Mobilizing your social network View more presentations from JD Lasica. Can individuals and organizations use social media to advance the social good and create meaningful societal change? In his Oct. 4 article in the New Yorker, author Malcolm Gladwell argues no. The revolution will not be tweeted, he says. “We seem to have forgotten what […]
Events
How has social networking saved your ass?
Here’s a compilation I shot last week at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference while reporting for Yammer.
At TechCrunch Disrupt I asked attendees, presenters, and exhibitors how social networking has saved their ass. We’ve all had stories of the community providing information we needed in a moment of crisis.
Social media, tech & marketing events: October
October is high season for social media events! Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events scheduled for the month of October. For the full year, see our Calendar of 2010 social media, tech and marketing conferences. We’ve also published a roundup of nonprofit and social change conferences and events for […]
YourVersion: Building recommendations through implicit & explicit behavior
I’m at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference reporting for Yammer.
Dan Olsen is the CEO and co-founder of YourVersion, which Olsen describes as Pandora for real-time web content. Just as you tell Pandora about what music you like, with YourVersion you tell them about what kind of information you like. And in both cases the applications respectively serve up music and news/real-time content to your desktop.
Storify: Make stories using social media
I’m at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco reporting for Yammer.
Almost a full year ago I wrote an analyst report entitled “Real-Time Search and Discovery of the Social Web” (get your copy of the 20-page PDF), and I argued that one of the failures of the value of the real-time web is the lack of editors monitoring the data and then republishing it in a digested form.