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Chris Hambly Social Media In Business Conference

Social Media in Business Social media is influencing corporate communication, reputation and marketing http://socialmediainbusiness.co.uk/ Social Media is now in everyday public use as well as being an integral part of the marketing industry. The world of social media enables ALL your consumers, employees and parties with a vested interest to communicate to thousands within seconds, garner opinion and amplify the “noise” both positivel… Continue

Posted by Chris Hambly on September 6, 2008 at 6:35pm — No Comments

JonClarke Do you Twitter?

I've been using Twitter now personally and for many clients and amazed at how much traffic different sites are getting from this. It even outstrips Facebook and Stumble. It's a neat and quick, pc or mobile, micro-blogging platform and you follow or get followers who… Continue

Posted by JonClarke on July 31, 2008 at 10:51am — 3 Comments

Chris Hambly Thank you for your vote

Hi all. I'm looking forward to helping out with the club following the recent Interim Board of Directors vote You can read my personal blog here and also the social media mafia may well interest you. I've worked on the Internet for well over 10 years and have built up considerable experience. If you'd like to connect wit… Continue

Posted by Chris Hambly on July 19, 2008 at 9:44am — No Comments

Andy Budd Designing the Social Web

If you're interested in everything to do with social media I recommend coming to the dConstruct conference I help organise in Brighton this year. There theme is "Designing the Social Web" and we've got some amazing speakers like Daniel Burka from Digg, Matt Jones from… Continue

Posted by Andy Budd on July 2, 2008 at 2:33pm — 2 Comments

David Lee Venters My New Gaming Laptop Blog

Hi just put finishing touches to a new blog Ill be updating frequently Ill also be going for certain keywords in google so if anyones looking for a keyword exchange either on here or my main site drop me a line So check out my new gaming laptops blog Continue

Posted by David Lee Venters on March 18, 2008 at 7:46pm — No Comments

David Lee Venters Andy Beard goes viral

Last week Andy Beard did a post about his new competition which was by its very nature a viral beast, this brought in tons of comments , links and trackbacks. I also did a post on has Andy Beard lost his marbles. No he has not lost his marbles he has just unleased a viral monster now thats social marketing , which Initially can only be done if your site has thousands of readers Continue

Posted by David Lee Venters on March 14, 2008 at 2:59pm — No Comments

ernesto alegre Social networks by country

The "big picture" of the social networks: http://valleywag.com/tech/data-junkie/the-world-map-of-social-networks-273201.php Continue

Posted by ernesto alegre on March 9, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

ernesto alegre 16 Core Observations of Social Design {by bokardo}

Long time ago (august '07), I red this: http://bokardo.com/archives/16-core-observations-of-social-design/... Thanks Joshua Porter... Continue

Posted by ernesto alegre on March 9, 2008 at 2:13pm — No Comments

ernesto alegre A lot of "social related papers"...

Probably you know this fantastic girl and her work; it's brilliant and very useful to understand the online social processes. Her name is Danah Boyd and her site is http://www.danah.org/. Enjoy this stuff... Continue

Posted by ernesto alegre on March 9, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

julius Social Media News Release Template

Probably this may sound a bit old to you or you heard of it but never seen. I think you should have a look at it anyway Cheers Julius Continue

Posted by julius on March 4, 2008 at 10:50am — No Comments

julius Links & Seth Godin

- What you do not publish will define your site One of my all time favourites from Dosh Dosh. I think Maki synthesized perfectly what an awful lot of people think - Blogged.com. More than Just Another Blog Search Tool? Mashable introduces a new searching? tool - Microsoft to Track Engagem… Continue

Posted by julius on February 26, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

julius Links for today

- 4 Social Media Marketing Tips for Bloggers Problogger video with suggestions on how to be proficient in SM - Streem New microblogging platform. Mashup says it's a bit better than Tumblr Continue

Posted by julius on February 22, 2008 at 8:33am — No Comments

julius Links

A couple of links for your interest - Social Media Will Change Your Business A very interesting update of a popular BW article about blogs and social media - 12 Signs that You May Be a Social Media Addict Funny and true Continue

