Why I Hate Facebook
or What Social Media Shall We Use Today?
A presentation by Peter Fleck for the
2008 Nonprofit Technology and Communication Conference
March 27, 2008
pfhyper [at] gmail.com
Find this document on the web at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=agmj7qdbtqjv_271c6wzx7c6
Slides are now available: Why I hate Facebook
Various quotes and notes...
Chris Broganhttp://www.chrisbrogan.com/twitter-revisited/ Twitter is the stupidest thing anyone could ever imagine inventing. If I said to you, “I’ve got an application that I want you to install that is addictive, time consuming, cross-platform accessible, and otherwise as sprawling as kudzu,” would you say yes? No. Of course not.
Don't be a business, be a human. Also don't be a brand. The social web is about being human. About being vulnerable.
Henry Storyhttp://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/social_networking_3_0 What separates these Web 2.0 players from Web 3.0 are the data silos that stop their customers from being able to link up to each other.
Dan Yorkhttp://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2008/03/how-do-you-see.html - interest in the opportunities to improve collaboration among employees, especially virtual/distributed
- interest in the opportunities to improve collaboration with customers and partners/vendors
- concerns over enterprise usage of public sites/services, i.e. what security is there for corporate data out on these sites?
- challenges with rolling out these services internally (from a deployment point-of-view as well as business case, who owns it, integration of different systems, etc.)
- expectations of new generation of incoming workers
Beth Kanter
Slide show on social networkinghttp://www.slideshare.net/kanter/funders-network-presentation?src=embed Beth's blog
http://beth.typepad.com/ Danah BoydJournal of Computer-Mediated Communicationhttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html Danah's blog
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ Doc Searlshttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/01/15/when-social-media-are-neither/ Twitter is a social medium. Facebook is a social habitat. Twitter is a new breed of Web site/service that grew out of blogging. Facebook is a walled garden: a place you have to go to be social in the ways it facilitates and permits.
Josh Catone at ReadWriteWebhttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_could_use_a_little_friendfeed.php Facebook does many of things we do on other sites. It has notes, which are kind of like blogging, but they're nowhere near as robust as Wordpress or MovableType. It has status updates, which are kind of like Twitter, but they're one-way and don't have an archive. It has photos and videos, but nothing nearly as well-made as Flick or YouTube, or Picasa or Vimeo. It has events, which are probably as easy to use as Upcoming, but not nearly as complete when it comes to an inventory of actual things to do. In short, Facebook does a lot of things, but besides being an address book, it doesn't do anything else really, really well.
Following are the links for sites that I refer to in the presentation plus some bonus links.OpenSocial info
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/faq.html Ning
http://www.ning.com/ FriendFeedhttp://friendfeed.com/ Tweetstatshttp://tweetstats.com/ Twittermeterhttp://www.twittermeter.com/# Auto post to Twitter from an RSS blog feedhttp://twitterfeed.com/
Social Networking in plain English by Lee Lefever
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networkingSeesmichttp://www.seesmic.com Loic Le Meur's bloghttp://loiclemeur.com/ DataPortability Grouphttp://dataportability.org/ DataPortability video
http://www.vimeo.com/610179
Delicious bookmarks used in preparing for this presentationhttp://del.icio.us/pfhyper/mntc New Links! (Not on the handout)
Aaron LandryTwitter's Deception
http://s4xton.com/1683/twitters-deception/
Aaron also has a post about the conference
http://s4xton.com/1684/minnesota-council-of-nonprofits-technology-and-communications-conference/
DataPortability Grouphttp://dataportability.org/ DataPortability video
http://www.vimeo.com/610179