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How many Twitter users in Sweden 2013?

Almost half a million Swedish Twitter accounts is the quick answer. Twitter in Sweden has seen an strong period of growth during the past year. Hampus Brynolf and Intellecta Corporate have released the results of their third Swedish Twitter census. The number of Twitter accounts that at some point during

Mar 12, 2013 2 min read

Social denial of service attacks

In computing, a denial of service attack has been a practice deployed by groups and individuals to limit or bring down a web site for a number of decades. In the age of social networking the denial of service attack has taken the leap from a pure networking phenomenon to

Oct 4, 2012 4 min read

Social Intranets and digital natives

One particular statistic from the Swedish internet use report for 2011 was how everyone in Sweden in the 16-25 age group uses social media. For a fair while we’ve been discussing the expectations of young employees in the workplace, but this statistic is about as big as a wake-up

Nov 27, 2011 2 min read

What gets shown in Facebook's Ticker?

Facebook has rolled out their Ticker to all users as part of their September updates (if you haven’t got it yet, you soon will!). Combined with other changes to the appearance of the news feed, this has raised a fair few questions from people about their privacy settings and

Sep 24, 2011 3 min read

Google Social search: followers and follows

This week Google rolled out a new feature to it’s SERPs and snippets when logged in. If you have a Google Profile and Google has indexed who you are connected to, there’s a chance that you will see a small profile picture along with a name and the

Feb 18, 2011 2 min read

6 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 34, 2010)

The business case for social intranets To quote Oscar: “Most people will come to understand that a social intranet is not just about adding features such as blogs, wikis, activity feeds & micro-blogging on top of a traditional intranet; it’s about rethinking the purpose of intranets with the intention

Aug 30, 2010 1 min read

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8 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 27-28, 2010)

The Real Life Social Network v2 216 slides, takes about 20 mins to view and read; but it’s worth it. It’s where we are heading. With this kind of insight, working at Google, you can start to understand that Google producing a Facebook killer isn’t at all

Jul 16, 2010 1 min read

Facebook: Fastest growing web site of all time

Facebook: Fastest growing web site of all time Facebook’s sustained growth is staggering. Mashable have made some calculations based on various available figures. At an estimated 500,000 new users per day it must be by far the fastest growing user-base the Internet has ever seen. Although impressive, such

Nov 10, 2009

Microblogging on intranets

if we do our change management correctly all we need is micro-blogging, a document management system that gives URL’s and maybe a link-trimmer Is Twitter Knowledge Management? by Dave Mastronardi. Like Dave, I’m increasingly convinced that a microblogging tool could solve many knowledge management and intranet effectiveness issues

Sep 19, 2009

Intranet social networking for small businesses

Over the past 18 months I’ve been overseeing the implementation of Yammer (intranet social networking tool) in a small business. The goal was to reduce the amount of ideas, discussions and knowledge circulating in emails sent to a limited audience and increase knowledge sharing and learning. It’s taken

Sep 1, 2009 1 min read

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Follow people on Twitter without actually following them

At the time of writing I follow about 50 people and those 50 people generate about 300-400 tweets a day. The number of tweets passing before your eyes if you follow hundreds of people is going to be overwhelming. The obvious solution to tweet-overload is to stop following people, but

Apr 24, 2009 1 min read

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