11 Comments Posted in Blogday, blogging, friendfeed, Smaller Indiana, social media, Social Media Community, Uncategorized August 31, 2008

It’s 3log Day! My 3log Day Links.

Blog Day 2008

Well. This is my first year participating in Blog Day. I have been pushing through my google reader and making a detailed list of the top blogs I have read in the past couple of months. It was extremely hard for me to cut down the list to 5 but here it is:

1. Mike Fruchter at My Thoughts on Social Media: I have been communicating lately with Michael over FriendFeed and rest assured, he never leaves you disappointed.

2. MooshinIndy. Ahhh Casey. I met Casey at the recent blogIndiana conference and she is absolutely delightful to be around both online and off. Her rants and musings are centered around her family and the city of Indianapolis. She caters to the mothers of the net but she has a … Read more

10 Comments Posted in blogging, friendfeed, social media, Social Strategy August 30, 2008

The Beautifully Disturbing Aspect of FriendFeed and Social Media

I have been reading recently about the psychological aspects of social media and the online medium of communication (I will be posting in the next couple of days my thoughts and research). As many of us can attest to, we have created some relationships online with people across the country and on the other side of the world. You can categorize some of these relationships as relatively strong compared to your offline friendships.

I have always been under the assumption that online friendships can be just as strong as their offline counterparts. They become even stronger when you combine the two (meet offline after meeting online or vice versa).

I have been spending a lot of time recently on FriendFeed. I have communicated with some amazing people, sharing in … Read more

3 Comments Posted in Corporate Strategy, social media, Social Media Community, social networking, Social Strategy August 29, 2008

Social Media: Ideal for Branding and Not Sales?

An interesting post flowed through my Google Alerts email this morning from Digital Response Media. The post was entitled: Social media ‘ideal for branding.’ The point of the post was to explain how the digital marketing manager of British Airways, Chris Davies, uses social media to raise the profile of his brand online. Basically, he finds extreme value in user generated content on the web.

There was an interesting quote in the piece from Mr. Davies:

Most UGC site users are wary of big brands coming into what they conside to be ‘their space’…. But if you are giving them something that helps then, some sort of social currency, then they’ll likely thank you for it.”

I found it interesting that Mr. Davies thought of a social media strategy … Read more

8 Comments Posted in social media, Social Media Community, social networking, Social Strategy August 28, 2008

The Paradigm Shift of Social Media and Time Management

It has been a pretty busy week around here at Brandswag. Projects have been piling up and there never seems to be enough time… for anything. The past 48 hours have been pretty efficient in terms of business and extremely inefficient in the realm of Social Media. I have been writing posts every day for the better part of a month and yesterday was the first time I have missed in awhile. Truthfully it upsets me.

I thought about continuing the posts on Being Productive in Social Media but I ran across Andy DeSoto’s new post entitled, Observations on Social Media Compression. I found myself reading exactly what I was going to write today! Amazing how these things happen.

Andy has been extremely busy with starting up classes in his … Read more

3 Comments Posted in friendfeed, social media, social networking August 26, 2008

Why am I Neglecting FriendFeed? The Rebirth.

Recently I wrote about my neglect of FriendFeed. I had been having issues with using the platform and spending time on the site. When I first joined I hit a firestorm of posts and comments only to explode into a sense of disenfranchisement.

After I wrote the post, I surprisingly garnered some attention from FriendFeed followers, as well as, some outside hosts. I began to realize that FriendFeed wasn’t just another social network. It wasn’t just another LinkedIn, Facebook, or Myspace. I decided to give the site another try and actually INVEST in the conversation and content in the feed.

Something happened. I would imagine it was a sense of realization, an epiphany of sorts. FriendFeed has a lot of power when it comes to the idea of collaboration. There … Read more