DieBurger covers Facebook, a little
Uno as Afrikaans, Online, Web2.0
Jun|29|2007
I would have liked to embed this video on my site, but unfortunately Die Burger doesn’t allow that at the moment.
Vuisvoos ge-Facebook?
Terwyl sosiale netwerk-webtuistes soos Facebook besig is om lang kantoordae kort te maak, het Le Roux Schoeman van die beweegredes agter aanlyn-profi… VOLLEDIGE STORIE»
Dave and myself were briefly interviewed for an insert on Facebook and general trends for social networks. The video is unfortunately a little part in a lot what was said, so it doesn’t convey the entire message, but it’s still good exposure
You can view the video here
Technorati Tags: die burger, koerant, afrikaans, web2.0, facebook, social networks
IOL & Afrikaans: Misses the point once again.
Uno as Afrikaans, Online, Web2.0
Jun|27|2007
I’ve written how big newspapers miss the point before, and now they’ve gone and done it again.
IOL has an article on Afrikaans on the Internet, or rather in the blogosphere, but totally ridiculously misses the point.
I’ve also written some pieces on Afrikaans in the blogosphere before, thanks to an interview from Gerhard Mulder.
This piece on IOL is defamatory and doesn’t do the Afrikaans blogosphere any justice. Afrikaans on the internet is not simply Watkykjy.co.za, or Roekeloos.co.za, or Steve se Spoegblok nie, it’s also a home for people like Johan Swarts, Idiwidi? Have you read Da Mario? or maybe Kobus Ehlers? Anything from Appel and his Pols team? or what about even browsing through some of the Wordpress tags?
And again, recapping the post, most of the article is a rant against 2 or 3 personalities. Honestly, the afrikaans internet doesn’t just exist out of those few people. LitNet qualifies as a proper little blogosphere on it’s own (without the tech behind it), yet you don’t see people calling each other names there (at least, not crass names, they try to sound much more pompous.)
Either way, please don’t spread this kind of misnomer information around. It doesn’t do the blogosphere or Afrikaans justice, and at the end of the day it only shows your ignorance and poor research skills
Technorati Tags: iol, debbie smit, blogging, afrikaans, web2.0
eTV covers Facebook, the blogosphere doesn’t
Uno as Facebook Friday's, Online, Web2.0
Jun|26|2007
Apparently eTV did a story on Facebook the other day. I’ve been trying to get my eyeballs to take a look, but I don’t watch TV so I missed it, and I can’t find it on the blogosphere!
Nothing in a Google.
Nothing on Amatomu.
Nothing on Technorati.
Nothing on Zoopy.
Nothing on Myvideo.
All I could find was a small mention of it on Sarah Manners‘ blog.
What’s happening people?
Technorati Tags: facebook, etv
This blog: Now supporting CoComments
Uno as Online
Jun|25|2007
I’ve just added the CoComments plugin to the site. You can now track the converstaion through that, or by subscribing to the comments via E-Mail. Another nifty way to keep updated with the conversation.
Naturally, there is always the comments feed to keep you updated.
Find out a bit more at Mashable
Co.mments offers a very simple way to selectively track conversations
on blogs. Register and drag a bookmarklet to your toolbar; open up a
page with a conversation you want to track, and simply click on the
bookmarklet. The conversation will be recorded for you on the co.mments
page. You can subscribe to your conversation via an RSS feed, and if
you want to track them on the co.mments site, you might want to learn a
couple of keyboard shortcuts
which will make your life much easier. Co.mments also offers a code
snippet which you can put on your blog: it makes it easy to your
visitors to track the conversations there.
The right way to distribute your information
Jun|19|2007
Rohit Bhargava has a great article: 500 things you can learn from a Supermodel.
So what can you learn from 500 things you can learn?
Don’t silo your information. If there is a single most important thing when it comes to the web today it’s that you want your content to be remixed, reused and spread as far as possible. And you want to keep your content open an use the best distribution channels as possible. Get them eyeballs.
Firstly, kudos to Ford Models for taking the step into the video jungle, but the lesson is this:
Particularly interesting is the smart strategy the site has of also
distributing their videos through just about every large video sharing
site online.
The Sunday Times did it recently as well, opting to spread their content on YouTube rather than silo-ing their information (Link to YouTube profile here).
When thinking of an online strategy, remember that you should use the platforms available. Don’t build the next Facebook, use Facebook as a means of distribution.
Technorati Tags: content, silo, marketing, channel, web2.0, youtube, sunday times
Local video-sharing sites days are numbered
Jun|19|2007
As predicted, YouTube launched a country specific site. It’s now only a matter of time before TWAC, Zoopy and Myvideo become even smaller fish in a small pond. Unless they manage to partner with some of the big media houses it will become difficult to sustain and compete with a behemoth like YouTube.
Sometimes I wonder if it won’t be a better move to open a channel on Youtube?
Article via Mashable
Technorati Tags: video, web2.0, zoopy, twac, myvideo
8 Steps to getting to grips with Web2.0, applied to the Enterprise
Jun|19|2007
New things always take time to learn, and getting your head around new concepts is very very difficult, especially if you find yourself overwhelmed with new technology.
Over at Learning 2.0 there is a great 23 step guide into getting to know the basics behind Web2.0.
