July 2008
6 posts
Virtual Worlds News: vBusiness Expo: Gartner's... →
Virtual worlds are not about technology or allowing people to create content or anything else; they’re about people. It’s the failure to understand the demographics that are behind the failures of…
When women blog, it's fashion?
The New York Times has done it again. They’ve taken a story about women in tech and relegated it to the Fashion and Style section. In “Blogging’s Glass Ceiling,” a story about last week’s BlogHer conference, Kara Jesella wrote, “There is a measure of parity on the Web. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, among Internet users, 14 percent of men and 11 percent of women...
Virtual Goods: the next big business model →
Spammers and Scammers on Social Networks
It’s ironic that a few days before speaking on Using Social Media for Social Good I would wind up filing a complaint with the FTC about a possible fraud being committed on social networks. That same day we held a plurkshop on Internet security issues and microblogging. Hence the title of this post: spammers and scammers have arrived on your favorite social network.
Jennifer Leggio, network...
Plurkshop on social media measurement
On Plurk, a newer microblogging/presence app, we have been having a series of “plurkshops,” an online DIY workshop where we start a topic and discuss it in real time, effectively turning Plurk into a chat room. This has been peer-to-peer knowledge sharing at its best. Some plurkshops have yielded over 600 comments in two hours, with the quality of the information shared being impressive. That’s a...
Seven Steps to a Successful Marketing Blog by... →