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Troll season is back

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Strumpette (Amanda Chapel) was pretty quiet since a long time. And she seems keen to tease Text 100 these days.

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Of course, the Tweet has gone   -_-

Just as a reminder of the relationship between Amanda Chapel and Text 100 :

She is probably the first and official Troll against Text 100. Priceless   ^_^

Troll management reminders

So, just as a reminder also, a few wise links about Troll management :

And, do not forget : DO NOT FEED THE TROLL !

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3301820858_5b022885e6_m.jpg

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Should PR own Social Media?

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Obviously yes. But I think the question needs sometimes to be raised. This article I discovered lately discusses this question, and offer an overview of the reasons why PR should own Social Media over Marketing or Advertising department.

As for me, I tend to think that
1/ we also need to demonstrate always more that PR is relevant for Social Media to our clients. They sometimes just don’t have a correct vision of what it implies in term of conversation, relation and discussion management.
2/ we need ever more to blend Social Media in our daily PR activity (this is sometimes considered as something “optional”)
3/ we should also need to consider teaming with partner for delivering appealing online campaigns. And I’m thinking on the technical aspects of social media campaign (should we create a blog ? Can someone tweak me the blog’s code ? Do we have somewhere a designer dealing with CSS ? We need to create a facebook app, is there a code-wizard somewhere ?)

How do you deal with these questions on your respective country ?

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Disruptionblog blocked in China – update / not anymore

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Jeremy wrote that the blog cannot be accessed from China recently.  The great firewall of China striked again :’-(

We are currently trying to find a solution – it seems that the server’s IP address hosting the Disruptionblog website is now blocked in China (as well as the other websites hosted on the server with this IP address).

Comments from anyone having experienced similar issues are more than welcome …

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[update] not anymore, apparently ^_^

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New resources

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Following the update of the plateform, a couple of improvements have been done.
Links collection : a collection of blog related to Text 100 is now available on the sidebar. Do not hesitate to visit them or to request to add them.
Who’s who page : on the pages available on the tab menu, a who’s who section has been created : it’s a directory of all the Disruption Blog user registered, based on the info available on their profile. The page is in progress, but currently, you should have the basic information.
Weekly newsletter : a weekly newsletter is also in the pipe to allow users to get the best of the week, if they cannot follow the blog on a regular basis, and to spread the content.

Jo from NYC is also conducting a new experiment to share info on a wiki with, hopefully, a lot of info to be shared here 🙂 : https://text100peermedia.pbwiki.com

Tutorials

Same car, different engine

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Just a rapid word to let you know that the blog engine (wordpress) has been updated to wordpress 2.7 which is faster and more secure. The admin area has also been changed quite a lot. If you feel a bit lost, I recommend you this introduction video about the new feature and interface of wordpress 2.7.

By the way, I also invite you to catch an eye on the great wordpress.tv website recently launched gathering tons of tutorial video about wordpress (I especially recommend you the publishing and admin sections)

You might experience little issues with the upgrade – do not hesitate to notify us and we’ll fix that as soon as possible.

And as always, should you have any question, comment, concern or thought, feel free to share 🙂

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To end with 2008 – New page, modifications of design

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As you may have noticed, the design of the blog has been slightly modified.
IE7 users, my apologies – I still cannot figure out why it doesn’t work with Internet explorer. Still need to work on it … Maybe for 2009 🙂

Recommendations, suggestions, ideas and comments are more than welcome.

A new page has also been added on the tabbed menu at the top of the screen : Text 100 Radar is a collection of what is said on Text 100 in the social media (twitter, youtube, flickr, blogs, etc). You might already track these on your RSS reader – feel free to make recommandation about it, if you wish to add services, etc …

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Twitter – looking for someone ?

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Maybe it’s time for a wrap up of ’08: Winner for the social media of the year would be … Twitter, I guess … With 5000 to 10 000 new users everyday, about 5 millions new users have joined twitter in 08. I’ve attached for reference hereunder the full study by Hubspot, if you have haven’t already seen it.

“A year ago Twitter was a relatively small community of techies and Web 2.0 geeks, now it is going mainstream,” the report said.

“Twitter is not only being talked about and used by a lot more people, but more and more marketing industry events and conferences are using Twitter as a standard means of communication,” it said.

HubSpot said 35 percent of Twitter users have 10 or fewer “followers” — people who subscribe to receive their 140-characters-or-less messages — while nine percent of Twitter users follow no one at all.

The average number of followers for a Twitter user is 70, it said, and the average person follows 69 people.

The report said Twitter traffic was the highest on Wednesdays and Thursdays and dropped off by about 30 percent over the weekend.

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And what now if you want to look for someone ?

For a long time, finding new people to follow on Twitter was really painful. But recently, Twitter relaunched the search engine for people, which is way more efficient (if people have given their real name).
http://twitter.com/search/users

Another tool that appeared recently : The Twitter Grade, which measures the reach and authority of a Twitter user

http://twitter.grader.com
Pretty convenient to sort out people.
Especially since they released a very interesting ranking – the Twitter “Elite” : http://twitter.grader.com/topusers

Chris has already covered in the past tools such as twellow to identify users
In the news category : http://www.twellow.com/category_users/cat_id/50)
In the bloggers category : http://www.twellow.com/category_users/cat_id/78

Worth to be mentioned : this wiki with people from the media on twitter.
http://mediaontwitter.pbwiki.com/

I also liked very much Twitdir, which seems to be off for maintenance these days …
http://twitdir.com

And to conclude, the shorty awards indicated by Erica will also be a good way to explore new contacts.
http://disruptionblog.com/?p=559

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What does the european blogosphere looks like in November ?

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Eurorss_3_3Curious to know what does the the european blogosphere looks like, and what are the hot topics in November in Europe ? Wikio (a french news/blogs search engine covering the european blogosphere) publishes every month interesting overview of what’s going on in the european blogs, and what is said.

Unfortunately for you, it’s in French. And as I’m becoming lazy these days, I forward you the link over google translate ^_^

You’ll see that in November Spain has been pretty active, then the German and UK blogosphere are just in front of the French and Italian blogosphere.

Top 50 blogs in Europe in November (the original post)
Translated with google

Should you have any question, or if you like further info about blogs in a specific region, feel free to ask on comments.