I am often assigned the task of showing our clients how we use social media as a tool to communicate with others in our industry in real time. I begin with my whole spiel about how Twitter works and how people find us etc.
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Sticking Out in a Community
To get the best out of a community you need to stick out from the crowd in some way. Most good communities have some form of recognition for their more active users. You’ll see a lot of this on most popular ning sites.
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E-Learning with Social Media
While I was living out in Amherst, MA I worked for the computer science department creating math problems in Adobe Flash (well it was Macromedia at the time). The project was called “Wayang Outpost”. It was a virtual SAT tutor that toned in on a students problems and presented exercises to help fill the gaps. […]
My new favorite “funded by burritos” micro-blogging service is definitely 12seconds.tv. I guess one could argue that it is the natural progression of micro-blogging and status updates.
If you haven’t checked out my Twitter Starter Page, you might want to go ahead and do that before reading this post. You have to have a pretty basic understanding of how to use Twitter before you can really start using it effectively.
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Using Social Media
One of my favorite parts of my job is hearing the words “well I like what I hear, now put a fence around it”. I’d like to think that this is easier said than done these days as most people forget one essential truth when it comes to Social Media:
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What is Variable Video?
Other posts about Variable Video? http://www.jonbishop.com/2008/07/variable-video/ http://www.jonbishop.com/2008/04/interactive-video-how-to-and-examples/ http://www.jonbishop.com/2008/03/personalized-langing-pages-20
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Micro-Blogging Overview
Jon Bishop on Twitter
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Variable Video
I’ve talked about variable video and personalized video a little in the past. Now let’s look at some more examples and break down some of their components.
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Are Twitter Friend Adders Okay?
So with the launch of TwitterAdder and Twitter Adder for Firefox everyone is in a stir talking about how there is finally an easy way to add friends. What do I think of this new awesome service, um, not so awesome. I feel as if it kind of defeats the purpose of Twitter and if […]