July 23, 2004
Blog On, Conf Grunt, AM
Here are my notes from the morning session of the BlogOn Conference. They're just meant as little reminders to me for people and things to look up. I'll edit it when I get home to include more links and things
GroupWire Group is putting on the conference
they call themselves a "social media company" and define social media as "media as a contact sport", talked about participatory publishing
Panel 1
Moderator: Ross Mayfield, Social Text
business has always been about relationships, and now we're "building a business about relationships"
enhancing social capital
"what they share is what makes us care"
Reid Hoffman, Linked In (he was formerly of PayPal), evolution of brands and trust, blogs as "democratization of voices", companies need to be scanning for what people are saying about them on blogs
Michael Sikillian, Lykos, camera phones/digital camerals + "need to share"
Dan Gillmore, camphones in Asia are old news (now they have 3 megapix ones!), OhMyNews Korean newspaper written by readers having tremendous impact there
Jim Spohrer, IBM, business value of using htese tools inside of the firm, tapping into firm's collective IQ
James Currier, Tickle, Inc. "making media out of people", taking the unstructured data of the web - figuring out best ways to structure it to be more useful to people
David Hornik, August Capital, blah blah blah quote?
will google combine orkut and blogger?
IBM webfountain - wwfql
emerging problems in business
emerging capabilities and technologies
Panel Two: The Dark Side of Social Media
Mary Hodder, Technorati
Chris Kelly, Spoke, Chief Privacy Officer (prev. at Excit @ Home)
Wendy Seltzer, EFF, Intellectual Property Attorney
check out Chilling Effects Clearning House, keeps track of cease and desist letters re: intellectual property
Danah Boyd, Berkeley SIMS PhD student, studying how people construct self in social media, (how cool is that??) (interesting that she's in all lowercase in directory and on the slides)
what are the consequences
AIBO hacks by Aibo Pet
fan fiction
Radio Free Blogistan (guy in front of me)
how should corporations contend with social media?
LP: "watch and learn", free market research, understand the people impacted by you, lose control of timing of when news is released
look up: Ronald Burt, social holes, bridges, connectors
take info from one world into another, intermixing knowledge and thought
book: darknet
mmm... cliff bars and strawberries for snack. Are we in California or what? Posted by Emily at July 23, 2004 10:37 AM