Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

On Listening and Blogging

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

SO I post the following to twitter the other day: new rules - RTFC - read the f’ing comments social means listening as much as talkin ... because I have been spending a lot of time lately thinking about outreach. Mainly I was thinking about the pre-launch side of outreach ...

Social Media, Measurement and Analytics

Monday, September 24th, 2007

For someone who isn't a "classically trained marketer", Chris Brogan is pretty savvy :) Check out this great post here: http://chrisbrogan.com/measuring-social-media-efforts/ For right now, Social Media (or whatever you want to call this thing of ours) is getting a big pass from the Clients when it comes to measurement/data/analytics. We "know" this stuff ...

15 er, uh, 6 of top 25 blogs mentioned today on Buzzmetrics are from inside the US

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I wrote this post a while back (July 2007) about how 15 of the top 25 blogs were not in English. 2 months later, its 6 out of 25. Love the graphic below, a screenshot form Buzzmetrics BlogPulse http://www.blogpulse.com/07_08_14/topWeblogGroup.html Dig this - SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "15 er, uh, 6 of top 25 ...

Required Reading - Dave McClure

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Met Dave at Gnomedex and over Facebook. He also ran the Web2.0 Expo this year. He has some great insights into Facebook these days (he is an unapologetic fanboy) http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/07/marketing-faceb.html SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Required Reading - Dave McClure", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/09/10/required-reading-dave-mcclure/" });

No updates for a month…

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Because I have been crankin on client stuff, twittering like mad (more on that later), facebooking, networking, trading tons of emails, working my neck off for my consulting client, planning one startup and launching the phase 1 of another... And it has taught me so much: Editorial is not an afterthought Trust ...

Promiscuity / Diversity in Social Networks

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

I have been toying with the concepts of promiscuity and diversity when applied to Social Networks for a while now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity Promiscuity is the practice of making relatively unselective, casual and indiscriminate choices. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuity Diversity is the presence of a wide range of variation in the qualities or attributes under discussion. We ...

Amen Brother…

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Ahhhh Canter... the guy hits the road (HARD) and still gets time to posts, machine-gun style :) In this post Marc spends some time with shoutouts (Happy BDay Doc!), engagement notices, links he digs etc. He also includes this: Maybe Fred Wilson and Jason Calacanis see it from my POV right now. ...

Loving this… Ringblender

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Thanks to a Polyphonic Spree ad in Wired Magazine (who says advertising doesnt work) just found this: http://www.ringblender.com/blender.html This site allows fans of the band to take pre-selected tracks and samples and make their own ringtones, share them with friends and download to their phones. DIY? Check. Band that values its fans? ...

Genius - The Fuzzy Tail

Monday, July 16th, 2007

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Social Network Dev Camp - i wanna go

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

There is too much fun stuff happening on the west coast these days... SocialNetworkDevCamp will focus on API and Widget development from Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Linked In and others. The camp will also start the process of identifying open APIs and data structures which would facilitate the creation of open standards ...