Facebook status updates tell us the emotional health of the nation and the Gross National Happiness of members. 300 million ? 400 million? of ‘em.
We talk a lot about sentiment measurement in social media measurement classes. What constitutes a good sentiment, or bad. Does a computer understand sarcasm or vernacular “that car was da bomb” doesn’t mean it’s an old bomb, apparently. This is quite a different use of sentiment and Facebook:
Comments in blogs keep the blogger honest. The world becomes the Editor – a scary brute indeed!
… but what was it for? I never did work it out. Here’s the screenshot of the now dead, read-only site (temporarily until it’s gone for ever, no doubt). I got the email before Christmas, but am only just now getting around to looking at it. Though I did check to make sure they didn’t just wipe everyone’s content off the face of the internet. They didn’t – they seemed to have shut down ethically, user generated content wise, anyway. If you can’t be bothered clicking, I had TWO updates in the entire time I was on Pownce. From beta Continue Reading…
Merry Christmas my poppets. Hopefully in the new year, a new blog, but we’ll see Ho Ho Ho. Notice that it’s not a real Facebook page – it’s reverse chronology to what it should be. I’m pretty sure it’s from CollegeHumor. Probably APC Magazines nicked it, unattributed, a few weeks later. Um aaaah. I’m telling! Anyway, Merry Christmas – and I’m looking forward to seeing what you got me, for a gift. Heh. Funny how Facebook is so much part of our culture now, isn’t it? Tags: Event, Online Communities, social networks, social media, Rituals, god on facebook, adam, eve, Continue Reading…
We got a Playstation 3 (on loan!) yesterday. Love it. But this advice is for all games boxes/consoles/whatnots over the “Tis the season to be gaming” holidays. Getting the your little darlings a PS3 for Christmas? Planning on having “Home” -the social virtual world – act like a babysitter while you get squiffy with your sister, gramps and the outlaws? I really really suggest you take the box into work or somewhere with a fast connection THIS WEEK. Get ALL the downloads and updates (it will take 24 hours at least). You thought forgetting batteries was bad? Wait until you Continue Reading…
Monday and Tuesday next week is the Sydney Online Social Networking and Business Colloration: Richard Kimber, Global CEO, Friendster Rebekah Horne, VP of Fox Interactive, MySpace Francisco Cordero, GM Bebo Paul Slakey, Director, Google I’m on abunch of things including:MONDAY Collaboration – A knowledge management revolution empowering staff and customers to deliver• Identifying the critical collaboration factors of success• Change management strategies for web 2.0 technologies• From social bookmarks to blogs – which tools can and should be used• Lessons learnedWayne Hughes, Managing Director, Virtual Medical Centre .comChris Knowles, Web Manager, Heinz AustraliaAndrew Mitchell, National Manager, Technology and Knowledge, UrbisLaurel Continue Reading…
Staff will talk: Last week Virgin got a lot of publicity for firing ‘13 flight attendants for criticising the airline’s flight safety standards and describing its passengers as “chavs” on a social networking website’. (ZDNET) Virgin on Facebook, BA on Facebook (apparently BA Customers are smelly and annoying), pilots on their forum – talking about who they have ferried around in their planes: Who are your nicest Celebs?“I have … Cilla Black – she should be shot – quite possibly one of the most unpleasant individuals I have ever come across.” Thank goodness it’s only the airline industry that is Continue Reading…
Journey to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – I fly out late tonight, Sydney time. Heigh ho, Heigh ho, it’s off to Jeddah I go. In December 2006, a major Middle East broadcaster had a writing competition. They invited young Arab women to write in and say why they mattered. As in “why do Arab women matter”. The prize was an internship at the company, working with their Arab Women’s channel and other media properties. Over 2000 women responded. HRH Princess Abta Al Saud attended the ceremony and 17,000 women signed up for an as yet unformed online community to support Continue Reading…
I wrote a few paragraphs recently for The Venture Group newsletter – the pdfs from that issue are gone, but what I wrote seems to be popular. Note the top right: in the next years the market for web 2.0 companies will get standardized. It seems to me that investment companies really do want to invest in your you-beaut idea for an online community. But they only want three things: your exit strategy and your revenue stream. Well, there’s probably a third thing but I don’t know what it is. You, of course, are creating your community with ethics, high Continue Reading…
I’m feeling lazy today, so a ‘filtering’ post (not original content). Brought to you direct from Twitter blog: Twittering for The Children Yesterday I received this email from one of our Dutch Twitter fans. Biz, This morning, dutch journalist and TV presenter Francisco van Jole (@2525) asked if the dutch twitterazi did anything for the OLPC project. I responded by suggesting we’d have a fund raising day today; every tweet with the term ‘olpc’ in it would count as one euro sponsorship money. Since such laptops cost about 140 euro’s, @2525 said he would buy one if we’d reach 140 Continue Reading…
Vote for me. Or Santa won’t visit you. I mean it. Australias Top 20 Web Celebs! It’s a bit echo-chambery (you can’t nominate, only vote). But then again it’s all in good fun. I suggested they use Pligg – in fact I would’ve given ‘em poor ol’ Bloggerati. But that might’ve made it all tooooo serious. By the way I wasted a vote on Trib. Heh. AND I pointed people to Wild Wicked Wanton Women of Web 2.0 on Facebook for the list of Aussie women. Oh and in the Spirit of … well, Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!
About 1/3 of Australians don’t join the Facebook Australian ‘network’ (group). But sometime in the last couple of days (since last weekend anyway), Facebook signed up their 2 millionth Australian – you can see the real numbers through the social ads pages. That makes them well on track for having 10% of Australians on Facebook by Christmas. Not bad going when you consider that Facebook was only opened up to non-education (American) email addresses late last year, and only really gained traction in Australia at the end of May this year when F8 (the application delivery service into the social Continue Reading…
I know it’s early but click on SilkCharm… you won’t regret it! An early Merry Christmas dahlings! Tags: social media, Humour, elfyourself, silkcharm, xmas
Uhoh. Bad news for fakers – from The Times (hat tip: G2 New Zealand) Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed’ Hotels, restaurants and online shops that post glowing reviews about themselves under false identities could face criminal prosecution under new rules that come into force next year. Businesses which write fake blog entries or create whole wesbites purporting to be from customers will fall foul of a European directive banning them from “falsely representing oneself as a consumer”. From December 31, when the change becomes law in the UK, they can be named and shamed by trading standards Continue Reading…
From Cnet about a 10 months ago: Despite the fact that it can be a bit of a mess at times, I love Wikipedia. I’m an information fiend (the kind of geeky kid that asked for encyclopedias for Christmas), and all those Web pages are an amazing source of great–if not always accurate and objective–facts and data. And now I’m pleased to hear I can get all that goodness on the go. Wikipedia has introduced a mobile version for cell phones and PDAs. You’ll get access to all links both in and outside the site, but due to bandwidth limitations, Continue Reading…
Laurel has been creating and managing virtual communities for 20 years, teaching social media for the last 5 years and was named Industry Head, Social Media by Marketing Magazine (Australia) in 2010.
Forbes Magazine named her in the 50 Most Powerful Social Media Influencers in 2012 and she is also listed in the 100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter, as well as Number #12 AdAge Marketing and Media blog (Australia). More on the About page if interested.email: laurel [at] laurelpapworth.com
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I'm running small, one-day computer based social media classes in September 2011 - Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. If you know someone who would like to do a more advanced class, please let them know! Laurel Papworth @SilkCharm