In their latest report on the State of the Twitterverse, the Hubspot team note that most posts occur on a Thursday and Friday, with the most common time for posting being between the hours of 10-11pm. This would suggest that a significant amount of Twitter activity is generated outside of the workplace. So, how do [...]

So, Twitter recently announced that it is going to roll the popular retweeting service (a way of forwarding Tweets around originally developed by Twitter users, not the company) into the core Twitter application and its API. Great news for all us Twitter nerds out there, but rather than issuing a press release for this announcement, [...]

Charlene Li, co-author of the excellent ‘Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies’, will be presenting a one-hour webcast on social media trends, how to create customers who evangelize for your company, and how to establish and support relationships between and among your customers. According to the blurb: Corporate executives are faced with [...]

Andy Peatling from BuddyPress kicks off Wordcamp 2009 for me. So, what is BuddyPress? In another presentation, Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress founder describes BuddyPress as ‘Facebook in a box’ ideally suited to the creation of niche social networks. Features include in-depth profile pages, a life-stream, messaging, groups, albums, forums, blogs (obviously, given that it’s from [...]

IBM has embraced the Dojo Ajax toolkit for the development of web-based user interfaces (UIs). In this presentation towards the end of IBM Impact, Chris Mtichell from IBM’s Websphere group explains what the Dojo toolkit is and how it can be used by developers. Chris points out that more and more of us are using [...]

In this session from IBM Impact 2009 I’m hoping to get some insights from Sandy Carter (Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Marketing, Strategy, and Channels), social media advocate and author of The New Language of Marketing 2.0. Thankfully, she doesn’t disappoint and she even sets us ‘homework’ to improve our social media standing. Sandy is [...]

IBM is currently hosting its annual SOA event at the Venetian in Las Vegas. In order to promote the event and to encourage collaboration between attendees and those who couldn’t make it this year, IBM have launched a number of social media iniatives. One promotion that particularly caught my eye is the social media game, [...]

If you are a WordPress user (either WordPress.com or WordPress.org) based around Sillicon Valley interested in knowing more about this popular blogging platform, then check out Wordcamp San Francisco. Hosted by the amiable and effervescent WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, Wordcamps look at blogging from all angles. If you are wondering how to drive more traffic [...]