A great opportunity for doctors has just been announced. Yammer will be expanding their microblogging platform to groups whose member’s email have different domain names. This means the networks are no longer limited to formal organisations, and can now emerge within informal communities. It is still a “closed” network in the sense that the content [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social web’
Increasing signal-to-noise on H1N1/Swine flu
With social media gaining traction since SARS (2003) and Avian H5N1 (2006), it will be interesting to see what role it might now play as a media tool in the current pandemic du jour. The benefits of social media are clear, namely speed of communication, and monitoring sentiment. The cost in accuracy is not insignficant, [...]
Flow
There’s a resurgence in an interest in Flow amongst the lively online community here in Melbourne. Watching the ever-connected Ross Hill and Steve Hopkins at a roundtable discussion this morning reminded me of the most useful diagram I’ve come across in understanding the concept. Its taken from Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi‘s slide presentation at TED.
3 Privacy Tips for Social Media Virgins
Content is permanent, and search is maturing. Keep this in mind everytime you post a blog, send out a tweet, or fire off a traceable comment on a website. Nothing is deleted, and accessible data mining technologies are just beginning to come into their own (pipl.com, google.com). The exciting potential of open, online dialogue is [...]
The Internet as a Brain
Just came across this post by Jeffrey Stibel. The Internet is a Brain. It prompted this first post, as this is realy what I’m interested in exploring. How we can figure out how to use the internet to achieve global superordinate goals. Its not a new concept, but with the social web coming into its [...]
