Archive for April, 2006

Sharing Tagged Lists »

I’m really high on tagged lists (or boomkarks) as a way for businesses to get involved in Social Media technologies without a major investment of time or capital. After all, blogs and podcasts require a decent amount of planning and maintenance. Creating, maintaining and sharing a tagged list is snap though.
Back in the old days [...]

Nokia Podcatcher »

Beware Mobilcast, Pod2Mob, VoiceIndigo and others like you. Nokia is working on a podcatching application for Series 60 phones. Besides recent discussion around the blogosphere, I’ve also received an email directly from Nokia requesting information on desired functionality.
Word is that this will be a free app. I’ve tried the currently available mobile podcatching software with [...]

Video Podcasting With Google Video »

I wanted to take a few moments to lay out the steps for publishing a video podcast for free using the very cool Google Video service. There are several free video hosting services out there, but Google is the only one that provides features like multi format conversion and a flash player that will work [...]

Business Smart Tools Conference Update »

There is more info on the Business Smart Tools Conference at http://businesssmarttools.com.
The event will take place at the Stamford Marriott and the event fee is $300.
[tags]Social Media, Conferences[/tags]

Vloggercon »

Vloggercon is coming to San Francisco on June 10th and 11th. The event will take place at the Swedish American Hall. Tickets are $40 for one day and $60 for both days.
According to the official conference website, “VLOGGERCON 2006 is the intersection between media-makers and technology. A space for dialog and interaction.”
The market for [...]

Podcast Academy Stream »

The Podcast Academy at the Boston University School of Communications is streaming content from the sessions online. If you missed today’s sessions I understand that they will be made available as podcasts at a later date.
Tomorrow you can start watching at 9AM. Just go to this webcast link to get in on the sessions.
[tags]Social Media, [...]

Bookmarks As A Resource »

I’ve been wanting to sprinkle in a few posts this week on Boomarks and Tagging as very easy ways for businesses to get involved in Social Media. After having a look at a recent article on Social Media and the Enterprise by tech writer Jon Udell I decided to get the converation started.
In Jon’s article [...]

The Down Side Of Social Media »

Shel Holtz reports that spammers have found their way to the social mapping community Frappr!.
Those dirty tricksters add people to public maps and include their ridiculous spam links in the description. The move to Frappr! maps proves that spammers will go anywhere they can their silly links posted for the world to see.
Users of Frappr! [...]

Business Smart Tools Conference »

The Business Smart Tools Conference was recently announced by Mike Dunn. The conference will be taking place on June 13th in Stamford, Connecticut.
According to the conference website, “the attendee will have a good overview of what is going on with the new social media/internet marketing tools so that making way for something new only supports [...]

Podcast Adoption Increases »

My friends at LibSyn and FeedBurner have issued their own independent reports that provide a very good insight on the adoption of podcasting.
The FeedBurner Report
The FeedBurner Report shows that “podcast circulation is consistently growing nearly [...]