My favorites are numbers 4 ( Your Website Cannot Appeal to Everyone ) and 10 ( You Have Too Much Content ). That’s why, they say, it’s impossible to pare down their content. First of all, I’d like to respond, and I mean this in the nicest way: Have you heard of Wikipedia? Hat tip to @KursaalTom.) Especially number 10. They skim.

On Friday, the Museum of Modern Art launched a redesigned site , seeking to take advantage of the plethora of social media tools now available. SHARING CONTENT As I said, the site uses the universal “ShareThis” icon. Most people who share content are used to seeing this icon at the bottom of an item of interest. Good, right?

ArtBabble is also a social networking site that allows you to save and share favorite videos via email and Facebook. ArtBabble doesn’t allow you to upload your own video content, but it’s very clear about the purpose of the site – to showcase art video and help you spread the word. More: Socially Networked Membership.

Connect to your Web visitors on an emotional level to hook them into the rest of your content. Here's a great summary of this concept from Mark Twain (at least according to Wikipedia's "sound bite" entry): It's "a minimum of sound [or words] to a maximum of sense." Let's face it: People have short attention spans.

When promoting the business case for social media, go primal.talk about fear and opportunity. SF) Web services like YouTube, Slideshare and Flickr are similar to PR services.and in many cases you can still control the content. MG) Do not edit your company Wikipedia entry. SF) Wikipedia is a self-cleansing social network.

This was the first social media/web 2.0 This allowed me to open up some additional data absorption chambers in my head and relax instead of obsessively fine-tuning my own content right up until the last minute as is the usual case. The Democratization of Content Gary Vaynerchuk (VaynerMedia). Expo in Washington D.C. last week.

The Skittles site incorporates social media, if not in a whole new way (lower-profile companies did it first ), then in a way that gives new meaning to transparency on the web. In short, Skittles is using social media like Wikipedia, twitter, and flickr to provide its site content. Skittles. Sorry, MoMA. love you.)

Here's is what MOVED me: "Beyond the lack of confidence in the traditional sources of information lies a more fundamental change, a yearning to move beyond the simple act of consumption of information [my emphasis] to social networking. Tags: social networking new media change leadership big thoughts It was published in early 2006.

Wikipedia has a clear and simple definition : Search engine optimization is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site or a web page (such as a blog) from search engines via unpaid search results [as opposed to paid ads]. In it, Jason sought to own one search term: “Social Media Monitoring Services.”

Wikipedia takes on strategic planning , as the New York Times notes. guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but according to self-reported data, Wikipedia contributors are “more than 80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more than 85 percent without children, around 70 percent under the age of 30.” Wall to wall hipsters! It's free.