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Posted by Jon Hickman in links on September 14th, 2009

Social Media Links for September 14th

Citizensheep » Manage your online reputation – How to respond to conversations online – from a third sector perspective
Round up from Data, Mashups and APIs | Birmingham Social Media Cafe –
FORA.tv – Scott Rosenberg: Say Everything: How Blogging Began – On the road promoting a book on the subject, some historical overview of blogging (via http://www.d-log.info/?p=9537)
Master List (A Wiki of Social Media Monitoring Solutions) – A list of software used for reputation management activity ie monitoring the net for keywords and brand mentions (an then responding)
Babble + Context = Conversation | I Hate Mornings – Of the many responses to reports that "40% of Twitter is inane babble", this was one of my favourites. And Ben's songs are worth listening to too.

Posted by Jon Hickman in links on August 24th, 2009

Social Media Links for August 7th through August 24th:

Social Media at 52 degrees north :: interactivecultures – Report on visit to Birmingham by South African academic Marlon Parker. From our sister blog, http://interactivecultures.org.
A podcast about podcasting :: interactivecultures – The team discuss podcasting, a much misunderstood concept. From our sister blog, http://interactivecultures.org.
Us & Our iPhones – Over on our sister blog, the Interactive Cultures team discuss iPhones. They try really hard to be clever about it too.
Webometric Thoughts: Social Media Non-Adopters: Engagement v. Exposure – During a recent Black Country social Media Cafe we were supposed to address technology non-adoption, and ended up instead discussing re-tweet etiquette.
The Guardian | Read it and weep: Evan Williams of Twitter on Newsnight – the transcript – Transcript of interview with Evan Williams of Twitter, which less than impressed the Guardian’s writer.
Top 100 Best Social Media Books, Ever « Mellow Billow – Not sure I really agree with this list but it’s interesting none the less. I guess it’s too much to think they might have drawn in books from the wider web studies and media studies tradition which have an awful lot to say about social media.

Posted by Jon Hickman in links on August 6th, 2009

Social Media Links for May 27th through August 6th:

How Cellphones, Twitter and Facebook can make history: Ted talks Clay Shirky – Thanks to Delicious user Caffeinebomb for sending this in.
(http://delicious.com/caffeinebomb & http://twitter.com/caffeinebomb)
Australian Local Council starts using Birmingham’s social media surgeries | Be Vocal – The fantastic social media surgery concept, pioneered in Birmingham by Pete Ashton and developed by Nick Booth, is taken up in Australia.
How Andrew Stott is setting Whitehall a-Twitter | Technology | The Guardian – Brief profile and interview with the man who is teaching politicians and civil servants how to engage with the public via social media tools (not just Twitter).
Guardian on their influential readers – This is interesting. A presentation from The Guardian & Observer advertising sales team regarding influence within their readers. Now newspapers aren't just selling their readers as a demographic to advertisers: they're selling the network of their readership to brands.
Timms takes over Digital Britain brief | Technology | guardian.co.uk – A new minister in the hot-seat to drive forward Digital Britain, the UK Government's strategy and vision for the digital economy, and the required infrastructure and skills development that will make this possible.
twopointouch | Surrender! Foucault and Twitter – A brief overview of how we might apply Foucault's ideas to social media, with some useful links to further reading.

Posted by Jon Hickman in links on May 19th, 2009

These are my links for May 19th from 08:21 to 08:21:

web 2.0 logo collage re-imagined – The ubiquitous web 2.0 / social web startups logo montage needs an update: this graphic demonstrates those companies that fell, and those that have been bought up by larger organisations.

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