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Re: A Brief and Informal Twitter Etiquette Guide

sujamthe — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:11:08 -0000

Chris,

I like to cross-stream as you call it. I sometimes find an interesting url shared on facebook and if that friend is on twitter I'll likely tweet a response with a link to their url.

These days I am increasingly responding to emails via tweets to help get friends comfortable with twitter and also to reduce emails. Its a disservice to some conversations to keep them bottled in email or IM between two people, so I set it free by bringing it to twitter.

Re: A Brief and Informal Twitter Etiquette Guide

sujamthe — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:55:47 -0000

Be yourself. It is ok and welcome to be different on twitter. I enjoy being exposed to so many new cultures and learn whats important to my friends because of their tweets.

There is no one way to use twitter so don't believe it if anyone says so. Some say they use it like an IM, some like email, find what works for you within the limits of being considerate to people you call our with a @mention or DM.

Re: Twitter Looking to Raise the Dead With Previous Tweets

sujamthe — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:16:58 -0000

I connetc with people at events and want to be able to go back to an events hash tag to lookup for the people I want to follow back. Sometimes I have conversations where a friend makes a referral which I want to find in my own mentions 6 weeks later.

It has lot of use cases and lot of promise so I am happy to hear twitter is working on it in their V2.

Re: IE 8 Vomiting Ad Strategy Spits Up Viral Hit

sujamthe — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:31:02 -0000

It just reminds me IE is puky compared to Firefox. This might be a win for the agency who may hv committed to video viewership as their ROI. It doesn't mean it drove mesg adoption and increased IE8 downloads better than they wud hv been w/o this ad.

Re: Qik raises $5.5 million so I can watch U2 through some Italian guy’s cellphone

sujamthe — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:24:16 -0000

Qik rocks! I am happy now they can scale even more and get into all phones. Clean streaming, uptime and great support

Re: Ramblings of an Eccentric Soul... - Mindblowing. =) [via Indexed]

sujamthe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:33:04 -0000

What is Success-A and What is Failure-A then?

Re: Will social media burn conferences to the ground?

sujamthe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:47:18 -0000

Chris,

I would agree that social media is changing conferences but don't think they will die. The bar is set high now a days for speakers as they are expected to share their presentations online. The bar for conf organizers is high as they are expected to live stream everything. People tweet live so the feedback from the conf. is live out to the world before PR can write about it.

But the real essence of a conference is the attendees and the energy they bring to the event. Many people call it networking and will come in person to connect with people. But quality attendees and creating engagement amongst them always made an event so successful and left the attendees they got their value for their money, which ensures they will come back again and hence the conference industry lives on.

That is why inspite of the perceived high cost conferences like Demo are successful and has repeat attendees. SWSX and most recently 140conf were successful just for that reason.

Re: What’s the Use Case for Facebook Payments Off Facebook?

sujamthe — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:36:54 -0000

Facebook has to go through the adapting/learning process to excel in fraud protection which is HUGE! if they do that on facebook, they cud potentially sell their payments to all Connect partners. The adoption challenge is not w user but w the merchants I think!

Re: Facebook’s application profile pages might give brands a boost

sujamthe — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:41:31 -0000

@Scott, Interesting idea about specific types of apps that will flourish with a companion profile page!

Apps and profile pages provide different types of user engagements.

Today we see lot of contests announced on twitter that call for users to post videos to be posted on youtube or any video site and to come share the url on twitter.

A brand app can that drive users to take action in the profile page by posting a video for a contest in the companion profile page and each video will show up into the user's friends feed naturally creating a viral play inherent in facebook.

@Visah, Glad you liked the post.

Re: Find a faster commute with mobile application waze

sujamthe — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:48:40 -0000

@anthony, Waze site says it is available for Android only. We iphone users have to wait!

Re: Facebook’s application profile pages might give brands a boost

sujamthe — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:26:31 -0000

@Sana, glad you like the article.

Good idea about third party rating app. There are quite a few rating apps. Even CNET has a CNET Rating App, but I don't know of a generic one that can be added to a profile page.

However, facebook offers insights on fans interaction to the Profile Page Admins. This can help the brand managers keep track of the growth of their fan bases engagement with the brand. A user will measure it based not on the number of wall posts or videos but by their friend's activity on a fan page that will bring them to the Profile Page through the news feed of their friends wall post on picture or video or comment on the Profile Page.

Re: Moving Alison Rosen to Wordpress

sujamthe — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:54:48 -0000

The design looks clean.

Not sure why it says "without comments" below each title.

Also, pl update the blogroll as its all urls related to wordpress, alison may want some related to her blog content.

I have been wanting to move to wordpress fr blogger for a while, this is tempting me.

Re: Tweetie for Mac Launches With Potential And Conversation Tracking

sujamthe — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:42:19 -0000

I use tweetdeck on mac, yes I'll give it a try. I'd love conversation threading, also love tweetie on the iphone for its clean UI.

Do you know if the Monday release will support multiple profiles similar to the iphone version, that will be huge on the Mac version.

