Says on the site that you can “turn your audience into a lively community with a suite of powerful commenting and community tools” which looks useful.
Thanks to everyone who’s sent their good wishes for my new community consultancy role with Sift, in Bristol. It was excellent experience setting up ION online communities at the ICAEW, which I aim to put to good use for my new clients…
How’s this for a quick example of the power of Twitter I posted on ICAEW’s IT Counts today as my final day in the role of ION community manager, based on the simple premise of the value of being in the right place at the right time? The price of Apple shares have dipped recently with rumours of Steve Jobs’ health concerns. Yet yesterday notable blogger Robert Scoble… Continue reading
Hmm, seems like I missed the news last month that the so-called Long Tail is dead, which is interesting as I looked at the economics of music sales last month following a meeting with Russell Hart of Entertainment Media Research. Appears their Digital Music Report 2008, based on 1,500-strong survey, may support this trend in so far as it highlighted a drop in illegal downloads too. Or to… Continue reading
Aggregation, aggregation, aggregation; hmm, I like the sound of that (thanks to confused of calcutta):
“We have had aggregation before. Past paradigm aggregation was about content owners and distribution and channels and audiences. Which allowed for words like authority and traffic. Which begat strange things like advertising.
“Next paradigm aggregation is about the owner of the power to bestow attention, and to do something with that attention. The… Continue reading
If you want something that’s free, simple and fun to measure your brand metrics try HowSociable. It provides a search engine focused on web 2.0 spaces from twitter to flickr. I met the guys behind it (from the engineers at http://inuda.com) and they inspired me to try it out.
OK, here’s a prediction for 2009, with help from Gauravonomics Blog:
“Social media outsourcing will we widely seen as the next big outsourcing opportunity for India. I have earlier written that social media outsourcing is the next big business opportunity for India and may already be leading the third wave of Indian outsourcing. In 2009, the volume of consumer generated media will increase, social media… Continue reading
A physical model of the S & P 500, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ price trend from January to November 2008, demonstrating the value of visuals along the way. Seeing is believing!
The sharp decline in prices has an animal-like feel to it
A short history of the community which is Stocktwits; many of its community members participated in the recent VC funding round, which also echoes the theme of a recent post in IT Counts on member funding of online ventures, Is web 2.0 enabling a new kind of financing?:
“Since we started with a blank slate we were able to be intensely customer-focused from Day 1, and it is a… Continue reading
Funny how I was just thinking about using the likes of Twitter to use the jargon ‘crowdsource’ answers to issues and needs. I recall no less a Twitterati than Laura Fitton saying how a request posted on Twitter quickly received a bunch of useful timely replies. And today Dennis Howlett has blogged on the same theme, with an example which provide ‘Proof that crowdsourcing works’.
But I’m left with one… Continue reading