» SocialMedia http://www.practiproj.com All About Web Application Projects Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:38:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 When You Need To Explain What Social Media is… http://www.practiproj.com/when-you-need-to-explain-what-social-media-is/ http://www.practiproj.com/when-you-need-to-explain-what-social-media-is/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 05:05:14 +0000 efimor http://www.practiproj.com/?p=21 Handful of people I talk with, still don’t understand what social media is, and what is all the buzz around it. So I gathered few presentations from slideshare for the next time someone needs to hear the story.

Going Social

Easy reading. Nice and flowing presentation, especially up till slide 36



Introduction to Social Media

Nice graphics



Social Media Is…

Another flowing presentation. Its all about the conversation



Social Media & Marketing

A bit more heavy stuff. Start at slide 21.


]]> http://www.practiproj.com/when-you-need-to-explain-what-social-media-is/feed/ 0 TwitterMania – So Much Buzz & The Cream of Mashup Applications http://www.practiproj.com/twittermania-so-much-buzz-the-cream-of-mashup-applications/ http://www.practiproj.com/twittermania-so-much-buzz-the-cream-of-mashup-applications/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 22:00:03 +0000 efimor http://www.practiproj.com/?p=20 What can be added about twitter that has not been said already? I guess not much. So much on going buzz! It is amazing.

Hats off for the twitter team for having a product / platform that gained so much buzz and being able to maintain it over time. I guess it helps that influential bloggers have adopted twitter and promote it like they are on the payroll of the Public Relation team.

So much buzz, I had to check it out. So I opened a twitter account and joined the party. Do I like twitter? Yes, for many reasons: well, it is fun; Short and to the point message are always better then long ones; Seems an excellent place for networking, and getting to know people who share the same interests as yours and get to know them on a different more personal level then reading their blog and for a few other reasons.

As you get more people on your network it gets more interesting. You are welcome to introduce yourself and follow me on twitter.

Now days, it seems Twitter is gaining momentum and increasing rate of growth. Still many of the users are early adaptors, web geeks and social media enthusiastics. Twitter has basic functionality and still lacks useful features (for example – following conversations, advanced search).  Many potential enhancements can be added. To fill this gap, so many Twitter mashup sites started to show up. But you really have to be a big Twitter fan to go through the effort of using multiple tools. The gate for Twitter to become more mainstream is to fix the scalability issues and enhance the application with necessary features.

Twitter has captured the imagination of so many talented developers who adopted the API and created many Twitter tools. The useful API helps to keep the buzz going and a major contributor to Twitter’s success. Included is a list of the mashups that seem most useful, either by providing a new missing feature or excel in design or innovative idea. Probably the list is not complete, so if you are aware of additional worthy Twitter tools, let me know and the list will be updated.

Twitter Tools

 

Statistics

 

Follow the conversation

  • http://www.twitterverse.com/ – Cool! What is being discussed today in twitterland
  • http://twitturly.com/ – Aggregates stories in last week according to twit count. Very useful
  • http://quotably.com/  – follow the conversation. Nice application, but seems there is a bug. It is not following conversations properly. At least there is a fix threading option.

 

Search

 

Finding new friends

         Twit for fun

Other tools

 

 

Extra twitter reading

 

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