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How Twitter Missed the Point
Posted on May 27th, 2009So far this year, both Twitter Inc. and Facebook , the traffic Kings of Web 2.0 social media, made changes that upset their users, and for which, in the end, they apologized and backtracked. Both offered poor examples of how to lead a business.
To review: Earlier this month, Twitter implemented a feature change that removed the ability for Twitter users to view “@replies“ from people they were not following. Instantly, the Twitterstream was in an uproar with tweets and retweets of complaints. There were threats of protesting, petition-signing, and, in general, lots of bashing on Twitter.
Click here to read suggestions on how Twitter should have approached this event.
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Contenture – The Anti-Ad Network
Posted on May 20th, 2009If you want to make money from a blog you have a limited number of options. The most popular approach is to run ads – typically using an ad network like Google’s AdSense. Many bloggers also join affiliate programs and post links and banners for those programs – but to the visitor it is just more ads. You can also charge a subscription fee – but you will have to have some truly unique content to pull that off and also the systems to handle the ecommerce. So your primary options are to run ads and annoy your visitors or collect money from and annoy your visitors.
Next week, Contenture is launching what they call the “anti-ad network.” The basic idea is that you would add a subscription component to your blog/website. You would offer some type of premium benefits to visitors who are signed up with Contenture….
Read the full article at Blogging Tips.
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New ‘Cap & Trade’ Law Spells Work for IT
Posted on May 15th, 2009Are you deciding where to build a new data center, or how many new cooling units to add to it? If so, you have typical IT decision-making ahead — weighing all the costs and benefits, considering corporate goals, making recommendations, and so forth.
However, pending legislation on Capitol Hill called the Waxman-Markey bill could add something else to your decision making: scrutiny of the “caps” on carbon emissions and the market to “trade” carbon allowances.
Check out the whole article at Internet Evolution
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Limits on Employee Social Networking?
Posted on May 11th, 2009Many companies are still deciding whether they need to have a social media presence like a Facebook page, or a Twitter account, or a YouTube channel. But every business needs to realize that, regardless of whether the company is using social media, their employees are already using them, both personally and professionally.
What’s more, the potential repercussions of those employee activities are evolving on a daily basis, while most companies are sitting on personnel policies that are outdated, if they even exist.
Check out the full article at Internet Evolution
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Social Protection: The Best Ways to Safeguard Personal Data
Posted on May 7th, 2009
Social media sites are fun, but when you participate, you run the risk of sharing more about yourself than you should. The good news is that close to 99.9 percent of social network privacy issues are under your control.This article provides a few tricks I’ve discovered to keep information private on some of the more popular social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, FriendFeed and Twitter. Hopefully, these steps will give you ideas to use on other sites not listed.
Check out these tips and the full article at Internet Evolution.
