In October of 2008, I started a series called “Exploring Social Media” on the Blog Herald. The challenge was to dig into the myriad choices and options to dance the social dance online, to network, share, inform, and educate with the various tools available. I began by asking people to d...

When we lived in France, I noticed that none of the people I met was signed up in LinkedIn. I wondered why, since my impression of the French is that they are rather social. Is it because LinkedIn is an English (I mean the language) tool? Most people I met hardly speak English. If there were a Frenc...

For more years than I can remember, I’ve advocated the position that all things social are inherent to our understanding of the world, making them unable to be bottled or packaged in any way that doesn’t automatically feel a little disproportionate to our understanding of them. I’l...

A colleague sent me a question about how to use Flickr in support of his client’s marketing goals. Removing some of the details, here is the question: She is trying to start up a group in Flickr that is focused on “ABC.”  I think she wants to start a photo journal and eventually p...

OK.  I lied.  I said I wasn’t going to write anymore over here, but whatever, I’ll tweet it up later.  Last night at SF New Tech, I had an interesting conversation with the 2 other BrightKite users I had encountered - I knew they were there since I got an alert that they h...

[fr] Diigo semble être un outil de commentaire et de bookmarking social intéressant. Regardez les images si le texte vous rebute. En prime, petite digression sur la fragmentation des conversations. [en] I’m a bit of a referrer obsessive, and today that little habit of mine led me to discover...

I stumbled into the IABC eXchange (that's how they spell it) today. Had a look around, came out and walked around some, then went back in. Wasn't any better. Is there a point I am missing? Here's the gush from the first page (which features a really tacky blue background and weird fonts): IABC eXcha...

Yahoo announced OneConnect an amazingly cool service today that looks like a truly killer mobile social connector.  OneConnect will allow you to view and participate across social networks in a a way much like Jaiku does now - though it seems like it will work for most of your existing social ser...

[fr] Google Reader permet maintenant à vos contacts GTalk d'avoir un accès facile à vos "shared items" (articles lus dans votre newsreader et que vous avez partagés). Il semblerait que beaucoup de personnes ont mal interprété cette nouvelle fonction, imaginant que leurs éléments partagés é...