From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Twitter for Business and Government and number of Australians

by Laurel Papworth on March 31, 2009 · 1 comment

In this video taken at the Mayor of San Francisco’s press conference, @ev (Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter) is talking about how businesses use Twitter… and government departments

Some of his examples and points:

Events – Earthquakes creates viral spike in activity
Public Transit – BART light rail (?) gives updates on Twitter (like the lovely [...]

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Australia & Time Magazine: Stephen Conroy’s Blacklist

by Laurel Papworth on March 29, 2009 · 1 comment

Time Magazine features us this week. Yay?
The ACMA “blacklist”, as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming a handy compendium of internet depravity in one convenient package — courtesy of the Australian government.
Am I the only one that thinks TIME mixed up the messages – the blacklist (not the filter) has been around for [...]

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Facebook: 200 million users or more

by Laurel Papworth on March 29, 2009 · 3 comments

Amazing news that Facebook -  footage from AllFacebook.com also amazing is that once again, we see information that a few years ago wouldn’t have made it far out of that room, now available on the ‘net.
Facebook should theoretically be crossing the 200 million users level tomorrow based on our estimates but according to Wei Zhu [...]

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KFC Potholes and Social Network Spotlights

by Laurel Papworth on March 28, 2009 · 1 comment

Kentucky Fried Chicken offer to fix potholes in exchange for graffiti – err sorry – advertising on the hole covers.  From The Chicago Tribune: 
 

Colonel Sanders look-alike Bob Thompson helps a repair crew in Louisville “re-fresh” one of the estimated 350 million potholes nationwide. (KFC Corporation photo/ March 24, 2009)

There is a danger on social networks that [...]

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Salesforce Twitter: Don’t interrupt customer conversations

by Laurel Papworth on March 27, 2009 · 7 comments

Social networks meets market intelligence meets customer relationship management systems might just equal spam.
Spam: food for thought
So this is what I see happening on Twitter:

GaryPHayes: @SilkCharm Watcha doin’ Silk?
SilkCharm: @GaryPHayes making a cup of tea. Gonna have it with a Tim Tam
ArnottsTeam @SilkCharm Oh you like TimTams? Have you seen our new “I LOVE TIM [...]

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Twitter causes Jennifer Aniston John Mayer breakup

by Laurel Papworth on March 26, 2009 · 3 comments

O RLY? Celebrity breakups on social networks – Twitter.

Rocker JOHN MAYER said he was too busy to return calls while Jennifer was away promoting her new film.
But Friends star Jen spotted he was updating his page of the networking site instead.
One pal said:

Jen was fuming. There he was, telling her he didn’t have [...]

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How to add Friends to Groups or Lists or Filters in Facebook

by Laurel Papworth on March 26, 2009 · 5 comments

Before the new Facebook interface was fully launched, I mentioned that it would be a good idea to plan some groups for you to filter your friends into. Lists like “business” or “cute” or “mum and her friends” or guys at work” or “guys at footy”.
So, I was trying to figure out how to put [...]

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Job: SEO/SEM Expert Reputation Management in social networks

by Laurel Papworth on March 25, 2009 · 10 comments

I love these peer to peer job sites like guru.com
Fix my reputation in online communities and social networks please! Interesting job for PR slash SEO people on Guru.com:

Profile ID: 828294 matches…
Title: SEO/SEM Expert Reputation Management
Project ID: 498259
Category: Website Design / Website Marketing
Description:
SEO group is seeking an SEO experienced professional willing to telecommute and assist 2 [...]

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Twitter: Juror tweets leading to Jury twubble.

by Laurel Papworth on March 22, 2009 · 11 comments

Following on from our discussions re:  the law and legal system being inflexible and unable to cope with how humans interact in online communities and social media sites.
A juror who used Twitter to communicate his disapproval of the plantiff in a civil case has provoked an argument that could lead to a mistrial.
Russell Wright’s construction [...]

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Twitter: How to stop pesky auto-DMs

by Laurel Papworth on March 22, 2009 · 1 comment

One of the problems with online communities is member-to-member spam. THEY don’t see it as spam, but we do. And anything automatic that takes the ‘human or social’ element out of social networks, is spam, in my mind. Your mileage may vary.  But if you do agree, here is a how to stop auto-DMs. Because [...]

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Seminar AFTRS: Film, TV Social Media Innovation

by Laurel Papworth on March 21, 2009 · 1 comment

Sydney Australia: I’m presenting at a public short (morning) course run through LAMP (Laboratory for Advanced Media Production) and AFTRS (Australian Film Television and Radio School) on 22nd April from 9:30 to 1pm.  The fee is $60 and Jackie Turnure (Hoodlum) and Justin Baird (Google) are co-presenting.

Innovations in Multi Platform Content
A selection of leading innovators [...]

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Job: Build Twitter Following

by Laurel Papworth on March 19, 2009 · 4 comments

Scriptlance is a job auction slash project management site; You post up the job you want done – a website created, graphic design of a logo or editing of a document – and the members bid to do the work. Project milestones, escrow payments at milestones, yada yada.

how many of you are thinking – oh [...]

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Blog crowdsourcing: Asking Twitter about Facebook

by Laurel Papworth on March 19, 2009 · 8 comments

Today I asked this question:

I was wondering if we were in the “don’t do as I do, do as I say” stage. hah. In twenty minutes I had these answers:

kcarruthers: @SilkCharm not, hardly ever re FB

anthony_p_c: @SilkCharm We are currently getting some value from it, though personally I am not as into it [...]

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