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The Joy of User Revolts

by Tim Berry on November 4, 2009

in Social media, Web/Tech, Weblogs

It’s not that surprising, really; and we’ve seen it before with Facebook. When Twitter released a new feature, and it’s users didn’t like it, they had to change it back.
The Wired Magazine online story is Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter. I found it interesting reading.
For the same kind of thing in Facebook, [...]

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The Next Big Thing Already Happened

by Tim Berry on October 23, 2009

in Back to Fundamentals, Business Mistakes

The next big thing is never a repeat of last big thing. It’s always something new and different. It’s an original, not a copy.

What if the next Facebook already happened, and it was Twitter? What if the next Netflix already happened, and it was YouTube.
I see this a lot in business plans: businesses out to become “the next [...]

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Help! One of Me, Dozens of Social Media Sites

by Tim Berry on September 17, 2009

in Social media

I posted here yesterday about the landrush problem of social media, which is my phrase for what happens when user feedback systems are subverted by vendors seeding reviews.
Another social media trend that worries me is the proliferation of sites. How do I deal with all the different sites I’d like to join?

Currently, for me it’s [...]

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Facebook Disaster: Don’t Bother Coming In Tomorrow

by Tim Berry on August 12, 2009

in Weblogs

I’ve had a run-in on this before, including this one on the Huffington Post that got a lot of comments …  but still, look at this delightful post from thenextweb.com:

Author Zee, editor in chief at thenextweb.com, titled it: “Note to self: Don’t ‘friend’ your boss and then bitch about the job.”
After all, what part [...]

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2 Pictures, 200 Words, Lots of Ideas.

by Tim Berry on August 10, 2009

in Business Research, Creativity, Technology, Twitter, Web/Tech

Pictures, words, ideas. If one picture equals 1,000 words, how many ideas does it generate? Is there a transitive property there? I had time over the weekend to pick up two unrelated pictures. Each covers something entirely different. Both are full of ideas.
The first, a chart by Seth Godin:
This is one of those things that [...]

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GDGT: No, Please, Not Another Social Media Site!

by Tim Berry on July 6, 2009

in Social media, Starting a Business

I read it last weekend on the New York Times website. It’s about a new gadget site to be called GDGT starting this week, developed by founders of other gadget site successes. Get this:

Their new site, called GDGT, will open to visitors on Wednesday. It differs from Engadget or Gizmodo by aspiring to be a [...]

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In Love With Social Media? Do a Social Media Plan

by Tim Berry on June 23, 2009

in Business Planning, Social media

OK, I agree, Twitter and Facebook can be fun, LinkedIn can be useful, but is the time you spend there really business time? Or is it just a rationalization for not doing real work?
I posted Social Media Business Plan in 5 Easy Pieces today on the American Express OPEN Forum. I like to think it’s [...]

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Big Brother vs. Social Media vs. Basil Fawlty

by Tim Berry on June 5, 2009

in Business Management, Social media

(Note: I posted this first on Huffington Post, and I’m reposting here because this is my main blog. Tim)
Secret cameras, secret Web utilities tracking employees’ Web use, secret phone recording and IM monitoring: that’s creepy. That’s BIG BROTHER: the Orwellian 1984 nightmare. But bosses reading your tweets and Facebook? What’s creepy about that isn’t that [...]

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