Posted by julius on February 21, 2008 at 1:13pm — No Comments

Guy Yeomans Social media links - Week ending 15/02/08

1 - Trust issues and the impact on social media

In the social media training courses I ran last year, I used the 'people-like-yourselves' statement from the Edelman Trust Barometer extensively: it was a quick, precise way to encapsulate some of the attitudinal & behavioural issues involved in engaging with audiences.…

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Posted by Guy Yeomans on February 15, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Guy Yeomans Social media links - Week ending 08/02/08

1 - Five reasons companies resist social media

Whether we agree with the specific reasons recently outlined by Shel Holtz, it should remind us that social media may still not be welcomed by all. One of our key strategic tasks is likely to remain understanding how to co…

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Posted by Guy Yeomans on February 8, 2008 at 3:21pm — No Comments

julius Digg, twitter and Stumble

Do you guys use any of these?

Is there already a SMC London Network on these media?

I am on Digg Twitter and Stumble

Feel free to add me to your network!

Julius
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Posted by julius on February 7, 2008 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Guy Yeomans Social media links - Week ending 01/02/08

1 - Social media - what process underlies the creation of influence?

Yahoo researcher - Duncan Watts - believes our understanding of the process by which influence is created and disseminated isn't fully accurate. His comments -…

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Posted by Guy Yeomans on February 2, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Guy Yeomans Social media links - Week ending 25/01/08

1 - Social networks: from the 80's to the 00's

This is a good article describing some of the history behind social networks whilst also offering some thoughts on future developments in the area. One key point: it should remind us to maintain some level of 'vendor neutrality' in our ongoing obse…

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Posted by Guy Yeomans on January 27, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Guy Yeomans Webcast - How do you avoid the meatball sundae?

For those of you familiar with Seth Godin - "one of the top marketing bloggers and authors in the U.S" - this is a reminder of a webcast scheduled for Wednesday 23rd January (at 2.00pm Eastern Standard Time) in which Seth will talk around his latest book "Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?".

For further information: see this… Continue

Posted by Guy Yeomans on January 22, 2008 at 5:15pm — 1 Comment

julius Harrison Owen on Open Space Technology

This is the interview I made to Harrison Owen on Open Space Technology from my blog Event Manager Blog It is a great honor for this blog to host Harrison Owen as a part of the featured interviews section.

Harrison has worked on virtually every continent with organizations ranging from small villages to large corporations and NGOs. His major concern has been to assist organizations as they negotiate a tra…

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Posted by julius on January 15, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Wetpaint business media network wiki outsourcing

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on November 14, 2007 at 11:16pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO the next *mashup* event is themed Social Networking


mashup* Event - 26th November - the next mashup* Event is themed Social Networking - we'll be announcing initial list of speakers & panel members next week - thanks to all of you who've been in touch with your suggestions. Keep them coming.

There are already over 100 people registered for this event - you can check who is coming at the website - so if you are planning on coming register soon as we've limited capacity.

The event is supported by Merrill Lynch and they'… Continue

Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 30, 2007 at 4:41pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO VMware goes business media networking

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 30, 2007 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Nathalie McDermott First steps towards Netsquared UK - interested in social media for social change?

Hello,

Have a look here http://www.netsquared.org/blog/britt-bravo/n2-uk-brainstorm-begins to find out / get involved with a potential Netsquared in the UK. There's a Facebook group too (Netsquared - Newman Arms), early stages but offers of help & ideas are welcome.

Netsquared's mission, for those of you who aren't familiar, is to, "spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit…

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Posted by Nathalie McDermott on October 30, 2007 at 11:42am — 2 Comments

OSDE.INFO Just in case we ever run out of presentations !

Just in case we ever run out of presentations !

http://www.slideshare.net/rooreynolds/using-virtual-worlds-to-reach-new-audiences-and-increase-participation-roo-reynolds

http://www.slideshare.net/coolstuff/what-should-yahoo-do-regarding-social-network… Continue

Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 26, 2007 at 5:08am — No Comments

Lloyd Davis Social Media Club London Meeting October 2007

That 3rd Thursday has whizzed around again.

This month we're talking about nurturing niche communities.

Last minute cock-up on the venue front, I'm afraid - which we're working on, but if you can host and haven't been asked yet this month, please do get in touch.

