Leveraging the Power of Social Media to Help Humanity
Seth Godin has said that, thanks to social media tools, if you feel passionately about an idea you now have the ability to quickly build a following around that idea and lead people to change the world. I’ll have more to say about that idea in a later post — some thinking about the practical considerations that go into achieving that.
But tonight I just want to share this video from Twestival Seattle with you because it’s an example of one person here in Seattle who is taking advantage of the ease and the reach of social media to actually try to change the world. I admire the cause and I’m both entertained and moved to thought by the video; I think it’s very well done.
I can’t help thinking about the ease with which a message like this can get out now compared to even 5 or so years ago. I think we take for granted the degree to which the emergence of social computing technologies and the social computing cultures have shifted the ground beneath our feet.
Are Online Communities Necessary for All Businesses?
Ted Murphy is driving his favorite lunch restaurants in Orlando to jump into the Twitter universe (even offering his own personal economic incentive). That got me wondering, as I went about my errands yesterday, if the businesses I had stopped in to should be using social computing techniques too. I talk to myself in the [...]
Aggregating and Integrating
The future of the Web currently appears to be all about words that end in -ating. Aggregating multi-platform social computing activity within a single platform to make it easier to keep track of who’s saying what, where, when and to whom. And integrating stand-alone apps into established applications and practices to make both a bit [...]
TwitThis: A Quick Way to Add Value to Your Twitter Stream
Jeremiah Owyang posted a tweet today saying that the trick to success in social media is “add value.” I’d say that’s good advice, but it’s also an old principle of success just dressed in the new clothes of social media. Buckminster Fuller said “I believe you can get everything you want out of life if [...]
Twitter Ecosystem: The Tools
I have not developed my own application using the Twitter API. But at times I feel like I may be the only person who hasn’t. What could we do with the energy expended on new Twitter-based apps if we could just harness it somehow? As the list of new Twitter-based apps grows, it seems there [...]
