If you shut down social networks where members are active – spending time and money to build community- sooner or later there will be a backlash. Disney should think before they shutdown yet ANOTHER online community site. Why would you join ANOTHER Disney site when you know how they are going to treat you?
May 212008
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:06 am Tagged with: Caspian, Disney, entertainment, mobile, mobile social network, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, playdom, Prince, producer, Seth "Yavn" Mendelsohn, shutdown, social media, social network, social networking mobile, social networks, the 50th anniversary of Disneyland, Toronto, Walt Disney Co.
May 212008
From Advertising Age ( hope they don’t “expire” the article, I hate it when they do that, heaps of interesting stuff there). What Accountants Can Teach You About Using Social Media H&R Block Cast a Wide Net With a Campaign That Included Profiles, Videos, Twitter and Widgets
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:47 am Tagged with: Abbey Klaassen, Megan McIlroy, ROI, social media, social networks, Twitter
May 152008
Second Life objectifies women? I thought it objectified Furries? o.O “Nearly ’13 million’ users visit it (Second Life) every day – it’s a ‘new’ ‘website’ called second life ” I don’t think so lady! video here Are there really only 50,000 predators online? Where are the rest…? At the shopping mall probably. Better drag the kids off the PC and send ‘em out there… I really hope that kids don’t start playing Second Life – which is full of fun educational projects, lectures and workshops from Colleges and Universities around the world. They should watch more Fox violence on TV, Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:17 pm Tagged with: internet cafes, Kirk, Online Communities, second life, social media, social networks
May 142008
NewsFlash! From 24/7 Wall Street Social Networks Don’t Work For Advertisers: Web 2.0 Is A Bust (GOOG)(TWX)(NWS) Perhaps someone could have figured this out a year ago, Social networks like MySpace, owned by News Corp (NWS) and Facebook are poor targets for marketers. No wonder. A social network is a patch work of millions of largely unrelated people posting private and uninteresting things about themselves. Shut-ins who put up their own web presences on the networks are probably the only ones who look at those listings. Unlike web portals ala AOL, owned by Time Warner (TWX), where content is organized Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:42 pm Tagged with: Africa, AOL, asia, business, Delaware, Douglas A. McIntyre, Even management, Facebook, Google, investment advisor, leader, Middle East, news corp, North America, Online Communities, online industry, ROI, Search, Search advertising, search results, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, social-networking sites, the New York Post, Time Warner, United States, USD, Wall St. LLC, web 2.0, web portals, web presences, youtube
May 132008
Oops I have no time to blog today. So it’s lists all the way… Web 1.0 is not Social Media – A pretty Brochure site – Products, Service, Support, Press Centre, About Us, Contact, – interactivity meant point and click, print, submit form, fill in a poll – host provides content, user views content New Media, Interactive Media, Digital Media are not Social Media – Pretty game and clickety-click sites – puzzles, play videos, be guided through the site by flash navigation – macromedia games and toys to play with – host provides the content, user clicks through the content Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:40 pm Tagged with: content rich site, empty site, media experts, Online Communities, Press Centre, social media, social networks, user generated content, video server, web 2.0
Well, here it is… Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website owners can make any site social Easily insert social features to make “any app, any site, any friends” a reality MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (May 12, 2008) – Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will announce a preview release of Google Friend Connect, a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors. Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:44 am Tagged with: a service, Artist, California, Dashboard, David Glazer, director of engineering, Facebook, Google Friend Connect, Google Inc., Hadi Partovi, iLike, independent musician, Ingrid Michaelson, Mountain View, Online Communities, open social, President, social network, social networks, website owner, www.ingridmichaelson.com
May 132008
Interesting post from Senior Tech guru at Yahoo! Venu Anuganti: Â How many servers Number of DBAs How many web servers Number of caching servers Version of MySQL Language, platform Operating System MySQL 1 M, 3 S 1/10 2 2 5.1.23 Perl,php and bash Linux fedora Sun 2 clustered, 2 individual 1.5 160+ 8 5.0.21 Lots of stuff (java mostly) Open Solaris Flickr 166 At present 0 244 14 5.0.51 Php and some Java Linux Fotolog 140 databases on 37 instances 10 instances a DBA 70 40 ( 2 on each, 80 total) 4.11 and 4.4 Php, 90% Java Solaris Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:35 am Tagged with: Fedora, Java, Linux, Linux fedora, Online Communities, Open Solaris, Perl, php, social media, social networks, Solaris, SuSE, Technology, Ubuntu
May 132008
Hat tip: @kcarruthers and @nickhodge Niche networks are getting even more niche. World of Women in Turtlenecks.Yep that would be subforums on Webfinds, Scans, TV & Movie Captures, Newspapers and Collections – also alerts on TV and in the Movies. ALL OF WOMEN IN TURTLENECKS. Told ya it was niche. That was 30seconds of your life you will never get back. What would you do with them? I mean, marketing-wise… ? Tags: social networks, Marketing, Online Communities, social media, women, turtlenecks, forum, world of women in turtlenecks
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:26 am Tagged with: Niche Social Networks, Online Communities, social media, social networks, women
