Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’

Via Fast Company
8 Experts Predict How Web 2.0 Will Evolve In 2009
| posted by Allyson Kapin
2008 was the year that Web 2.0 became more mainstream. More ad agencies, businesses, and non-profits used Web 2.0 tools as a way to build community and relationships, cross promote products and issues, and integrate their online and [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Matthew Lasar | Published: November 19, 2008 - 11:14PM CT
Stuck in the Netscape era

As Ars Technica readers know, the blogosphere is now saturated with guesses as to who President-elect Barack Obama will select as the next chair of the Federal Communications Commission. And there’s no shortage of input about what the [...]

Via PR 2.0
What follows is the unedited version of my latest post for TechCrunch, “Is Obama Ready To Be a Two-Way President.”

Source: Barack Obama’s flickr stream
Where there’s victory, there’s also opportunity…
America voted while the entire world watched and listened. Whether you supported Obama or McCain, we equally shared the hope for positive change and a [...]

Via Mashable

November 7, 2008 - 10:11 am PDT - by Peter Kim

Peter Kim is a Senior Partner at Dachis Corporation.  He blogs about social computing and marketing at Being Peter Kim.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been curating a list of social media marketing examples.  The list started with [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on November 7, 2008

New York Magazine’s John Heilemann is leading a panel at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this morning on “The Web and Politics.” Joining him is San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Arianna Huffington and Joe Trippi.
The session jumped right off with Heilemann saying the [...]

Via PR 2.0
Businesses, individuals, and organizations will, from time to time, make honest mistakes or in some unfortunate cases, intentionally support unethical decisions to dissuade or conceal something significant from its public.
Whether it’s an oversight or a matter of deception, savvy companies usually employ and deploy a crises response team to prepare for, manage and [...]

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November 3, 2008 - 8:26 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau 5 Comments

Dr. Mark Drapeau is an Associate Research Fellow directing the Social Software for Security (S3) project at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
The day after the presidential [...]

Via the New York Times
By ROB WALKER
Published: October 31, 2008
Maybe you’re the kind of person who doesn’t believe that the kind of person you are can be deduced by an algorithm and expressed through shorthand categorizations like “urban youth” or “hearth keeper.” Maybe I’d agree with you, and maybe we’re right. But the kind of [...]

Via Groundswell
by Josh Bernoff
Data is my secret weapon.
Every time I visit a company, we bring data we’ve collected about the social behaviors of their customers, structured according to the Social Technographics Ladder we introduced last year, a technique we rang the changes on in chapter 3 of Groundswell.

When I go to Vanguard, I show them [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on October 10, 2008

In May 2007 I wrote “Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks” in a post about how, in my opinion, Silicon Valley was ripe for a downturn.
This week, without any doubt, we got that downturn. It was different from the last downturn in that [...]