John Serra» John Serra http://john.serra.us my changelog... Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:35:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Enjoying the sun, sand & water http://john.serra.us/2010/04/enjoying-the-sun-sand-water/ http://john.serra.us/2010/04/enjoying-the-sun-sand-water/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:23:55 +0000 John http://john.serra.us/2010/04/enjoying-the-sun-sand-water/ Enjoying the sun, sand & water

Enjoying the sun, sand & water

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I try to get out and get some fresh air at least once a week, even if I’m traveling, and this is where I ended up last Sunday. It was nice and quite with no more than a handful of people, mostly all walking their dogs. I happened to be in the area while visiting my parents in Seattle…

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It is so easy deciding to exist or not to exist on social media with the 5 questions below:

* Responsibility, time management and investment are needed for social media existence. Do you have enough resources?

* Will you be able to ignore the unfair reviews, the complaints of a customer, who could not take what he wanted from other channels? Or will you start crying?

* Did you notice that to connect with the people who has experiences with your brand has more advantages than trying to catch new ones?

* Are you serious about crises management?

* Do you have a serious online road map? Or you just move and see what happens?

If you say “no” to one of these 5 questions, just stop and be a televiewer of the social media. Be sure that you will learn so much as a viewer. Just be a good televiewer and listener.

via burcutuzun.blogspot.com

Even if you say no to any of the 5 questions, can you really afford to stay on the sidelines of social media?

In the meantime the unfair reviews remain out there unanswered for new prospects to read and judge you by them, and your customers that simply wanted to complain and get some relief, feeling that they are not being heard, get louder and louder.

I agree with the questions… but I believe that if you are a business owner and answered no to any of them, your only solution is to get cracking and figure out what you are suppose to be doing. At the very least outsource it… Social media and its effects on your business are not going to go away…

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In the last three pics are the little market where I bought the newpapers, some breakfast from the bakery, and of course our parked vehicles.. :-)

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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via HubSpot’s Inbound Internet Marketing Blog by Dharmesh Shah on 8/19/09


 

If you’ve been following the tech news, you’ve probably heard that FriendFeed (the social media aggregation tool) was acquired by Facebook recently.  The deal itself seems to make sense.  friendfeed logo

I’ve been working on analyzing some FriendFeed data (as part of my larger project of building free social media measurement tools).  The following are the some quick highlights of what I’ve found.  This is based on a somewhat random set of 80,000+ users and 420,000+ posted items aggregated into FriendFeed.  I think the dataset is reasonably large, but I didn’t apply much statistical rigor here so the stuff below is for curiousity/amusement value only.

14 Fun Facts About FriendFeed

1. The top sources for items being pulled into FriendFeed (in order): Twitter, Google Reader, delicious, Facebook, bookmarklet, Flickr, Tumblr, YouTube, digg, and StumbleUpon.

hubspot friendfeed data

 

2.  On average, active FriendFeed users have connected their account to 6.1 external services.  This is higher than I would have thought.  Clearly, those that are using FriendFeed are spending the time to configure their account.

3.  73% of active FriendFeed users have connected their accounts to Twitter.  Among all the services supported by FriendFeed, Twitter is by far the most popular.

4. 41% of users have connected to Facebook.

5.  40% of users have connected their account to a blog.  Seems a lot of people are using FriendFeed to publish articles from their blog.

6.  29% have connected their FriendFeed accounts to Flickr.

7.  24% of users have connected to digg.

8.  23% of users have connected to LinkedIn

9.  18% of users have connected to Google Reader.  I was surprised at how many people have connected their Google Reader accounts.  This is a relatively non-promoted feature and you’d really have to go looking for it to find it and use it.  I’m guessing FriendFeed users are much more sophisticated than the average user — even the average social media user.

10.  Of the users that have connected their Twitter accounts, about 69% of them have the same username on both FriendFeed and Twitter.

11.  The following are the users with the highest number of subscribers:

  • scobelizer (Robert Scoble)
  • evhead (Evan Williams)
  • laughingsquid (Scott Beale)
  • davew (Dave Winer)
  • loic (Loic Le Meur)
  • chrisbrogan (Chris Brogan)
  • steverubel (Steve Rubel)
  • timoreilly (Tim O’Reilly)
  • guykawasaki (Guy Kawasaki)
  • bret (Bret Taylor — co-founder of FriendFeed)
  • jowyang (Jeremiah Owyang)
  • cnnbrk (CNN Breaking News). 

Not many big surprises.  Interestingly, only 2 of these power users are from the east coast (Steve Rubel and Chris Brogan), most are from California.

12.  On average, users have 186 subscribers and subscribe to 128 people.  If you’re a bit surprised that the number of subscribers is higher than the number of subscriptions, don’t worry — I was too.  I have a theory as to why this is, but I need to do more analysis to prove it or disprove it.

13. The average number of comments on a FriendFeed item is 0.31 (basically, one comment for every 3 items).

14.  On average, users have joined about 4 rooms.  Less than half of the users have joined any rooms (but those that have, join 8.3 rooms).

Are you a FriendFeed user?  Does the recent Facebook acquisition impact how (or if) you’ll use the application?

Upate:  Found an issue in the software that was getting stuck on certain users.  Fixed now (I think) and Robert Scoble has now claimed the top of the list in terms of most subscribers.  Sorry Robert — thanks for stopping by.


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via http://sharisaxisoutthere.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/beyond-the-hype-hpsmr-roadmap-for-social-medias-future-and-ours/

Great summary of social media’s today..

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I always find it very interesting when we start talking about fitting more into less when it comes to content and knowledge. Conversations constrained to 140 character at a time.. I personally don't believe it works. I'd rather see the content of a twitter post as a title that links to a more in depth thought. I do believe that there will be people that won't be able to concentrate for more than the 96 seconds mentioned in the post, but I also believe the actual knowledge sharing will continue to take a little more of our time. Pictures and video will help shorten the time spent, maybe, but not by much. Will we end up with the haves and haves not of concentration and focus?

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