Home
Tac Anderson's Library tagged → View Popular
Social Media Needs Context and Action
Louis has a great post from Defrag (a conference I'm very sad to have missed). We're entering (finally) the next phase where people are asking the right questions and pushing for the right kind of results.
We're not there yet, but we're getting there.
-
Speakers suggested today's tools have a stark lack of context, that businesses are too obsessed with having a complete data set and aren't focused enough on the actability on that data, and that many developers are focused on designing apps that simply don't drive benefits.
-
"Is there an opportunity to drive business decisions and revenue for your company?", saying "Data is useless without effort. When you get data, it is a lot of work to do something useful with it, yet market research companies are obsessed with completeness of data."
- 3 more annotations...
The Becker-Posner Blog: The Future of Newspapers--Posner
To me the problem stems from people thinking that newspapers are synonymous with news, or journalism, or reporting. In my experience those three things are happening less and less at newspapers. Making it illegal to link to a newspaper would kill their business faster than anything else (IMO).
-
Add Sticky Note
- To me the problem stems from people thinking that newspapers are synonymous with news, or journalism, or reporting. In my experience those three things are happening less and less at newspapers. Making it illegal to link to a newspaper would kill their business faster than anything else (IMO). - on 2009-07-01
BSU students land jobs with NASA | Local News | Idaho Statesman
Very proud of my little bro.
-
T.J. and Haley Anderson are working for NASA Houston-based contractor Oceaneering Space Systems Inc. Oceaneering won the NASA contract to design and produce spacesuits for the Constellation program, which includes proposed missions to the moon and Mars.
Lifestream for Wordpress
alright, gonna need to play with this.
The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
nice little banter between two authors. wonder if they're both just driving book sales.
-
But since journalist Malcolm Gladwell has somewhat parochially decided to make the Future of Paid Journalism the focus of his review of Free (which is, ironically, free on the New Yorker’s website; perhaps this is something Gladwell should take up with David Remnick?), I’ll try to respond in a bit more detail.
UBM’S TechWeb to Reorganize, Cut Jobs - B2B @ FolioMag.com
It looks like even new media isn't immune to the layoffs.
-
United Business Media’s TechWeb is expected to announce a reorganization today that will result in a number of layoffs as well as management changes.
The nine tribes of the internet
A cool slideshare of Pew's latest research. I find it interesting that the Digital Collaborators and the Desktop Veterans had the highest income are both high contributors and both have been online for the longest.
10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media
It's nice to see Journalism Schools recognize the importance of social media. Especially if they don't want to turn out unemployable students.
Search growth helps loft Google over profit estimate | Digital Media - CNET News
""Aggregate paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our AdSense partners, increased approximately 17 percent over the first quarter of 2008 and increased approximately 3 percent over the fourth quarter of 2008," the company said. "
Google Shows a 3% Sequential Dip In Revenues: First One Ever
"And it’s actually not as bad as analysts had been expecting. And, perhaps most importantly for Google, its paid click numbers were actually up. Aggregate paid clicks were up 3% quarter to quarter, and 17% year over year."
Google shares rise as profit beats Street view | Reuters
"But revenue fell 3 percent from the 2008 fourth quarter. Google reported a net profit in the first quarter ended March 31 of $1.42 billion, or $4.49 cents a share, up from $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, a year earlier."
Yahoo Launches Slick Desktop AIR App For Monitoring Twitter
I can only see this being useful for people not running TweetDeck. But cool to see Yahoo! getting involved.
5 Tips for Optimizing Your Brand’s Facebook Presence
Great advice. Facebook pages will become a must have for all brands (some may argue that they already are).
How-To: Search the Social Web - Ultimate Toolkit
A great resource for all your social media research needs.
Who's Getting Hired in Tech? Q1 Numbers from ReadWriteHire - ReadWriteWeb
Our site ReadWriteHire covers new hires in tech and new media. Today we're publishing our aggregate numbers for the first 3 months of 2009. Who's hiring? Software and IT companies, social media and social networking companies and marketing and advertising firms.
Web 2.0 Expo: Why social media marketing fails | Social Business | ZDNet.com
Today at Web 2.0 Expo, “Forrester reunion” panel made up of Jeremiah Owyang, Peter Kim and Charlene Li told a packed room at Moscone West how they believe social media marketing is failing. Don’t fear, however, because they also discussed how they believe it can be fixed.
Share RSS Feeds via AIR with ShareFire - ReadWriteWeb
I may check this one out. I've never played around much with client based RSS readers but some people really like them. Now if this just synced with Google Reader that'd be awesome.
Do We Need a New Internet? - NYTimes.com
I hear a lot of talk about a "new Internet" and there are obviously a lot of smart people working on their own versions of one but I have a hard time seeing people switching. It's not like you could just flip a switch and move everyone over. I could see a worlld where "private/safe" *Internets* charge a premium (think AOL 2.0)
Selected Tags
Related Tags
Sponsored Links
Top Contributors
Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »
Join Diigo