Does Anyone Still Read Industry Publications?

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From: Andy2Boyz 

The possibilities are endless..., a custom daily briefing on virtually any subject of interest.

I was working my way through a professional membership application when the questions turned to demographics.  How big is your organization?  What is your budget?  How many people in your department?  Then they popped the question that I hadn’t been asked in ages:  What Industry Related Publications Do You Read?

I was taken aback and realized that the question was quite normal in 1995, even in 2005 or maybe even 2010.  But today, in 2013, with the vast increase in social media, blogs, twitter feeds, podcasts, and professional online communities, I must say that I don’t read any of them any more.

It was a good list, made up of the cream of the crop from 2003:  Business 2.0, Business Week, CIO Magazine, Computer World, Forbes Magazine, Info World, Information Week, Network World, Red Herring, Wall Street Journal, just to name a few.  But the reality is that it has been many years since I received any physical magazine in my inbox.  Come to think of it, for the last 18 months, I received nothing physical at work, other than a few vendor gimmicks.  All of my communications and my consumption of content has become digital.  The switch finally happened and I didn’t even notice.  Read on to see how this Social CIO keeps current today.

It started about four years ago when I began following thought leaders, analysts, and bloggers on twitter.  I found if I was selective with my “follow” population, I could get a customized feed in my twitter stream every day, throughout the day to satisfy my technical appetite.  Once I started following 400 or 500, I began to get overwhelmed, missing many tweets.  As a result, I found myself getting very selective about adding new tweeters to my stream.  That’s when I discovered the power of twitter lists. 

Twitter lists are an ingenious invention that allows you to segment those you follow into logical lists grouped by topic, locality, or anything you like.  I pulled together about 300 sources that I thought were most valuable based on my then-current interests around Enterprise 2.0 and Mobile trends.  That became “The Short List”.  It wasn’t so short, at 300 sources, but provided a very focused feed and allowed me to keep adding to my twitter “following” number without worrying about getting overwhelmed in the feed.

Later I created an additional list, simply called “list”.  I didn’t want to offend anyone on “the short list”, but this group was mostly professional acquaintances and a subset of my “short list” pared down to the 100 that I wanted to follow even closer.  Since then, I’ve added other lists for various topics, and followed lists created by others who’s opinions I respect, but I keep coming back to my “Short List” as the key source for my daily information feed.

Moving from Push to Pull

My personal daily paper 

I dabbled with Zite, and Flipboard, but found those too restrictive and never really liked the editorial choices they made.  But my Short List was just what I wanted to hear from every day.  Then, about two years ago, I stumbled upon Paper.Li.  This handy website takes my “Short List” and builds a daily paper based on the most popular feeds of this custom list of curators working just for me.  “The Short List Daily” as it is called is my daily paper giving me a quick briefing on all tech trends and topics.  It groups them into sections (business, technology, stories, culture) and sometimes even into hashtag groupings around events that might be taking place (#e2conf, #e20s for example). The paper has been indispensable.  I like it so much, I share each new issue every morning on my twitter feed.

Curated by the top influencers in
Enterprise Mobility

Just recently, I discovered a service called Littlebird created by industry veteran Marshall Kirkpatrick.  Littlebird does the work of finding the 500 most influential tweeters on any subject (instead of having to build my own “short list”) and allows one to build a twitter list from the result.  I took the list for Enterprise Mobility (created by @ITSinsider using the service) and fed it into Paper.Li and now I have a second “paper” to read every day, “The Enterprise Mobile Daily”.  Littlebird can also create a custom feed of blog posts from all of these top influencers as well.  Imagine a custom feed of all the blog posts from the most influential tweeters on the subject of Mobility, or Enterprise Collaboration, or DNA testing.  The possibilities are endless, providing today’s tech savvy information consumer a custom daily briefing on virtually any subject of interest.

