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Archive for July 2009 – Page 2

Clay Shirky on Historical Significance of Social Media

Having been in a former life trained as an historian, I get a special enjoyment out of hearing very tech-savvy people explain technologies within an historical context. And preferably a context which recognizes that there were events of importance happening before the Internet arrived! One such explanation, which starts not from sixty years ago but

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PitchEngine for Australia and New Zealand

The main news for my company and me in the past week was the announcement of my appointment as social media release PitchEngine’s Manager for Australia and New Zealand. The announcement was, of course, via a PitchEngine social media release. A feature of the release is that it came not from PitchEngine HQ in the

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links for 2009-07-08

Oxford Internet Survey « The Seldom Seen Kid The report is a 75 page document which looks at the Internet in Britain and has a whole load of statistics and data which loks at the UK’s digital development. This is the fourth study to date, with previous reports being published in 2003, 2005 and 200

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links for 2009-07-04

Future Exploration Blog | Top Twitterers: US, Canada, Norway, Australia … USA leads the field in Twitter users but not by nearly as big a margin as might be thought. Canada, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, in that order, lead the rest of the pack (tags: Twitter statistics)

links for 2009-07-03

On Social Media And Culture Shift | Altitude Branding | Brand Elevation through Social Media The word is in, social media implementation in the enterprise – for profit, not for profit, government – is crucially about getting the culture shift going and keeping it going. Amber Naslund's hard-hitting post should be required reading for any

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