No corporate hosts to be found.

We'll now be at:
Leon
Spitalfields Market
3 Crispin Place
London, London E1 6DW

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Posted by Lloyd Davis on October 18, 2007 at 9:54am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO A new social networking site for museums

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/museum-net-casts-widgets.html
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 13, 2007 at 7:28am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Is anyone going to BlogWorld or the NewMediaExpo ?

next month
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/286677/

next year
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/227562/
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 11, 2007 at 9:26am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Enterprise 2.0 (Business Media Networking) on Scobleizer & VOX

Scobleizer

http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/02/steve-ballmer-still-doesnt-understand-social-networking/

VOX

http://reallysimplesocialmedia.vox.com/library/post/why-e20-hasnt-tipped---part-4-culture.html…
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 10, 2007 at 9:21am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Google buys Jaiku !

BTW I saw this on VOX ! before I got the email announcement directly from Jaiku !

http://reallysimplesocialmedia.vox.com/library/post/one-giant-step-for-microblogging.html

http://eolruin.vox.com/library/post/google-aquires-jaiku.html


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Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 10, 2007 at 8:57am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO tony-buzan-uses-youtube-to-advertise-imindmap

tony-buzan-uses-youtube-to-advertise-imindmap

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/tony-buzan-uses-youtube-to-advertise-imindmap.html


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Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 5, 2007 at 9:19am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Happy Birthday NING 2 years old today !

SMC London is now one of 100,000 social media networks running on NING !
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on October 4, 2007 at 6:14pm — No Comments

JonClarke Hot Topic: Marketing/advertising across social networks/blogs/widgetsphere

THE WEB STARZ 2.0 GROUP IS WHERE YOU'LL FIND THE 'HOT TOPIC' DISCUSSION "Marketing/advertising across social networks/blogs/widgetsphere" :-) CHECK OUT THE NEW BLOG POSTS BELOW....MediaStarz Offers - New - !!Free Wi-fi for 30 minutes in JD Wetherspoon Pubs… Continue

Posted by JonClarke on September 22, 2007 at 10:05am — No Comments

broadstuff blog Re Cult of Amateurs etc

Good discusssion last night...here is my take from my blog:

http://broadstuff.com/archives/431-Cult-of-Amateurs-vs-Wisdom-of-Crowds.....html

(is it done to post links here? - its a long post)
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Posted by broadstuff blog on September 21, 2007 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Richard Stacy Wisdom of the Crowds versus Stupidity of the Herd

As requested by Ronna, here is my take on last night's discussion.

I thought it was an interesting and enjoyable discussion - much assisted by Lloyd's facilitation skills. However, overall it confirmed my position as a "concerned optimist" in relation to this whole issue of who or what is going to mediate social media.

I see the rise of social media as a revolutionary shift - because it is transforming everything that we have come to understand about the concept of media, conte… Continue

Posted by Richard Stacy on September 21, 2007 at 12:07pm — 1 Comment

OSDE.INFO wikipedia-bans-editing

Very interesting follow on from this evenings discussion !

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/wikipedia-bans-editing-is-this-the-end-of-wikis.html

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on September 20, 2007 at 10:19pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Social Media Marketing Saturation : Rebtel - A Case Study

In case anyone missed my post in June here's the link again

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/rebtel-social-media-saturation.html

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on September 20, 2007 at 10:12pm — No Comments

Chris Hambly MediaCampBucks07 - October 20

ACHUB

MediaCamp BUCKS 07

October 20

~The Interface Between Academia and Industry~

focus: NEW MEDIA TOOLS

An un-conference digging on games, blogging, casting and new-media for anyone wishing to get involved

What is MediaCamp BUCKS 07? - It's an…

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Posted by Chris Hambly on September 17, 2007 at 4:27pm — No Comments

Ronna Porter A good idea worth spreading from TED

This is the first time TED has asked me to do something, so I'm pleased to do so, and pass it on wholesale.


