Social Media Group

Arriving in Vienna yesterday and joining some of my fellow bloggers (David Terrar, Thomas Otter, Dennis Howlett, Bruno Haid, Prashanth Rai, Sig Rinde and Charlie Wood) for dinner last night, this was the question that immediately popped up. I’m surrounded by software/IT bloggers. What am I doing here? Aside from enjoying a few days in [...]

…as a guest of SAP at their Sapphire event - hoping to track down Mark Yolton, Vice President of SAP Community Networks and interview him for a podcast on the subject of social networking for business - stay tuned.
Therefore posting will be somewhat sporadic this week - but I will leave you with some images [...]

A little bit of Friday fun…

Hap Tip to Julian at Exceler8ion

In this episode, Dan Greenfield, Vice President of Communications for Earthlink, Luis Suarez, Knowledge Management Consultant for IBM Global Services and Tom Mandel, a technologist and poet, discuss the potential business use of SMS service Twitter. This was a really interesting podcast to moderate, but we probably could have used someone who thought Twitter [...]

I’ve just been catching up on some reading, and came across this great piece by Jeremiah Owyang. Like so much of what he writes, this particular phrase really struck me,
Be sure to plan for positive unexpected events. If a customer raves about your product on his blog, learn how to acknowledge and harness. [emphasis mine]
We [...]

It’s seems to be the Topic of the Day- there’s this article from Reuters on how emergency services could use SMS apps like Twitter to push out warnings to large numbers of people instantly (Twitter has a mobile app that lets you get updates on your phone).
An article on business use of Twitter that I [...]

Welcome to the 12th edition of Social Media Today, the official podcast of the Social Media Collective;. In this episode we chat with Tom Mandel, many-times-published poet, inveterate entrepreneur and champion of all things social media.
Next week’s podcast will be a special edition roundtable exploring how Twitter can be used inside the enterprise. Be sure [...]

Otherwise known as “social media”. A new partnership between Collective Intellect, Inc. and Wall Street On Demand was announced today (again, in a press release format that makes me have to Google the company names, instead of just providing freaking links to them).
We are assured that the “nuggets” uncovered are ranked and that credible data [...]

A story containing an interview I did for Microsoft Home magazine is up on the web. Titled (enthusiastically) Create Your Own Podcast! it’s a quick piece about how average people can make their own podcast and share it.
A trifle thin on the details around editing, I nevertheless like this article because it provides names and [...]