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Gideon Burton

#haiku - Twitter / Flickr mashup - 1 views

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shared by Gideon Burton on 01 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 01 Nov 12
     
    An example of a mashup of Twitter and Flickr drawing upon the hashtag #haiku
Gideon Burton

Tips for Finding Mentors Using Twitter - 0 views

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shared by Gideon Burton on 23 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 23 Nov 10
     
    Great post on finding mentors using Twitter -- a great method for social learning and discovery
Sean Watson

The FP Twitterati 100 - 1 views

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  • Sean Watson on 23 Jun 11
     
    These days, everyone from the Dalai Lama to Bill Gates is on Twitter, the microblogging platform founded in 2006. During breaking news events like the death of Osama bin Laden or for following the Arab uprisings, it's become an invaluable tool for keeping up to speed. But for many, it's still just another place to promote their own work, rather than engaging in a more natural give-and-take. So how do you tell who's really worth following? FP's got you covered. Here are 100 Twitter users from around the world who will make you smarter, infuriate you, and delight you -- 140 characters at a time.
anonymous

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views

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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      Do you agree with this?
  • This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
  • The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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  • Boycotts and sit-ins and nonviolent confrontations—which were the weapons of choice for the civil-rights movement—are high-risk strategies. They leave little room for conflict and error. The moment even one protester deviates from the script and responds to provocation, the moral legitimacy of the entire protest is compromised.
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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      But it was just a phone.
  • A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls.
  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
  • The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
  • What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - Why companies watch your every Facebook, YouTube, Twitter move - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11450923

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  • These days one witty Tweet, one clever blog post, one devastating video - forwarded to hundreds of friends at the click of a mouse - can snowball and kill a product or damage a company's share price.
  • It's a dramatic shift in consumer power. But what if companies could harness this power and turn it to their advantage?
  • At the most basic, these tools measure the volume of social media chatter. Researchers at Hewlett Packard showed that they can accurately predict a Hollywood movie's box office takings by counting how often it is mentioned on Twitter before it opens.
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  • One European clothing company, popular with inner city youth in the United States, admits privately that its social media team is baffled by its customers' ever changing slang, and even the online Urban Dictionary provides little help.
  • Social media is quickly becoming a customer relationship management system, as companies have "for the first time access to people's minds in real-time," says Jorn Lyseggen. The tools on offer provide companies with dashboards that show trends, hot topics, the reach of brands, customer mood and how competitors are doing.
  • Social media may be all the buzz, but in reality "only a few firms get it [and use it], it's of peripheral interest for most", says Tom Austin at technology consultancy Gartner. Few realise that using social media has become much more than customer service and reputation management.
  • many social media tools are poorly integrated into the corporate workflow
  • But there are dangers. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway warns that the obsession with social networking can make management lose focus.
  • To survive the world of social media, companies have to throw away their old marketing playbook.
  • "don't push... and don't pretend you are hip"
  • "Once companies have worked out that they should do something with social media, they usually don't know how to do it,"
  • "If you want to influence the people who influence your customers, that's a very powerful game, but it's also very dangerous if you get it wrong."
  • it's not about how many friends or followers somebody has, but whether they make an impact.
  • When Virgin America recently launched new routes from California to Toronto, it used Klout to identify a small group of social media "influencers" and gave them free flights. This generated thousands of tweets, triggered press coverage and delivered more immediate impact than traditional advertising.
  • "Consumers are spending their attention on social media," he says, but firms don't know how to repay them properly. "There's no manual for that yet."
  • Social media are dynamic, and today's Twitter may be tomorrow's forgotten website. "Don't assume that what works today will work tomorrow," says Tom Austin at Gartner. "Your model has to be continually adapted."
Jeffrey Whitlock

Why Twitter Must Die - 2 views

chrisbaskind.com/...why-twitter-must-die

shared by Jeffrey Whitlock on 30 Nov 10 - Cached
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      Jeffrey Whitlock on 30 Nov 10
       
      More on Twitter lock-in as a result od the network effect.
Jake Corkin

World Bank and private sector blog - 0 views

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  • Jake Corkin on 01 Oct 10
     
    here is a blog about the private sector and the world bank. this entry is specifically about transparency in the world bank. they want people also to participate via twitter, facebook and other digital medium.
Mike Lemon

Social media policy in Milford - No Facebook, Twitter, iPods | WTNH.com Connecticut - 0 views

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      Mike Lemon on 21 Sep 10
       
      It's interesting that a high school in Conn. has banned iPods, but my little school in podunk East Texas encourages learning through downloadable iPod lessons.
Gideon Burton

"Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted" Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The N... - 0 views

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shared by Gideon Burton on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 06 Oct 10
     
    Two of my colleagues recommended this contrarian view of social networks from the famed Malcolm Gladwell
Madeline Rupard

I Tweet, Therefore I Am - 0 views

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shared by Madeline Rupard on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 12 Oct 10
     
    Interesting idea about how the internet may be forming our character. Maybe not the best thing.
Brian Earley

Boolefest a celebration of the life of George Boole - 0 views

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      Brian Earley on 14 Oct 10
       
      Activities arranged around Boole's impact.  Lectures for 4 nights straight.
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      Brian Earley on 14 Oct 10
       
      link to a cool video also.
    • Brian Earley
      Brian Earley on 14 Oct 10
       
      Final Project: I think our class could create a short biography about some character from class discussion that would be as good or better than this video.
  • Brian Earley on 14 Oct 10
     
    Boolefest! I tried twitter and found this week long event at the University of Lincoln.  We had Boole day on Sunday 10/10/10.  Way to go binary.
anonymous

#IAmSpartacus - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Nov 10
     
    A great example of civil disobedience on twitter
Kevin Watson

Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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  • Kevin Watson on 22 Sep 10
     
    Great Video on Open Media and Crowdsourcing! You really ought to watch this! It's actually really interesting!!
Andrew DeWitt

Social Media for Branding - 0 views

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shared by Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Great presentation on how to make your mark in the digital world
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Here is the comment I left on the SlideShare website: This is super important stuff, thank you for sharing. In our digital age, a person's ability to market themselves on the web is a form of social capital. The more people follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, the greater influence we can have. It makes me think about what happens in the book, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. In the story, Peter and Valentine publish a lot of political commentary under aliases which eventually have a huge impact on world politics. Our future world may be run by those who can best market themselves and let their voice be heard.
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