Online Communities

This week in the PRSA Digital Impact Conference Vanessa DiMauro, Boss of Leader Systems spoken to participants about the advantages of online towns. Based on DiMauro, nearly 2/3 of organizations interviewed are involved in private, online towns located by firms that sell them computing devices, software or services. The typical visit within an online Business to business community is ten minutes, with 1 visit every 5-7 days. What Business to business organization wouldn’t want roughly 40 minutes of your

As someone who lately used Twitter private DMs more than public tweets to talk to friends, I’ve been looking for a way to have private group chats. DMs are nice, but you can only talk to one person at a time. Sometimes you just want to talk to a few people via Twitter, yet you don’t want it to be totally public. So here are 7 ways to do that by having private group chats and conversations via Twitter. Privately was covered here on Blogging Tips before. It combines threaded group conversations

Of the sectors throwing caution to the wind and making social media integral to long-term communications plans, I perceive higher education as dragging its feet. Fresh off graduation, I can still smell the ink drying on hastily-minted digital plans for universities of all sizes and ilk. That’s why I was surprised after a recent finding from the Society for New Communications Research: higher education is outpacing the Fortune 500 in social media adoption by more than 2 to 1.