Big protests set for early in week of NATO/G8 summits: With protests planned before and during the NATO/G8 summits, Ald. Rick Munoz says he’ll introduce legislation in the City Council to prohibit police from blocking access to social-networking sites and cellphone networks during the summits.
Under what conditions (if any) should authorities be able to restrict social media/cell phone networks?
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Coatney said Newsweek’s Tumblr (which now has more than 11,000 followers) grew in popularity when he stopped simply pulling in RSS feeds and started to hand-select content for it. When he posted some content from Newsweek.com and some from a variety of other sites, the Tumblr seemed less promotional and more personal. And in doing so, he let people know that there’s a person behind the account.
“I think the common mistake is to treat Tumblr solely as a promotional vehicle to get people back to your site,” said Coatney, who used the Newsweek Tumblr to respond to criticism about the magazine.
This is how a brand uses social media to be funny, engaging, human, and, above all, useful.
The Escape Pod for Wheat Thins
Forget dancing monkeys, artificial contests, or stupid tricks; they add no value and waste people’s time. A commitment to being useful in social-media activities means a commitment to creating only high-quality interactions.
Most brands don’t have the newsworthiness, broad appeal or dynamism to have any chance of making Twitter work for them.
A social media concept for DSW that I actually like, from Erin Collins.
Engagement Console, a social media tracking tool from Radian 6. TechCrunch:
“A desktop client built on Adobe AIR, the engagement console lets your both track and engage in the conversation taking place on blogs, videos, forums, boards, Twitter, Flickr, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, Facebook fan pages, public discussion groups, and mainstream news sites. The site also allows for assigning of tasks from within the platform, enabling users to access workflow from within the client. “You can customize a tracking grid of social media sites by breaking out your conversation into stacks by broad or specific topics, tagged customer lists, or even user assignment. Stacks can also be separated out by media type.”
The Rise of Antisocial Media
moth:
In our age of oversharing on the Internet, it was only a matter of time before people started looking to the same kinds of tools they use to connect with each other people to try to find ways to disconnect when those same people get to be a little… much. I couldn’t help noticing two of those tools get a little attention yesterday, just in time for SXSW:
Avoidr hilariously uses the Foursquare API to secretly designate some of your Foursquare friends as people to avoid, and warns you of there whereabouts so you can stay away. I don’t have a lot of use for something like that in my life — I’m only Foursquare friends with people I’d be really happy to have join me, like Kenyatta — but I could see people younger than me, who might be connected to friends and roommates they secretly can’t stand, exes, etc., finding this kind of useful. And the site crashed yesterday from too much traffic, so I think they hit a nerve.
Meanwhile, if there’s someone you follow on Twitter that you normally love, but they’re in the middle of something they can’t shut up about (SXSW, Olympic figure skating, The World Series, a really awesome vacation, etc.), Mutetweets gives you a temporary mute button, allowing you to unfollow them for a set period of time, then automatically add them back when the period’s over. I’ve long thought this should be a core Twitter feature, and that you should be able to mute a person without them even knowing, but until then, here’s the next best thing.
Looks like the beginning of a trend to me. What other apps are you all seeing out there that might qualify as antisocial media? (Answer over at the nextnewblog.)
#facebookpurgatory
The Social Landscape de Drew McLellan, via the NEXT WEB
