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Kami Talks About Social Media Trends For 2008

Over at Communications Overtones, Kami Huyse, has a great post on Social Media Trends for 2008.

Kami address the realities of trends and predictions from 2007, what she missed, and her own views of what's to come in 2008.

The one prediction of Kami's I personally liked the best is what she called Social Network Fatigue.  Right on Kami!

As someone who is pretty active in the social media space, and likes to try the new next big thing, I have to admit that I just don't have the time to post and converse on every platform known to social media man-kind, let alone keep up with everyone's blog, posting on my FaceBook page, or cruise over to a link I see on Twitter.

Worth Reading.

Five Ways Social Networking is Changing PR

Blogger buddy, Kami Watson Huyse, has a very good post on what she called Five Ways Social Networking is Changing PR.

If you are trying to figure it out, or just get your arms around how Social Media is really changing our business, Kami points to 5 trends including:

1. Flattening Hierarchy
2. Time Shifting
3. Virtual Connections
4. Digital Tools
5. Convergence

Worth Reading!

Recommended Reading: David Meerman Scott's "The New Rules of Marketing and PR"

Blogger buddy, Kami Watson Huyse, recommended David Meerman Scott's new book, "The New Rules of Marketing and PR." 

I just got it from Amazon, and it's on my airplane reading list.

Am posting from the SA airport en route to meetings in Dallas and will update will future posts once I get into and then complete the book.

My first impression is that it's practical and to the point- with a focus on looking at how companies, large and small, should think about being their own publishers of meaningful and engaging content for the media and of course, the company's publics.

Reforestation in Second Life: An Oxymoron

News from bloggy buddy, Kami Huyse's blog post of today....

Rob Key, CEO of Conversion  will present on “karmiccommunication', environmentalism in Second Life and Converseon's approach to engaging with virtual world communities.

Conversion has partnered with non-profit Plan It 2020,a foundation dedicated to properly planting, maintaining and protecting as many indigenous trees as possible worldwide.

Details

Date: Thursday May 17, 2007
Place: Second Chance Trees Island 
Time: 6:30 a.m. Pacific (SL Time) | 7:30 Mountain a.m. | 8:30 Central a.m. | 9:30 a.m.
For more information on the project, you can read the media release , visit the Second Chance Trees  website and look at some pictures on their Flickr site .

Kami Categorizes Social Networking

Blogger buddy, Kami Watson Huyse has a well written post that best categorizes what she calls the "Seven Boxes of Social Media".

Kami outlines and gives examples of

• Publishing platforms
• Social networking sites
• Democratized content networks
• Virtual networking platforms
• Information aggregators
• Edited social news platforms
• Content distribution sites

Great post, Kami.  Worth Reading!

Blogger Buddy, Kami Watson Inteviews Me At the Olmos Soda Fountain in San Antonio

Blogger buddy and Social Media guru, Kami Watson Huyse interviews me at the Olmos Soda Fountain on my take on blogging.

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