Dear Friends of TED,

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Posted by Ronna Porter on September 16, 2007 at 6:53am — 1 Comment

OSDE.INFO the-independent-mobilises-the-next-wave-of-uk-vox-bloggers

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/the-independent-mobilises-the-next-wave-of-uk-vox-bloggers.html
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on September 14, 2007 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Ronna Porter Upcoming Social Media Clubs in London

Hello Everybody

Here are the details for the upcoming Social Media Clubs over the coming months – please note the dates in your diary, I hope that you can make it along!

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Posted by Ronna Porter on September 11, 2007 at 9:11am — No Comments

Katie Barber How should brand marketers respond to negative feedback from consumers on UGC sites?

While social networking, blogging and online video offer up exciting, customer engagement opportunities for marketers, it's important to be mindful of the freedom that consumers now have t…

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Posted by Katie Barber on September 7, 2007 at 11:23am — No Comments

Ronna Porter Dan Fielding - Domestic God

Something a little light hearted. I often dwell with sadness that most of my social media contacts are men. I'd definately like to see more vocal girls taking part! But based upon this reality, on learning the secret behind Dan Fielding - Domestic God, this seemed the right community to share this funny link with. Great if you can pass on to any approriate friends in need of a few basic cooking and laundry skills to improve their social prowes… Continue

Posted by Ronna Porter on September 4, 2007 at 10:14am — 1 Comment

OSDE.INFO Two new VOX Media Network groups/networks

Business Media Networks
http://business-media-networks.groups.vox.com/

Social Media Networks
http://social-media-networks.groups.vox.com/
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on September 2, 2007 at 10:47am — No Comments

Ronna Porter SMC on Blog Talk Radio Today

Check out the new Social Media Club Podcast - from today at 10amPST on Blog Talk Radio with Robert Scoble. See http://www.blogtalkradio.com/socialmediaclub
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Posted by Ronna Porter on August 31, 2007 at 9:03am — 2 Comments

OSDE.INFO vox-is-winning-the-social-media-network-race

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on August 26, 2007 at 2:27pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO NING web services

now i've re-discovered NING web services i might give them a second chance !

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/ning-web-services-api.html

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on August 25, 2007 at 8:48pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO prosumer

http://creative-commons.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00c2252c8528549d00e3989718a00003.html Continue

Posted by OSDE.INFO on August 22, 2007 at 9:21pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO flickr-guilt-trip

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on August 22, 2007 at 1:51pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO does-facebook-own-the-metro

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on August 22, 2007 at 1:50pm — No Comments

JonClarke Mapping the World's Ad Talent viral

Mapping the WORLD's ADVERTISING TALENT in one place! Add your pic, company & comment today. Social & Biz event calendar ad universe www.mediastarz.co.uk
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Posted by JonClarke on August 4, 2007 at 9:59am — 3 Comments

OSDE.INFO Have you ever been BANNED from any social media networks ?

First flickr banned me for posting TOO MANY screenshots, then NING banned me for creating TOO MANY networks and now Facebook has banned me for creating TOO MANY groups ! ONLY VOX haven't banned me for anything (YET) !

Surely social media networks should be about encouraging CREATIVITY not LIMITING it ?
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 28, 2007 at 6:13am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO FLOCK (beta) the "social media" browser

Flock is getting good so if you've not tried Flock yet maybe now is the time to give it a go !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8764442@N07/917189761/
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 27, 2007 at 9:40pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Suzi Quatro (photos & videos) on VOX

Suzi Quatro (photos & videos) @ Wimbledon Cannizaro Park Festival London on VOX http://suzi-quatro.groups.vox.com/
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 27, 2007 at 6:53am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO TOTAL Social Media Network consolidation !

Not only has FACEBOOK started copying of all VOX's features (BOOKs, CDs, DVDs) via third party plugins ! Now VOX has just added a "post to FACEBOOK" button !

So how long will it be before we see the NING "post to VOX" and "post to FACEBOOK" buttons ?


