This blog is now mobile
24 נוב' 08
Hey all,
Just wanted to let you all know you can now read my blog through your mobile. Windows Mobile, iPhone, Opera Mini- it's all supported.
Go take a look, i'd love to know what you think.
Allways Be Available: Understanding Social Media
23 נוב' 08
Next week I'm going to speak about social media, how it affects our life and how we can use it to our personal and professional benefits.
I'm very excited about this and the preparations are almost over:)
If you want to come please visit the event page on Facebook and RSVP yourself. The date: November 30th, 19:00. The rest of the details are inside. It's free and in Hebrew .
Social Media, The Final Frontier
19 נוב' 08
I am so utterly excited about the upcoming release of Star Trek 11 in May 2009, with a new and young Kirk, a young Spock and a young crew… of actors and of writers with J.J Abrahms at the helm.
I have been a Star Trek fan even before I was a Star Trek Fan… I became a fan when I was 14.
At 16 realized i would love it forever, at 21 I opened a Hebrew website (kinda like a blog) and wrote there about Star Trek Enterprise' s weekly episodes for 4 years, at 25 I led the Israeli campaign to Save Enterprise as a part of the international campaign. Yes, I'm a Trekkie, I'm proud of it.
As you all know, Enterprise never made it after season 4. The TV ratings were low, but the episode downloads were very high. Like many other TV shows, there are more viewers online than there are viewers on TV. you know what I mean, right?
It's almost 2009 now and Trekkie stays a Trekkie, but I'm also into social media and the affect it has on people is astonishing.
Now I wonder, its the social media era, we're all into buzz, socializing and avanglizing the stuff we love, and Star Trek 11- this one has to succeed this time because if it fails, the suits at Viacom will never give another chance to trek through the stars again and we have to make it work (I hope a successful movie will create a new series, or another movie, or a mini series, or something), and it can work, if we all work together on this, link to the movie site (it's great by the way), link to each other, buzz it, push it higher, beam it up to where no movie has gone before, it's in our hands. Make it so.
Here are some screen shots from the new Star Trek trailer, have fun.
ps- if you're a Trekkie too leave me a msg, its been a while since i've met new Trekkie friends
תגיות: make it so, Social Media, star trek, startrek, trek
Some Rules for Social Media Users
18 נוב' 08
Add people you know and care about
Don't add people you never heard of just because they asked, close circles aren't close enough for you to get feeds from them most of the time
Don't worry about how it looks, you'll see the benefit from it later
Send a Happy Birthday, try doing it every day, it'll pay you off
Meet your social graph in the real life. Real life is the extension of your social web.
Social web is the extension of your real life relationships
It's like the chicken and the egg, but here we actually know what came first
Be who you really are, don't try to fake or pretend, your social graph has a photographic memory, be careful
News travels fast, you can use it
The world is flat, you can use it
In social networks it is possible for anyone to know anyone, be careful whom you cyber with.
Share links
Share what you're doing with your friends
Comment
Work on your profile continuously, it's not meant to be a monument
Don't be afraid to remove people you're totally not in touch with
See what's up with your friends, you'd be surprised at what you might find
Reading is not enough- Comment
Write something in your blogging platform
Link to others
Be large with what you do
The places you're stopped in your social web activity are the places you're stopped in your life
But don't be reckless, be smart
Be authentic
Be loving, it's good for business, any business, even if it's not business
Remember
תגיות: social graph, Social Media, social networks
Photos and Links from Wordcamp Israel 2008
17 נוב' 08
Yesterday was Wordcamp Israel 2008 and I was asked to be the photographer for this event, so i was, gladly. Many others already wrote about this event, plus, my original post was lost somehow, so this is actually my second post I write about WordpressIsrael2008, the tag for this event in search engines.
So, because so many people already wrote about this, I just wanna share with you that I uploaded 144 photos to my Facebook Albums and that they are available to the public even though my profile is limited to friends only. I have also uploaded something like 30 somthing photos to Flickr.
The fun part in Facebook is that people tag other people, and even people who are not my friends can view and tag photos. It was so much fun getting more than 60 notifications from facebook about tagging, comments, friend requests, wall posts, all that… It made me feel like Facebook is a bit more open, but honestly, it isn't, yet. But in time… you'll see, they'll change.
Wordcamp and my choice to put the photos deliberately in Facebook (and only later on Flickr) thought me another lesson in the power of social networks in the world, not only that, I think every business today, every business, should think how to elevete itself using social networks and establishing a full time social presence on the web. More about that in the future, or you can contact me directly.
links about Wordcamp:
Gili Taguri- Happy Birthday (Hebrew)
Ira Abramov- live blogging from Wordcamp 2008 (Hebrew)
Oren Todoros aka SEOVice with a cool video from Wordcamp and some use of my photos (English)
Raanan Bar-Cohen- with his presentation about Wordpress (English)
Wordpress Garage- about the Wordpress Camp (English)
Compucall- a presentation about SEO in Wordpress (English)
Ring of Blogs- about the Gravatar enabled badges (passport photos in the nametags)
Please visit my photos on Facebook: all Wordcamp photos are licensed creative commons
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תגיות: wordcampisrael2008
