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Re: Australian News Corp chief attacks Google, bloggers

LaurelPapworth — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:27:57 -0000

Awesome post. I bow before greatness. :)
Hartigan is an example of heritage media forgetting that their role is a community information role. Finding filtering and forwarding what is interesting to the community. Not dissing the community. Does he think his readers are from Venus and bloggers from Mars? Oh wait, there's a book title in there somewhere :P

Re: Net filtering and virtual worlds: reactions

LaurelPapworth — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:48:17 -0000

yeah I guess that second life will only be blocked for a year or two until it get's sorted - cos there's no way that Linden Labs could claim their service is for adults only and self classify without it going thru a bureaucratic process first. :P
God forbid that adults would have to read the blurb and decide for themselves if the game/world/service is suitable. We really need a government body that doesn't play games to do that for us. hahaha

Re: Net filtering and virtual worlds: reactions

nursers — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:29:46 -0000

It's all good news isn't it ;)

Having R18+ and X 18+ games ratings in Australia would be a small step in the right direction, assuming the legislation eventually recognises that games / virtual worlds meeting those criteria are ok to escape filtering. My fear is that may be a couple of hurdles too many for our current elected representatives.

Re: Net filtering and virtual worlds: reactions

LaurelPapworth — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:25:06 -0000

Oh I doubt they would ban second life would they? I mean, then they might go on to ban YouTube in our schools - YouTube that has every lecture given this year by Stanford, MIT, Harvard and other universities on a special channel. And this sort of Government might send a laptop home with every school child with a note to be signed by parents that children won't access ANY social spaces online. Because you, know, refusing knowledge on sex education worked so well in the 70s that repeating that strategy regarding social virtual worlds will work too! Such a myopic government wouldn't limit blocks to the school children but would also ban these sites in their offices, as public servants are trusted even less than the kids in class. This sort of government would be totally happy with blocking social spaces for all Australians.

Oh wait, our Government has done all these things! #sarcasm :P

Still, it's not actually happening yet. The discussion is between classification (every game must be classified) and filtering (blocking at ISP or domain level). These games/social spaces will be blocked until classified. Then MA15+ will be filtered at ISP level (you have to ask ISP to give you access). C and G games will be accessible to all.

Issues: getting Second Life to apply and pay for 3 classification licences (Teen, normal and Zaendra). This will unblock the servers at a domain level. Then asking ISPs to turn off the filter for your home, work and other services. Fun fun fun.

Good news: in the past, the department has said it will only classify closed boxed games as open unending games are "inherently unclassifiable".

Re: Confirmed: Second Life, online adult games to banned outright in Australia

LaurelPapworth — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:30:53 -0000

Unlikely. OFLC have said that multiplayer games are "open and inherently unclassifiable" unlike closed boxed games. But makes for some nice linkbait :P

Re: 90-9-1 Rule Skews the New Web

jkuramot — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:56:41 -0000

Sure. The Forrest study that Charlene and Josh did break the types of users down into much more granular categories, which is good. I'm not sure of the sample sizes, but my guess is, when applied to the 'tubes, the numbers are probably still closer to 90-10 for blogs and Twitter.

As you say, blogs are hard, and frankly, so is Twitter. The value of community is tough to quantify.

Agreed that participation takes time, and you allude to the main reason why when you mention Facebook. It's trust.

I don't actually find blogs lonely. It just takes time to build a community.

Re: 90-9-1 Rule Skews the New Web

LaurelPapworth — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:28:05 -0000

Hmmm. Dr Jakob Nielsen's work is from Oct 2006 and based on studies even earlier than that. Wouldn't it be more useful to compare the two Forrester studies 13% are Creators in 2007 up to 26% Creators in 2009? We are learning to contribute. We will learn Twitter. We find blogs lonely (media created in isolation) and hard to build an audience and time consuming but we learnt Facebook very well. Twitter offers nothing to a first time user (not much of a profile to fill in, no apps to play with). But they eventually come back...

Re: comScore Announces Media Metrix 360

LaurelPapworth — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:47:08 -0000

If currency is that which we value - store of value or measure of value - then Comscore may be laying infrastructure for assessing what we value online. Pretty important for the coming social economy no? Laurel @SilkCharm

Re: Google Wave: A Complete Guide

LaurelPapworth — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:48:30 -0000

Excellent write up and the pictures help a lot too :P

Re: What was Channel Nine’s role in the Chk-Chk-Boom scam?

LaurelPapworth — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:28:49 -0000

wow, I hadn't thought of that - a set-up by traditional media who hate social media?
Actually they are just pissed - no longer can stupid PR ploys be played on the public. The public finds out then tells EVERYONE. Completely the opposite "Are we going to end up with some sort of story about how social media can’t be trusted perhaps? " we ALWAYS find out, then dob the culprits in. Nowhere to hide on the 'net :)
Man I hate friggin' agencies that think "engagement" means "dumb tricks". Leave social media to the community, not PR companies. Grrr.

Re: Twitter silliness hits the conference circuit

LaurelPapworth — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:07:14 -0000

Not sure they are fanboi conferences. at any time in the world, there are many conferences on newspapers. Or on TV and Film. Why not a fastgrowing channel like Twitter? Particularly one that has the ability to have both creators and readers, unlike heritage media?

Re: TBuzz Puts Twitter on Every Web Page [Video]

Laurel Papworth — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:09:47 -0000

I've been using Tweetburner for maybe a year - same concept.

