How to Get Into the News Media and Pull Big Bloggers Like Guy Kawasaki With Strategic Public RelationsFor a Good Time, Follow Me: http://twitter.com/journik
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How to Get Into the News Media and Pull Big Bloggers Like Guy Kawasaki With Strategic Public RelationsFor a Good Time, Follow Me: http://twitter.com/journik
LA 310 598 1606 | NYC 347 476 1267
How to Get Into the News Media and Pull Big Bloggers Like Guy Kawasaki With Strategic Public RelationsFor a Good Time, Follow Me: http://twitter.com/journik
LA 310 598 1606 | NYC 347 476 1267
Jeff Pulver is arguably the #1 social media authority on Twitter today. His #140conf is the first and biggest conference on the state of social media. The founders of Twitter, among other media a-listers have attended his events. I am among those honored with a personal invitation as a potential panelist or speaker (tba) to Jeff's upcoming #140conf in Los Angeles.
This is why Rita questions the ethics and morality of changing your timezone to Tehran at the #140conf:
Last night one of my friends called after midnight because she needed to know how to use Twitter so she could follow #iranelection. “What is RT?” she asked. “What is RT?”“It means retweet,” I said. Then I explained the hashtag, and the etiquette of including handles in a retweet, and editing to stay within the 140 character limit. “People are switching their locations to Tehran,” she said, “to protect protesters.”I've been hearing people suggest this constantly in the last day, but is it the right thing to do? It might serve a purpose, but won’t it also deliberately obscure the ability of Iranians to communicate with one another? - EurekaDeJaVu
The answer is a simple "no." Iranians communicate with each other like THIS
to comment or RT, copy RT @journik http://bit.ly/tehranethics and tweet it out
No Yael, You are awesome!
"There was no curation." Or to put it another way, it felt like Pulver – needing to fill 140 slots – had simply swung open the doors to all comers, without any real thought of how the sessions might thread together into a narrative. I mercilessly mocked LeWeb for its "Love" theme last year, but – by God – at least it was a theme. The only theme I could detect at 140 Characters was "people who turned up".
- Guardian
And that explains the Wi-Fi too. Only by burying us underground, with little to no contact with our beloved Twitter, could we be sheltered from the truth. The reality that while we were circle jerking away in New York, pretending that we were still part of a special little new media club, millions of real people around the world had taken ownership of our favourite toy and turned it into a highly mainstream tool.
@matt_mcgowan Book publishing panel was awesome: @kayliejones broke a board in half - karate / @annamariavirzi is here, too #140conf
@RitaJKing, a panelist at today's #140conf just questioned the ethics of setting your time zone to Tehran. At first, I was indignant. But after contemplation, I realized that her point was not about the ends but rather the means.
Whether the intention is noble or not, willfully fabricating an untruth to help humanity has been an ethical debate for as long as ethical debates have existed.
So, instead of getting caught up in the secular debate of right or wrong, this is why setting your timezone to Tehran is truthful:
A human BEING is NOT the human body. A human BEING is precisely where his mind and heart are. As for me, my mind and heart are in Tehran.
- Nevertheless, @RitaJKing does offer valuable perspective into how transparency, and authenticy can be misused. Afterall, Rita did not condemn the Tehran time shifting behavior, she only questioned it (i hope!) -- giving all of us a reality check. Now, I'm off to color my avatar green =P
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PS. @journik me re if and how @RitaJKing convinced the audience that changing your time zone to Tehran is unethical
Photo http://babyfruit.typepad.com/mediagirl/2009/06/live-on-stage-a-twitterstream-...
If the video stream doesn't work
Twitter to surpass google for traffic (already has for me.)
The advantage of Twitter is that you can now stream a theme like an episodical
Keep your conferences short and when no international issues are likely - me
Socially "passed links" are more effective in CTR than Google. - me: DUH!
Next: Twitter's effect on newspapers. - me: saving the NYTimes
The most ignorant comment I've heard all day is about guilting consumers into contributing - me: consumers consume, alphas contribute. If your followers gave what you give, you'd be worthless.
Sharpest #140conf criticism is about fresh vs nutritious
Apparently, only one person really gets twitter.
Journalism panel was a disappointment to many. me: The only point anyone got was that @pogue has more readers than the Orlando Sentinel
The most REVELATIONAL thought from the #140conf was, "you can replace RSS with tweets from people you respect and trust" me: I'm amazed that I didn't realize I could charge people who didn't realize this $1,000 each and that they have the money to pay it.
As expected, @howardlindzon was the hardest hitting, most enlightening and quickest presenter. me: ofcourse, every second he's on stage, he's loosing billions $$.
How to get all the most important late breaking tweets first?
Probably the best part was Jonny Goldstein's VizNotes
Day 2
Twitter's next step is live interactive video chats. me: this is why tweetdeck has 12seconds and seesmic has seesmic. Video will never be as prolific as type. Who wants to do their hair just to tweet?
"Twitter is about chaos theory. Finding order (predictable sociological patterns) in random data. me: not until we have an adaptive data visualization engine. For example, I want to know who retweets and count how many people saw each generation of retweet and when in a pretty little gant chart.
Is Twitter a political tool or a nightmare?
ONGOING... check back
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