Posts Tagged ‘user generated content’

Calling Media ‘Social Media’ is Like Calling Water ‘Wet Water’

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Social Media | Feb 12, 2010 | Tags: buzz, facebook, friendfeed, google, influencer, influencer marketing, Marketing, Media, mybloglog, myspace, ning, PR, side wiki, slide share, twitter, user generated content, ustream, vidler, vimeo, wave, youtube | 5 Comments

It is an interesting time for social media. Fifteen years ago bulletin boards and forums were the only platforms available. Three to five years ago blogs, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook were carving out a niche. This week Google announced Buzz which was added to the internet social landscape along with Twitter, Side Wiki, Wave, SlideShare, ...Read more.

Why Does The Social Web Matter to You? – Part One

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Social Media | Oct 12, 2009 | Tags: communicaiton, email, facebook, generation y, ggole sidewiki, google wave, niche communities, personal branding, smart phone, social web, tribes, trust communities, tweetdeck, twitter, twitter search, user generated content | 7 Comments

Photo source: Bilal Al-badry’s blog The main conversations around social media are misguided by debating the usefulness of the tools based on people with limited knowledge misusing them. Like all human communication, some of what people use the tools for will be nonsense and some will be valuable. How people individually use social networking tools ...Read more.

Welcoming The Age of UGC and Participatory Media

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Marketing, Media, Social Media, Videos | Sep 15, 2009 | Tags: braodcast, braodcast marketing, internet, interruption marketing, Media, media landscape, newspaper, participatory media, permission marketing, radio, social media platform, social networking, tv, tweet, twitter, ugc, user generated content, vcr, Videos, wassup, wassup video, you tube | 1 Comment

We have definitely hit the age of participatory media. Old mass media is very sick and broadcast methods of interruption marketing have gone from annoying to impotent, but I don’t agree with the idea that mass media will die. It will be re-engineered like all industries must in this time of change. According to the ...Read more.