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Organizing Chaos: The Growth of Collaborative Filters

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Will websites like Facebook and Twitter be a game changer this time around?

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Hear expert business advice from Tom Smith, Research Manager, EMEA, at Universal McCann, as he reveals how one should approach the development a strategy that will encourage usage within Social Networks:
“There are so many ways you can work with social networks but increasingly it’s not just about advertising it’s about having a presence in the place is where consumers interact and doing that in a way that feels credible and relevant.
So whether you can create a page of inner social network and be there but actually giving people a reason to be involved sort of as creating content that you share on your page and get users to interact with or you create applications that users can load on to their social network pages creates a genuine usage for them and makes their page more interesting or makes their life easier online.
There are some good examples like Intel created a page on MySpace that was a collaborative music project. So people could who were pitching for a place in a band could create a super group out of the best entrants. So it’s kind of rather than just being an advert on a social network it’s actually kind of acting how you want to be seen and kind of creating stuff and getting people involved. So acting how you want to be perceived rather than just talking about it.
I think business should really jump on this idea and involve their users and open themselves up to getting more people involved and have done very well.
We looked at Facebook, and they have actively got their users to collaborate with them to translate the website into hundreds of local languages around the world, you know that was done by charge by the users.
Another good example is a video rental company in the US called Netflix which were trying to improve their recommendation system that recommends new films that you should borrow and they opened it up to the general public and developers and put a million dollar prize on it and said come and create a better recommendation system for us.
So it was about collaborating with the wider community and being open with them. They shared all their data and they are going to get a better system out of it by being open and being active and being involved with the wider world.”

See more business news television shows from Tom Smith, as he gives his top expert business advice at http://www.yourbusinesschannel.com

Find out more about the very latest show releases, as well as other yourBusinessChannel news by visiting our blog at http://www.yourbusinesschannel.com/blog.aspx

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Americans are getting most of their news on their cell phones and via Social Networks, while those over 50 are the ones left reading the print versions of newspapers. The Internet has finally surpassed newspapers in popularity among Americans

Read the full show notes at: http://socialblade.com/show/2010/03/05/insane-online-mustaches-episode-31/

Please attend our next live show. We are live every Thursday at 10pm EST / 7pm PST at http://SocialBlade.com/show

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http://www.FreeSocialMediaTraining.com

Free Social Media training offered by Diane Hochman via My Private Classroom for Networkers. This article is written like a personal reflection or essay and may require cleanup.
Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style.(December 2007)

Social media: Participatory online media where news, photos, videos, and podcasts are made public via social media websites through submission. Normally accompanied with a voting process to make media items become “popular”.[citation needed]

Social Media Expanded Definition: Social Media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into content publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people, and peers.

Social media uses the �wisdom of crowds� to connect information in a collaborative manner. Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Technologies such as blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, group creation and voice over IP, to name a few. Examples of social media applications are Google (reference, social networking), Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), Facebook(social networking), Last.fm (personal music), YouTube (social networking and video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), and Flickr (photo sharing).

Ed Dale, Sherman Hu, Michelle MacPhearson, Stompernet, smarts, andy jenkins, twitter, utterz, jaiku, yoono, wowzaa, spock, pownce

Using Social Media To Create Social Media Training
Social media is quickly becoming a topic that no professional communicator can afford to ignore.
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Promote the wiki on your site * o Video Blogs * Micro-Blogs * Podcasts * Useful Social Media Tools * Wikis * Social Bookmarking * Social Browsing * Social Networks * Social Media News Release * Digg * Del.icio.us * Ma.gnolia * StumbleUpon

RSS Readers:
Google Reader
Bloglines
Flock
Newsgator
Netvibes

Conversation Tracking:
Google Alerts
Google Blog Search
Technorati
Blogpulse

Blogging platforms:
Blogger (free, hosted)
WordPress.com (free, hosted)
WordPress.org (free, open-source, host your own)
TypePad (free, hosted)
Tripod
Tumblr (free, hosted)
Blogonize (free, hosted)
Chyrp (free, host-your-own)
Textpattern (free, open-source, host-your-own)
Movable Type (free, host-your-own)
Simplelog (free, host-your-own)

Monitoring Services:
Radian6 (paid)

Audio editing software:
Audacity (free)
MP3 encoder for Audacity (or other software)
WavePad (free or paid versions)

Podcast hosting:
Libsyn

RSS feed management:
Feedburner

Blog stats:
Google Analytics
BlogPerfume
Mint (paid)
MyBlogLog

Downloading YouTube videos:
iDesktop.TV
KeepVid

Video:
YouTube (sharing)
Dailymotion (sharing)
Seesmic (production/sharing/community)
Viddler (production/sharing/community)
Mogulus (live streaming/production/sharing/community)
Kyte (production/sharing/community)
Blip.tv
Vimeo (sharing/community)

Social Bookmarking sites:del.icio.us
digg
Micro-Blogging Tools: * Twhirl * Twitterific (Mac only) * iTweet (Mac only) * 60+ Twitter Tools (from Mashable) * The Wall Tweet Journal – A knowledge base for innovative Twittering, micro blogging, social media and Web 2.0 technologies * Twoogle – Custom Search Engine at The Wall Tweet Journal

Twhirl

This site explores social media training and provides a resource for those looking to evangelize social media in their organizations.

What should a ‘Social Media 101′ course cover? What tools should people be aware of? How should we use those tools? What are the pitfalls? What are the basics that everyone in your marketing/communications department should know?

In the spirit of social media, there’s no better way to develop a curriculum for social media training than through a wiki. Let the collaboration begin!
Category: People & Blogs
Tags:
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Reporter Stacy-Marie Ishmael details how and why she uses Twitter, her advice for PR pros, and what irks every journalist in this wide-ranging interview.

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Panel 1: The People Formerly Known as the Audience

How effectively can users collectively create and filter the stream of news information? How much of journalism can or will be “devolved” from professionals to networks of amateurs? What new challenges do these collective modes of news production create? Could informal flows of information in online Social Networks challenge the idea of “news” as we know it?

Dan Gillmor, Director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Steve Boriss, The Future of News blog
Reihan Salam, The Atlantic

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This video presents the many dangers associated with posting personal information on social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace and how to protect yourself from unwanted attention.

This video is frequently featured on IUP-TV Channel 6.

Name : Social Networking Privacy
Credits : Director / Producer
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Created : October 16, 2009

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