I have a lot of fun facilitating these workshops with the awesomely creative team from Australian Film Television and Radio School, Laboratory for Advanced Media something. (AFTRS LAMP is easier to say): Masterclasses in Social Media and Online Communities Sydney, June 19 Melbourne, July 4 Generating Online Buzz for Creative Projects Cut through the jargon and find out the true potential of Web 2.0 to initiate conversations with global audiences Read more > Sydney, June 20 Melbourne, July 5 Building Social Networks and Growing Communities Find out how to community maintain user engagement and ensure your online audience comes back Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:51 pm Tagged with: Australian Film Television, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Bruce Moyle, designer, Laboratory for Advanced Media, laurel papworth, Melbourne, online audience, online buzz, Online Communities, Radio School, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, Sydney, user generated content, web 2.0
Lots of chat at the moment online about Ars Technica being plagiarists. Here’s some of the discussions – Duncan Riley: I’ve always liked Ars, but lately I’m starting to wonder. I’ve heard people allege previously that all Ars does is rip stories off, particularly from MSM sources, and never credits. But here’s an example that is so blatant, its sickening: Long Zheng at istartedsomething: Microsoft files patent for possible taskbar replacement (July 15 Australian EST) Ars Technica: Microsoft patent gives a peek at the future beyond the taskbar (July 16 USCT…and no credit for the story). and Paris Lemon: Another Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:30 pm Tagged with: Ars Technica, copyright, Microsoft, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks
May 112008
Compuserve started in 1969. The WELL in the early ’80s. I didn’t really get into social networks and online communities until the late ’80′s. Certainly, not creating content, editing and commenting on content and making friends and so on, until I got hooked on Usenet newsgroups in 1988 – 20 years ago. Here’s a youthful Howard Rheingold guiding us down memory lane of social networks online. Note how in the ’80s they used online networks to a) get jobs b) do dating c) replacement for boring tv d) create real life social networks e) event management online and offline f) Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:43 pm Tagged with: applelink network, event management, howard rheingold, Online Communities, real life social networks, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks
Google find Steven’s Facebook photo first… Industry moves afoot, dear Watson! My primary responsibilities will be writing reports, fielding client inquiries and delivering consulting engagements. In my research, I will write for interactive marketing professionals in particular as well as marketing and strategy decision makers in general. Research topics will range from the Australian interactive agency landscape through to the impact of social computing on marketing and business strategy. While based in Australia and focused primarily on this market, I will work as part of a global team that examines and compares trends across Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:44 pm Tagged with: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Forrester Research, North America, research, Senior analyst, social computing, Social Media Australia, Steven Noble
May 112008
MOBLOGIC.TV reporter Lindsay Campbell gets arrested (deliberately) at a protest because she wants to put her two cents in.Thank god, I’m so tired of “objective” reporting that we all know… isn’t. So much more interesting. And emotional. And involving. Bugger Orf, Andrew Keene (Cult of the Amateur). She looked pretty professional to me. Journalists no longer masquerade as ‘undercover’ activities ‘just for the story’, and do it because they believe in it. Yay! You might like Objective Journalists vs Passionate Blogging. The gloves are now off, when it comes to chasing a good story… or at least acknowledged openly as Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:08 pm Tagged with: Andrew Keene, cent, journalist, Lindsay Campbell, MOBLOGIC.TV reporter, Online Communities, Orf, social media, social networks
Note: Social Media is user-generated, member created, content. Not interactive stuff from a web agency or traditional media company.I’ve been following 5min_tech on Twitter for a while now. 5min – Find the Best How To, instructional and DIY videos – people uploading 5 min videos to educate other people. It’s called a videopedia. Kinda cool to have people doing stuff for free – how many businesses are having their models threatened now? I would be shoving the videos I usually sell up in 5min chunks on this site, and then using it to promote my live tutorials, workshops and labs Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:41 pm Tagged with: Bartlett, cellular telephone, creative cross media platform, Facebook, Josh, Media, media overarching storyline, Melbourne, mobile, mobile phones, Motorola, Online Communities, President, Sam, second life, social media, social network, social networks, Sydney, synchronous device, teacher, Twitter, user generated content, virtual reality, web agency, youtube
May 082008
Have a wonderful Friday. I’m off to teach a social media, cross platform course (public) run by Australian Film and Television School. In Hobart. On Saturday. Please come along, we’ve got some seats left. Or spots. Or places… y’know what I mean. Sorry I forgot to tell you before Creating Online Buzz and Growing Communities ‘Inviting Audiences to Your Party and Keeping Them There’ will demystify Web 2.0 and help you harness its power to promote your creative project online. This LAMP Insight Seminar examines techniques to attract online audiences and keep them coming back for more. It also explores Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:24 pm Tagged with: AFTRS, Australian Film Television and Radio School, director, Gary Hayes, LAMP, laurel papworth, mobile, online audiences, online buzz, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, Social Network Strategist, social networks, Tasmania, web 2.0, Your Party
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