Hamas has launched a website like YouTube with very uneven purposes like, glorifying the Holly Islamic War or to show episodes of soaps. This site is the first Palestinian site that specializes in audiovisual Islamic and Yihad productions. According to an internet organization “Alexa” the popularity of this site has exploded and only in the last month, it has had more than 20,000 visits.
According to Right Side News, “he new AqsaTube website is another example of how Hamas, like other terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda, have learned to exploit the information revolution to wage the battle for hearts and minds. It joins a long series of websites (in our assessment more than 20), in eight languages, managed and directed by Hamas” Visit Right Side News for more information.
As we can see new social media tools can be used with many purposes. Whether some agree that this example is a good or bad way to use these new tools, it’s going to depend of the person who is giving his/her opinion. You can make your own judgement. AqsaTube
Twitter is remaining secretive but rumors are circling around after the latest round of musical chairs cost Jack Dorsey his CEO chair. One thing is for sure though, Twitter means business. And they will tell us how next year – according to a recent article in Wired magazine.
There is still talk about an ad revenue model by analyzing content of tweets and running relevant advertising alongside the tweets. The real potential of that model will require the collaboration of third-party developers especially for smart phone clients unless Twitter wants to release its own client, of course. Because of the CAN-SPAM act, advertisers and your wireless carrier cannot, if you have not opted-in, send messages directly to your phone. However, if you willingly sign up and agree to the terms of use of a service that will occasionally advertise to you, then the twitter client can acquire geographic data from your smart phone and deliver location-based advertising directly to you in the form of tweets, or if you have the option enabled, as SMS.
Today, the Puget Sound Business Journal announced the launch of its beta TechFlash site. Lead contributors are the well-established technology/business writers from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, John Cook and Todd Bishop. The Web site and online community has plans to launch a tech job board in the future.
Some people out there really dislike slides because they dumb things down and make us think in linear way. But I love when I find a digestible slides that can summarize complex topics and can tell a story. I spent some time on Slideshare and found this presentation from Wah17. Even though it was posted two years ago it explains really well the fundamentals of social media.
But if you are a powerpoint enemy and you are thinking there is not much more to Social Media than a few conceptual slides, check out this collaborative mind map that summarizes all the different topics that the new MCDM cohort is exploring. As you can see, social media is indeed a rich subject to research affects many, many aspects of human life.
This from Wired Magazine correspondent Paul Boutin in a recent post.
“Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.”
Interesting posting yesterday on the PR 20/20 marketing and PR Blog. It notes that among PR Week’s Power List of the top 25 influential people, NONE of them are Twitter users.
The blog posting cites amazement that these people who were awarded the mark of “power” are not even innovative enough to use the social media service. To me, however, this draws attention to two possibilities:
These Powers Listers are indeed missing something and are old-fashioned in their ways
OR – Twitter really isn’t a necessary tool for modern success
Whether you are a fan of Wal-mart’s “always low prices” shelves, or vilify them for their labor practices and effects on small-town America, Josh Bernoff’s blog post on Wal-Mart’s embrace of social applications will lead you to see them in a different light than you might normally.
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