The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product

Social products are an interesting bird. For even the most experienced product designer, social products prove an elusive lover. While there are many obvious truths in social products, there are also alot of ways to design them poorly. Especially when you are deep in the moment making pixel-level decisions trying to remember what’s important, things may not be so clear. The only magic I’ve found in designing compelling social products that have the best shot at breaking through the noise and capturing people’s time and money is in being extremely clear on how your social product meets a few key design principles. 1. This isn’t touchy feely stuff. To successfully use the fleeting moments you have, you need to orchestrate everything under your control to work together seamlessly under a single brand with a single reason for existence. 2. It’s not always obvious upfront what should be your best in the world focus and enshrining the wrong thing can be a problem. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Twitter – A Teaching and Learning Tool I think I have found the perfect place to reflect on the way a network, and specifically how Twitter, can impact on what goes on in the classroom. No mains gas, no telephones, no mobile signal, no internet connection, no possible way to interact with my personal learning network (PLN). Tucked away in the Cornish countryside the location of the cottage we are staying in provokes vocabulary such as: isolated, severed, detached and remote. But similar rhetoric could also be applied to the lack of connection I have with my network. Twitter: a communication tool In my experience, and in the short time that I have used it, Twitter has grown quickly to play a major part in the way that I interact with fellow colleagues and professionals from around the world. This diagram is a simplistic representation of my network in terms of numbers. Unique communication Twitter is primarily a communication tool and has often been described as filling the gap between email and instant messaging (IM). Data

www.jeffbullas.com/2010/12/01/4-ways-to-make-money-from-your-blog-content-a-case-study/ As a business owner and entrepreneur you have learned the lessons and developed expertise that has made you successful. That expertise has value for your peers. Sharing your knowledge and passion can position you as a thought leader in your industry and create opportunities and win and secure new clients. This expertise can also be turned into content that can create a new and additional revenue stream that can be extremely lucrative. A lot of companies “don’t get” corporate blogging and the value of content and those that do have found the benefits to far outweigh the investment. One company that does get it is a software company 37signals who took its own experiences as a web startup and published them on their corporate blog and monetized that over 2 years into a $750,000 revenue stream by publishing and then repackaging it. How did they do it? Step One: They post articles which generate traffic. Step Two: Step Three: Step Four: So if you add this all up: Image by thinkpanama 183inShare

Trackbacks / Pingbacks / CommentAPI What are trackbacks? When posting entries to your blog, you often take reference to another articles or bloggers. By posting your opinion about what another blogger said on your own blog, that person may not get aware that you wrote something about him. This is where trackbacks (or "trackback pings") come in place: Most blog applications share a common interface for receiving and sending notifications. What does a trackback look like? A trackback is nothing more than accessing a special URL on the original author's blog and submitting a few variables to it. In s9y, the trackbacks you receive to your articles can be seen in the footer of each of your written articles. The currently existing trackbacks to that article, with their referring URL, the title and description.The manual trackback link. In the detailed view of an article, you can access the same trackback features as in the article overview. How to create a trackback S9y has an easy automatic trackback discovery. What is a pingback?

The Soul of Web 2.0 Introduction: In The Beginning Back in the 1980s, when personal computers mostly meant IBM PCs running Lotus 1*2*3 and, perhaps, if you were a bit off-center, an Apple Macintosh running Aldus Pagemaker , the idea of a coherent and interconnected set of documents spanning the known human universe seemed fanciful. But there have always been dreamers, among them such luminaries as Douglas Engelbart, who gave us the computer mouse, and Ted Nelson, who coined the word ‘hypertext’. Engelbart demonstrated a fully-functional hypertext system in December 1968, the famous ‘Mother of all Demos’, which framed computing for the rest of the 20 th century. Xanadu was never released, but we got the Web. If Xanadu had been released in 1987, it would have been next to useless without an Internet to support it, and the Internet was still very tiny in the 1980s. From October on I became a Web evangelist. I never mentioned the Web or hypertext or the Internet as I gave these little demos. I: Sharing

How To Use the “Seven Deadly Sins” to Turn Visitors into Customers - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Since the beginning of time, people have exploited the human desire to sin so that they could achieve their goals. Finding out what causes people to sin helps us understand the triggers which prompt people to take an action. The Web has made it even easier to exploit these tendencies to sin, in order to build user engagement and excitement about your service or product. In this article we’ll show examples of how successful companies exploit the tendency to conduct all the famous Seven Deadly Sins, and in turn generate momentum with their website visitors. Sin #1: Pride Pride is defined as having an excessively high opinion of oneself. People want to say: “Yes, Fortune 500 companies use this tool and I use it as well,” or “Yes, I got on the homepage of Dribbble in front of thousands of other designers; that’s the type of work I do.” Showing off your customers. Full Interactive View | Summary viewFronting up the top users. Full Interactive View | Summary view Sin #2: Gluttony

Trackback History[edit] Function[edit] Software support[edit] Blogging software that supports the TrackBack protocol displays a "TrackBack URL" with every entry. Spam[edit] Some individuals or companies have abused the TrackBack feature to insert spam links on some blogs. See also[edit] Linkback, the suite of protocols that allows websites to manually and automatically link to one anotherPingback, a similar protocol less prone to spamWebMention, an alternate implementation of the pingback protocol that avoids the complexities of xmlrpc.Refback, another similar protocolReferer, identifies the address of the webpage of the resource which links to itSearch engine optimizationSping, short for "spam ping" References[edit] External links[edit]

Google в обучении Кажется, тема использования Google в обучении уже не раз поднималась. И понятно почему: Google кроме поиска предлагает много разных инструментов и приложений. Вариантов использования настолько много, что не всегда понятно, какой выбрать. Совет один — пробовать и самостоятельно оценивать! Коллеги из Центра eLearning подготовили перевод примеров использования инструментов Google в обучении (ссылки ведут на англоязычные ресурсы).

How to Recycle Your Existing Content? Every Internet marketer knows about the importance of creating content. Whether it’s creating content for their blog, or creating content in the form of articles to submit to article directories, or creating content by writing guest posts on other people’s blogs in the same marketplace – it’s all about creating content. You’ve most likely even heard of the phrase “Content Is King”. It’s common to see or hear people in forums talking about writing 5 articles daily and submitting them article directories to gain backlinks and exposure. While that is easy to say (in terms of theory), the reality is that NOT everyone has the time to write 5 articles per day, and NOT everyone likes to write articles. I’m one of them. It takes time and effort to create content. Instead of creating NEW content all the time, there is another SMARTER way – which is to recycle or repurpose EXISTING content so that you can SKIP the research and thoughts/ideas process that are involved in creating new content.

What is the Fluid Project? - Fluid Project Wiki Skip to end of metadataGo to start of metadata What is the Fluid Project? Fluid is an open-source software community that designs user interfaces builds Web tools teaches inclusive design integrates interface components into open source applications Our community consists of an international team of partners, individuals, and institutions focused on designing flexible, customizable, user-centered accessible interfaces. Projects Links in the wiki: External Links to project websites User Experience and Design User Experience: Design, usability, Accessibility Resources and other resources. Development Development: Developer resources and technical information. Collaborative Project Resources Meetings: Meeting schedules, agendas, and archives. What Is Infusion? Infusion is a different kind of JavaScript framework. Infusion includes: Infusion embraces unobtrusive, functional techniques that promote less code and greater flexibility. Why Use Fluid Infusion? Core Component Requirements