I’m releasing a simple application on CNET / Versiontracker to help Mac OSX users work with their ViralHeat.com social media analytics data.  From the product description:
A minimalist desktop application to download data from your ViralHeat.com monitoring profiles.   The application lets you select which profile to download, and which channel (microblogs, websites, facebook, videos).  Mentions are [...]

But What If We’re Not Good At Math?
Recently, a colleague of mine (Nathan Gilliatt) posted a great article about a crucial and usually absent skill in social media analysis: boolean logic expertise (Can Analytics be Taught?)  The crux of his article - at least from my standpoint - is that the quality of an analytics [...]

I occasionally wind down on my PlayStation 3 with Zen Pinball, a fantastic video pinball game.  One of the interesting features that Zen Pinball has is an intelligent leaderboard, which I think has interesting tactical value in many other settings.
Here’s a quick quote from Ryan Olson who was also impressed by the leaderboard:
“What makes Zen [...]

In the wake of a visit by Chris Barger, General Motor’s chief social media guru, my wife Rebecca (who teaches design and public relations) and I were chatting about one of his comments and came up with this gem, which while it doesn’t resemble Chris’ remarks I think sums up his message on consultants selling [...]

This morning, I gave a presentation that was a retrospective on the Twinfluence application I unveiled at last year’s Barcamp Tampa Bay, and unveiled my latest project: VidSquid.  I talked about how to leverage APIs to build social media applications - specifically, strategy for leveraging these applications to build a social media community.
In short, VidSquid [...]

On September 14, 2009 I presented on the topic “Social Media: Strategy for Local Governance”.  Due to many requests, I’m posting the presentation here.  Much of the context will be lost due to the fact that I provide most of the context in my presentations verbally; but hopefully it will be useful to you.

You’ve heard the term “scalability”. Scalability refers to the capacity of a site or service to grow exponentially. Before this term became popular in tech circles, however, it was documented in social network research.
Drs. Duncan Watts and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi literally wrote the book on the subject of the dynamics of scalability (Dr. Barabasi [...]

My presentation on “Social Media: Strategy and Intel” that I presented at a panel at this year’s Internet and Technology Summit in Tampa is available for download below.  Twitter comments on the event were tracked under the hashtag #internetsummit.  Thanks to David Glass for organizing such a successful and interesting event, and Bernie Borges for [...]

This weekend, I had to write an application to download some album sets from Flickr.  A friend sent me a guest pass for a couple of his albums, but none of the downloaders I found could handle guest passes or redirects.   Since it works pretty well, I thought I’d package it up and make [...]

With the help of Google and some friends on Twitter, I’v put together a few examples and strategies for using social media tools to increase public involvement in local government and public policy. Additional suggestions and examples are always welcome.

Crowdsourcing to increase public involvement, investment, and solicit actionable ideas: http://tinyurl.com/c23bne
Leveraging a mobile / SMS [...]