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Re: How to show you’re a loser on Twitter and in social media

Stoneford — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:39:47 -0000

Sorry Steven, this is one of the rare times I don't agree with you (and neither with Guy).
Not context is king, not context is king and not connectness. Conversations is king ;-)

Re: Social Web Strategy development

Stoneford — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:33:05 -0000

Terug naar de basis en de basisvraag. WAAROM hebben deze bedrijven dusdanige revenues verkregen?
Groundswell zegt hier vrij weinig over.
@menno, bedrijven geven geen openheid. Da's hetzelfde als dat de telefoniste oppakt en zegt: "Hoi, met bedrijf X". Mijn standaard antwoord is: "Mag ik de voordeur spreken?". De medewerkers geven dus openheid.
@Martin, ik mis de soort mensen die je nodig hebt heel erg.

Re: Dear Microsoft

Stoneford — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:37:29 -0000

Robert, can you please share us the details regarding a bloggers attack?
If this is about Michael and Dare, can you please tell us your opinion?
If this is about Michael and Dare, what consequences do you want to hear from Microsoft?
If this is about Michael and Dare, what's your opinion about the reaction from MA, the picture of the dog, the things about Dare's dad.
If this is about Michael and Dare, why are you insinuating it and why are you blogging about it? What has this to do with you personally?

Re: Arrington Heats Up Twitter

Stoneford — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:37:16 -0000

Abstract of my comment on TC:
http://commons.wikimedia.or.... MA is in the 2 lowest of the hierarchy. Then check Maslows hierarchy of needs and you know what kind of person we're dealing with right now.
Mossyblog is a little further in the process of life :-) At least he understands how to react. To reach this stage needs a little self-reflection and some lessons learned in life.
The main questions remains, what's his purpose? What's MA up to?

Re: “Sky isn’t falling” blogger says

Stoneford — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:36:15 -0000

Robert, It's your authority that counts. It's about mass psychology and mass reaction. People are scared, you are scared. People react irrational when they are scared. Their reaction is normally not the best one. Trying te be calm is hard. FUD are not good advisors when it comes to rational reactions. Rational reactions we urgently need right now. Nobody knows the truth, nobody knows what has yet to come. With all those social media stuff we have so many opinions, but wisdom is nowhere to find right now. We will see afterwards who was right and wrong. People need to separate facts from fictions, illusions from dreams and truth from lies. And I agree with Steven when he tells there are people lighten up the negative fire by talking (too often) negative. Remember, this is mass psychology. Neither a CEO nor a psychologist nor a economist can predict the future and if he can? Who will listen? It's the authority who can influence people. It's the people who listen to authorities.
You're telling Jeremy is wrong and you're right(several people said to buy into the market). If so, and you trust those people, are you trading already? I assume you heavily invested and cashed already?
And if you think you are the messenger? I hope you're willing to send out a message based on the facts, not only opinions and predictions from someone you talked with in the FriendFeed rooms. I hope you're willing to consult a stock market psychologist before you write the message.
I can see a hurricane coming on the radar, but I can't see a stock market hurricane coming on the radar. I only can assume there might be one coming. So, if you can spot this one, can I borough or rent your radar or can you post some screenshots? The question is, which facts to we need to believe there's a hurricane, which facts do we need to tell which category? Oh and it's quite easy to talk afterwards about who was wrong and who was right but is there a benefit If you know this afterwards? I don't think so.

BTW, I heard some Italian dude (Giulio Tremonti) told during a meeting of the IMF hedge funds should be banned. Now that's great news with maybe tough times infront of us? (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/...

Re: Social marketing is geen oude wijn in nieuwe zakken

Stoneford — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:33:57 -0000

Stja, je hebt helemaal gelijk, zie het ook steeds vaker langskomen. Net als viral marketing, en dat bestaat helemaal niet. Viral wordt bepaald door de users, niet door een marketingbedrijf, als iets viral gaat dan heb je dat aan de users te danken, niet aan het bedrijf. als iets viral gaat dan is dat een resultaat, marketing is een inspanning, activiteit (kort door de bocht gezegd) Toch wordt viral marketing, en dan ook social marketing steeds vaker gebruikt, maakt het een beetje lastig. Misschien is de term charity marketing of cause marketing wel beter :-)

Re: Social marketing is geen oude wijn in nieuwe zakken

Stoneford — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:16:46 -0000

Martin, ik begrijp en onderstreep wat je bedoelt :-)
De term Social Marketing die een paar keer terug komt echter, is wellicht niet heel handig gekozen daar aan Social Marketing een andere definitie is toegekend. (Social marketing uses commercial marketing theories, tools and techniques to social issues.)

