Remember Casey Nestat?

He did, in February, this excellent short on Chatroulette that became the official explanation of what is the site.

Casey has now published his new video in the same style as the previous video sums up the controversy about Facebook’s privacy.

The very title says: a movie for anyone who is the “blue social network” – Facebook.

A Movie for Anyone On FaceBook from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

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I wrote  many posts about the power of LinkedIn for Social Media Strategies and business.

Everytime I’m speaking on an Internet Marketing Seminar or teaching Social Media Classes I always listen to the same question:

“I’ve got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out there. How do I know which one is worth my time? If I only have time for one, which one should it be?”

Generally I try to explain that all tools available should fit into your strategy and your level of commitment – either time or content production- and I then explain how I use my various online presence and my expectation with each one of them.

However every single time I end up talking about LinkedIn and my fixation with this tool.

What is Linkedin?

LinkedIn is a website that allows professional network with over 70 million members globally.

LinkedIn is one of those sites that tends to get brushed aside in the sexy, shiny world of social media. It’s not flashy, we rarely hear buzz about billion dollar valuations and you don’t get a billion email reminders to visit because your contacts on LinkedIn are not encouraged to write on your wall, send zombies after you or take lengthy and inane quizzes.

What are LinkedIn Features?

Linkedin has many handy features but one I like to use most are their groups. A powerful networking strategie along with seeding content strategy.

LinkedIn Groups allow you to:

* Quickly discover the most popular discussions in your professional groups.
* Have an active part in determining the top discussions by liking and commenting.
* Follow the most influential people in your groups by checking the Top Influencers board or clicking their profile image to see all their group activity.
* See both member-generated discussions and news in one setting.
* Easily browse previews of the last three comments in a discussion.
* Find interesting discussions by seeing who liked a discussion and how many people commented.

LinkedIn has now rolled out few changes to their groups making it more social and more engaging.

Watch the video below.

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One of the suggested new logos for BP by Aussie - Gremlin

The site  LogoMyWay started a new competition with a challenge:

Create a new logo for BP.

The intention is to use their 6000+ subscribed designers to create a new logo representing BP’s company responsibility for the ecological disaster caused by oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Requirements are: Top Three Things to Communicate on the new BP logo:

• #1 Oil spill disaster – Toxic
• #2 Death of wildlife caused by BP disaster
• #3 Incompetence from BP solving the issue.

The briefing:

Help Redesign BP’s logo! They need a NEW Brand.

I cant tell you how frustrated and upset we are about BP and how they are handling this oil disaster.

Before this eruption of oil they had 17 violations. It’s obvious this could have been prevented.

This is the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country.

The (6000) creative logo designers at LogoMyWay can help to update the BP logo with a more suitable design and brand.

The design community and the general public will vote on the winner of the redesign of the NEW BP LOGO.

Here is BP’s current logo that needs revised.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/BP_Logo.svg

The official logo for the best, chosen by popular vote, will earn U.S. $ 200 and an expected very large media coverage.

Click here to see or to submit a logo

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A woman from Southern California hopes to soon regain her two children, kidnapped 15 years ago by their father. She traced them through Facebook, authorities said.

In 1995, when the children were two and three years old, the father left home with their children and told his wife – whose name was withheld by authorities – that she would never see them again.

However, according to the Police, in March, 2010 the woman spotted her daughter in Orlando/US.

After swapping a few messages, the oldest child, who is now 18 years, said he would not know his mother, broke contact and cancelled his Facebook page.

The woman called the police and a few days later the father was detained at a bus stop while waiting for his second child who was returning from school.

The man was arrested in Florida and the children were taken to California. Osceolla County authorities have accused him of kidnapping and violating the terms of custody of minors.

However, the children have not yet met with their mother. “There is a relationship,” said Carrie Hoeppner of the Department of Children and Families in Florida. “There is an immediate reunification and happy for everyone.”

“A reunion is something that will take time,” he added. “They have to develop a relationship with her mother and it will not happen overnight.”