Future this! collects future
oriented stories

I have also found a few other custom papers that I like to check into frequently.  “Future This!” is one of the best at following developments in future thinking.  I’m sure if you check around, you will find any list or “paper” on the subject that interests you as well.

I have just mentioned two sources of expert lists and content presentation platforms.  I expect there are and will continue to be other products continuing to evolve as they tap into the collective editorial skills of the crowd and produce custom feeds of news, trends, and developments in a handy easy-to-digest format.

So, getting back to that original question, What Industry Related Publications Do You Read? For many today, it’s the wrong question all together.  The real question should be How do you stay current in today’s fast evolving technology world?  My answer is a customer feed of self-maintained and custom generated expert lists, combined with the publishing platform of Paper.Li.  I would love to hear how you stay current in the comments below or through your return tweets.

Now, do you understand why the entire print news industry is on “death watch”?

Sections of The Short List Daily

What Is It About Instagram?

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Instagram gives a brief, but intimate peek into their lives, their loves, and their joys.

The news was a shock. No, it can't be. Facebook is buying Instagram for $1,000,000,000?  No, wait, it already happened?  Oh, boy, there goes the neighborhood.

That was my thought immediately. Then I read the statement from the newly minted multi-millionaire CEO of Instagram, Kevin Systrom, "It's important to be clear that Instagram is not going away." Well, that is some comfort, but it's not the "going away" I'm worried about.  it's the "getting all caught up in the Facebook thing" that is worrying me.

It was just earlier today that I was remembering my post, "Facebook Today, Reminds Me of AOL in 1998", that I thought to myself, "I love apps like Instagram that let you have a small slice of photo sharing without all the overhead that Facebook brings", and then Bam! it's all over and Instagram is taken over by Facebook.

It got me thinking how great these sharing tools have become. A simple app that lets you take a picture, geo-tag it with your location, and then apply one of 17 or so filters to make it exceptionally cool. Gees, I could never take a good picture until Instagram came along. And then all of a sudden friends were saying "great shot," "cool pic,"  "Wow, stunning."  Check out a sampling of my masterpieces here.

I've been on Instagram for a year or so. In that time, I've carved out a small subset of my twitter crowd and became closer to each of them by what they share in photos of their lives. I have a few friends in Australia that share their "summer down under" pictures during the long, cold North American winter.  Then, there is my friend in Calgary for even the cool spring days here when he posts snow cover pictures well into April.  I have other friends who keep me current on the fast growth of their babies and toddlers.

It is just too good.  Each picture is a masterpiece, a little slice of life, that makes the relationship a little stronger.   Most of these people, I've only met on twitter or maybe face-to-face just once at a conference or some event.  Instagram gives me a brief, but intimate peek into their lives, their loves, and their joys.

Judging from the backlash today, many people feel like I do.  One friend is already well on his way to exporting his pictures and deleting his account, just because he dislikes Facebook so much. Well, I'm not going that far, but I do hope that Facebook does not pull a "Gowalla" with Instagram.

Please Facebook, don't mess this one up.  It's the best thing going out there right now.

It's Not the Tools; It's About the People

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We are all on Google+ now. It’s great because of who is here.
We were all on Quora at Christmas, because of who was there.
We continue to stay engaged on Twitter because of who is there.
We are bored with FaceBook because of who is there.
We use LinkedIn because of who we can find.
We use SocialCast in the Social Business Council because of who is there.
We use Jive with the Community Backchannel because of who is there.
We use Yammer in our jobs because of who is there.

It’s not about the tools, it’s about the relationship. The great thing about any social network is the socializing that takes place there. Yes, the tools are nice and a bad tool set can certainly squelch the conversation. But it's not about the tools it's about the relationships.

I've had the opportunity to speak with many people over the past few months who are not at all engaged in the social web. The line goes something like this…."I don't have time for all that social media." What they are really saying is "I don't value those relationships and what I learn there. I get all I need from other sources."

That’s fine. When people start to understand what they can get, the relationships they can build, and what an amazingly large diverse set of ideas is out there, they decide to connect.

