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Engaged, Connected and Grateful...

We are engaged in a time where we're sitting back, relaxing, and reflecting on the year almost past.  A time shared with those close to us.  A time for giving thanks to much we are grateful for.

Alex Hawkinson contributed to Social Media Today with a rather fitting post on his reasons for being thankful for Social Media.  And naturally this got me thinking on why I may be thankful for Social Media too.  I choose to refer to Social Media as Engaged or Connected Media rather because that's exactly what it is - Engaging and Connecting.

Engaged Media brings people together.  Engaged Media gives us the opportunity to (re)connect with relevant and significant others (individuals, groups, cultures, brands, consumers, even countries) that may share or invest in similar interests.

So what else can be we thank Engaged Media for, other than:

• providing a platform for connecting
• abilities to establish meaningful, relevant relationships
• establishing conversations directly with brands and businesses, whether they like it not
• reshaping traditional media

In addition to the above, I am also grateful to Engaged Media for*:

• granting people and communities the opportunity to become content creators in their own right (although quality assessment and regulation is another issue all together) and being able to create a voice that has the potential to be heard, e.g. blogs, mash-ups, video and audio, and ebooks
• providing networks and a means to share content over bounders, boundaries and through brick-walls, and breaking down any barriers to communication that previously existed in hindering these attempts to send these message out, e.g. blogs (such as Wordpress, Typepad, LiveJournal and Blogger), social networking services (such as LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, FriendFeed), video sharing (such as YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Hulu, and Ustream), photo sharing (such as Flickr, Picasa, Panoramio, Snapfish, and Shutterfly), location-based and geo-social networking services (such as Brightkite, Foursquare, Google Maps), microblogging and life-streams (such as Twitter, Posterous, Tumblr, Plurk, Jaiku), and social bookmarking and search (such as Newsvine, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Technorati, Afrigator, Diigo, Digg, and Muti)
• reshaping how people, businesses and brands connect, communicate, interact, and collaborate together making our global community local, e.g. real-time communication and collaboration (such as wikis, Wikipedia, Skype and Google Wave), Enterprise 2.0 collaboration (such as Microsoft SharePoint, Socialtext, Oracle Beehive, and Lotus Connections), community-based reviews (such as Yelp and Top Ten Reviews), web-based community group and social network creation (such as Big Tent, Ning and Google Groups), virtual worlds (such as Second Life, Kaneva and Active Worlds), and MMORPGs (such as World of Warcraft, Perfect World and Evony)

There are so many other reasons that can be highlighted to why Engaged Media is such a great tool - not too mention the impact and enrichment it brings to our daily lives. 

What would be some of your contributing reasons to be thankful for Engaged Media?

*Examples used are by no means exhaustive

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Twitter just made retweeting more social, smartly executed.

A tiny tiny fraction of resemblance of and hope for the threaded conversations that made good old Jaiku a superior platform for conversations. The organic growth of ones network through joint conversations increases both the quality and relevance of the content, thus serving as a fantastic filter, as well as a curator, of the content.

Update:

What started as a good intention has become a less pleasent experience for me.

Nicholas Carlson, Silicon Alley Insider, tells you exactly why that is.

