I wonder if someday -- perhaps sooner than later -- we'll see a rejection by some groups of social networking technologies that many, including me, now view as evolutionary and inevitable.
All in Social Networking
It's unusual for me to be interviewed. I usually do interviews in connection with my own research or my own client work. Over the past month, however, I've been interviewed five different times by five different people:
Getting Real about Social Networking Adoption
Professional networking guru Scott Allen left a thoughtful comment on my blog post Network Unto Others As You Would Have Others Network Unto You a couple of days ago. He noted that people don’t share the same personal and professional networking priorities.
Apple, iPods, and Personal Data Portability
I've been busy lately. My blogging has suffered. I've tried to update my blog's "daily notes" (located on my home page and archived here) but that's about it. I'm working offline on some longer white papers, I'm starting a new client project next week, I've been involved in a non-stop series of proposals and statements of work, and I've had to keep my plants watered during the drought here on the U.S. East Coast.
Meanwhile, there are some really interesting "tech" things going on.
Would you benefit from having a personal online networking strategy? A "personal online networking strategy" is a coherent view of how you use various media for communicating and managing relationships with other individuals and groups. Such a strategy should address:
I’m a member of an exclusive and high quality group on Facebook called “Association of Associations.” It’s composed of professional association executives and managers, members, vendors, and consultants (like me).
School Communications & Emergency Response: What are the Implications for Social Media?
I’ve been reading documents from a page of links relevant to emergency planning for schools that is maintained by the Texas A&M University’s Integrative Center for Homeland Security. According to the Center’s blog, the list was started in response to the Virginia Tech shooting.
I’m looking for information on the implications of using social media and social networking systems as part of the “mix” of communication tools that are relevant in an emergency.
What Social Media Adoption Model Are You Following?
We’re beginning to see more social media and networking case studies and discussions of “best practices.” Maybe this is evidence of a classic adoption curve.
My good friend Jeremiah Owyang, with whom I wrote an article in early 2006 that is STILL regularly among my weekly top ten posts (this past week it was number one), has written Web Strategy: What the Web Strategist should know about Facebook
There has been a flurry of blogosphere attention to MyDeathSpace.com which is sort of a morgue for dead MySpace members.
More Thoughts on Developing a Social Network "Portable Relationship Map" Standard
A couple of days ago I posted Do We Need “Portable Relationship Maps” for Social Networks? There I expressed some skepticism about the feasibility of developing a standard for mapping social and professional relationships, over and above basic personal description or identity data, that could be portable between social networking systems.
Tony Rossell in his blog post The Ageless Question reviewed a published research study that appears to show that age related differences in professional association membership haven't changed as much over the years as some people have been saying.
We waited, and waited, and waited, but Jeremiah was a no-show.
I'm getting a couple of "please join this Facebook group" requests every day. I accept some if they come from people I know or if they deal with topics that interest me professionally.
A friend of mine is employed by a major international publisher of abstracting and indexing information and specialized research collections. His company targets the academic and library markets.
This deal between Elsevier and Google may be further evidence of how disruptive the web has become to traditional publishing, research institutions, and professional membership associations. Web access and the proliferation of systems offering collaboration opportunities via social media and social networking are forcing management to make tough decisions about how much to give away for free and how much to restrict to paying customers.
In A Map of My Online Networking Tools: Part 1 I described the use of the MindMeister, a "mind mapping" tool, to display an organized list of the sites I use in relation to personal and professional networking.A different type of tool for mapping relationships that I have written about before is Kartoo. Kartoo displays relationships among web sites based on links and concept groupings.
I am experimenting with development of a graphical map of the online networking tools I use for personal and professional networking. I started this as a way to illustrate to people how different tools can be used and how their features differ.