Many stick with email and cocktail hour networking. That’s fine, I do that sometime too, but I find it is not at all efficient as a stand alone activity. It’s good when I want to go deep with someone, but at a typical event, I can only do that with 1 or 2 people. At best, I'll touch base with 5 or 10. During that same evening, I can touch hundreds or even thousands through online tools.

Through my Blog, Twitter, Google+ and various private communities, I can keep a conversation going with hundreds and my network can jump into overdrive when needed.

If you don’t want to use the social media tools now and think it’s too geeky, that's fine. We used to say that about CompuServe and then AOL came along to break the ice among the masses. Then came FaceBook and everybody went online.

It is indeed gone widespread. Google+ may not replace FaceBook. Everyone may not get on Twitter, but in the long run, the mega trend is that, more and more, our lives are moving online. What was once called a “virtual” meeting is just a meeting.

Do any of you call your FaceBook friends “virtual” friends? Do you call these virtual conversations? No, it’s a wall post, it’s a message, it’s real interaction.

Social is happening, it is happening in different rates for different people, but there is no going back. As my friend Chris Rollyson says, It’s an “and” world, not an “or” world. We keep getting more ways to connect, as a result we are more connected, and finally we can innovate and move faster.

That is just what’s happening. Don’t deny it.

So go ahead, get social. You can start by connecting with me on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+ and while you are at it, subscribe to my blog.

See you online!

Seven Days with Google +

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The Google+ introduction is a major tectonic shift in the social software landscape. Its aftershocks will be felt for some time to come

I received my invitation to join Google + last Wednesday evening from @ITSinsider.  It was a bit of a surprise.  I had just heard of the launch a day or two earlier.

Since then, it's been a daily party like I have not seen with any other SNS (social networking service) launch.  We had heard something about Google's Social Circles back during SXSWi, but the launch turned out to be just a rumor of what was to come just four months later.

iPhone in browser mode

My first take will be a little different from most because my time with G+ has been almost exclusively on an iPhone 4 or iPad 2.  Of the 15 or so hours I've been on G+, only about 15 minutes or so have been on a PC.  Even though the product is optimized for the full PC / Mac OS or Android mobile OS.  I must admit, even with its many flaws, the iOS experience is good enough to keep me coming back.

Here are my first impressions.

Central to the User Experience is the circle concept.  We all socialize in various circles. Google+ has made that literally the metaphor.  G+ daily offers me up to 500 invitations to add to my circles.  If the person is not yet in G+, they will get an invitation.  If they are already in, they join into my circles and I begin following and sharing with them.  (Be patient, G+ is still throttling invitations.)

Since I have not use the PC version with a webcam, I'm missing out on Hangouts - multipoint video chats.  That will come in time. I expect very good value for work groups and enterprise applications of this feature.  I also expect integration with Apple products with the forward facing camera (ala multi user FaceTime). With the recent introduction of Apple's FaceTime and now Google's new Hangout feature, perhaps personal video conferencing will finally reach the tipping point to general adoption.

I'm also excited about the ease of adoption.  Google+ has quickly added most of my social graph to their SNS and the conversations are quickly turning to real substance other than just discussing Google+ itself.

So what are my takeaways so far?

iPad in Desktop Mode

1. This is going to be big.  Google+ has scaled very quickly showing robust, well thought out features. It works easily on many platforms, combines access on any device to central cloud storage, performs well, and has already attracted the necessary early adopters.

2. This will evolve quickly.  Google is known for quick iterative innovations and promises constant upgrades and introduction of new features.  They also appear to be leveraging many of their various products without any sign of internal power struggles that will derail progress.

