Talk of the Web

There’s been a lot of activity on the Web and in our industry in the last week and I thought it might be fun to try and tie at least some of it together.  Much of it in one way or another involves Facebook—or FB as the proposed ticker symbol suggests. Part of an email [...]

The CEO is the Decider

“… organizations are becoming more social but perhaps the right application hasn’t come along yet to enable a CEO to be more social in a professional setting.”

SAS Unveils New Analytics Apps

It’s often hard to maintain high visibility in the marketplace if you happen to be a private company and for good reason.  Private companies tend to be small and they often do not attract the attention of the financial press precisely because the financial press thrives on the transparency and numbers that small companies prefer [...]

More women use Facebook (and Twitter, and LinkedIn and …)

In addition to knowing about the demographic make up of your community members and making sure they participate in your community — not just hang around reading other people’s contributions — you need to know something about the demographics of the social sites you want to work with. I just read an article by Tom [...]

Social media backlash

It had to happen sooner or later, the only question in my mind is why it has taken so long.  It appears that the backlash against social media is beginning.  All I can say is yippee! With trends like social media — or almost any trend — we tend to over imbue the idea or [...]

Tweeting reality

My father-in-law is a study in concentration when he watches sports on TV.  In his den he sits before a massive HD TV with the sound off, just watching.  In a way it’s as close to being there as you can get, minus the crowd noise and a breeze if he’s watching golf or more [...]

Cyber dilettantes

According to The Economist, the researchers surveyed more than 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 and reported results that include:

More than half said they tweeted less than once every 74 days (not quite twice per quarter).
The most active 10% of twitter users published 90% of all Tweets.

Shih wrote the book on social media

Clara Shih is a friend I met through Salesforce.com.  She recently published The Facebook Era, which looks at the relationship of social networking to front office computing.  She is really busy these days promoting the book and she recently left Salesforce to pursue new ideas in social networking and to form a company dedicated to [...]