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It seems these days corporate crises are played out in full view of the public.
The FT Alphaville team live blogged SocGen's conf call this morning - the one in which the management 'explain' where the euro 5bn went.
I've never really got Read More
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Speaking of Our Moment Being Now, my government is calling me to service on behalf of the Library of Congress. CNET reports that it has put 3,000 public-domain photos on Flickr, and is relying on crowdsourcing to get them all categorized: users are encouraged Read More
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Richard Holway has a recent post: Are Twitters Twits? I wouldn't go that far - if it works for others great - but from a personal use perspective, Twitter hasn't really grafted itself to my lifestyle:workstyle yet.
Why is that? These are the reasons, Read More
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I've just come across the BBC's new beta site which is really cool.
It allows you to customise what news sections you see and move them around how you like.
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After I posted about Twitter-connected citizens posting updates on the Iowa caucus, I talked about the event online (using Twitter, natch) with James Geluso, city goverment reporter at the Bakersfield Californian. I asked James if he'd write a guest post for Read More
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On December 19th, Patrick Ruffini of techPresident asked his readers, "Can the Internet do a better job at covering election night than the media?" He proposed an experiment in election coverage:
"If you're caucusing in Iowa on January 3rd, sign Read More
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Okay, that was dorky.
But I was just looking at the Web site for a musician who performs under the name A Fine Frenzy and was intrigued by how it ties together various types of social media. A lot of the site's content consists Read More
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Fig 1. Expect next year's gripping sequel, Naked Came The Stranger To Facebook
As social networking becomes more widespread as a tool for keeping in touch with with friends, family, business associates, and nice people you bump into at Read More
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A couple of weeks ago, Scott Beale told CNET's Rafe Needleman that "The next disaster will be Twittered." Prescient!
We've already talked about how people are using social media to report on the fires; Rafe is particularly interested in how this event spurred Read More
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Three Rings Design is celebrating Halloween by pitting players of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates against hordes of zombies and skeletons!
Fig. 1 - Do not adjust your monitor: undead skeletons are shrouded in darkness
Only a game, of course. But if you're Read More
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Ike Pigott of the American Red Cross created a blog to provide media outlets with up-to-date information about the Red Cross response to the disaster.
Ike didn't use proprietary software, deployed on the Red Cross network and configured by a developer Read More
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Mashable's list of top US election resources, reminded me of some thoughts I had on the subject of politics and online when I was in the US last week.
First, I was amazed how much media bandwidth the whole topic was already consuming, despite Read More
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The San Diego area in Southern California is on fire. The latest I've heard is that 300,000 people have been evacuated. I lived in San Diego during the last big wildfire in 2003--it was a terrifying, tragic event, and only(!) 50,000 people were evacuated Read More
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The Metia Influence team is shortlisted for PR Week's not-for-profit campaign of the year in its 2007 Awards. If you subscribe you can see more here.
This amuses me.
Not for profit PR campaign. I hope that word doesn't get out this is our Read More
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Google just bought Jaiku. Scoble reckons its a giant leap for Google who are prepping the next wave in social media. The comments thread on Scoble's article provides a nice snapshot of sentiment around different social network sites and tools.
Next wave? Read More
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