The Big Conference Launch: How to Stand Out from the Crowd (12)
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Editor’s Note: This post represents the professional advice of Brian Solis who is not affiliated with TechCrunch50. If you are a participating TC50 company, resident TechCrunch PR expert Sarah Ross is available to share and review the public relations guidelines with you. It is important to work directly with Sarah to ensure you are in compliance with these guidelines to maximize your PR opportunity while also avoiding disqualification. How do you launch a startup at ...
Be the First to Blog Inside Your Firm (2)
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Being the first or one of just a few bloggers inside your organization can put you in an influential position. Scott Gavin put together five reasons why in his First Mover Advantage article: Senior management will want to know who you are and what you are saying. Are you a threat or an innovative individual who’s willing to share his thoughts in a public forum? The first blog is like a when a new kid ...
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bhc3 said:
"Being the first or one of just a few bloggers inside your organization can put you in an influential position. Scott Gavin put together five reasons why in his First Mover Advantage article."
Companies can’t be coy if they want reader action (1)
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Blog headlines and blurbs are initial flirts, trying to garner the quick glance of readers. Want them to stick around and buy you a drink? Have an RSS feed. Think of it as a wink and a smile.
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bhc3 said:
"Blog headlines and blurbs are initial flirts, trying to garner the quick glance of readers. Want them to stick around and buy you a drink? Have an RSS feed. Think of it as a wink and a smile."
Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0 (57)
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If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn't know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is "next candidate, please." In today's business world, job-seekers are expected to stay current with the happenings taking place in their area of interest. There was a time when those happenings were very much job-specific and ...
Small Tweaks, Bigger Experiences (1)
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Maybe you’re like me, and you’re way over email notifications. I turn these off almost instantly. But, still, I’d love to know more about who is trying to connect to me. So, when Twitter made a subtle tweak to the way they showed you who is following you (giving you most recent followers first, instead of by when the account was created), it made all the difference. Before, the button was almost useless. It would ...
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"So, when Twitter made a subtle tweak to the way they showed you who is following you (giving you most recent followers first, instead of by when the account was created), it made all the difference. Before, the button was almost useless. It would only show me the same early adopters, and there was no way I was going to page through the lists of followers to try to detect who was new."
Is LinkedIn Too Busy with Big Deals to Respond to Members? (3)
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I can remember a time not so long ago when LinkedIn executives and staff were really good about responding to questions and even criticism. Co-founder and sometime VP at LinkedIn Konstantin Guericke used to put an enormous effort into communicating with members on LinkedIn-related groups of which I’ve been a member, including the one of which I’m a moderator, LinkedIn Bloggers. Mario Sundar, whose current title at LinkedIn is Community Evangelist, was another who would ...
Google’s Picasa Moves Onto Flickr’s Turf: Adds Ways To Explore Interesting Public Photos (45)
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On the heels of a major upgrade earlier this week that added facial recognition and video-editing features to its Picasa photo management service, Google added a new Explore page today that shows off the most popular public photos uploaded by members. In addition to the featured photos, shown in a 3 X 4 grid, the Explore page also shows the most recent photos uploaded in a slide-show widget. Below, it offers a list of the ...
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Shawn F said:
it's about time google invested some more time and effort in Picasa
Presence Is Too Important To Leave To UC Vendors (1)
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The title of this post might seem to be self-contradictory. After all, we associate presence as a foundational capability within unified communications. Indeed, several blog posts have recently highlighted the importance of presence as a core component of a UC platform while noting interoperability challenges across UC systems.Interoperability in IP Telephony and Unified Communications Today, companies worry about different vendors' PBXs talking to phones and to each other, as well as to applications such as ...
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"While presence will remain a core element within platforms for unified communications, the social dynamics around presence require all of us to look beyond how presence is defined, packaged and delivered by UC vendors (e.g., Cisco, IBM, Microsoft). The benefits of “presence” span far beyond the boundaries of unified communications. In fact, presence is on its own convergence path with social networking trends."
Forrester Defines the Cloud, But We Beg to Differ (5)
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A new report out from Forrester takes a chart-filled look at cloud computing, offering the analyst firm’s own definition of the cloud and attempting to dispel three myths they have noticed. Since we at GigaOM buy pretty heavily into two of these so-called myths — namely that a cloud is comprised of a scalable virtualized server environment and that it’s a low-margin business — I was eager to see where we had been led astray. ...
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bhc3 said:
"A new report out from Forrester takes a chart-filled look at cloud computing, offering the analyst firm’s own definition of the cloud and attempting to dispel three myths they have noticed. Since we at GigaOM buy pretty heavily into two of these so-called myths — namely that a cloud is comprised of a scalable virtualized server environment and that it’s a low-margin business — I was eager to see where we had been led astray."