3. Facebook and Twitter have a real competitor now. Most early comments have been that Facebook should be scared, but little has been said about Twitter also being in Google's sights.  With the recent announcements of tight integration between Twitter and Apple's iOS, it looks like the Google+/Android camp is stacking up as a good alternative.  It might even be a three way race if the rumored Facebook / Skype entry materializes.  Anyway, like Facebook, Twitter has been acting monopolistically as of late (terms of service, acquisitions, apathy to partners)  It is good to see a product come along that offers a viable alternative.

iPad in Mobile Mode

4. Enterprise 2.o is in the game plan for Google+.  All the talk about Consumer and Facebook should not hide the fact that Google+ coupled with Google Apps will offer a powerful platform for enterprise collaboration, eating away at the SMB market first and later moving up the food chain to the Fortune 500 market.  E2.0 stalwarts such as Jive Software, Socialcast, Yammer, IBM Connections, and, to a lesser extent, SharePoint will see Google+ providing a new alternative in the young and growing Enterprise 2.0 collaboration market space.

That's my first look.  So much more can be said, but there will be plenty of time for that in the future.  The Google+ introduction is a major tectonic shift in the social software landscape.  Its aftershocks will be felt for some time to come.  So find me on Google+ http://gplus.to/jimworth  and let's continue the conversation.  I look forward to adding you to my new Circle of Friends.

133 Curated Tweets from April 2011

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It was a hit last month, so here it is again.  My curated list of tweets from April.  As you can see, I focus on Cloud Computing, Twitter, Communities, iPad, Enterprise 2.0, Location Based Services, Gaming, Mobility, Social Business and a few other topics.

My Blog Posts

1. 150+ links, I tweeted in March, all in one place http://bit.ly/gUgKDV  
2. The Upside Down Enterprise Portal  http://lnkd.in/Dj5Dpa
3. Tune In to the Social Web http://t.co/HH2fkdA  

Chat (Twitter Chats)

1. Transcript for last night's #LeadershipChat now available http://ow.ly/4HQlg  on leadershipchat.net
2. Forrester: A webpage w/video is 50x more likely to appear on page 1 Google than 1 w/out http://t.co/nh73FQ7  

Cloud

1. The Future of Microsoft Office is in the #cloud http://dlvr.it/PdKTl  
2. HOW TO: Optimize Your Content for the Cloud http://on.mash.to/e6gi4Y  
3. Message from John Chambers: Where Cisco is Taking the Network http://t.co/1uOLfiI  
4. First look at Microsoft Office 365: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215883/First_look_at_Microsoft_Office_365 

Cloud Crash

1. This Amazon cloud crash is affecting no less than 4 of my daily activities so far! http://t.co/34kz58k
2. Amazon's cloud crash takes many with it http://t.co/34kz58k
3. Amazon's failure continues. I expect this will dampen #cloud euphoria a bit http://t.co/4YH0DPU 

Community

1. Community Managers: What They Do, Why You Need Them -- InformationWeek http://t.co/saLbr0g by @cflanagan
2. More on Community Managers: The Second Leg Of The Social Business Stool http://zite.to/dRkMjG
3. Are you building and managing E2E Communities? http://zite.to/dUeXw0

Enterprise 2.0

1. Corporate Microblogging Helps Employees Migrate Work Convos Online http://bit.ly/f4orbI  
2. Enterprise 2.0: Why All Business Software Must Go Social http://bit.ly/gNregG
3. Are you culturally ready for #e20 / #socbiz? http://cot.ag/fAGsiO  & http://cot.ag/gJl0uB  by @themaria
4. Social Intranet –The Intersection Diagram http://j.mp/kogbZ8  explained very well by @adowbor
5. Social Networking for Business - WSJ http://ow.ly/4GcnC
6. Looking at IBM's collaboration assessment tool: http://ow.ly/4I46c   Compares your best practices with 450 other firms.
7. Creating a Social Intranet Where Your Employees can Learn http://socl.ly/gLEPQp 
8. To bond or to bridge, is that the question? http://t.co/CMPYAbf   by @lammiia 
9. Congratulations to @GuatamGhosh on your move: Joining Social Business and Enterprise 2.0 firm Qontext http://t.co/IlI3diX
10. Beyond Quora: 9 Q&A Services for the Enterprise http://v.zite.com/ia1zxl  
11. 6 Ways to Use Curation for B2B Social Media http://zite.to/gESAo9  
12. Redefining RSS from tech terms to social collaborative behavior terms http://bit.ly/ft9kU5  by @dpontefract 
13. IBM Says Merge your Email into the Activity Stream  http://ow.ly/4ADGg  
14. Open the Activity Stream app on the mobile, see what's important to do that day/right now. http://t.co/8OdWi7q  

