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Philosophy

The Social Part of Social Media

August 24, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

I have become quite the geek in the last few year. Blogging was the gateway drug and working in the me2revolution has escalated the rate that I try new things. Blogging, Twitter, del.icio.us, Flickr, Facebook, Dopplr... I've joined a lot of them.

For me what makes a site really work is when it leads to offline social interaction or when it is a part of an offline relationship. Now don't get me wrong, I think that real relationships can be entirely virtual, but for me the value is when it involves an in-person relationship.

Twitter has been the best of any in helping me meet people, but Flickr has given me new eyes to view my city. del.icio.us was best when I was constantly trading links with a friend and blogging has helped me create a global community for myself.

What is it for you that makes a social media site really work? Because it builds community? Because it solves a technology problem? Why?

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Tools

An ode to Twitter

August 10, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

I think I've said it before, but I really wanted to hate Twitter. The micro-blogging platform that took off during SXSW in March. It seemed so insipid, so self-indulgent, so silly... but I got an account anyway.

Since I started using it in March, I have fallen in love with it. I have described it to non-Twitterers as a virtual water cooler. It has enabled personal relationships with colleagues in Germany and Spain. Perhaps more important are the people I've met because of Twitter.

I now have a circle of local techie geeks that I am pleased to call my friends. Someone will Twitter the location of a tech get-together and a day later we are all there. Someone will Twitter a request for lunch company and I can join up.

I have met more people in 6 months on Twitter than in nearly four years of blogging. I love the immediacy and the intimacy that it creates. What about you, did you get on the Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce bandwagon? What do you think of it?

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Tools

Virtual Attendance

August 1, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

Last week I attended BlogHer 2007. For full disclosure, Edelman was a sponsor as were a number of Edelman clients. Lucky for me, it was right in my city and all I had to do was hop on a bus to get there. BlogHer welcomed bloggers from around the world to Navy Pier, but plenty of folks joined online.

Here are a few ways to follow a conference online if you can't attend in person.

1. Do a search for the conference name or tag using Google Blogsearch or Technorati and then subscribe to the RSS feed using an RSS aggregator.

2. Is the conference doing a webcast or offering live blogging coverage? The links can be found on the conference website and offer a great way to interact in real time.

3. Head to Flickr and follow the conference through photos. Everyone seems to have a camera phone and photos start going up as soon as the first plane lands in the conference city.

4. If it is a conference full of folks on Twitter, you can use Twittermap to follow the short bursts of information.

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What's Talkshop

TalkShop is a blog about word-of-mouth and the Me2 Revolution, published by Edelman and hosted by Phil Gomes, the company's Senior Counsel, Online Communications. This blog pulls in thoughts and opinions from members of the worldwide Edelman network.