Everyone wants better answers to the question "What is Social Media?" [Este poste está también disponible en español.]
Here are my top 5 Slideshare Groups and some information about how to make the best use of Slideshare as a research tool for Social Media.
- Social Media Leadership
- Trust and Challenge in Social Media Networks
- The User Centered Web
- Online Brand Strategies
- SHIFT (an event on Slideshare)
Discovery is the New Co******* (presentation about the addiction of discovery)
From my next-door neighbor, "So what do you mean when you say Social Media, are you talking MySpace and stuff like that?" So here is my most recent SlideShare deck where I look into the Open Source Trends and how business is being changed forever by this variation on the Social Media movement.
Forrester's J Owyang and Chistine Li are working hard to define the rails for business customers. The Gartners and Ogilvy's of the business are all trying to nail it down for their clients as well.
"Can social media pull us out of the recession? Can we blog, chat and commune our way out of this financial mess?"
Though I am pretty certain we need more than "words" to provide the proverbial bootstrap yank, everyone in Social Media wants to believe that we are on the crest of the next wave of innovation. From TWITTER [I'd say that's the most recent game-changer, that many of us played around with at SXSWi 2006 and I thankfully left behind after the show.] to Google's Apps and Chrome and Android and … [well, Google is amazing and must be watched like a hawk.]
Okay, enough of the ramble… Here's the nut! Slideshare is a Social Media innovation. Here's why and here's how to get the most out of it.
In the wide world of figuring Social Media out, many folks are putting together decks and decks and decks of information. And if you know where to look these visualizations, info graphics, beautiful and very expensive research decks are available as PowerPoint, or PDF or even voice annotated SlideStreams. And for learning, I can only think of one more powerful tool, Lynda.com. And beyond that you need to get a SlideShare account and start reading what "we're" writing. And hey, if you add some insights of your own [I certainly try to] then you should upload the presentation to SlideShare yourself. I'll add it to some of the groups listed below.
@jmacofearth
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