Pinterest is popping up all over the place. Is it just noise of some early adopter freaks? No it is not. Pinterest is a super fast growing content sharing platform that competes with Flickr, Picasa and the likes. Now recently Pinterest is coming very close to the traffic rank level of Flickr and as Pinterest was [...]
In theory it is easy because we know exactly what trust is – yet some people have a very wide range in interpretation and application. As a young boy I learned from my father: If somebody is bragging about being trustful or not doing any bad… stay far away from that person. And I still [...]
If you are a Klout user you may want to see the Klout score of your friends right in your Twitter timeline. To do so there is a nice Chrome plugin you can use. Yes, it works only in Chrome. You may have noticed that we do provide the Klout Score also in XeeMe. [...]
Indirect distribution channels have a specific challenge when it comes to social media engagement: Vendors want to be closer to their partners, grow their channel and eventually empower the partners to engage with their customers via social media. But managing two or more tier distribution channel isn't that easy. Most channel managers don't know enough [...]
Social media spans the whole gamut from marketing, PR, support, product management and sales through the entire organization. Social Media became the new way for higher integration with the market. It offers marketing departments a whole new opportunity to interact with the entire organization. CIO or CMO? In many of the larger organizations the CIO [...]
The presidential campaign in 2008 was a milestone in Social Media history. Where does it go in 2012? As of now President Obama is the clear leader in the race for president in 2012 when we read the emotions of the American people. In accordance to Overdrive Interactive who managed to accumulate all the data [...]
Keeping the XeeScore up What can you do to keep the XeeScore up even if you are not super active in the social web? There are three ways you should know: 1) Add your XeeMe to all your social presences. You should have it as profile URL on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth. [...]
Your XeeScore is your personal or brand's social presence value. There are several different scores with different methods out there. Presence scores, trust scores, influence scores, and some others. Each of them measure a different aspect of the social engagement. Klout is measuring your influence level, Peerindex is also measuring influence but relative to your [...]
Yesterday I had to search for some of my friends and for some I had the hardest time to find them and add them to a list I developed. What was the issue? 1) Your Names If your name is Roger Brown, you may be Roger Brown on one network R Brown on another, RBrown [...]
XeeMe went through some interesting infrastructure upgrades. The 2010 pet project to have a social media supported digital business card has grown quite significantly. Not only in number of users but also in activity. Over 25 Million transactions, Millions of visits to hundreds of thousands of XeeMes. We needed to ramp up our private cloud. [...]
Kingdoms ruled the world for the past thousand years. People either lived in one of those kingdoms or were essentially outlaws or gypsies. Those who belonged to any of the kingdoms had to obey their rules or needed to leave to find a new place. That was very hard as you had to leave friends [...]
A signature was always a very important part of communication. And so was the business card.
There were times where it was considered impolite to just leave a business card. It actually looked like you just leave a note collecting bills. Over time of course people realized the power of business cards. In the 60's and 70's a sales persons Rolodex became a significant asset and often times even the reason to be hired.
In today's world it is almost impolite but at least a lost opportunity to not give out business cards.
There is an interesting parallel to our social world.
Some of the more conservative groups and communities consider the use URLs spam and generally try to ban them – including a signature to make it easy for somebody to get in touch with the author. I'm sure this will change over time as actually the opposite is the case: It is a bit impolite to just post something and let the reader figure out what the authors complete social presence is.