Socialbrowse: Don't Surf Alone (22)
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Browsing the web is typically a very solitary activity, even if the Web 2.0 revolution has given us easy tools like FriendFeed or SocialMedian to share our online activities. However, a different breed of services like Browzmi or the Y Combinator funded Socialbrowse are trying to make the actual browsing experience more social by displaying your friends' actions right in the browser. Socialbrowse is releasing a new version of its service today which, besides being ...
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bhc3 said:
"However, a different breed of services like Browzmi or the Y Combinator funded Socialbrowse are trying to make the actual browsing experience more social by displaying your friends' actions right in the browser."
Enterprise Social Network at Sabre (1)
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In continuing to explore Enterprise Social Networks after my Beyond Blogs and Wikis post I came across an an article by Toby Ward: Employee social networking − Sabre Town case study. "We humans are social creatures. With rare exceptions, we strive to relate, converse and connect with others. Social networking promotes online communities of interests and activities that promote connections between users in a more open and robust manner than simple e-mail. While best represented ...
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"Sabre runs most of the world’s airline flight reservation systems among other systems, with nearly 10,000 employees. They rolled out an enterprise social network called Sabre Town. The employee profile is more casual and friendly than your standard employee directory"
Open or Die: The Value Of Robust Ecosystems (1)
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From a philosophical place sometimes it's hard beat how Google approaches product development. Let's take Android as a great example. For those of you unfamiliar, "Android...[is] the first complete, open, and free mobile platform."Why is this so significant? As I discussed in a post long ago "Closed Ecosystems Die, Shouldn't Someone Let The Cell Phone Companies Know?", most mobile companies and handset providers have created closed ecosystems. Breaking in a new product such as Android ...
NetSuite moves early to support Chrome (1)
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NetSuite said Friday that it will offer native support for Google’s Chrome browser, which is in beta and may not be enterprise strength yet. In a statement, NetSuite said its CRM, e-commerce, accounting and OpenAir unit will support Chrome in phases with support being complete in mid-October. The enterprise implications of Chrome are a bit unclear [...]
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bhc3 said:
"NetSuite said Friday that it will offer native support for Google’s Chrome browser, which is in beta and may not be enterprise strength yet."
FriendFeed’s Progress Out of the A-Listers’ Garage « I’m Not Actually a Geek (12)
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Photo courtesy of jo-h on Flickr One of the earlier complaints about FriendFeed is that it is primarily the playground of the early adopter set, particularly the A-Listers. Remember the recent discussion around Allen Stern’s post about FriendFeed’s recommended members? That they are so heavily weighted toward the top A-Listers? Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Steve Rubel, etc… Well, over the past month or so, I’ve noticed a trend where sub-groups are forming and are very ...
Are we too demanding? (8)
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It never ceases to amaze me how demanding we can be as IT users and early adopters; to put a twist to the Queen lyric we want it all and we want it now! We have gone beyond just having an opinion and have all become armchair experts in just about everything - it’s no longer just reserved for sports fans thinking they can manage their team better than the “incompetent muppet” standing on the ...
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bhc3 said:
"So, when a new product gets released in beta when does helpful, constructive criticism go too far and border of the realms of being over demanding?"
Negative Momentum: Newspaper Ad Revenues Gaining Downhill Speed (Even Online Is Declining) (via Google Reader) (20)
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Can it get any worse for the newspaper industry? The steep decline in print advertising just keeps getting steeper and, for the first time, even online ad sales have gone down. Total print ads in the U.S. were down 16 percent in the second quarter to $8.8 billion. That makes nine consecutive quarters in which “print revenues have declined at an almost continuously accelerating rate,” notes Alan Mutter at Reflections of a Newsosaur. He put ...
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iwein said:
YaY for the trees!
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Mr_RealSurf said:
cheerful reading (not!) for those of us who work for - or just love - print.
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"The newspaper industry took in $1.7 billion less in print ads during the second quarter than the year before For the first half of the year, the industry is down $3.1 billion. At this rate, there won’t be an industry left by the end of next year."
A list of Document and Presentation social networks (2)
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Here’s a list of social sites where you can upload documents and presentations. If you know of any others, please leave a comment. Document Scribd DocStoc ThinkFree Docs OpenFloodgate Issuu Insightory Twidox Presentation Slideshare (Slidecast) authorSTREAM SlideBurner Zentation vacsmo Empressr Web Slideshows WebSlides Trailfire JogTheWeb
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bhc3 said:
"Here’s a list of social sites where you can upload documents and presentations."
Fastest Growing Search Engines? Facebook and MySpace (3)
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According to this July’s comscore data the fastest growing locations for search are Facebook and MySpace. MySpace had 539 million searches and Facebook had 173 million and posted 20 and 10 percent growth, respectively. My guess is that these searches are only domestic searches which would account for the large difference. Whatever the case is these numbers are far below Google’s search volume which fell just under 10 billion searches for the month with 4 ...
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bhc3 said:
"According to this July’s comscore data the fastest growing locations for search are Facebook and MySpace. MySpace had 539 million searches and Facebook had 173 million and posted 20 and 10 percent growth, respectively."
