Do You Sound Clouds?

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This is not a particularly long post, no, it’s just a wee note to let you know that we’ve got a Sound Cloud account.

I signed up to use the system for our online-radio (podcast) and the good people over at the cloud upgraded us (Ben Fawkes), which is amazingly nice of them. Ben is on twitter here twitter.com/benfawkes

So I’ve not uploaded anything yet, I’ve not produced any content, I’m still waiting to program the activity into my schedule, but I feel it is close.

I’d be interested to hear if you use Sound Cloud? – even as a consumer or content producer, how do you use the service? Feel free to post up your SoundCloud link.

 

Social Media and the Courts

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Presentation at Law Tech Camp Toronto on June 18, 2011 at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.

SOCIAL MEDIA TRACK

Social Media and the Courts presented by Omar Ha-Redeye
Should reporters and members of the public be allowed to live-tweet courtroom proceedings?  How much weight should Facebook photos and comments be afforded in litigation? Should jury members be restricted from all social media use during trial?  Social media has changed the way information is distributed in society.  In the absence of specific regulations, the role of social media in the courts has largely been left to judicial discretion.  But is the judiciary necessarily the best arbitrator on what the balance between competing interest should be, especially when they are not necessarily active users of social media?  Come share some of your thoughts based on your own social media and legal experiences.

Omar Ha-Redeye is a 2010 graduate of the University of Western Ontario.  A prolific writer and active user of social media and blogs, he is frequently contacted by the legal media and consulted by law firms on technology issues in the legal field.  He is currently an Adjuct Faculty member at Ryerson University, and will be called to the Ontario bar on June 16, 17, 2011. You can visit him at his personal website.

 

Social Media and the Courts

On-Line Radio

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So after much deliberation, over a long period of time, I’ve made a decision to start a Social Media Mafia Radio Show!

You what?

Well yes, an on-line radio show with me hosting it. The show will likely be available to be streamed on-line and also available as a download, for playing in portable devices.

I used to run a show many years ago which featured great music, interviews, opinion and some featured guest slots.

One thing for sure it will be a roller coaster ride and you can well imagine what fun we can have with the Social Media Mafia brand itself.

The details need to be worked out, which is where you come in.

So, what sort of things would you like to listen to on such a show? Some of the questions at this point include:

  • how long?
  • what content?
  • what guests?
  • what news?
  • what format?
  • how frequent?
  • what music?

If you have some thoughts please stick them in the comment section below so we can get our heads together.

Social Media Do’s and Don’ts

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social media dos and don'ts

As the title suggests this post is an attempt to crowd source some ideas regarding social media Dos and Don’ts.

I could sit and ponder based on years of experience, I could also trawl the Internet and find more than thousands of case studies. But no, here I am interested in what YOU think?

I am interested in what you think because I know you will have experience, you will have come across things that have worked first hand, or second, or third and you will have also come across things which have failed miserably.

It is your opinion I value, and as a Family member I know you like to give and share your experience.

Essentially then this is another Family mission, I want you to state what you feel are your top 10 Do’s and Don’t regarding social media.

To get us started I am using the wonderful resource of Not Rules Tools from Ogilvy One.

Do

  • Tailor what you do to the specific social networking site.
  • Communicate with users in ways that they anticipate, expect and appreciate.
  • Provide incentives for users to disseminate your message.
  • Remember that the user doesn’t have to interact with you, so provide a compelling reason to do so in their language and their world.
  • Remember that people social network to have fun!

Don’t

  • Invest a huge amount of money without a business objective or metrics plan.
  • Try to recreate functionality that already exists that people are already using.
  • Force people to enter or offer too much information in order to network with you.
  • Drop the ball on keeping in touch with your users.
  • Fail to give them credit for their ideas.

I think you’ll agree a pretty darn fine kick-off point.

So, over to you, what would be your Top 10 Social Media Dos and Don’ts?

 

Social Media in Education – Friend or Foe?

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Here is a presentation I gave at the Ontario Bar Association in Toronto, Canada on May 26, 2011:

OBA – Social Media, Friend or Foe
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Social Media in Business 2011

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Social Media in Business

So our friends at Social Media in Business are ramping up for an autumn conference in London. One of the most important things with events of this nature is ensuring they absolutely offer a programme that educates the audience, or the participants, should I say.

The SMiB tag line is “educating businesses in how to use social media” and in fact the core value really is education in the true sense of the word. The SMiB background is academic, workshop based and always interactive. The two previous conferences, 2009, 2010 have encouraged this, and the team desire to ramp this up further for 2011. It’s not the type of environment where agencies are encouraged to “pimp”, it’s the type of environment where transparent open knowledge sharing is encouraged.

Naturally all event organisers like to touch on what is relevant, what is hot, what is now. This doesn’t always happen of course and sometimes many event companies do miss the mark by quite a wide margin. Which is why SMiB are asking you for your thoughts on facebook, crowd-sourcing if you like.

Your Mission

As a practitioner of social media, a Family member, a user, an addict, a business, a potential attendee, what would YOU like to get out of the next conference? What subject? What format and even perhaps who? Doesn’t matter if you do not plan on attending or can’t, you opinion is what I am after.

What do you say?