Mainstream editors will get articles from bloggers with audience

 Media, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks  14 Responses »
Oct 292009
 

Why traditional media editors will turn to bloggers for articles in the future. Social media = content PLUS audience.

If you are managing a newspaper or TV station or radio, will you contract out work to a freelance journalist…  or will you ask a known expert that blogs to write  the article? Someone who is held in high regard in that industry or specialist topic, who has an audience of other people interested in that topic and who has now had 3 or 4 years of writing/blogging and retaining interest of the online community?

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Monetize: Social Media Proprietors

 blogs, Featured, Monetization, Money, Online Communities, revenue, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks  2 Responses »
Dec 162008
 

.. so what is a “social media proprietor”? And how is s/he different from a blogger? Dunno, don’t ask me. Google it…. uh oh, we are both in trouble. The only response from Google on “social media proprietor(s)” are MY presentations. So either they don’t exist, have another name or … I’m the first one to document them. heh. Moving right along… Social media proprietors focus on a number of things that bloggers may not: advertising – display, banner, those little boxy things. classifieds – jobs is popular, the rivers of gold running to social media. merchandising – any old Continue Reading…

PajamaHadeen: Lee Hopkins and pajamas

 blogs, Media, Social Media Australia, web 2.0  1 Response »
Oct 232008
 

SilkCharm Sachertorte reporting from Second Life, in pajamas & fluffy duck slippers. Lee Hopkins alerted me to this new (to me) term: PajamaHadeen when he was blogging about how he blogs in response to my blog post on how I blog this blog (confuzzled yet?) Pajamahadeen or Pajamahideen is a portmanteau of pajamas and Mujahideen meaning “bloggers who challenge and fact-check traditional media” (according to The American Dialect Society, which voted it the Most Creative word of 2004.[1]) The word refers to news bloggers, suggesting their goals as overthrowing the news establishment. (“Mujahideen” comes from an Arabic word referring to Continue Reading…

Australian CEOs that Twitter

 Featured, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, Twitter  45 Responses »
Sep 092008
 

Want a list of Australian CEOs that are on Twitter? Scroll to the bottom. Business Week have a piece on each CEO that uses the so-called ‘microblogging’ service Twitter. I don’t like the term micro-blogging when applied to Twitter as it’s less of a one-to-many asynch depth of content site like a video blog or a multimedia blog and more of a few-to-few synchronous chat channel. Tweets From the Chiefs The best chief executives are nothing if not efficient, and what’s more efficient than 140-character memos? Microblogging site Twitter is the latest tech tool to enter the C-suite. Whether they Continue Reading…

Bloggerati Australia: Australia vs the world – web 2.0 technology

 blogs, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks, statistics, web 2.0, web 3.0  8 Responses »
Jul 252007
 

Seven years ago, I lived in Singapore. I was there for nearly two years. And even back then, their adoption of technology was impressive. If I rang for a taxi, the automated system would ask me if I was 1. calling from home 2. calling from work, or 3. calling from elsewhere. Then it would ask me the same questions about where I wanted to go (home, work or elsewhere). If I was a work and wanted to taxi home, it would auto-give me the plate registration of the pickup cab. I heard that the GPS/LBS services now are such Continue Reading…

Ning in bed with Facebook

 social networks  No Responses »
Jun 162007
 

Snaffled directly from TechCrunch: Ning Rolls Out Facebook App Builder: Embed Your Social Network In a Social Network Michael Arrington Ning, the build-your-own social network startup, will be rolling out a new feature that allows users to create their own Facebook applications around their Ning networks later this evening. This won’t be a Ning app – rather, they are giving network operators (users who’ve created Ning social networks and other applications) the ability to easily create a branded Facebook application. The example screen shot (click for larger view) shows integration of Pumkins Central (a Ning social network) videos. The screen Continue Reading…

Apple 0 Blogosphere 1 – bogus iPhone email

 blogs, Marketing  6 Responses »
May 162007
 

Copied wholesale from TechCrunch because TechCrunch has all that fibre goodness your blog needs: Engadget Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap on Bogus iPhone email Michael Arrington 42 comments » What a day for Apple investors. The stock started off strong today on a lot of pre-market buying, despite news that Amazon will finally start competing on sales of DRM-free music. Then, whoops, at 11:49 AM EST Engadget posted saying that the iPhone and Leopard operating system launches would be seriously delayed. They based the story on an internal Apple email that was forwarded to them. The original post: Continue Reading…