Easter

1. Four Lessons From the Resurrection http://t.co/xyaeR57  by @mhmcintyre
2. The Privacy of Jesus http://wp.me/p1jd28-cU

Gamification

1. Gaming the Enterprise, Part 1 of 2 http://bit.ly/humHTb  by Dachis's @tomcummings & @vzrjvy
2. Enterprise gamification http://bit.ly/ilCszu  by @webtechman
3. The purpose of gamification http://zite.to/eJFUkv  

Infographics

1. How Are Mac & PC People Different? [INFOGRAPHIC] http://bit.ly/fzwBgv
2. In the evolution of the mobile operating system, Apple was a late entry. INFOGRAPHIC http://bit.ly/hjUnq5
3. The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick #Infographics (by @ambermac) http://feedly.com/k/hRumnc
4. The Winners & Losers of Social Networking [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/3o03kUj  http://yfrog.com/gzumxjrj   

iPad

1. iPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking: http://aol.it/hUrqbo  
2. 5 Great iPad Social Networking Apps http://bit.ly/euQ8IL  
3. Ten innovative, unusual and just plain cool uses for the iPad: http://bit.ly/eWxH6L
4. News360 iPad App Review http://bit.ly/ezzUA0  new #iPad App gives you photo news in a unique format.
5. Revenge of the iPad? PC market tanks in first quarter: http://bit.ly/fhrTA8
6. Why the iPad Appeals to Older Users: They stick to basics http://bit.ly/g1m2KR  
7. iPad 2 vs. XOOM: sales comparison ugly for Motorola? http://bit.ly/gIvNZf  
8. Report: No Apple iPad 3 in 2011: http://bit.ly/i1mV7o
9. iOS 5 For iPad Features And News http://goo.gl/fb/hfpsZ
10. Ready or Not, iPad, Other Tablets are in the Enterprise http://ht.ly/4F0WP  
11. Sign of the times: iPad 2 heads to Toys R Us http://pulsene.ws/1kDEp
12. Essential iPad Apps For Network And System Admins | Your Network Toolkit http://t.co/uUbTTNw
13. The Best New Apple iPad Productivity Apps http://t.co/XREeJki  
14. Apple may outshine tablet rivals for years http://usat.ly/gUBhQI
15. Have an iPad? Get May edition of @wired iPad app free: http://wired.com/app
16. iPad for Business Round-Up: Tablets Cutting into PC Sales, Doctors Prefer iOS... http://zite.to/fMsLWR
17. One year after iPad: Is Adobe Flash still relevant? http://zite.to/iNtJ6z
18. iPad for Business Round-Up http://zite.to/ksyK4r

Job Search

1. How to Build Momentum in Your Job Search http://pulsene.ws/1ivMh
2. In transition? Great article about networking from HarvardBiz: http://s.hbr.org/h31Rzw  

Location Based Services

1. Promote Your Small Business Blog with the ShareThis Plugin http://is.gd/Ct3d3q
2. Why Location-Based Services Will be the Killer App of the 2012 Elections http://pulsene.ws/1tAs7  
3. Checking out of LBS http://t.co/ac9sTPF  by @peterkim
4. Foursquare in the Enterprise? The Two-Year Lag from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0 http://zite.to/krqBaO  