So, with all it’s bad press lately we see that Facebook is not all bad…

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There are so many videos online about Social Media and Internet, but which ones are really worth the time of watching?

Advice is a commodity, but usable, not practical, instruction is scarce.

Much of the information online is helpful for inspiring creativity and direction. But, it’s up to each one of us to get the answers through the hard work necessary to see how any of this applies to our unique challenges and opportunities that face us today and tomorrow.

“We have to become the very experts in our space that we once sought to answer our own questions” (thanks, Brian Solis ).

This is my list with 5 (actually 8) videos I learnt something about marketing, social media and creativity.

Social Media Revolution

- The must see Social Media video for Social Media “experts”

Released in August of last year and already 1.8 Million views later, Social Media Revolution is arguably one of the best social media videos ever. Created by Erik Qualman (@equalman on Twitter) of Socialnomics, the original video is an energetic and exciting look into the statistics and growth of social media.

Seth Godin on Tribes

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.

How to Create a Fan Community

Spike Jones from Worth of Mouth Brains of Fire explains how to create an astonishingly successful fan club.
Spike explained how to launch a movement, how to involve your fans early, and how to make it something that can last forever (even after your budget runs out).
A few of his big ideas:

* It’s not about campaigns, it’s about movements. Movements have a beginning and no end. While campaigns are an on-off switch, movements are volume dials with no zero. The Fiskars fan community is a movement.
* Find the passion conversation. Help fans talk about their passion, not about your products. For Fiskars, it’s not about scissors, it’s about what you do with scissors.
* Movements have inspiring, passionate leaders. When looking for the fans that would lead this community, Brains On Fire didn’t look for the people with the most followers on Twitter, they looked for the people who were most passionate about crafting. As Spike says, passion can’t be created, but influence can.

The Social Media Guru (Aka Social Media Expert)

Superb stuff, been there, done that. These are far too familiar

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and Online Channels/Tools help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

BONUS:
Given I’m writing/posting about Videos – 3 other videos not necessarily about Social Media but will most definitely help you to think.

Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
Remarkable


Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
Inspiring, beautiful and coraugeous

Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction
and Finally Mr Steve Jobs, no video list would be a video list without a Steve Jobs video.

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After 2 months, we are back with the 3rd session of Social Media Club Melbourne.

This time in great style. After having the guys from Lonely Planet (1st event), and 3 of the most well known entrepreneurs in Australia (here, here, here) we are now bringing together 3 of the most prominent bloggers in Australia.

Meet Melbourne’s Global Power Bloggers

Darren Rowse aka @problogger, and The Inquistr’s Duncan Riley are big players on the world stage; rounding out the bill is Pip Lincolne, aka @meetmeatmikes, Australia’s number one female blogger.

When: Tuesday 8th June, 6-9pm

Book Here to listen to Australia’s Power bloggers.

MC for the evening will be Yvonne Adele (aka @IdeasCulture), a popular blogger and prolific Twitterer who also happens to be one of Australia’s most sought-after speakers on the subject of ideas generation.

This will be a ripper.

SMC Melbourne is part of the global Social Media Club organisation. The club’s mission is to “connect media makers from around the world to advance media literacy, promote industry standards, encourage ethical behaviour and share lessons they have learned”.

In Melbourne the organisation is represented by Nikki Bannatyne, Simon Small , Tim Beveridge, Trevor Young and me Lucio Ribeiro.

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ChatRoulette

ChatRoulette could cause a lot of controversy and be a phenomenon on the Internet, but what might surprise you is that the website has a movie already.

Well sort of.

In 6 minutes, Casey Neistat tries to deconstruct ChatRoulette about his experiences with the webcam and strangers around the world, with the help of his female friend.

He splits users into men, women and perverted, then categorizes the type of “relationship” achieved.

Most disconnected after few seconds, and often failed to establish a conversation, but everything changed when instead of Casey sitting in front of the camera, his attractive female friend was in the seat.

The short flash movie is not just about basic findings, it’s fun and provocative.

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

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