Posted on June 26, 2005 6:01 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Social Networking
If you’re looking for examples of how social tagging can provide real value, take a look at the Gnomedex2005 tag at Technorati. Attendees of Chris Pirillo’s recently-concluded tech conference agreed to tag their blog posts about the session making it easy for anyone to keep track of all the various posts just by searching the tag at Technorati. While this group tagging…
Posted on April 5, 2005 9:52 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business | Social Networking
“Self-governing social networks combine with interactive weblog publishing to create something people just call Blogworking.” So writes Jesse Taylor in a piece at AlwaysOn. Taylor sites adholes, a collection of blogs from people working in advertising. (The site’s slogan: “Ad industry schmoozing without expensive restaurant tabs.”)
Taylor notes that these smaller networking sites are starting to generate ad revenue.
Why would these smaller, private Blogworking sites…
Posted on January 28, 2005 9:08 am by Shel Holtz | RSS | Social Networking
One of the key benefits of RSS is the ability to get all the content in which you might be interested delivered to a single aggregator. Rather than visit 200 Web sites every day, you visit your single aggregator which has collected items from those 200 sites. I use FeedDemon, and I’m happy with it. But I still spend a lot of…
Posted on January 21, 2005 9:08 am by Shel Holtz | Social Networking
CSO Insights partner Jim Dickie was skeptical when he tapped into the LinkedIn social network in search of some work-related results. Dickie, who writes about the experience at destinationCRM.com, started off with a genuine work need. Research his company conducted led him to wonder why some customer relationship management (CRM) tools were producing better results than others.
Social networking software was…
Posted on January 17, 2005 8:27 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Social Networking
This was the weekend.
Thousands of PeopleSoft employees—along with some Oracle employees—were due to get pink slips at home over the weekend, the natural consequence of a takeover. I’m waiting to hear if any of the folks I know at PeopleSoft have been affected. Some of them have been LinkedIn members for a while, an affiliation that may pay dividends as they use the…
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