Author Archives: Vidar 'blacktar' Andersen

About Vidar 'blacktar' Andersen

Entrepreneur, Bootstrapper, Norwegian Legal Alien in CGN, Co-Founder of Gauss - The People Magnet: http://getGauss.com Plone & more in the past. Let's talk! +1 (408) 533-8042

A Strategy for Managing Social Media Proliferation [Report]

Dear friends and followers, the ever brilliant Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) recently posted a new Altimeter report that might be of interest. From the post: Get account control now –or risk a career of continual social media sanitation. To match the … Continue reading

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“State of Social Business”, Jeremiah Owyang at LeWeb 2011

Dear friends and followers, we wish you a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year and leave you with this brilliant talk by Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) at the recent LeWeb 2011 in Paris. Climb the Social Business Hierarchy of … Continue reading

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-Is Your Business Antisocial? [BLOG]

Dear Friends and followers, Brian Solis recently posted some interesting thoughts about how businesses trying to be social can in fact be antisocial that you might find stimulating. [...]Social networks usher in a era of transparency and authenticity and these … Continue reading

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Introduction to Social Media Measurement with HootSuite [WHITEPAPER]

Dear friends and followers, the company HootSuite recently released a whitepaper on social media measurement that may be of interest. View more documents from HootSuite

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The History of Social Media from 550 BC to Today [INFOGRAPHIC]

Dear friends and followers, skloog.com recently published a chart of the history of social media that might be of interest to you:

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Ragan Social Media Governance [PRESENTATION]

Dear friends and followers, you might find this presentation on Social Media Governance from Ragan and the Fibonacci Design Group of interest. View more presentations from The Fibonacci Design Group, LLC

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-A Brief Cartoon History of Social Networking [PRESENTATION]

Dear friends and followers, the people at PeopleBrowsr recently commissioned a creative presentation that you might find of interest: View more presentations from PeopleBrowsr

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The Best Free Social Media Tracking Tools [LIST]

Dear friends and followers, earlier we mentioned a list of 20 Social Media Management Systems by Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang). Recently, Lauren Fisher (@LaurenFisher) posted a list of the best free social media tracking tools over at The Next Web that … Continue reading

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Google Social Search Updated [NEWS]

Dear friends and followers, today Google updated their social search to e.g. include shared content in the regular search results that you might find of interest. You can read more about it over at the Google Blog and searchengineland.com. Social … Continue reading

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- Introducing the Twitterverse Console [BLOG]

Dear friends and followers, Laura Fitton (@pistachio) of OneForty recently wrote a guest post over at Brian Solis‘ (@briansolis) blog introducing the Twitterverse Console that you might find interesting. From the blog post: Back in 2009 when @oneforty was a … Continue reading

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