Monthly Archives June 2009

Facebook, watch this space

Someone’s tried to set up an account using an email from my domain. I’m now getting friend confirmations based on that account. Hmm, so what does Facebook help centre say on the matter?
I received an account creation email, but I’m already registered.
If you have received a Facebook account confirmation email in error, it’s likely that [...]

Proving social media ROI

Thinking about proving ROI for business inspired me to look at this great SlideShare on metrics for online communities:
Metrics and Measuring Success in Online Communities
View more OpenOffice presentations from Connie Bensen.

This nicely shows the range of issues businesses should consider with social media implementation and ROI. But what’s the quick and easy version? I have [...]

Systemantics and online communities

The Fundamental Law of Administrative Workings (F.L.A.W.): Things are what they are reported to be. The real world is what it is reported to be. (That is, the system takes as given that things are as reported, regardless of the true state of affairs.)..

Complexity Digest gets a new site

The new Complexity Digest website has the catchy new url: turing.iimas.unam.mx/~comdig. Please update your bookmarks!
Plus read my own choice of article ‘Plectics: The study of simplicity and complexity‘
Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA/Europhysics News 33, 17-20 (2002).

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What the Governor of the Bank of England said

Watching Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England speaking live at the Mansion House he said something to the effect that the church did weddings and funerals, and people ignored the sermons. He said the Bank of England did sermons and burials, fluffing the intended analogy. The BBC then reported that the Bank said [...]

Half of iPhone users access social networking from their mobile

There is no doubt that social networking has become the phenomenon of the age. It has moved forward with such a pace that users have probably out stripped technology in terms of the number of applications available. Many of the applications available for the iPhone have connectivity to networks such as Facebook and Twitter, but [...]

Snapshot of #ocu2009 Twitter stream

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TheCR RT @thomasknoll OH: “Another name for angry users is passionate users.” #ocu2009 [love that] less than 10 seconds ago from Tweetie
OCReport Great question – How to you mobilize your brand [...]

Is your community manager a shortcut to Enterprise 2.0?

A while back I wrote a post on 10 ways to convince CEO’s to get blogging. Today I saw a tweet from Euan Semple reflecting on a point by Lee Bryant at the Corporate Social Networking Conference:
@euan Agreeing with @leebryant that it takes years to really get social stuff going in a business.
So what advice [...]

Daily Telegraph says World War II to start soon

Today’s Daily Telegraph carries the following story online: “Russia accuses Poland of starting Second World War‎ -
Russia has accused Poland of provoking the outbreak of the Second World War by refusing to accede to the “very modest” demands of Nazi Germany.”
I had just downloaded the Telegraph’s mobile G1 Android version on to my mobile, and [...]