Web2.0

Great post from Phill Baumann on experts, the value they may bring and Social Media experts in general. My favorite:
For example, Social Media experts are everywhere. When they’re everywhere, they’re nowhere. In other words, they don’t matter.
So if you want to tout your expertise then you better possess a passion for making other people’s lives [...]

Tagged as: catalyst, communications, experts, Social Media

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25 years from now someone in my niece’s graduating class might be the VP pick for the highest office in the land (POTUS). What will that “vetting” process look like? Sure there will be the usual background check stuff, FBI calling their college roommates, PHD advisor, pastor, etc., but what happens in a world [...]

Tagged as: attention, facebook, identity, intention, timeline, traces, tracks, VRM

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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

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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 make choices in how we [...]

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Marc Canter – one of the most consistent critics of walled gardens/closed systems and the ghost towns they become hits it again with a post about subscribing to people
Well one clear way is to just ’subscribe’ to someone and then find out what they’re doing – wherever they are. This can only be done [...]

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http://thew0rd.com/
the first post I find dives into another aggregator/platform Ziki
http://thew0rd.com/2007/06/25/zikicom-releases-v2-of-their-digital-identity-management-suite/
these guys should check out the conversation Doc is leading in VRM
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/

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http://mashable.com/2007/06/11/rss-toolbox/

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So NBC has a text tag on their site linking to a “coming soon” page for their social network.

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Just caught a presentation from Doug Kaye (IT Conversations, Conversations Network) at Podcast Hotel about a new program he has announced called PodCorps.org. They are looking to create a community of stringers to capture, organize and share video and audio conversations (town hall meetings, club meetings, small conferences, speeches, interviews, etc.).
They are working with:
http://eventful.com [...]

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