I am about to deliver a big project to a client and I am playing with different ideas on what to do next. Had (yet another) idea couple weeks ago and sent an email to my friend Duncan Moore to validate. Here’s the mail : As more and more brands, agencies, producer and individuals disseminate - Read More -
Pour Noël, je veux pouvoir filtrer me sources d’info et les mentions de mots clés selon les participants et les auteurs. Quand je fais une recherche, je veux qu’on me sorte des conversations se déroulant entre des gens qui correspondent à certain critères que j’aurai défini selon la recherche : domaine d’expertise, degré de proximité, - Read More -
Are you looking for a simple way to find new leads or know who’s interested by your competitor’s product ? Before starting a full-on social media monitoring program, here’s a simple trick you can use for free rapid ROI If you haven’t use it already, you are going to bump your head because it’s just - Read More -
As the web enters a more user-centric era where conversations can be gold mines, you will soon need the ability to filter content and news based on the influence level of the messenger to cut through the noise. If you are looking for good blogs or discussions about Django (my current framework of development), you - Read More -
Image via Wikipedia When trying to identify early influencers and pool of knowledge around a certain topic or industry, finding early poster/commenter is one simple trick often used. Not very complex, but it often leads to other links and users and help shape how the information started to spread. Backtweets is great to see who - Read More -
Image via CrunchBase Don’t get me wrong, I like Twitter and I use it all the time. But since it became the fastest growing channel, the number of real blog comments have dropped enormously. You often find yourself looking through rows of re-tweets that were collected by a Backtype or Disqus plugin at the bottom - Read More -
I am back from a 2 weeks trip with no cell phone, no laptop and no PDA and I survived. Pretty well in fact. It made me wonder how was I handling everything before this “online world”. And realized that we sometimes forgot details of the process we modified along the way. Nowadays, you are - Read More -
Some voices are questioning the real value and possible ROI of these platforms, sometimes in opposition with free solutions. I’ll take a moment to go over these particular points one by one.
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Ranking social media users can be seen as an ego trip, but with communication and information channels growing and evolving so fast, it simply make sense to use a somewhat automated way to filter out users based on their influence. While PostRank gives me a nice way to evaluate - Read More -
Parce que parfois nos tweets passent tout droit, mais qu’ils valent la peine d’être lus Ma première utilisation de FixMystreet.ca, une excellente initiative de VisibleGovernment.ca VisibleGovernment, qui se dévoue à rendre à rendre les l’accès aux informations gouvernemental plus simples et plus transparents, a récemment lancé FixMyStreet.ca, une application web permettant de soumettre un problème - Read More -