Social Media Group

Everyone’s making predictions for 2007, but I’m going to go one step beyond and make a prediction for the remainder of this decade: social media is the new email.
Interestingly, I was very pleasantly beaten to the punch in posting about this by one Rod Boothby. The discussion started on the Social Media Collective Google group [...]

According to this press release,
A stand-alone corporate web site is no longer sufficient to maintain a company’s relationship with its Internet-savvy audience, [says] IBM “Blogger-in-Chief” Christopher Barger
He’ll be delivering that message to a paying audience at a seminar titled “Using the New Web 2.0 for Corporate Communications”, which is scheduled for January 10th at Philadelphia [...]

First it was NORAD, now, according to Reuters, Santa has a blog. You may also notice that he refers to the area immediately south of the North Pole as “Norway” - we Canadians tend to disagree with that.
Can you make gift requests via the comments section, do you think?
And that’s it for us until the [...]

In this article from Dow Jones MarketWatch, it would appear that Gartner is distancing themselves from the widely held understanding that their recent predictions for 2007 forecast the end of blogging as a powerful force. According to Daryl Plummer, what they really meant was:
The number of unique visitors [to social networking sites like MySpace] is [...]

Long ago, when the Wondercafe.ca social networking space was launched, A.C. Riley and I had a good rant about the developer’s inexplicable use of frames, which meant individual pages did not have URLs, thus preventing users from bookmarking pages, posting them to sites like Digg, del.icio.us and sharing info virally. Which made no sense whatsoever.
A.C. [...]

Here’s all the news that’s fit to blog from last week and beyond…
Thursday
1. Perhaps the biggest news of all is the Gartner prediction that blog numbers will level out in 2007 at about 100 million (you can listen to the podcast here). Of course the blogosphere is all a-twitter, can’t say as I care one [...]

In hot water because someone convinced you it would be a good idea to “juice” up your blog via a little astroturfing? Thought it would be “no big deal” to hire some writers to create a flog? Did the blogosphere catch on?
Worry no more - simply employ the Adrants Fake Blog Apology Service. From what [...]

I’ve just received an invitation to join a new think group called the Social Media Collective, which is:
An invitation-only group of bloggers, thinkers, executives and entrepreneurs who are interested in social media and Web 2.0 and its impact on marketing, advertising, PR, and old media.
The invite came from Jerry Bowles of Enterprise Web 2.0 via [...]

First there was the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki, now there’s the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Project, which sounds rather methodical. To quote the organizers:
So far [as of Dec 8th] 39 registered volunteers have published research on 40 Fortune 500 companies. 42 companies have been identified as having at least one public-facing corporate blog. [...]

I hate to say I told you so, but, well, I did.
So sayeth this article in the Wall Street Journal,
Four major media companies, including News Corp.’s Fox, Viacom Inc., CBS Corp. and General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, are in talks about creating a video Web site to compete with Google Inc.’s YouTube, according to people [...]