Social networks

Who the Tweet are you?

Jan 21st, 2009 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Social networks, The Lean Forward Blog, Twitter

I was told I had a new follower by Twitter today (I’m JenWilsonSydney if you weren’t across this).
 In the good manners of reciprocal social, I clicked on their link to see who they were so I could chose what I would do. Generally, if I’m being followed by a real person, who has any shared […]



Is a Change in Social Capital/Currency Afoot?

Jan 14th, 2009 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Facebook, Social networks, The Lean Forward Blog

I am not a daily reader of the stars, but I do think astrology often has interesting things to say. I’ve had too many coincidental things happen (and too many scarily accurate astroligical readings) to not pay some mind to this. Let’s add two personal facts to this: I am a Sagittarian,  and the first […]



Social networking: Collaboration, Aggregation or Disintermediation?

Jan 6th, 2009 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Facebook, Media, Social networks, The Lean Forward Blog

This last year has been a year for the rise of the social network aggregator, or, if not a tool, the rise of aggregation through collaboration. I discovered this to my own horror when I realised that my Twitter posts were appearing as Facebook status updates. I had done this so that I could appear […]



Seeing some light

Apr 14th, 2008 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Applications, Mobile, Social networks, The Lean Forward Blog

Two recent things have happened that make me feel as though we really are on the cusp of some exciting new stuff in the mobile application world.
 I’ve talked about how raving over the mobile internet is really just raving over the current major communication form on the brand new medium (radio with pictures). This shouldn’t […]



The New Natives

Dec 6th, 2007 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Lead Article, Mobile, Social networks

Rupert Murdoch certainly created a common term when he referred to himself as a ‘digital immigrant’. The term ‘ditigal native’ has become common enought that I received a chart today with a generational breakdown showing where groups ar natives, immigrants or aliens.
I think the same thing is happening in mobile, and that it has happened […]



FaceBook vs mySpace

Sep 25th, 2007 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Facebook, MySpace, Social networks, The Lean Forward Blog

Reading today about the battle (so called) for the social network space. Will it be facebook, will mySpace? Will it be both of them, one or the other? Does it really matter?
In my discussions with GenC a couple of consistent themes come up:

we go where our network is
we prefer to message people through the social […]



Email is a Window-Face Envelope

Sep 13th, 2007 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Facebook, Instant Message, MySpace, Social networks, The Lean Forward Blog

First - no excuses for the silence, but sometimes work gets in the way of a good idea!
I was recently at a session on social networking with a couple of school kids who were talking about how they communicate with each other and with their networks.
On the whole, their preferred manner is through the network […]