DISQUS

Very true, thanks for posting this.

Like you said, social media modalities are just the tools, it takes a lot of time and effort to sit with clients and tease out what it is they want to say/share/sell to whom and then determine which of the many social media tools is appropriate for their individual situation/requirements

and that is where the 'strategy' part comes in and that is what differentiates successful campaigns from mediocre/unsuccessful ones

@marioOlckers

Uh... excuse me, who didn't take his lithium this morning?

Blogging is short for web log, meaning keeping a log on the internet of anything that you choose to share with the world, that pretty much includes Twitter, whether you choose to write a long mental diarrhoea type waffle or sharing links or status of where you are or what you do or what you're listening to or who's annoying the crap out of you by criticizing things he has no clue about;

It all is a log or record of events in your life as they happen and if you choose to share it online through whichever medium or modality, that constitutes a web log or blog; no matter how long or short; please get a clue, Mashable can do better than this *GAWD*

So there, happy blogging!!!

Very insightful article and making one think about the direction in which things are moving on the internet and the wider world.
One important point made is about the level of education of mobs when it comes to understanding the issues at hand and being easily manipulated into voting a very unsuitable regime into power as happened in South Africa where the majority black population voted into power an incompetent and corrupt anc alliance who are ruining the country with it's disastrous policies and because of the mob rule principle mediocrity rules and the competent few are simply ignored or actively persecuted and silenced

@Beth Jones I think what you can do is just highlight the entire URL of the post in the address bar and copy and paste that into where it asks for the trackback or pingback URL in your blogging software...? It worked for me, self-hosted WordPress ;)

No, no thank YOU for sharing your brilliance with us so selflessly, I've learnt an awesome amount from following and subscribing to your feed in Google Reader, lotsa good karma for you ;)

Once again a brilliant list of strategic initiatives, one can use it as a checklist to implement client strategy.
In South Africa, we unfortunately have the problem of a 'digital divide' where the people to whom these things make sense are a very small minority of a minority of the population and for the overall majority these things do not exist.

You then find yourself in a position trying to implement these and there is no one to use it and utilize it properly. Also many companies think they must have a social media strategy because it's what's buzzing at the moment before having thought through to whom and for whom it will say what about which and for what reason...?
So thank you for a nice resource from which to learn and help inform early adopters in a developing society with many difficult socio-economic issues to overcome before these things will even begin to be relevant to a larger segment of the population and start actually making business sense.

Hi Scott, thanks for that, yes I did see it and if you read my own post you will see I deliberately used the words morphic resonance to illustrate the fact that it was all just a big coincidence and ideas thoughts converging in some unknown quantum field we're not aware of ;)

But all in all I think the buzz generated for both Afrigator and Regator should translate into lotsa extra page views and maybe subscribers, no...?

I shall go and redo my post and maybe not use the words IP infringement since it is a bit strong ;)

That's a nasty one, but don't think there's too much you'll be able to do here, and the fact that TechCrunch picked them up they'll be flying in no time, I tend to agree with Simone, you guys must now just use teh intarwebz and make as much noise as possible and cry foul everywhere so people can know what's going on

And anyways how much is lawyers gonna cost you to make an IP infringement case in an overseas jurisdiction...?

Brilliant post, Chris. This is essentially Social Media Strategy 101 in one post. This does not even apply to only individuals, this is how corporate entities should also manage their presence on the Web, especially if they want to remain relevant and streamlined and not be seen as stuffy old fools talking down to the unwashed masses through corporate PR.

This DP nonsense is the emperor's clothes of the web 2.0 world.

When e.g. Scoble wants to go wherever, I dont want him to take any of my e.g. facebook stuff with him: pics, wall posts, email, DOB etc. What does he own, what is 'mine'?

How is this gonna work in practice? Open APIs? I dont see it?

Facebook is starting to become as trashy as mySpace and I find that I use it less and less everyday

I find this article extremely unfair and pointless and to me it smells like a paid shill who's trying to run up hits and comments with uninformed and useless rhetoric.

Facebook is a success story and all kudos to the guy who started the ball rolling. What they do or do not decide to do with the user data at their disposal is something that they have the exclusive say over. Privacy settings are such that you do not have to share with anyone if you dont want to.

Making advertising and affiliate advertising arrangements with external partners is a totally legitimate and unremarkable business model for online tech media companies.

And what is the difference whether he says Facebook is a media or a technology company? They utilize open source technology to build a successful and quality online hangout with a very attractive demographic that everyone will give their front tooth for access to tap into.

All the Facebook haters, go and build your own community around your own successful, popular brand before trashing people's characters just because they dared to rise above the mediocrity of the common herd and do something that many people like and use and come back to again and again and engage with more than with any of the other crap out there in cyberspace

So before you equate Mark Zuckerberg to the worst aspects of a fascist totalitarian dictator, read George Orwell so you appear at least informed and intelligent and diligent enough to do homework before mouthing off and getting it pathetically wrong.