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 [...]

This is only a quickly compiled list, but here is a table of some of the major social media tools being used by the top US magazines as listed by their 2006 circulation:

2006 Rank
Magazine
Main Page Feed
Message Boards
Twitter
Facebook
Myspqce
Blogs
Online Community
Other Notes

1
AARP

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Photo sharing, journals, video podcast

2
Reader’s Digest
√

√ (1700 followers)
√ (1500 fans)

Several Channels
√ Via Gather.com
Central site links and portal [...]

Here’s a quick collection of lists of museums active in the social media space.
Museums on Twitter (click here to download the full spreadsheet):

Museums on Twitter
name
followers

brooklynmuseum
brooklynmuseum
12679

thewomensmuseum
The Women’s Museum
1451

sciencemuseum
Science Museum
1373

exploratorium
The Exploratorium
1233

gr_art_museum
GR_Art_Museum
794

knoxart
Knoxville Museum Art
728

woodenboat
Spaulding Center
664

mattressfactory
Jeffrey @ the MF
638

eastmanhouse
EastmanHouse
596

atamnh
AMNH
566

grmuseum
Grand Rapids Museum
560

24_hour_museum
24 Hour Museum
524

thefranklin
thefranklin
514

henryartgallery
Henry Art Gallery
507

rubinmuseum
Rubin Museum of Art
497

cincycac
Contemporary Arts
469

americanart
americanart
416

huntermuseum
Hunter Museum
379

asuartmuseum
Diane Wallace
349

21stcenturyabe
21stCenturyAbe
306

asianartmuseum
Asian Art Museum
291

arc_appalachia
Arc of Appalachia
208

mfsm
MFSM
168

fortsmithcvb
FortSmith CVB
136

sciencemuseummn
sciencemuseummn
108

chemheritage
chemheritage
90

edventure
EdVenture
83

cyberville
Cyberville
59

artglassmuseum
Bergstrom-Mahler Msm
39

And, compiled [...]