Hollywood has certainly been one of the great adopters of internet and social media marketing. Some of the greatest internet marketing campaigns have been given to us by the movies, campaigns like that of The Dark Knight were truly game changing. Ever since early December, the movie world has been abuzz with one word “Avatar”, with an impressive nine award nominations in March 7th at the 82nd Academy awards ceremony, it was certainly one of the biggest movies of not only the decade but of all time.
A movie that was truly entertaining, bringing 3D cinematics to the mainstream and raising the bar for special effects. While Sam Worthington and the Na’vi own part of their success to Mr. James Cameron’s genius, a great social marketing campaign helped propel the buzz around “Avatar” to stratospheric heights on the internet; giving it the boost it needs to break a Titanic record.
These days, everything feels like it’s being drip-fed social media. Don’t get me wrong, I love social media, but companies are over-doing it, with the latest addition to the list of extensive-stitching-together being Outlook Social Connector.
I love the name! “Social Connector”: just as unimaginative as everything else that the horn-rimmed guys at Microsoft do.
My own anti-Microsoft sentiments aside…
What the hell is it exactly?
Look, they even use MS Word created clouds!
The Outlook Social Connector is an add-on for Outlook. When a user clicks to read an e-mail message, a new pane on the main e-mail reading screen fills with the sender’s most recent Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn activities.
It is a tough time to be an internet socialite these days. There are just way too many networks to keep up with and just not enough time to follow all those conversations that are going on all of them. Therefore, it was inevitable that someone would step up and introduce a website that help to make the socialite life a lot easier and allow them to streamline their social media profiles into one place.
We will be looking at 2 such tools which do this in two completely different ways and they have been picking up steam this past year and will probably hit the main stream, with 2 different target audiences.
My beloved “Noise to Signal” present you with: 2009 in social media!
An interesting video mostly condemning the way in which social media has twisted and altered our lives, chronologically and throughout the year 2009 covering Twitter and its victims, Facebook and its poorly presented new terms, Google’s latitude for tracking people, MySpace and its defeat and so much more!
Finally, what do you think of this video? Do you think is really portrays the reality of social media in 2009? What would you change if you had the chance to?
Social media didn’t get the warmest welcome from the educational system, and it was always looked upon as total waste of time and a distraction. There are various reasons of why the use of social media tools in the classroom is still frowned upon by many educators, from the worries of content privacy and the over sharing nature of the classroom to others that rise out of lack of understanding of the social media environment itself. They might be valid reasons but they try to stop the wheels of time rather than go along with them.
Ironically students have been on the band wagon of social media adoption since the hay days of Myspace. The gap between them and their educators has been widening to the extent that when they try to educate their students in “internet” they are the ones taking notes of what is being said.
But things have been consistently warming up for the adoption of social networking as an education tool, and the wheels of the education system mammoth seems to be heading in the right direction. Hopefully ushering in a day where the computer in schools will move beyond its status of an over glorified workbook. So here are some of the tools that will provide the classroom and school with a lot of utilities and still address the concerns of privacy and the lack of control educators feel when using sites like Myspace and Facebook.
Do you feel you are missing out on your real life? Do you feel you don’t have control over your time? Well then, you should consider a web 2.0 suicide! All you have to do is go to Web 2.0 suicide machine and sign out forever.
What you have to do is select a network: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Myspace and provide the website with your login credentials. Then the site will automatically cleanse your online presence and change your password as well, removing any hope of resurrecting the account. After that “the machine” will go on removing all your connections, friends, wall posts and tweets to completely eradicate your private content and relationships.
Therefore, and to make sure that we capture the changes in social media for the coming year, we have prepared for you a funny list of our own predictions for ten social media tools and sites for the year 2010! Make us smile, and share them :)
All artists might already be swimming in the social media sea; they have already befriended thousands upon thousands of people on MySpace and Facebook. Moreover, they are already spamming every denizen on the web with posts and message about how great they are and how people should vote for them on the latest Facebook competition. Somehow all those people who think this is the way to deal with social media are mistaken. They tend to miss the point completely.
An up and coming artist will need to work hard on earning their true fans. Even 1,000 true fans is great and will be able to sustain the artist on a pretty good living standard. That might be a surprise, but a true fan is the person who will not only buy the artist’s work, they will buy the special editions, attend the gigs and if, given the opportunity, would buy the kitchen sink as well. So, if we say that a true fan will contribute a $100 of their income per year towards that artist, the artist will be making a $100,000 a year.
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face“. ~Victor Hugo
It’s time for some fun brought to you by Thoughtpick! Therefore, I have prepared for you a list of 50 of my favorite recent, funniest and weirdest Twitter tweets! Enjoy!
P.S: Apologies for any use of foul language but we made it a point to bring you the tweet uncut and uncensored!
@comedyclipsblog I’ve just seen a group on facebook called I Hate Feet. Obviously these people are fans of the metric system #joke
@ILuvPatrickStar I remember once I said sumthing I thought was a joke it wasn’t I got in trouble haha
@ericlemke Starring your own tweet is like the internet version of laughing at your own joke.
@beiruta#joke: Q. What is the difference between light and hard? A. You can sleep with a light on. LOL
@MrsMartan There are times when that I wish I could turn back time.., and stay as quiet as a mouse then opening my big mouth…
Funny Cat Laughing!
@callmeteliz so… I find the word “attractive” really attractive. No joke
@marcymac Iphone seems to amplify train noises. My friends ask me if I live in Hooterville. (I always say yes) LOL
@Carlie_pie lets try this again lol “his eye is on the sparrow and i know he watches me”
@nmcollins i don’t like bathroom humor, but the word ‘poop’ is just funny.
@tammychuaFunny how playing ’scissors-paper-stone’ can make me laugh like mad.
@louhaffner@tinarosegriffin TINA. PACK IT IN! Just because he didnt find your comments about his chest hair funny, lol. & I know you do! ha.
@Boomquiesha_J Almost said a highly inappropriate “your mom” joke involving chronological inconsistencies. I really should just go to bed. [read full article >>]
“Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.” William Pollard. I agree and I’m sure that most of you do as well!
Take a look at the following video; my analysis will follow right after.
After viewing the video and reading the quote above , I am only inclined to think about the following issues with rather serious concerns and heavy hesitations: Is it wise to push for information to be handled solely by machines speaking to each other with minimum human interference? What is the degree to which privacy is compromised when utilizing semantic technologies? And do we have enough backup capacities to secure information in case of electricity cuts or natural disasters?