Mobility

1. First Look @MapOmatic replaces your mobile map and shows where friends are: http://tinyurl.com/5wfktdx  
2. NYT: Augmented Reality Comes Closer to Reality http://nyti.ms/ikqQIQ
3. In case you missed it: FDA Issues Rules for Mobile Medical Devices http://bit.ly/f8r8BV
4. The 'post-PC era' might be closer than we think http://zite.to/hgjQxc  
5. Mobile Megatrends 2011 http://bit.ly/eIDyuK  
6. I'm getting more and more convinced that mobile will be the "tipping point" for #e20 adoption too http://goo.gl/Pcrio
7. Why we need the mobile, social, intranet... Mind Blowing Mobile Social Media Stats http://goo.gl/Pcrio
8. Employees Are Using Their Own Devices. Is Your Policy Up-to-Date? http://socl.ly/hhLjdY  
9. Square’s Payment Service About To Get A Huge Boost From Apple http://t.co/cocsmzY  swipe a Visa on your iPhone
10. Socialcast Mobile Feature Release – New Android App (beta) and iPhone Updates http://t.co/e2mVT6X
11. What Will the Smartphone Market Look Like in 2015? http://t.co/rP6eLPT
12. iPad and iPhone Really Taking Off In Enterprise http://t.co/SgYWpGD
13. Rumor: White iPhone 4 in June, iPhone 5 in Sept - Bloomberg http://t.co/un2Sozk
14. Now I just stumbled upon this gem of mobile resources from @ppk http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/  

Other Stuff (unclassified)

1. April Fools 2011: The Big List http://tcrn.ch/hfkZ3e
2. Tech jobs boom like it's 1999 http://usat.ly/eDI5Gs  "Jobs plentiful in Silicon Valley"
3. Good advice in today's WSJ: http://on.wsj.com/e3oaRI 4 Questions CEO's should be asking about IT
4. Amazon, Love The Kindle Ads Idea, But The Right Price Is $99 http://bit.ly/fb2nPn
5. 18 Million WordPress Blogs Compromised In Attack http://rww.to/eU1aLS
6. the rest of the story to the "Jump The Shark" line, http://www.jumpedtheshark.co.uk/  
7. Hole in Plane Leads to Emergency Landing, Twitpic Shows Details http://tinyurl.com/3ubjkfq
8. Had a great briefing on semantic web. Starting to research on http://bit.ly/ehlxzR  & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSHALS
9. Curiosity piqued Royal Wedding lip readers decipher for the rest of us. http://bit.ly/jbYnKx
10. Royal wedding highlights: 5min video [Telegraph UK] http://bit.ly/lny5FQ  

Social Business / Social Media

1. Social business strategies that will take your business from the dark ages to the Renaissance http://bit.ly/9BAcrV
2. Oh, I could get lost here for hours: http://bit.ly/adHbI5  Google Social Circle
3. Social Networking Strategies for Finding More Work http://bit.ly/dHyVKI
4. [blog] social business summit london part 2 http://bit.ly/dXmVbH
5. The tweets are about to start for #sbs2011 Singapore. Read the London tweet archive for a preview: http://bit.ly/eh6YyD  
6. Read the tweet transcript from @dachisgroup #sbs2011 Singapore http://bit.ly/eiawsO
7. Serendipity Happens...insightful preso and post http://bit.ly/eK9pwU  by @anadatagirl
8. Why There Is No Facebook For The Enterprise http://bit.ly/eQEYV0
9. Summarizing Social Business in Asia from #sbs2011 http://bit.ly/fsPb3j
10. From @davegray: I'm open-sourcing all my Connected Company images under a Creative Commons license. Spread the word! http://bit.ly/fu1zji
11. 18 Social Networking Icons http://j.mp/e3lnuk  
12.  @CarlGriffith's #SBS2011 summit summary.  http://j.mp/esGiGN  
13. Social Business Design Cometh http://post.ly/1xsK6
14. Essential #socbiz stuff http://rww.to/dOiNTJ  
15. Authentication, representation, communication, personalization, reputation: 5 Pieces of Online Identity http://t.co/JFC2Z10
16. The flat organization is not a new idea...RWW post on #e20 #socbiz by @klintron http://t.co/nIoCuXR
17. "The 2.0 Adoption Council - Asia Pacific Briefing" May 10, Webinar http://t.co/UCg1iji
18. #sbs2011 reminder... there is a list of Summit presenter's Twitter accounts here http://t.co/XXyzfYT  
19. Why social business is different - Reusing stored collaboration http://zd.net/h5DDZ4  by @dhinchcliffe
20. Google: Larry Page Ties Employee Bonuses To Social Strategy http://zite.to/fdKIdR