The simplified steps are the following:
- Introduction (getting to know the basics and outlining the learning plan).
- Blogging (Starting your own one)
- Photos and Images (sharing your images online)
- RSS and Newsreaders
- Tagging and Folksonomies
- Wiki’s
- Online Applications & Tools (Productivity tools, etc)
- Podcasts, Video etc.
It’s a 9 week course that flows pretty well, there is even a “play week” in that I omitted now. I find the structure and flow of the site not too applicable to enterprise environments though, not only in topics, but also more importantly in hierarchy (I know it’s a taboo word in Web2.0!).
There is a similar list up at FindArticles By Stephen Abram. It’s also very good and concise, totalling 38 entries from playing an online multiplayer game (Like WoW), to mapping, to bookmarking to alternative search engines to social networks.
Let me try highlight some of the more important elements that you should look at when (yes, when, not if) you start with an Enterprise2.0 deployment.
- Social Bookmarking and Digg-like systems
- Tagging
- RSS/News Aggregators
- Wiki’s
- Blogging
- Social Networking
This isn’t nearly an extensive list and I each of them has their own little sublist underneath each of them (are you going to use it internally, externally or client focused? Support or development? etc). You’ll notice I put Social Bookmarking right up there, along with Tagging. The reason this is such an important element for me is because it shows collective thought process happening in the company at the moment, something that predictive markets can really take off from and use. Similarly, your RSS/News Aggregator content will determine what is being shared. Right at the end, tying all of these together is the Social Networking aspect behind everything, enabling you to connect with people who share similar interests - which is what Everything2.0 is really about.
Technorati Tags: enterprise2.0, web2.0 social bookmarking, guide, help, introduction, tips
If you update your status and no one sees it, did it happen?
Uno as Facebook Friday's, Ideas, Web2.0
Jun|15|2007
Har har har, one of the funniest takes on an age old philosophical problem.
“If a status message falls in a feed, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?”
Click here for the Facebook Book Blog.
Technorati Tags: facebook
Social Media: Wiping out bullshit PR
Jun|15|2007
Over at Marketing Profs Daily Fix BL Ochman has a great post up on the YouTube Elections (How the presidential race in America will, to a large extent, be determined on Youtube). You can read it by clicking here.
Following up on the Travel 2.0 presentation, a large part of the message that I wanted to convey was that “You don’t own your brand, your customers do”. Some blog (I’ve forgotten! I think it was local.. please tell me!) referred me to this great presentation on branding in a Web2.0 world.
The thoughts and meme’s that I’ve been picking up from all of these (and what can be seen as one of the underlying principles behind Web2.0) is that “we control”, not “I control”.
User generated content is the golden thread keeping this together. User generated content tells traditional PR that the message is wrong. Opinions on Press Releases are quickly spread through the net where it is dissected and analysed. If you try and put some spin on your message someone will see through your bullshit and nail you. And when you get nailed, you get nailed hard. If your message isn’t genuine then you are going to be exposed. If your competition doesn’t give any prizes, you’re in for some serious damage control.
Taking a page from the YouTube presidential race, this is what happened. People started feeling that the Hillary message was pre-packaged and they brought out the “Big Sister” video. (See it here). You should be as genuine, true, honest and open as you could be. Put your cards down on the table and claim your vested interests. People are much more accepting to you if you have an open strategy than if they don’t know anything.
The final words from BL Ochman:
Successful use of video will need to have a sense of humor, of the
community that’s watching it and creating their own, and of the sea
change that online activism and putting the tools of content creation
in everyone’s hands creates. Negative, nasty, mean, deceptive (insert
your own adjective for mainstream political marketing and advertising)
will backfire on the Internet.
Technorati Tags: social media, user generated content, public relations, PR, online reputation management, web2.0
Another stats package for your blog
Uno as Online
Jun|15|2007
Clicky is a stats package that is targeted at the niche, smaller blog community.
Clicky gives you unprecedented detail on every visitor to your web site. Tag IP addresses by name, or use our custom data tracking to automatically tag your visitors by their account user name or the name they entered in your blog comments form.
They have a comparison chart on their homepage, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to have a test on my site yet (only just installed it now). The stats look pretty.
But that’s not really what I want to say…
They’ve just released a Wordpress Plugin (obviously to get a larger userbase), but the plugin is… useless. All that it does is install the tracking code, which you can do anyway with 3 clicks (Presentation->theme editor-> paste). Then, it installs the “page” in the Options tab. What? Something as important as stats are tucked away under another 2 clicks? OK, so finally you are there (you could probably hack your dashboard to take you there directly).
So now where are the stats? Nowhere. You need to click through to the Clicky site to actually view them. What’s the point of this plugin again?
At the moment the WP stats, Slim Stats or even the Tan Tan Noodles Reports plugin (which grab Google Analytics) work perfectly well for me. I’m one click away from viewing all my reports in a single dashboard.
If Clickey would be able to give me that kind of functionality then it might be worth taking a further look at. Hopefully they will, I really like the feature set they were talking about so I’d like to use it. At the moment I’ll leave the tracking code in (does it make your site slower?) and maybe check up again in a few months, but for now I’m sticking with my Automattic Stats.
Technorati Tags: stats, clicky.wordpress, automattic
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