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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 24, 2007 at 9:36am — No Comments

Ronna Porter Social Media Club London - Thursday 19 July @ Lexis PR, 8 Bolsover Street, London W1W 6AB

Hi all, the registration is now open for Thursday’s Social Media Club, so if you can make it along please register here. We have an open agenda, so there will be plenty of opportunity to talk about the things you are most interested in. My ol…

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Posted by Ronna Porter on July 16, 2007 at 9:59pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Groups of Groups Grows and Grows

As my social networks get bigger and bigger I am getting more and more dependant on VOX Groups of Groups ! You can find Groups of Groups on VOX http://groups-of-groups.groups.vox.com/library/posts/ including a "Live Earth S.O.S. flickr Groups of Groups".
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 7, 2007 at 10:06pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO "What's next for social networking?"

Second Chance Tuesday | LONDON 17th July

"What's next for social networking?"

17 July 2007

at Jurys Great Russell Street, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NN

6:30pm to 10:00pm

GBP £20

http://theglasshouse.net/events/19
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 7, 2007 at 10:35am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO New OSDE.INFO persona branding

I've decided to create two separate avatars, icons, logos for all my people social networks and technology social networks:

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/creating-avatars-icons-logos-with-gimp.html

Do you this is sensible ? Now if only every network would let me use OSDE.INFO as my username then i could get rid of all my osde8info, osde-info, osde_info & osdeinfo aliases… Continue

Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 7, 2007 at 10:25am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO chinwag photos & videos on vox

http://chinwag.groups.vox.com/

event:upcoming=203826


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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 5, 2007 at 11:47pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Yahoo! flickr & upcoming Web 2.0 (3.0) social media mashup !

Yahoo! have actually built a web 2.0 (3.0) mashup into their Upcoming site !

I just clicked on the upcoming "My Scrapbook" link and got a mashup of my last months (upcoming) events together with all the associated flickr photos (presumably it uses flickr upcoming machine tags) !

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/yahoo-flickr-upcoming-web-20-30-social-media-mashup.html… Continue

Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 4, 2007 at 6:19pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO "What's next for social networking?"

Second Chance Tuesday | LONDON 17th July

"What's next for social networking?"

17 July 2007 at Jurys Great Russell Street, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NN

6:30pm to 10:00pm

GBP £20

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/169217/
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 4, 2007 at 7:10am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO The Cluetrain Manifesto !

Essential reading for any SMC London, business, media, social networker ?

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/the-cluetrain-manifesto.html



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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 3, 2007 at 2:42pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO NING have got it wrong (again) !

As I switch NING group/network/subdomain the NING cookie seems to be subdomain specific and I have to log in to each one separately ! and to add even more confusion I can see NING emails from ALL group/network/subdomain in a single list when I'm logged onto a different NING group !

I guess you wouldn't see any of these problems if you have only ever joined ONE NING group/network/subdomain i.e. the SMCLondon one !

VOX leads the way ! while NING t… Continue

Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 3, 2007 at 10:18am — No Comments

OSDE.INFO REBTEL social media saturation

REBTEL are certainly seem to be making the most (taking advantage?) of social media.

Can it be possible that ALL their employees are on flickr & YouTube spreading the REBTEL word ?

http://www.voippix.org/2007/06/30/rebtel-uses-local-voip-gateways-for-cheap-calls/

NOT only that they also all seem to be actively blogging on NING… Continue

Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 2, 2007 at 1:40pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Are you going to ChinWag on Thursday ?

If so see you there !
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 1, 2007 at 3:48pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO "i want to own, not be monetized"

In February this year, David Beisel pointed to some ways that social media would be businesses in stead of property.

It's obvious that VC money will stop flowing into social media, as more and more business models are essentially copying each other and social media spaces all start resembling each other.

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Posted by OSDE.INFO on July 1, 2007 at 3:46pm — No Comments

OSDE.INFO Are you a social media consumer or contributor?

This months PC Pro claims that hitwise estimates that 99.5 % of Flickr and YouTube visitors don't post items !

Since we're all on SMC London I guess we fall into the other 0.5% ?
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Posted by OSDE.INFO on June 30, 2007 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Richard Stacy Ning developers / designers

Does anyone know someone with the technical ability to do customised design work on the Ning platform - i.e. create a bespoke identity and add some features?

If so I am looking for someone for a freelance assignment.

Please drop me a line.

Richard
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Posted by Richard Stacy on June 28, 2007 at 1:42pm — 2 Comments

Guy West Video: a talk with Jyri Engeström of Jaiku