Sunday Series

1. Sunday Series: "God Has Dwelt Well with Me" Click 4/10 message: http://bit.ly/9qjoaN  Or direct to mp3: http://bit.ly/kvYDTh  by @DavidGuzik
2. Sunday Series: "Blessed Is The Man..." Click the 02/13 message: http://bit.ly/agsqhz  or direct to mp3: http://bit.ly/dNP2rV
3. Sunday Series: "Living the Normal Christian Life" Click the 4/3 message: http://bit.ly/fAmPt4  or direct to mp3: http://bit.ly/f3Xgdh
4. Sunday Series: "Why Easter Matters" Click the Easter 2002 message: http://bit.ly/hQLCmq  Or direct to mp3: http://bit.ly/hQMy9l
5. Sunday Series: "Come Join the Dance" Click the 3/13 message: http://bit.ly/hwJfHh  Or direct to mp3: http://bit.ly/ecOHEU

Tablets

1. Admob: 43% of owners spend more time on their tablet than PC http://j.mp/dNlV00  http://yfrog.com/h2508rej
2. Tablet computers as seen from 1994 - http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2011/04/tablet-computers-as-seen-from-1994.html  
3. Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet with Honeycomb and an optional stylus to hit this summer | http://t.co/9q7rqQZ  

Tracking Your iPhone Location

1. Reading how to visualize your own iPhone tracking data. Requires OS X. http://bit.ly/hHYJyi  http://yfrog.com/h65nwnxj
2. Disabling location services won’t stop your iPhone from tracking your location http://dlvr.it/PdV3G
3. Here is the Windows version of iPhone Tracker. It works for me: http://huseyint.com/iPhoneTrackerWin/
4. Wall Street Journal take on the iPhone tracking issue: http://on.wsj.com/ePwOW1
5. Steve Jobs: Apple has "never transmitted" precise iPhone location to itself (WSJ) http://on.wsj.com/kTvzVL  "Will testify before Congress"
6. iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go http://t.co/i86jlg6  
7. Stalk Yourself: Use R to Analyze Your iPhone Location Data http://t.co/iRSSYh3
8. 3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery” http://t.co/YiNOX8f

Twitter

1. OK, so this give's some insight on the shuttering of tweet archiving services: http://bit.ly/f0n5ki  Twitter to make $$$ on APIs
2. Could Twitter Get “MySpaced”? http://bit.ly/f58Sao  
3. Netherlands passes Japan as most Twitter-active country in the world: http://bit.ly/hR6GNW  
4. 10 ways nonprofits should use Twitter http://bit.ly/kTbj3r
5. What Are Twitter Chats and Why Should You Care? http://bit.ly/llit8a
6. Have you seen Fizz? http://fizz.bloom.io/  It visualizes tweets in a way.
7. For Geeks—How to Capture Tweets in Real-time with Twitter's Streaming API http://oreil.ly/hLhBEt
8. Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k Keyword Filters for 30 Cents! by @marshallk http://t.co/0AJYRzA
9. London 2012 Olympics: it will be a Twitter Olympics – Telegraph Blogs http://t.co/Dxm2tSY 
10. TechCrunch report on Twitter vs. UberMedia battle brewing http://tcrn.ch/hA5tji  http://yfrog.com/gyjdshdj
11. Now I'm beginning to understand. I found my answers from Mr. Google http://www.thechasescene.com/the-usguys/

Is it Enterprise 2.0 or Social Business?

