If trust is a currency how do you avoid bankruptcy?
Kate Carruthers There has been a lot of talk in the social media and web 2.0 world about trust as the base currency of this new world (e.g. Trust Economies: Investigation into…
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Pointless banter and the building of bonds
There’s been some ‘research‘ about Twitter by Pear Analytics claiming that “Pointless Babble” represented “40.55% of the total tweets captured”. What’s interesting is that these folks completely miss the importance…
Are blogs really dead?
Some have argued that blogs have had their day, for example: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004. A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type…
Social media, reputation and immediacy
Reputation is critical for any person or business – we only have to look at the professional reputations of the James Hardie directors & managers in the news today. Social…
Who should we invite to judge Cupcake Camp Sydney?
Just wondering who we should invite as a judge for Cupcake Camp Sydney. We’ve had @Neerav volunteer to help out so far. But we also need a few more people…
Twitter, purpose and community
A while back Twitter was having some real problems with stability and scalability and it dawned on me that they, like many innovators, had not realised what kind of invention…
Social Networking – Past & future
Social Networking – Past & future Looking back to 2007 – and it seems so long ago now – social networking was just starting to get a bit of buzz…
Get lots of followers on Twitter?
Many times every day I receive tweets from people saying ‘get hundreds’ or ‘get thousands’ of followers on Twitter. And every time I wonder what their frantic getting of followers…
The old next big thing
I can recall when both Twitter & Friendfeed were talked about as the next big thing. But that was a long time in the distant past (almost 12 months ago)…
The old next big thing
I can recall when both Twitter & Friendfeed were talked about as the next big thing. But that was a long time in the distant past (almost 12 months ago)…