Social Media Top Ten
I think it’s time for another edition of the Social Media Top Ten. For those that may have missed last week’s inaugural list, a little background: Boston PR blogger (and friend of CustomScoop) Bryan Person has asked other bloggers to occasionally post a top ten list of anything on their minds regarding social media.
My theme this week: “Stuff I wanted to blog about last week, but couldn’t find the time!”
I was a bit swamped last week, leaving little time to blog as much as I’d have wanted to. The happy result is that I have plenty of social media and PR stuff on the brain right now.
(I think it’s interesting to note that I jotted down my list of things to discuss this week before actually checking out Bryan’s second list—and there’s a lot of overlap! Clearly, great minds think alike.)
1) Wikiscanner Ruins Fun for Everyone – Shel Holtz says it best. “Rarely does a single tool produce such an overwhelming indictment of institutions’ predlicition for spinning facts and history.” Shel is also right to point out, however, that many of the companies being called out for editing their own pages may simply just have employees who like to use Wikipedia. That is, there may not always be malicious intent.
2) iJustine single-handedly brings AT&T to its knees – Okay, so that may be an exaggeration. Find me someone who doesn’t believe that her now-famous video was the impetus for the AT&T billing revamp, however, and I’ll eat my hat.
3) Oh, Comcast – How many stories like this have to come out before corporate PR departments figure out that social media astroturfing just doesn’t fly?
4) Quality over Quantity? – Without naming names, I’ve noticed a number of highly ranked PR bloggers who actually post quite sporadically. Is the reason they are so well-followed because they only post when they have something truly valuable to say?
5) Twitter re-adds a people search function – Well, this would have been hugely useful to me…back when I joined. Then again, seeking out interesting people to follow without use of a search function was incredibly valuable; it led to many enjoyable discoveries.
6) YouTube adds ads – Something tells me that despite the obnoxiousness of advertisements on user-generated content (against the user’s will, no less), that YouTube will not lose any popularity due to this move. Some people are complaining—but they’ll get over it.
7) Diamond Lounge – My friend Nathan Burke mentioned this in his own top ten last week, but I couldn’t resist chiming in. While I doubt it matters to the uber-rich, why would anyone pay $80 dollars a month to hobnob online when there are dozens of sites where you can do it for free? Not to mention, if I were a hacker I’d probably have a grand time breaking in.
China Airlines paints over their logo – Yeah. That’ll help people forget about the giant fireball and passengers running for their lives.
9) Friendly – Is it possible to maintain separation of work and friends on Facebook? I set out to use Facebook solely for my professional networking purposes. But I couldn’t exactly say no when personal contacts wanted to friend me, could I? And do I want pictures of my friends and I at the beach ending up in my public mini-feed? Jarvis says it better. “Combining college friends with work friends with friend-friends with family results in strange and for some uncomfortable juxtapositions of lives — the keg party next to the romance next to the job.”
10) Social Media Breakfast – I’ll be meeting some of my favorite Boston-area social media enthusiasts for breakfast at the Pour House in Boston Wednesday morning. Will I see you there?
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