The BBC has an interesting roundup of social networking sites under the headline “Don’t be lonely this Christmas”
An article in The Observer about the maverick Web entrepreneur Dan Wagner is sceptical about the millions to be made in social networking sites. Although most have yet to make a profit, several social networking sites have sold for enormous sums. Wagner is launching shopping website Osoyou: which aims to
The BBC reports today that Oxford proctors are using the Facebook website to gain evidence about unruly post-exam pranks. They are checking students’ profiles and photos to find evidence of students being at the sites where problems have been reported. This should remind us all to be careful about what
I’ve a few clients asking about how best to network online, and which portals/sites/communities are worth signing up to and bring results. Of course, it depends on what “results” you want – there are different communities around for businesses at different stages, sectors, geographic locations, etc. Facebook has several internal
From the Sunday Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/13/nternet13.xml
I’m pretty sure Linden Labs can find out where people are logging in from. But would they cooperate with US police let alone British police? So the watchdogs think it’s dangerous.