social web Archive
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Broadcasting; information sharing on Twitter
If one would name sharing, editing and redistributing content as the key to social media, a virtue of this new way of sharing and consuming content then one neglects the underlying question; why this 'works'. -
Community Manager Appreciation Day
Today, the 25th of January is or was Community Manager Support Day. On every fourth day of January we try to look at our communities and those people who help support these or get involved in those communities out there. -
Research on Social Media; is anyone doing it yet?
Text-analytics on data present on the internet, in a way a sort of quantitative way of doing research that is traditionally qualitative seems to hold a lot in store for research. But despite the fact that this is actually one of my personal favorites for the future of Market Research, little seems to really take [...] -
Is Google Internet Stats a peek at the near future of the Web?
Is Google Internet Stats a peek at the near future of the Web? Yes, Google Internet Stats has been live for quite some time, albeit only in the .co.uk domain. However, due to some recent discussions I had with people about the future of presenting information on the web I think it might be useful [...] -
Presentations on Slideshare
For my and your convenience I have been working on my Social Media Success model. People have been asking if it wasn’t true that you could also use this to analyze branding on the internet, personal branding in particular. I’ve made two short presentations, also showing how the model appreciates the characteristics of online (personal) branding. The [...] -
Over mogelijkheden tot online interactie
Een tijd geleden kwam ik terecht bij een, voor mij, zeer interessante post over de onwaarschijnlijkheid van communicatie bij Social Media. Aan de hand van de theorie van Niklas Luhmann probeert de schrijver uit te leggen dat het bij systemen gaat om het waarschijnlijk maken van communicatie. Kijken we naar een erg “vluchtig” medium als [...] -
Social Network success in practice
I already wrote about the KOPTE model, that defines 5 basic factors that are of influence the success of your social network. I’ve tried to explain what each of the five points means and how this can work in practice. But how does it work in practice? What does it mean if you apply each [...] -
To a successful Social Network in 5 steps
So, let’s say you have started with “web 2.0” and the decision has been made to start with setting up an online community. You end up with a nice website, reliable software, but little to no visitors! What has happened?! And other, maybe even more modest, projects of competitors seem to work a lot better. [...]