A – Z of Social media – B is for…
Welcome back to the second in the series of the a-z of social media challenge, in which we try and find an alphabet of social media stuff that we think, is groovy.
Today I’m grabbing the baton from Anna, I’m continuing with B, and when I’m done, one of my esteemed colleagues will take the baton for C, get it?
Please do add other cool stuff that you can think for the B’s into the comments.
B
BBC backstage
BBC backstage is a developer network, it purpose is to encourage the use of BBC data in “mashups” and other online applications, at present it’s only for non-commercial use.
Their tag line is: “use our stuff to build your stuff”
Pretty straight forward really, a nice example of this is a “mashup” of BBC news with user generated content from Flickr (the photo sharing website) and you tube.
It doesn’t always work amazingly, but a good example of what can be done.
Check it out here to see the latest news stories linked with the latest user generated content:
http://www.richardaskew.co.uk/infusednews/
Blip.tv
Blip is a video blogging / podcast service, I really like it.
It seems a lot more flexible than You tube with less of the rubbish.
The player is really nice and unfussy, which is often a big turn off with the You tube player which feels cramped.
Advertising is the great thing about Blip, if you happen to make a video series that loads of people are attracted to they’ll find a sponsor for the show and split the profits with you 50/50. Nice.
Checkout the A’s here:
http://www.nixonmcinnes.co.uk/category/a2z-of-social-media/
Anyone got any more cool B’s? Would be great to see them!
Update from Twitter:
ihowie: @willmcinnes – The marketing of The Secret? Again may be I’m confusing Brand Mobilisation with Brand Infiltration.
ihowie: @willmcinnes LIlly Allen was unsigned and used social to get a buzz going and that lead to a record contract.
ihowie: @willmcinnes Brand Infiltration – The Obama campaign – they registered 1.5 million volunteers using Social Media.
marceatsworld: @willmcinnes it’s great for travelling. Check in, post photos and notes at locations based on GPS.
rosiesherry: @willmcinnes B is for @BarackObama
ihowie: @willmcinnes More Bs… Bookmarking, Best Practices, Branding Strategies, Buy ads in Social Media…
ihowie: @willmcinnes Bs… Brand infiltration, Blogger (service), Blogroll, micro-Blogging, Biggest Mistakes Made in Social Media, B to B Blogs
james2m: @willmcinnes BarCamp
empika: @willmcinnes Boo Bees?
prycie: @willmcinnes Bebo. I am too old but I have heard its what the kids do
robin1966: @willmcinnes Bahu, Backlink,
marceatsworld: @willmcinnes Brightkite! One of my new favourite iPhone apps
Patrick Mays wrote this on 10.11.08 – 6 comments
It's filed in the A2Z of Social Media, NixonMcInnes, Social media, Social networks box
On November 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pm, helen responded:
Ooohh… nice Bs.
You could also have (though not exactly ‘groovy’):
B is for Bebo
or B is for bookmarks
or B is for http://www.boxedup.com/
and a truly scary one… B is for benchmarks! yeah, ok, maybe let’s ignore that one…
xx
On November 10th, 2008 at 5:42 pm, Will McInnes responded:
Blogs?
Buzz monitoring?
Bebo?
Backlash?
On November 10th, 2008 at 5:44 pm, helen responded:
I forgot Blip.fm for the week they destroyed Twitter feeds with spammy ‘I am listening to PJ & Duncan’ messages!
x
On November 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pm, Jonathan Markwell responded:
Brighton?
BarCamp?
:)
On November 11th, 2008 at 4:25 pm, Will McInnes responded:
BRIGHTON!!!
On December 1st, 2008 at 7:59 pm, Richard Askew responded:
Cheers for the link ;-)
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