Last Wednesday we attended the launch of ‘The Conversity Model’, a brand new book by Clo Willaerts (@bnox). The story builds upon The Conversation manager, and provides a model that helps companies to get more out of social media.
We had a short talk with the author:
Last Friday, we all witnessed the biggest earthquake in Japanese history. Looking at the images from it was just unbelievable. How did I find out about this drama? Not via CNN, not via the radio news, but by looking at my Twitter stream.
According to an analysis from Trendrr, which tracks terms on Twitter, the word “earthquake” reached 19,360 tweets per hour when the earthquake first struck, and peaked at 35,430 Twitter posts an hour as people started waking up in the U.S. By late March 11, a total of 246,075 Twitter posts using the term “earthquake” had been posted to the microblogging service.
More and more we see that consumers pick up breaking news by watching their Twitter timeline.
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Nearly 80% of children under the age of 5 use the Internet on at least a weekly basis in the United States, according to this report from Joan Ganz Cooney Center released Monday. But what’s the best age to teach kids about social media? Due to the policy of Twitter and Facebook they can’t open an account unless they’re 13 years or older. So just wait?
Today I found a nice case about Twitter in the Class room. Kelly Tenkely (@ktenkely) has setup a social media program where social media is used as an effective tool for reflection and communication with the school community but also teaches the kids about social media.
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Recently, I went on a snowboarding holiday in Austria. To be very honest with you, I know nothing about snowboarding holidays. I only had one previous attempt at snowboarding, and that was with a bunch of other beginners in France a couple of years ago. It ended with a painful wrist, but that’s another story. This time, I went with my girlfriend, who is an experienced skier, and a couple of friends who totally kick ass at snowboarding. They chose Austria as a destination, where I had never gone for a snow-holiday before, and decided on a hotel, what I never had as accommodation for skiing before.
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This week I attended the Enterprise Social 2.0 conference in Brussels. Organization of the event was done by KGS Global. It was the second edition after the first in Amsterdam last year.
The theme of the conference was ‘Building Customer Relationships through Social Media’ and had international speakers from different blue chip companies such as KLM, AB Inbev, BMW, Toyota, 3M, Lego… A nice list of experts in the Social Media industry was lined up.
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