#38: The “illions” Episode with Andy Glover
Posted on 23 July 2010 by LunaWeb
The Social Expedition was lucky enough to snag a moment of Andy Glover’s time, which he spends in his studies for his Doctorate in Organizational Development and Change and his position as the Help Desk Manager at Methodist Healthcare.
Wait, Organizational Development and Change? What what? What does that mean? Well, the hint is that it has a lot to how social media has changed not only business, but the customer and how they choose to interact with a business. To learn more about it, check out the podcast. Andy seriously has some interesting observations to share.
He promised to send us some resources for those who want to look further into the ideas he’s exploring in his doctoral program. When he gets that over to me, it will replace this very sentence. Then, go find Andy on Twitter and at his blog!
For the rest of the show, we present to you the “illions.” 500 million Facebook users. 100 million Foursquare check-ins a day. We’ve got the statistics.
Then, aggregation tools are so in. The iPad app Flipboard is pretty, but overwhelmed by their traffic. Yet another location-based service (LBS), Scvngr makes us long for check-in aggregation. Enter FourWhere and Check.in, and they’re just two of the many that are popping up. Ping.fm is kind of the opposite of an aggregation tool- it will take a post and shoot it to your Twitter, Facebook, blog, and any other networks you hook it up to. It’s a great idea to set it up to be an emergency broadcast system, but we definitely discourage using this method for your regular posting. After all, Twitter and Facebook are different for a reason.
Lastly, we didn’t have time to cover this in the podcast, but we definitely want to encourage people to participate in YouTube’s Life in a Day project. Take some video on Saturday, July 24 that reflects your daily life, and send it in. The most compelling video will be compiled into a feature film that will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival. So pull out your cameras and take part, folks!
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Tags | aggregation, Andy Glover, Check.in, facebook, Flipboard, FourSquare, FourWhere, illions, LBS, Life in a Day, Ping, Ping.fm, Scvngr, Twitter, Youtube
July 26th, 2010 at 11:27 am
I downloaded Flipboard on the first day and was impressed, but since then it has been a HUGE disappointment. Their lack of ability to let me link in my Facebook and Twitter streams make the app serious lacking if it is suppose to be THE social media app.
There advice now is to download the new 1.0.1 version and send them your email address, so that they can put you in line for Facebook and Twitter integration.
This is probably the worst launch a company can have. They had huge press from Apple, Mashable, Techcrunch, and other media outlets and then fall flat on their face. This is beyond the Fail Whale and the Sad Girl, this is just flat out not coming to school with a project that you had months to get ready and asking for another week or two…or three.
July 26th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
A good analogy. Flipboard has definitely suffered for their lack of preparation. Let’s see if the “pretty” component can carry them through the “doesn’t function” problem. Hey- it worked for the iPhone 4…