Multimedia-Fashion

"The interviewer pulled up the web page for Klout.com-a service that purports to measure users' online influence on a scale from 1 to 100-and angled the monitor so that Fiorella could see the humbling result for himself: His score was 34. "He cut the interview short pretty soon after that," Fiorella says. Later he learned that he'd been eliminated as a candidate specifically because his Klout score was too low. "They hired a guy whose score was 67.""

List of tools used to support online conversations.

Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings

Photoshop is a popular topic of discussion here in Fashion + Beauty, and I know that some readers grow tired of hearing about it. We should just assume that all ads and fashion spreads are altered to some degree, right?

The volume of information being created is growing faster than your software is able to sort it out. As a result, you're often unable to determine the difference between a fake LinkedIn friend request, and a picture from your best friend in college of his new baby. Even with good metadata, it's still all "data"--whether raw unfiltered, or tagged and sourced, it's all treated like another input to your digital inbox. Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their focus.

A short article about selling using social media

Interesting video article concerning use of LinkedIn.

This LinkedIn contact can fill my entire page of updates with her tweets. Too much stuff. Too much commingling of personal (walking on the beach) with professional.

I expected something more up to date for Aron. This profile seems to have been created when his book came out but really hasn't been kept up to date.

Sarah Van Aken is spreading her story via Twitter

Most of her links are failing... Not great for helping people get in on the action: http://www.savafashion.com . UPDATE: her site is back up...

For the last two weeks, I've been engaged in a very interesting experiment. Five faculty members from the Fashion and Apparel department have agreed to explore social media for personal productivity, professional development, curriculum redesign, and program promotion.

Thanks Mathieu for sharing the presentation with me so I can catch up with the rest of the class. It's going to be a very useful learning process. I also think your presentation to FASH 325 would be good to give to students earlier in their UD career. I was thinking about FASH 210, a course on FASH sustainability and business ethics in the Fashion Industry. These sessions will make us more sustainable!

Thanks Martha. I think you're right that students need to be exposed earlier to this, but I also think that we could chunk the session up in little parts, where I wouldn't necessarily need to be directly involved.

To help readers find new books, Goodreads works with an algorithm much like Facebook's news feed. It is what powers the site's book recommendation engine, which is based around ratings, what's on a reader's virtual bookshelf and what readers with similar tastes have recommended.

Provides links to other sites maintained by Stacy such as twitter, linked in, facebook, etc.

This is the site I mentioned last Friday. It is an interesting organizational tool. David Allen is listed several times in the site--check under Community.

Word-of-mouth (WOM) recommendations from friends and family and user-generated content (UGC) are sources most trusted for information about the products people want and need, according to a new report by Nielsen. Among consumers surveyed in North America: 90% trust (completely or somewhat) the recommendations they receive from friends and family. 68% trust consumer opinions posted online. 61% trust editorial content such as newspaper articles.

This article focuses on audience insight plus branding re: multimedia bulletin boards like Pinterest and 20Blinks.

Interesting article. I liked this comment: users don't necessarily have a preconceived idea of what they want-but they know what they want when they see it. This dynamic gives brands the opportunity to introduce products, concepts and content much earlier in the decision making process and actually drive discovery. I have seen things on Pinterest that I would never even had tried to search for.

Patti Hart, CEO of International Game Technology, says that all too often, executives try to avoid making mistakes. That is a mistake.

"13 Steps to Building Connections on Pinterest"

"report, commissioned by the United Nations Conference on Happiness "

report, commissioned by the United Nations Conference on Happiness

interesting ....