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Currently I can see a lot of discussions about paid content going on in my timeline. Actually I thought this is quite an odd discussion (started years ago, stilborn child due to publisher’s attitudes). But somehow I started to think about it again and eventually started kind of a paid content site myself. It is not about paid or non-paid – it is about the value Most of the current [...]

AlJazeera – the immensly growing and weight gaining news network who especially became famous due to it’s good (and more objective) coverage of crisis areas, now launches a new social media community. A stream. The Stream! What is the Stream by AlJazeera? The Stream is a social media community with its own daily television programme created by the English Channel of Al Jazeera. The Stream uses the potential of social [...]

When there is a crisis people, governments, organisations, companies and even technical inventions show their real potential. Or their bad face. Right now we face another disastrous tragedy with the people in Japan suffering from a devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a terrible tsunami that not only killed people immediatly but also is responsible for critical problems at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The radioactive pollution could even reach Tokyo [...]

Yeah yeah yeah. It barely (ha!) ends! During the last days twitter as well as facebook rolled out some improvements (well, that’s how they call it) to their service. Both supply the user with pimped navigation bars. Facebook wants to be placed as your homebutton and asks you to take action. If you do so, you will see changes in your facebook timeline as soon as you open your browser. [...]

Yesterday I came across an article at the Daily MAil in the UK. They say social media sites like facebook and twitter should be blamed for low grades in school. They say students fall asleep during classes, have a low attention span and do not do enough homework because they spent to much time on facebook and twitter. Well, that’s what the daily mail, some weird study and most of [...]

Last week I held my first seminar for starters in the blogging scene (in German). It all started with a quick idea when some friends of mine asked me again and again how one can set up a basic blog / website. When blogging about this topic on some other sites, I realized that there are still a lot of people out there who are curious about the web 2.0 [...]

We know it all. We’re surfing the web and see some guys who seem to publish new posts, books, sites or other work all the time. How can they do all this stuff at a time? Especially when ‘outsourcing’ might not be a reasonable answer? How are they doing it? Do they have more time? 48 hour days? No hobbies? Nope. Most time those guys even seem to have awesome [...]

This post was in my pipe for quite a while. Thx to current discussions at next conference in Berlin I thought it’s time to get this thing out. While not being live at next conference and only participating via live stream (and tweets of course) I realized that there is quite a big discussion about ‘gendering’. So talks are about female and male users, groups, etc – and this really [...]

You know this, right? ‘you have a new page suggestion‘ or ‘XYZ invited you to the event I DON’T CARE THAT YOU’RE LIVING ELSEWHERE I SIMPLY INVITE EVERYBODY I KNOW‘ So here’s the deal: Social Media is great. Yay! Social Media gives us the chance to talk, to say our opinions, to discuss what’s going on – as customer, company or public figure. Perfect! BUT since almost everybody in social [...]

The last day of re:publica 2010 started for me with a nice talk of Geert Lovink about Web 2.0 strategies. Was a little University lecture like, but nice examples of how to utilize the web 2.0. Afterwards I somehow happened to manage to see the last minutes of Götz W. Werner’s talk about basic income with some interesting points of view but also some quite unrealistic approaches. The best speech [...]

Day 2 is over, I’m even more tired. So once more short and simple. For more you gotta wait till I’m home again ;-) The day started Web 2.0 Kritik und Politik der Netzkultur. Wasn’t really that innovative and sounded a little bit like commercial for the institute Mr. Lovink is working for. Maybe I was just to tired to get it. Digital Natives with a cause. Scouting Study exploring [...]

Yo Folks! This is Berlin calling! Day one of one of the best known ‘social media conferences’ is over. re:publica 2010 started with an quite interesting programme. So here is a short recap – a more detailed one will follow after re:publica 2010 is finished. a german one will be posted on it-know-how.de when we’re back home. First presentation of the day was by Peter Glaser and was about the [...]

At least once a week I usually ad my 2 cents to current social media news. But I guess unless you’ve been hiding somewhere in Siberia you might have been struck by the buzz (muhahaha – not the last wordplay). So lets get started with facebook since this can be covered pretty fast. First thing: More users, more users, more users….not a surprise, but somehow interesting to see that the [...]