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Twitter – Verified Spam for MSF_USA Doctors Without Borders
10th July 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Not For Profit, Online Communities, Twitter, social media, social networks
3 Surefire Ways to Win The Fastcompany Influence Project
Fastcompany give you a URL and you upload a foto. You then ask friends, family and random stranger serial killers to click on your link. Prove how loved and popular you are. Here’s some tips: this article is not what you think it is.
Huge list: You know you are addicted to Twitter if
Given the current State of the Twitosphere (down, and out, under maintenance – check here for Status) I thought a You know you are addicted to Twitter if post was in order. Perused and collated from around the web: You went to a Tweet Up but had nothing to say to the people you met. [...]
tagged in addicted, addiction, down, maintenance, Twitter
Saturday: The collective Rainbow
Schleppin’ around on a Saturday afternoon – winter in Sydney. Saw a rainbow loitering outside our balcony. Gary Hayes had to have a photo of it: It occurred to me that my social network and beyond, the extended zeitgeist might’ve taken photos too. and I was right: jnefedova, and MGR16 and thetone A shared moment. [...]
Own your mistakes – Zappos
24th May 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Online Communities, Twitter, blogs, social media, social networks
Zappos 6pm.com make a $1.6 million mistake. Get lots of PR in return and social media cuddles. Zappos the Twitter wunderkinds made a big boo boo. Their pricing engine set a maximum price of $49.95. Six hours later, and 1.6 million dollars later, the company blogs about it: Hey everyone – As many of you [...]
tagged in 6pm.com, aaron magness, buzzmachine, jeff jarvis, macknuttie, readwriteweb, richard webb, social media, Twitter, zappos
#1: Mistakes Companies Make on Twitter TIMELINES VELOCITY
24th May 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Australia, Online Communities, Twitter, social media, social networks
This is a series of posts (one a day so another one tomorrow!) on mistakes companies make when using Twitter for business. Entering online communities is easy (mostly) but working effectively is hard. This series shows the mistake and (hopefully) the fix. This particular post is on Velocity and Timelines in Social Media. Optus, one [...]
Australia: ABC Four Corners and Q and A
11th May 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Australia, Online Communities, Safety, social media, social networks
I headed off to the ABC Studios in Ultimo Sydney for Q and A last night thinking that there would be a high energy after the Four Corners broadcast. And there was. I guess I wanted to know more than anything else this: What else could the money be spent on? Are there solutions that don’t [...]
tagged in 4 corners, Australia, filter, Four Corners, Internet, nocleanfeed, qanda, Safety, security, social media, social networks, Twitter
22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets
14th April 2010 by Laurel Papworth under Featured, Monetization, Online Communities, Twitter, revenue, social media, social networks
Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. One, should we monetize other people’s activity? Two, how can Twitter make money? The first question is ethical – if money and currency is about a show of worth, a menu of value, then yes, we can [...]
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