Re: Cisco buys Pure Digital for $590M, claims market leadership in video capture

sujamthe — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:58:02 -0000

@hypermark,

I use the flip almost daily for the past 2 yrs. The oldest model before it was called flip still works. My 6 yr old can take videos and play them back. Flip is a market sweeping phenomenon. Youtube, Seesmic and many video sites owe their growth to the flip.

Smart move by Cisco.

Re: danieltenner.com — Starting up with a friend

sujamthe — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:13:09 -0000

Nice article. I second @dave mclure. The t-rex question is what comes in the way usually.

After you have been through this couple rounds, founders get it that ideas are dime a dozen, its all in the ride with the best team you enjoy hanging around with.

Also expect changes not only from the co-founder but from their spouse who may not have been ready for the long hours and what the uncertainity means.

Re: Spoon feeding: Facebook redesign brings feeds (and ads) to the masses

sujamthe — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:20:42 -0000

Excellent details and neat summary. I got the new home page only later today and played with it but didn't notice the "settings" options till you highlighted it in this article. I was too focused on the the "publisher", looked like an intentional usability by design.

Wish 3rd party platform apps would also get a chance to be included in this feed based on user choice. Sorting by friends list is really useful and makes it clean.

Re: Gambit helps game developers make more real money from virtual goods

sujamthe — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:50:46 -0000

Congrats Noah! The closing line "isn’t looking to raise more at this time" validates the CPMs.

Re: Breaking down DEMO’s social footprint

sujamthe — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:29:58 -0000

@jeremy,

yes its lot of work, but there are cool technologies evolving to make it easier for companies to build evangelists programs and integrate into their existing workflows.

A lot of brands are engaging in real conversations. trackingtwitter and twibs track 4500 brands just on twitter (thanks to @briansolis who shared these with me)

Re: Breaking down DEMO’s social footprint

sujamthe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:13:18 -0000

@Shirley, thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

Each of our facebook experience is going to be different based on our subset of our friends who logged into facebook from Demo live. The Demobeat sessions engaged more users to comment and ask questions. I have captured screenshots of these conversations here on flickr - http://ow.ly/I4Z

You can see different set of users as I got volunteers to get screenshots for me, so its a mix of what we all saw at different times throughout the two days.

Re: Breaking down DEMO’s social footprint

sujamthe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:01:05 -0000

@waleed, as Eric pointed out this does not include the status updates or comments that were shared using facebook. That is a number that facebook only knows and is not public.

All data here was pulled out from the public internet. So the small 'social network' number that you see are status updates of people whose profiles are public and archived on Google or from other public places.

Re: Breaking down DEMO’s social footprint

sujamthe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:54:11 -0000

@Jeremy,

Excellent question!! Good metrics should show what is working and what is not working. It should also be granular enough to be able to take action to change outcomes for future campaigns.

The "Number of Search results" shows the social footprints broken down by the social media mix. The time and resources spent on each of these mediums is a conscious marketing decision so it shows whether the medium is responding favorably. e.g. You can see in the first graph from Hootsuite the tweets sent by @demotweets, which was not a huge number of tweets.

Another powerful thing to do with all these graphs is to click on them in the real SM2 tool and see the real data. So Demo marketing can see each blog post or tweets and understand who are their market influencers that they need to establish or engage better going forward.

For example it shows 508 blogs who covered Demo09. All are not going to be in their pr list and can be added for future press updates.

The tone graph is usually for marcom or pr to followup on negative posts as it may require the company to engage in conversations via comments. This is especially true for product companies. For DEMO it shows overall how the conference was received in social media. We could add traditional media to this graph also as a category, but we have not done so in this case.

Re: Social Media Decision Tree

sujamthe — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:41:09 -0000

Chris,
What I like about your writing is you flip things over and make us think differently, so we really apply it to our situation. I agree with you so far in the - there can be a yes or no for each one of them.

Can there be a no for all of them together for any company/brand today? I am not sure it is an option for any brand. Its possible they might not have the infrastructure in terms of process and technology to make it happen, the larger their size. But can any one industry afford to stay out of all social media?

Re: A Crash Course in Comments

sujamthe — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:39:08 -0000

Chris, very thorough list as usual! Love the piece about giving your idea handles!
Should we prefer comments over trackbacks? Is there a conscious technique you adapt to get one vs the other?

Also, I notice you don't have disqus built in to get the aggregate of comments here, why? Is there a reason you don't have mybloglog to track who is visiting here?

Re: Jesse Stay Kills His Own Robots- Humans Rejoice

sujamthe — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:38:54 -0000

Chris, humans rejoice, indeed! Catchy title brought us from friendfeed to share our love for socialtoo at this hour!
Jesse does quick fixes on socialtoo, real listening to the users!

Cheers!

Re: louisgray.com: Fidelity Puts Lipstick On My Investment Pigs

sujamthe — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:31:35 -0000

Louis,

I see your posts on facebook and come hear. I want to see this on friendfeed to say "Like". Is there a way you can link your post to the friendfeed of the same post right here? I think I saw you had the friendfeed discussion of a post earlier.