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During the Holiday break, I jumped into Quora, the growing crowdsourced Q&A site. If you have not given it a try yet, you should check if out. There are some sharp people there.

I could not resist when the question came up: What are the distinctions between Social Business & Enterprise 2.0?

My answer is posted here. but I figured, hey, this is worthy of a blog post. I hope you agree (about the blog post part.). This is my view as a practitioner / player in this space. There is no right or wrong answer since this field is quickly evolving, just lots of opinions. (you can read other answers here.) Therefore I respectfully submit mine.

Q. What are the distinctions between Social Business & Enterprise 2.o?

A. In my view Enterprise 2.0 involves social networking within a large enterprise. This includes a single profile of each employee, communties made up of those employees, and an activity stream tying it together (alerting colleagues to activities and events with those profiles and communities). Microblogging is another aspect of E2.0. #E20 is the twitter hashtag for Enterprise 2.0

In parallel, we are seeing other aspects of social media make it's mark (reputation monitoring and marketing through consumer channels such as Facebook, YouTube, flickr, twitter). #socialmedia is the common hashtag.

CRM systems are starting to expand to enable engaging with customers and partners in a meaningful dialog. This is commonly called Social CRM. #SocialCRM or #SCRM are common hashtags.

E2.0 activities evolve to include mixed communities made up of employees and external business partners. There are some camps that continue to call this Enterprise 2.0 and others that want to call it something else (external Collaboration for example).

Social Business pulls it all together to convey any business use of social media or web 2.0 activities and practices. Just like E-Business pulled it all together in the early e-commerce days, I believe Social Business pulls it all together for corporate web 2.0 applications today. #SocBiz is the hashtag.

These terms are used mostly by vendors and practitioners. Most corporate leaders prefer to speak in business terms referring to professional networking, collaboration, or online communities, among other generic terms. I seldom hear the terms Enterprise 2.0 or Social Business among business executives.

Do you have another view? Please tweet it or post below in the comments. Or just let me know what you think on twitter at @jimworth .

Your eNewsletter is Old School

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I still get many e-newsletters in my inbox. Many of them have very good content, but I am finding that I get more and more frustrated with the lack of social integration. I receive something interesting, I want share it with my network. If I were "old school", I would just forward that email to all my friends...yuck.

So I look for the share features that are starting to emerge. I received one recently that had a link to share it on twitter. I clicked it and got a twitter window with a very cryptic preformatted tweet (ugly headline, shortened URL, and a hashtag ad for the newsletter platform)...double yuck.

It got me thinking...as I look at these e-newsletters that were all the rage just 5 years ago, it is painfully obvious to me that it is time for these companies to "get social". I'd like to share some strategy and tactics just in case you find your e-marketing method "old school" and are longing for a way to break out and get social in 2011.

Here is my short list of recommendations. These were created with an event management company in mind, but probably translate well to anyone using e-mail marketing to promote their organization.

1. Leverage your e-newsletter into a ongoing twitter campaign
2. Build a community with your audience using a microblogging tool (maybe from Socialcast) and a community platform (maybe from Jive)
3. Update your website and communications with various "share" features (see this example blog)
4. Utilize YouTube and Flickr to share the excitement of your events with your audience
5. Encourage blogging from and about your events
6. Add a twitter hashtag to every event and promote it in all literature and communications. Register it on what the hashtag
7. Utilize a wiki to crowd source and then archive tweets, blogposts, and user generated content about your events

If you would like to expand on these recommendations, share example best practices, or just add you 2 cents, please tweet it or comment below.

Let's make a resolution to drop the "old school" e-marketing tactics of the 2000s and move full speed into the "new school" social media tactics of the 2010s.