I just stumbled across a great site, Books Noted, which in it’s words provides “quotations, notes and takeaways on interesting books. These books further our knowledge in a variety of topics from psychology, entrepreneurship, philosophy, business and more. Since they tend to be hundreds of pages in length, these short notes and takeaways will get [...]
According to the Daily Mail today Google is extending its Street View service to peer at 95 per cent of homes in the UK.
In honour of this I’ve uploaded (above) a pic taken from a screen-grab of Street View of the spot in Leicester where a memorial plaque to Richard III, who some say [...]
A free software widget to allow people to search the web for information on public services in their area is to be launched today by the Directgov website. The Directgov team is taking the opportunity to use what may be the last big public showing for the highest profile IT-related programme [...]
Moving back to valuing social networks, and who are influencers following listening to a Telligent webinar which included discussion on tracking ‘influencers’, I found the following quote from a recent GoViral report ‘The social metropolis’ (pdf) pretty interesting – it’s that passion, not position is what distinguishes an influencer.
Duncan J. Watts, a network-theory scientist from
Columbia [...]
A few slides to layout the principle of different feedback loops between your online community, your site, contributors, readers and other blogs and communities. Any feedback?
Feedback Loops
View more presentations from Stuart Hall.
…And thanks to tweet-feedback from Jenny Ambrozek (@sagenet) for the wider context around the power of feedback loops – see the Fast Company article [...]
A great example for charities on why social media is both scary (you can lose control of the message) but also powerful (losing control is OK), from an example of a Greenpeace campaign over naming a whale. ‘Mr Splashy Pants’ was the name over 70% of people online wanted, but it wasn’t what the charity [...]
Wayne Gretzky-Style ‘Field Sense’ May Be Teachable http://shar.es/m3E8W An application to social networking influence is my thought. Cheers!
My tweet today (above) follows my last blog post on the importance of location, rather than the number of connections, in determining an individual’s influence: “we may have got too focused on valuing networks in terms of who [...]
A recent research paper suggests we may have got too focused on valuing networks in terms of who is the best connected. In fact the most influential person in the network comes down to location, rather than connections, as outlined in this blog extract:
The importance of hubs may have been overstated, say Kitsak and pals. [...]
An individual’s network may well be worth more in ROI terms than them, say smartFOCUS. Are you valuing the networks of your customers, as well as individual customers?
To value your own online network why not try the ‘Facebook Visualiser’ tool created by Sebastian Van Sande below to to graphically explore your Facebook [...]
