Social Media Day in Adelaide 2011
Today was Social Media Day, a virtual event organised by Mashable, the online magazine of all things Web 2.0 and Tech.
In Adelaide, the key ‘gathering’ was an online converstation using Twitter and the hashtag #socadl. (NOTE: Using hashtags immediately before words or terms in Twitter, transforms an ordinary word or term into an index term that enables users to thread together all tweets using the particular hashtag into a timeline. #socadl is the term we created in Adelaide to thread together the thoughts and discussions of Adelaideans wishing to contribute on all things social media or social networking).
The official online conversation lasted one hour (although it continued on well into the night) and revolved around five questions. Given that Twitter is notoriously bad for archiving content and the fact that #socadl is used quite a lot outside of this particular conversation, I thought I should do my bit of internet curation and pull together some of the contributions I found most helpful or interesting.
Here are the questions and the comments. Continue reading
Christmas cards die slow death – good riddance
What happens after xmas with these? Photo credit: theogeo
Had a chat with Glen Ridge on Melbourne Tonight (Radio MTR) this evening in the wake of a Herald Sun report that only one in three Gen Ys and about half Gen Xs will bother sending physical xmas cards this season.
The theory is that social networks will carry the cheer and this will be good news to the planet because back in 2005, xmas cards purchased and sent by people in just the USA and UK would have stretched around the world 54 times! This is made worse by the fact that much new tree material, inks and plastics are consumed by the industry.
While there will still be some people who feel slighted if friends sent electronic messages, I think that feeling will pass as long as the e-greetings convey the warmth and generosity of spirit that we attribute to handwritten missives. Of course, there will still be loads of thoughtless, banal, carbon copy physical cards and e-cards sent this year – at least the thought will count for both of them, even though Mother Earth would probably prefer the latter!
If you weren’t in Melbourne tonight, here is the chat.
Oh, and Merry Christmas, or Happy Holiday, or whatever greeting you might prefer.
Listen to Steve
- stevedavis: “@Twillyon: @stevedavis @Prakky Your secret would be safer if you only told your Foursquare friends #checkinathome” safer still with Google+ February 6, 2012
- stevedavis: @nicthenolan @kevcorduroy You two gents are both dear to me: play nicely please ;-) February 6, 2012
- stevedavis: “@malchia: @Prakky @stevedavis @twillyon Subdermal implant opens the door for you?” I just time my homecomings after others have arrived :-) February 6, 2012
- stevedavis: “@Prakky: @stevedavis @Twillyon You mean you leave the doors unlocked?” Yes, but I only tell friends and the Twitterverse #secretissafe February 6, 2012
- stevedavis: Some red lights mean 'go' http://t.co/47B2QgCm February 6, 2012