Collective Thoughts

Collective Wanderings; Take 3

Our 3rd week of Collective Wanderings draws to a close. This time around, we’ve added a thought to compliment the regular roundup…

Enjoy your weekend!!

Brian’s picks

• Essential Skills of a community manager - Chris Brogan
• Web networking photos come back to bite defendants - Yahoo News
• If your blog’s ranking is falling, is that really your fault, or Technorati’s? - The Viral Garden

Dave’s picks

• Socialititis strikes social media users - SEO Mentor
• New communication theory and roles - Brian Solis
• Twitter is not a micro-blogging tool - Mashable
• For a web analyst; what is social media? - Web Metrics Guru

Mark’s picks

• Open web foundation officially launches - TechCrunch
• No more software patents - Mashable
• Myspace to join OpenId - TechCrunch
• World’s first mainstream semantic web - Primal Fusion
• iPhone apps as marketing tools - Start up hustle
• MySpace/Facebook ignore location on iPhone at their peril -TechCrunch

Shana’s picks

• Create an Effective Strategy for Managing Your Online Profiles - Search Engine People
• 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky - ProBlogger

Brian also wanted to pass along his wishes in light of the passing of Randy Pausch; Achieving your childhood dreams

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Open Web Awards: Judge’s Choices Winners!

Hello everybody who voted in the Open Web Awards hosted by Mashable.

Back in November Mashable presented their Open Web Awards and invited Collective Thoughts to be one of the Judges. The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0

We would like to anounce the overall “people’s choice” winners.

Mainstream and Large Social Networks = Facebook

Applications and Widgets = Flock

Social News and Social Bookmarking = Digg

Social Search = Mahalo

Sports and Fitness = ESPN

Photo Sharing = Flickr

Video Sharing = YouTube

Start Pages = Netvibes

Places and Events = Meetup

Music = Last.fm

Social Shopping = Woot

Mobile = Twitter

Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks = FilmCrave

Thank you to everyone who participated with us in this event.

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Time to vote - Open Web Awards

It’s time to get those fingers ready and to get voting in the Open Web Awards 2007, you helped us choose who we would put forward to the various votes and now its time to see who you want to go on to San Francisco.

“You are voting for your favourite in the various categories in the Open Web Awards, a distributed contest to find the best sites on the web. The top three sites in each category will proceed to the final round starting December 17th, and there will be an awards ceremony at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco on January 10th, 2008.”

To Vote - http://mashable.com/openwebawards

You have until 16th of December a run down of all the nominations and for more information please visit the Mashable recap page.

To all the nominations good luck from the Collective Thoughts team, and if your blog is not one of the nominated why not try your luck as one of our social ninjas.

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Open Web Awards - Lets Have Some Action

Nominations are now closed! - To vote for your favourite see here

The Open Web Awards are now open for nominations until the 6th December, and this stage of the proceeding is quite open plan.

The current 30 blogging partners (increasing daily) have been provided with a list of categories to accept nominations for, and it is down to each blog to decide how to proceed with collecting nominations, whether to make individual posts for each category, or to handle things from a single post.

Voting will take place in a much more refined manner.

1. Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
2. Applications and Widgets
3. Social News and Social Bookmarking
4. Social Search
5. Sports and Fitness
6. Photo Sharing
7. Video Sharing
8. Start Pages
9. Places and Events
10. Music
11. Social Shopping
12. Mobile
13. Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

I have already posted about this on my solo blog with an emphasis on blogging tools and widgets, but so far I have had a very lacklustre response.

Emphasis here is going to be placed on other categories, but that doesn’t restrict you nominating in multiple categories and you are allowed to make nominations on multiple blogs taking part, so you make the same nominations here, on my solo blog, and on the other 28 blogs taking part, though some may have less friendly guidelines.

• Has the exponential growth of Sphinn impressed you?
• Are you a Stumbleupon addict?
• Are you Stirring it up on Mixx?
• Are you a devout (or immoral) Digger?

We just can’t stick to social news however, don’t forget how important Facebook, Twitter, Pownce etc are becoming in your daily online lives

How do you fire up your day?

• IGoogle
• MyYahoo
• Netvibes
• Pageflakes?

How To Nominate

We are going to make this easy to avoid multiple comments

I am going to allow up to 3 nominations for each category, just add an additional line with a nomination if you want to nominate say more that one widget or niche social network.

Just because someone else has already nominated a site doesn’t mean you shouldn’t also nominate it. If they end up with nominations for 100s of different widgets, I am sure there will have to be some filtering, so your additional votes will be important.

<b>My Nominations</b>
Name of Service - URL - (Applications and Widgets)
Name of Service - URL - (Social News and Social Bookmarking)
Name of Service - URL - (Social Search)
Name of Service - URL - (Sports and Fitness)
Name of Service - URL - (Photo Sharing)
Name of Service - URL - (Video Sharing)
Name of Service - URL - (Start Pages)
Name of Service - URL - (Places and Events)
Name of Service - URL - (Music)
Name of Service - URL - (Social Shopping)
Name of Service - URL - (Mobile)
Name of Service - URL - (Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks)

I have made it easy to copy and paste the code.

If you don’t want to nominate a service for a particular category, then just delete the line.

Don’t forget you can also nominate again over on my solo blog, and elsewhere.

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