Re: Technorati, the little service that couldn’t

LaurelPapworth — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:41:28 -0000

poop-up is my new social media term of the week. we should make it go viral, engage customers with it, monitor it's ripple with influencers in the twittosphere. Or something. :P

Re: http://www.socialcomputingjournal.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=826

LaurelPapworth — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:04:09 -0000

Thankyou, glad you enjoyed it. My blog will soon have my courseware for workshop providers who need to implement SM policies and guidelines. The material is CC and can be downloaded and copied for commercial purposes. laurelpapworth.com @SilkCharm :)

Re: Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy?

LaurelPapworth — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:42:49 -0000

A couple of days ago I collected together 40 Social Media Guidelines (blogging policies) from around the world. Corporate, Government, Military, Not for Profits, etc. Interesting to see the differences between them.
Here http://laurelpapworth.com/enterprise-list-of-40... if you are interested.

Re: New site launched: 90-9-1.com

LaurelPapworth — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:16:28 -0000

The 90:9:1 Rule was true when Dr Jakob Nielsen came up with it. Mostly because only a few years before we were the 100% passive community. We have slowly learnt that it's ok to contribute publicly, to strangers our responses and our creativity.

Most communities these days are much higher - TripAdvisor has a 30% creator community. Twitter has a much lower number of lurkers than respondents.

I'm sorry but this is an outdated model that damages social network strategies and gives companies excuses for enabling comment only and not collaboration. And they excuse poor numbers of comments and participation with "oh never mind, only 1% were ever going to create content around our ideas anyway, and only 9% would've ever left a comment". Let's not propagate this archaic principle, hmmm?

Re: How Many Australian Twitter Users Are There? And What Clients Do They Use?

LaurelPapworth — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:21:12 -0000

Techcrunch - 19 million WEB users from Comscore I think
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/24/twitter-ea...

Re: How Many Australian Twitter Users Are There? And What Clients Do They Use?

lucasng — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:16:40 -0000

Hmm, interesting Laurel.

If we were to use that 3% figure in combination with Nielsen's 679K users, that extrapolates to 22.6 million Twitter users in March, which _sounds_ feasible.

Re: How Many Australian Twitter Users Are There? And What Clients Do They Use?

LaurelPapworth — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:58:01 -0000

@ev has said a number of times that Australia has around 3% of traffic. That number was mentioned in both SMS (when we had it) and later with web visits. I thought there were 6 million users of Twitter but i heard another number today indicating over 20 million. So I have about as much a clue as anyone else. Cheers :) Laurel @SilkCharm

Re: How The Arts Can Use Social Media

Laurel Papworth — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:02:50 -0000

Video has been removed by YouTube.
I am beginning to truly hate YouTube/Google/Viacom. Probably the latter.

Re: The 22 Step Social Media Marketing Plan

LaurelPapworth — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:06:05 -0000

A list of tools is not a social media marketing plan. And the reason why you "haven’t found a single company doing all of these today." is because a plan is not a checking off a list of tools. Try listing these tools under 5 steps -> like Gary Hayes has done here They are INVOLVE, CREATE, DISCUSS, PROMOTE, MEASURE.

Re: How to Create Content Sports Fans Will Care About

LaurelPapworth — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:49:07 -0000

Hi, Thankyou for quoting the Campaign. My website is http://laurelpapworth.com - I write about social media campaigns there. Did you know that your links are giving 404 errors :( Cheerio @SilkCharm xxxx :)

Re: Twitter is Shit at...

LaurelPapworth — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:48:12 -0000

This has not been my experience.
1. We chatted for HOURS during the last election. I have never laughed so much - well not in a long time. The redhaired jokes about Kerry encouraged some people to leave the coverage on the other stations and head to ABC.
2.All my friends tend to follow each other, so we see the conversation. I also use #hashtags if the conversation gets popular, easier to follow.
3. When I finally meet people in the flesh, I feel like I"ve known them for ages. There are people who, if they haven't tweeted for a while, are missed.

Twitter definitely works as a distribution and notification system for me. But then, I don't follow bots/spammers/ConnectionCollectors back so most of my "database" or "followers list" tend to be in Australia, interested in Social media, and connected to me in some way (attend my courses, read my blog). Still shocks me when a blog post that has been sitting quietly gets tweeted and a couple of hundred people visit it in the next 8 minutes...

I don't think Twitter does the long tail very well - a synchronous tool means trying to enter a brand conversation a week or two later, is too late. Unlike blogs and Facebook where I can show up to a January posting, in March :)

Re: Ad:Tech Sydney Speaker Twitter Usernames

Laurel Papworth — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:13:52 -0000

Virtual worlds panel Gary Hayes is @garyphayes - didn't see him on the list.
Laurel Papworth aka @SilkCharm

Re: HOW TO: Measure Online Influence

Laurel Papworth — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:24:40 -0000

Interesting, but it doesn't really work like that in online communities because we don't quantify like that except in emergencies. And each of the items you have there are too easily gamed.

Influence is hierarchical - it's not necessarily the number of connections but who follows you back. Sir Berners Lee can post a blog post once a year and planet earth moves with so many pixels pointing in his direction. A friend tweeting once a month catches our eye. You might find this presentation handy. http://laurelpapworth.com/reputation-management... particular the Profile->Identity->Trust->Reputation.

I realise you are offering a simple overview, but it may lead people astray in trying to assess the impact an "influential" blogger has (one who creates a 1000 mirror sites) or an "influential" Twitterer has (one who uses pyramid schemes to gain auto-joiners). "Reach" and "Velocity" in these two cases don't mean diddlysquat cos they don't really have an audience - just Google juice and Twitter juice.