I‘ve been arguing for some time that journalists need to embrace the best elements of social media — going beyond the new media and multimedia elements of the craft developed over the past 15 years to develop a true conversation about the news with members of their communities. In the past few weeks I’ve begun […]
Unigo: Student-powered college advice
At South By Southwest Interactive in Austin Texas, earlier this month — inside the bloggers lounge — I ran into Julia Kaganskiy, the social media and community manager for Unigo.com. If you haven’t heard of Unigo, you will. It’s a crowdsourced college guide that offers honest appraisals of life at hundreds of U.S. colleges, including […]
Twiphlo: Making geolocation small & beautiful
Stowe Boyd, a longtime fixture in the tech and social media worlds, is joining Socialmedia.biz as a contributor and collaborating strategist. The following originally appeared in his blog /Message. Geolocation tools fall into two broad categories: Predictive location, generally oriented toward arranging to meet with other people when traveling to other places (like Dopplr and […]
Photo Finder will find you wherever you are
The Facebook photos application has been by far Facebook’s biggest success: The easy to use interface for uploading pics from your computer and then brilliant point-and-click tagging of friends has proved intensely viral. There are now more than 15 billion photos on Facebook, making it the largest collection of pictures in human history. More than 850 million […]
Online slide shows that sing
We’re continuing to experiment with offering the latest, most useful set of tools and resources around social media while making robust use of WordPress plug-ins. So you’ll see additional changes here in the coming days and months. One widget we like is from Slideshare.net, which can be configured as a vertical or horizontal widget. (A […]