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Top 50 Facebook pages of 2009

Jesper — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:57:00 +0000

Top 50 Facebook pages of 2009

Ever wanted to create a Facebook page for your company or client and found yourself in need of inspiration? Willis Wee, a blogger at Penn Olson, has put together this excellent Top 50 presentation of the best, most innovative and most popular Facebook pages in 2009.

See the presentation here:

Top 50 Facebook Pages 2009

View more presentations from Willis Wee.

Twitter + LinkedIN cooperation

Jesper — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:04:02 +0000

Twitter + LinkedIN cooperation

A few days ago Twitter and LinkedIN announced the implementation of a new feature: shared status updates. It was announced on the LinkedIN Blog and the news was later picked up by e.g. The Guardian.

The new system basically allows you to channel your tweets directly into your LinkedIN status update and vice versa.

On the LinkedIN Blog you can read all about this new feature and how to use it. It includes this short video featuring an interview with Reid Hoffmann, co-founder of LinkedIN and Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter:

I have toyed around with the concept for a few days and I really like this new feature. However, I strongly suggest that you chose the feature only to send tweets with the hashtag #in to your LinkedIN profile – otherwise your contacts on LinkedIN will see all of your Twitter replies and broken bits and pieces of conversations that will probably make very little sense to them.

BBC hires social media editor

Jesper — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:03:10 +0000

BBC hires social media editor

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The BBC has decided to introduce a social media editor to its ranks, reports The Guardian. The idea is that the editor is going to ‘help the BBC learn how to explore and navigate in social media’, the Guardian.com writes.

Sky News, a competitor of the BBC, introduced a Twitter correspondent last spring. The BBC, however, is not in a race but rather wants to investigate how social media can potentially benefit a large news organisation such as theirs.

Earlier this year, the New York Times appointed Jennifer Preston as its first social media editor. However, her lack of activity on the web and use of services and tools such as Twitter resulted in criticism.

It is going to be interesting to see what the BBC will achieve with their social media editor.

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Welcome to the blog

Jesper — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:26:03 +0000

Welcome to the blog

Welcome to the opening post of AskAboutSocialMedia.com! I hope this site will provide you with interesting new knowledge and ideas about how to use social media.

I want to start out with showing two videos. One is by Dr. Michael Wesch, who teaches digital ethnography at Kansas State University. I have been following his ideas and videos about teaching, learning and other subjects for some time now and he strikes me as truely a unique teacher and thinker.

The other video is by one of my favourite speakers on web 2.0 and social media – the author of “Here Comes Everybody”, Clay Shirky.

Both videos illustrate a point about the interconnected world we live in today and the impact that social media and web 2.0 has on our lives. I hope you enjoy them!