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Jeff Bennett: How Businesses Can Benefit From Social Networking

Jeff Bennett: How Businesses Can Benefit From Social Networking

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We hear a lot of prognostication from the consultants about how business can benefit from social networking, but not as much when it comes to actual businesses that are using it.  Jeff Bennett, COO of Namemedia, Inc. blogs on this topic and gives real examples of how we’re (Disclosure: I’m a Senior Software Engineer at NameMedia) using social networking within out company. Businesses need to foster enhanced methods for employees to communicate. Lotus Notes was the standard for early collaboration,…

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Social Media and Politics – All Lips, No Ears

Social Media and Politics – All Lips, No Ears

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As the election cycle proceeds, I’ve noticed that the level of monologue in supposed discussions has increased to a fever pitch.  Take Twitter for example; it seems the chatter is now 20% political.  The problem is, I never signed up to listen to what everyone’s political viewpoint is. I know, I can simply unfollow everyone that’s into political discourse for the moment, but the truth is I like some of the other stuff they have to say.  Too bad I…

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Geek.com Relaunched

Geek.com Relaunched

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For the past couple months I’ve been devoting a lot of my time to the re-release of http://www.geek.com – the online technology resource and community for technology enthusiasts and professionals.  We’ve added a lot of social networking tools, and also done a general wordpress/bbpress upgrade which will allow us to easily take the latest releases in the future.   This is important on a couple of levels, first off, this is a site that has over 10 million unique users a month. That…

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Reel-Time.com Acquired By NameMedia

Reel-Time.com Acquired By NameMedia

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In what has become an utterly bizarre turn of the tables, NameMedia Inc. has bought Reel-time.com – the site I have been working with since 1995 or 1996 as managing editor, head geek and general do-what-needs-to-be-done guy, is now owned by my current employer. It’s a great thing for Thorne Sparkman, who is now able to repay the investors in the site. David Churbuck (he blogs on this story here)  and I had been almost completely disengaged and had no…

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The Implied Responsibility of Communications Providers

The Implied Responsibility of Communications Providers

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Okay, I promise to go Twitter free next week, but for now, an interesting observation… Yesterday, Twitter went down for about 3 hours. The general experience provoked a few thoughts. Firstly, I thought of the Twitter addicted, jonesing at their keyboards, hitting refresh endlessly in a forlorn hope the service will return. But then I thought more on the idea of what happens when your communication means becomes a part of peoples lives.  I’ve been here before, since the Reel-Time.com…

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The Web 2.0 Paradox

The Web 2.0 Paradox

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As readers know, I’ve been testing Twitter.  It’s fun, but for me the jury is still out. One of the things I’m noticing is the preponderance of New Media Gurus inhabiting Twitter.  And inevitably, many feel the need to constantly evangelize on the issues of Web 2.0.  News flash: if you have to talk in broad terms about Web 2.0, Social Networking or Social Media, you’ve probably already missed the boat.  This is not some abstract concept that is coming…

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Niche Social Networking is Networking that Works

Niche Social Networking is Networking that Works

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I’ve been saying for over a year that there is a limit to the places I want to network with people, and I’m going to go one step further right now: there are a whole lot of people out there I am not interested in networking with. There, I said it. It’s not that I hate people, it’s just that for the most part I have little interest in the generic style networking that’s offered by Facebook, and in my…

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Value for the Few

Value for the Few

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Mukund Mohan had a great post hitting on the comment by Jason Calacanis: “An absolute idiot with 10-20M users can make a ton of money. So, get to tens of millions of users and forget about money.” Mukund points out that while Linked In has the 10 million users Jason mentions, but it provides very little value to most of the members. I’d even go one further in saying that many of us see it as a total drag. I…

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Launches this week…

Launches this week…

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I’ve had a couple sites go live this week – first, some niche websites with NameMedia, Hotcars.com and Dreamwheels.com as well as Cats.com (I didn’t work as much on that one, it was in the hands of the talented Matt Busby and David Rodal).  These come on the tails of the launches on March 1 of Biking.com, Cycling.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Mommy.com.  I was lucky enough to work with Eugene Bernstein, Tom Willmot, Joe Hoyle, Peter Kuhn and Neema Dhakal…

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