August 17 (09) 07:11 am
Trust Economies: Investigation into the New ROI of the Web by Julien Smith and Chris Brogan
“If You Build It, They Won’t Come What happened to the early days? You built a baseball stadium, a store, a web app, and people flocked to it… now what? We are suspicious of marketing. We don’t trust strangers as willingly. Buzz is suspect. It can be bought. Instead, consumers and business people alike are looking towards trust. We want our friends to tell us it’s good. We want someone we know to say we should look into it. Marketing spend might start at awareness, but in the Trust Economy, communities are king, and ROI stands for Return on Influence.”
If you’re interested on expanding your knowledge as to why ‘Reputation is all’ get this new released book:
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Trust Agents – Using the web to build influence, improve reputation, and earn trust.
August 3 (09) 09:51 am
And so it was! Whuffaoke (or Bust) final destination and party was a blast! Strangers coming together for karaoke, drinks and food and most of all, great mingling! What an experience it has been! If you didn’t know — now you do: MTL rocks!
Nantel has put this little slide show together: LUV U all.
July 28 (09) 15:48 pm
“Power to the People survey has revealed dramatic changes in the way that consumers are using the internet to create and share their thoughts, pictures and videos.
Research into the facts behind the hype of social media reveals that social networks are becoming the dominant platform for content creation and content sharing.”
Universal McCann Wave 4 global report tracking social media is available for download.
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May 26 (09) 19:14 pm
Battle for our brainshare is raging on! Been a Facebook user for a while now, it has gone through too many changes and has lost its simplicity (ubiquity?).
The ND group is ok. Use it to stay in touch. Recently realized that if I send a message to all — FB inserts their URL to taxi out links — adding another layer of annoyance (and no doubt adding to their ginormous click through rate).
Oh and don’t get me started on the deluge of stupid apps which I systematically block. Why not provide a one click to opt-out of all at once and for all?!?!
To describe how much spam I received from FB is beyond description.. in fact, I might have to can that email address altogether. I receive so much that notifying my contacts will be almost like a piece of cake, in comparison. So much for protecting our privacy!
Damn the bots harvesting emails (and their creators)!
Now that Twitter has gone from a friendly space to the new ‘hot’ Internet item — it not only became sluggish (well it’s free, right) and Ev and company are scramblying to keep up — with more than the Joneses, if you get my drift.
By far, prefer the 145 characters snippet like updates. It works wonders intellectually. How short and concise can your thoughts be made. It has been a stunning exercise and sometimes downright funny. That’s more therapy than I expected.
Now tried to ‘put’ the TW app on FB and got this lovely placeholder stating that they need to ‘fix’ something.. Ah really… grrrr.
So been thinkering with the idea of an open-source app that would mimick TW/FB (but is neither) that could be embedded in a website running on WP allowing your ‘What are you thinking now’ or ‘Snippets of info’ to be published/exchanged with friends/followers in real-time? The beauty if possible, I would no longer have to go anywhere. I’d stay right here – home!
Does it exists? Feasible? If so, drop me a message.
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