Watch Maria’s Shriver’s welcome remarks at the Harvard Kennedy School “Forum on the Road” in Los Angeles – March 8, 2012.
Twitter released their official Year in Review “Hot Topics” for 2011.
Much to my surprise and excitement, the inspirational hashtag Maria Shriver and I created back in March — #threewordstoliveby — was the #3 most popular hashtag on Twitter, following #egypt and #tigerblood. Amazing! And, even after 10 months, people are still tweeting their three words to live by.
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Maria Shriver interviews philanthropist Wallis Annenberg and wows on the cover of the special October “L.A. Woman” issue of Los Angeles magazine.
When everybody expects you to do one thing, do something else.
Ad Age’s Edmund Lee wrote an absorbing profile of Dennis Crowley, co-founder and chief executive of Foursquare, that attributed his company’s success largely to his media and marketing-savvy rather than his technological prowess.
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The Huffington Post celebrated its 100 millionth comment this week and, as a measure of audience engagement, it’s an arresting statistic and a remarkable achievement. There’s no question that comment sections and website forums can, if moderated based on clear policies and strict guidelines, create satisfying conversations and a sense of community around content. The sheer number of people who feel empowered to opine, preach, expound, rebut and respond on any given article and topic across the social web proves that people are getting something meaningful out of the experience.
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Ezra Klein had an interesting insight today into Twitter’s success.
Forget the 140-character limit: it’s not the platform’s forced brevity that has led to its popularity. Klein suggests that Twitter’s key differentiation (from Facebook, at least) was putting this key insight into practice: the “circle of people you want to follow and the circle of people who want to follow you are not necessarily the same.”
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Are we becoming so “social” that we are losing our selves?
Zadie Smith seems to think so (an oldie but goodie):
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If happiness is about managing expectations, then books are seriously stoked right now. We humans were promised hoverboards and self-lacing Nikes and our bitterness knows no limits. But thanks to Push Pop Press and former Vice President Al Gore, books can rest assured that their evolution is in safe hands. The book-app they created provides an immersive experience that brings Our Choice, Gore’s book about the solutions to climate change, to full digital life . With all the interactive multimedia (photos, video, audio, geolocation), the experience more closely resembles game play than to reading.
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ooks make the greatest gifts — to give and to receive. Even if I have a stack of shiny new books vying for my attention, I’ll crack open the book a friend or colleague has given to me (or recommended to me) before all others. Such was the case with Tim Sanders’ new book, Today We Are Rich. A colleague gave me an autographed copy recently and it immediately went to the top of the lineup.
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In its apparent quest to exceed every company in the world at being “social”, PepsiCo announced that it has designed a social component into its vending machines. What was once just a mundane, transactional and (better yet) anonymous experience has now been made “social” by the ability to give away your friend’s valuable contact information while you “gift” them a drink.
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