Twitter to beta release a “verified” seal for accounts where impersonation is a considerable risk.
This is a screengrab of recent activity on the Flickr Plant Project. It may be a coincidence or it may be that we’ve reached a certain participation threshold, but we’re getting some actual dialogue and plant-related questioning in our comments, which is exactly what we were looking for.
Museum of Life and Science State of the Web
A presentation of projects I’ve worked on in my first year as Director of Web Experience at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC. (Visit the slideshow page to see notes that explain each slide.)
“ So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need “social media marketing” after all.
A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works
Here are some numbers for the traffic we’ve received to lifeandscience.org since January 2008, pulling out “Web 2.0” referrals (e.g. bloggers and social sites like facebook, youtube, flickr, twitter, etc.) for more detail.
I viewed insights for all of the MunchCam! videos we have on YouTube and took screengrabs of each one that had “Hot Spots” data. I then merged them all in a Photoshop document (use the “Darker” layer effect to have them appear to be on one graph) and added some annotation.
I see a trend of greater than average attention for the first few seconds and a waining attention as the animal continues to munch. I wish we had insights for our Barn Spider munch that has a surprise ending to see if that made any difference.
A little robot needs the help of intervening pedestrians to traverse a college campus quad.
tweenbots | kacie kinzer
tweenbots | kacie kinzer
