Better social media engagement through user experience and social practices
At the risk of speaking too soon on Facebook’s announced design changes, I want to venture some reflections on what it seems Facebook is doing. I’ve long argued for capturing user interests over needs and
Gowalla re-launched its service today in a blog post titled: A New Gowalla. The move confirms what most of us already know — gamification has but a limited appeal. Seems both Foursquare and Gowalla reached
“Talk is an intrinsic feature of nearly all encounters and also displays similarities of systemic form. Talk ordinarily manifests itself as conversation. ‘Conversation’ admits of a plural, which indicates that conversations are episodes having beginnings
The key to designing social media well lies in designing it for a user’s social interests. Conventional software addresses the user’s task-oriented needs and objectives. But social media succeed when they engage the user’s social
“Structure thus refers, in social analysis, to the structuring properties allowing the ‘binding’ of time-space in social systems, the properties which make it possible for discernibly similar social practices to exist across varying spans of
Brian Solis has a post out today that struck me for its leadin picture. Accurate or not, I’m not sure, but the picture shows what looks to be a gatorade social media monitoring station. Command