Social Media Categories

When you start working with Social Media Marketing you need to measure it somehow. All sites and statistics need a place or category. It just makes it easier to find or gather together. Danny Sullivan (Guru) made his categorization on his blog. Here hare his subcategories of Social Media • Social News Sites • Social Bookmarking Sites • Social Networking • Social Knowledge • Social Sharing National Geographic’s subcategories of Social Media are quite similar • Social News Sites Digg Reddit Twitter Slashdot Jaiku • Social Bookmarking Sites StumbleUpon Diigo Delicious Meneame.net Propeller.com • Social Networking Facebook MySpace Orkut Care2 • Social Knowledge Wikipedia Yahoo Answers Squidoo Ask Metafilter • Social Media Sharing YouTube Flickr Tumblr DevianArt Recently I made my own categorization of Social Media and it looks like this. • Social Aggregators/Pushers Ping.fm Friendfeed Hello.txt Popurls Posterous Utterli Disqus • Social Bookmarking/Link sharing Diigo Delicious StumbleUpon Mister Wong Yahoo! Bookmarks • Social Collaboration Acrobat Skype • Social Experience Reporting Flixter Digg Reddit Yelp • Social Location Blogloc Fire Eagle IRL Connect Loki Plazes Tripit • Social Media News Chirps Jaiku Koornk Plurk Twitter Wordpress Blogger Xanga • Social Media Sharing 23 72 Photos Bebo.com Blip.tv Buzznet Drop.io Dropshots Fliggo Moblog Twitpic Viddler.com YouTube Zoomin • Social Live Broadcast Ustream Bambuser I will continue to work on my categories and post changes after evaluation. You can also look at the well known “The Coversation Prism” categorys Image address http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3009/2735401175_fcdcd0da03.jpg?v=0 Brians blog http://www.briansolis.com/2008/08/introducing-conversation-prism/

Microblogging - was ist das?

Ein Microblog ist eine besondere Form des Weblogs (siehe auch hier: http://schmatz.posterous.com/bloggen-was-ist-das ), bei dem die Länge der Beiträge auf etwa die Anzahl der Zeichen einer SMS (140 bis 160 Zeichen) beschränkt ist.

In Microblogs werden meist kurze Meldungen über die eigene derzeitige Tätigkeit (wie "Gehe jetzt zum Zahnarzt") abgegeben oder kurz kommentierte Links veröffentlicht.

Um die Anzahl der Zeichen zu beschränken setzen die meisten Benutzer sogenannte URL-Shortener (siehe auch hier: http://schmatz.posterous.com/url-shortener-was-ist-das ) ein.

Das bekannteste Microblog-System ist twitter - http://www.twitter.com - das ich in den nächsten Tagen noch genauer vorstellen werde. Weiters gibt es noch den von Google übernommenen Microblog-Dienst Jaiku - http://www.jaiku.com/ - sowie das Open Source Microblog-System StatusNet - http://status.net/ - mit dem jeder selbst einen Microblogging-Dienst starten kann und das auch als technische Basis für identi.ca - http://identi.ca - verwendet wird.

Die Eingabe der neuen Beiträge kann bei allen Diensten über den Webbrowser erfolgen, bei manchen sind auch andere Eingabemöglichkeiten vorhanden wie z.B. SMS, E-Mails an eine bestimmte Adresse, automatische Übernahme von RSS-Feeds anderer Blogs oder ähnliches.

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I've stopped most of my blogging.

I've realized that I need to centralization, slow down, and minimize the time I spent organizing and managing my blogs and other online services.

Most significantly as of now, I'm going to stop using my main blog (http://heresmydodo.wordpress.com) and my tumblr. I'm also going to stop using friendfeed and orkut. My photoblog hasn't been updated in awhile and I'm not planning on updating it for a long time so I decided to delete it because of the time I spent messing around with it and never actually posting content on it.

For about 2 weeks now I've been all over the place with things ranging from what I do online, at home, outside, and what kind of jobs I'm looking for. Blogging just didn't fit into my daily schedule right now and I don't really contribute enough as of now. I just want to be the "information whore" I am :]

I'm continuing to use my facebook, twitter, and I will continue to write on a weekly basis at MCMB.

If there are any questions, please email them to me and I will be more active on twitter and facebook now.

Here's a song to enjoy!

Peace,

Jaikuを動かしてみた

Google Kills many services at once...

So this is what it has come to.
Luckily I never even used Jaiku, Video, Notebook or Dodgeball. But im sure other people did.
So now what happens if Twitter/Facebook/Posterous etc get shut down?
Im sure people used these services and they're sad to see it go. What are your thoughts on this?
btw jaiku and notebook (as far as i know) are not being SHUT DOWN but stopping development

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What Google has planned for Jaiku?