Many people woke up this morning to find their RSS subscriber counts, as reported by FeedBurner, were markedly higher than they were yesterday. For some the numbers doubled but most, I’m willing to speculate, were less than that but still were larger than what they’d seen in previous day-to-day gains.
After what seems like a brief [...]
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If you ask anyone who’s keeping their eyes on developments online what the next big development is, odds are the conversation will sooner or later include the term “the real-time web.” If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it’s meant to encompass the perception that conversations on the web are happening even faster than search engine [...]
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If you think communicating on one online channel is enough, it’s probably not.
Case in point: At least three times in the last two weeks or so the following sequence of events has happened:
I update my “status” using Ping.fm, which pushes that update to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and more.
I get responses to my update, with some [...]
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In case you’ve been on vacation for the last couple days and are just now checking the news you might have missed while you were out, there are two big Twitter-related stories everyone has been buzzing about:
Kelso has succeeded in beating CNN in the race to one million Twitter followers. This is important, but I’m [...]
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Yesterday Voce Nation blogged about the US Airways flight landing in the Hudson River and the fast and widespread coverage of the event by Twitter.
This brings up another interesting topic – crisis communications plans. Some, but not enough, companies are working social media strategies and techniques into their crisis comms plans. It’s a smart move, [...]
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