Re: TechCrunch’s startups’ web sites suck too

Stoneford — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:09:38 -0000

I decided to wrap up a summary of all the DEMO companies. List is at http://socialsofties.net/de... (intro is in Dutch, rest is English).
Robert has a point, damn it's hard to figure out what the companies are doing, what they're launching. If I don't get in 30 seconds I'm gone.
If the text mentioned is very short then please note that there's nothing to find on the site

Re: Cuil: Why I’m trying to get off of the PR bandwagon…

Stoneford — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:11:24 -0000

Finally going down the Long Tail. Great! I like that. I had a little "old school" e-mail conversation with a search-engine "start-up". This small company is working for nine years now on a search engine which brings relevance, not only results. This man doesn't want to talk to the PR people instead he wants to focus on what he wants to deliver to us. He doesn't want to be hyped. He's taking the grassroots approach when things are ready. When people like it they wil talk about it. He's expecting somewhere at the end of the summer to go in private beta and he really appreciate it when people get him personal feedback. And be honest, what kind of innovations have we seen the last couple of years with search engines? Pages full of not relevant results. Do we really care about companies who claim to be more scalable, to have a bigger index? I don't because I want relevant results.
I stick to the people who are really passionate about something they are working on.
Remains me one question. how do you go the Long Tail? How do you find the interesting stuff which gets never to Digg or Techmeme? There's a lot of interesting information on the internet, but how are you (we) able to notice this?

Re: Rollen, taken en skills binnen online community management

Stoneford — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:42:29 -0000

Hoi Martin, de link naar het Forrester report werkt niet (meer).
Ik krijg overigens steeds meer het idee dat een community manager tussen HRM en marketing loopt te pendelen. Deze mensen zijn enerszijds bezig met marketing, maar het gaat m.i. meer om human interaction. Daarnaast lijkt me ook dat marketing en HRM een faciliterende rol zouden moeten spelen richting de community manager.
Waar ik ook wel benieuwd naar ben is budgetten, hoeveel wordt er uitgegeven aan community management? Nick geeft al aan dat er niet alleen een community manager nodig is, maar ook human resources, hoeveel fte is hiermee gemoeid? (hangt natuurlijk af van de grootte van de organisatie, dat begrijp ik)

Re: Wat is de killer feature van een Enterprise social site?

Stoneford — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:16:30 -0000

Interessante materie.Ik denk dat het belangrijk is, gelijktijdig met dat je een theorie bedenkt, je wat stakeholders om je heen hebt, een begin van de userbase. Hier begint voor mij al het social net aspect. Het semantic web gaat een deel oplossen, maar gaat geen killer feature brengen. Wat ik me kan voorstellen is dat de scheidslijn tussen enterprise en daarbuiten gaat vervagen. De data die je gebruikt buiten de enterprise zal ook beschikbaar worden binnen de enterprise. Silovorming zal minder worden, account portability beter, identity management nog belangrijker. Dit zijn wat mij betreft wel "killer features" die absoluut noodzakelijk worden. Social CRM, waarbij bijv. LinkedIn wordt geknoopt aan een enterprise CRM applicatie en is een mooi voorbeeld waarover veel discussie kan worden gevoerd. Aggregatie en integratie, je personal dashboard voor het managen van al je social media accounts lijkt me erg handig. Niet meer overal hoeven inloggen lijkt me ook handig. Het semantic web principe kan wat mij betreft bijdragen in de information overload en het aanbieden van de info die voor ons als belangrijk wordt ervaren. Een killer feature is het niet, bespaart wel veel tijd :-). Overigens heb ik interessante implementaties gezien voor enterprise intranet sites waarbij het six degrees of separation niet meer wordt toegepast op personen, maar op de kennis die personen bezitten. Lijkt me voor ons als klant van een ziekenhuis een fantastische toepassing waarbij een specialist wordt geholpen in het vinden van kennis binnen (of zelfs buiten) het ziekenhuis. Een specialist kan dmv semantic web toepassingen worden geholpen in het stellen van betere en meer accurate diagnoses. Een killer feature zal overigens nooit leiden tot het daadwerkelijk gebruik van deze feature.

Re: Reading feeds

Stoneford — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:24:01 -0000

Just ignore the valleywanker. I have 578 feeds and read almost 40.000 items the last 30 days. My respect to you for keeping us up to date with so many feeds and articles to read. For me it's hard to track the news with so many feeds. I think I can't handle many more.
A couple of days ago I read an article over at Ryan Clark Holiday's blog where you responded also. (Sorry time flies, I thought you cleaned up your feeds not too long ago, It looked for me like yesterday.) FYI, I noticed your OPML file and I found a couple of more interesting feeds :-) Ryan Clark says he can't find 600 good websites/blogs on the internet, so I don't agree with him

Re: Any questions for Surface Computing team?

Stoneford — Wed, 30 May 2007 03:42:50 -0000

What kind of (new) OS is in it
When can we expect a first price drop
What kind of hardware is used
Are there some known problems, or things that can't be done with the surface computer?
How is it related to Jeff Han's device?

Re: Do A-list bloggers have a responsibility to link to others?

Stoneford — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:27:59 -0000

First of all, every post from you is worth a reading in my opinion. I just started blogging, mainly because the company I work for had an internal blog which died just after it started. Nobody paid attention to it, and there was no management support. I started blogging mainly for my colleagues and friends. But also because of an independed voice towards my company, a place where I can speak out free. I want to focus my blog on everything related to Microsoft, the main part is development, collaboration and unified messaging/collaboration and collaboration. Everything web/enterprise 2.0 has also my interest.
Besides that I want to blog about everything that has my personal interest. Blogging has changed the way I live, and acquire knowledge. And yes, I link back to the source
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