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Social Media News for July 2011 #nmcincy

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:04:54 +0000

Image via CrunchBase

Every month in 2011 we’ve been sharing social media news highlights. This month: Cincinnati named Most Social city by Mashable, Google Plus, Google rebranding Blogger and Picasa, and a Twitter job hustle.

Cincinnati Named Most Social City by Mashable

Last Thursday, June 30, The Pub at Rookwood Mews was packed for Social Media Day! We’ll have more to say about that in a separate post.

Special thanks to Blair Ward for creating a video that put Cincinnati at the top of the list for Mashable’s Most Social City title. And thanks also to NMC Steering Committee member Anne Castleberry for helping organize Social Media Day Cincinnati!

Google Plus in Limited Field Trial

Google + is Google’s latest attempt to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Group contacts into Circles (Friends, Family, Acquaintances, and more), create Hangouts, etc. It’s in limited field trial right now, with full public launch expected by the end of the month (7/31).

Chances are you may have received an invitation already. Check it out and let us know what you think! Is this more than just another social networking platform? What are some ways that marketers can use this?

Google Rebranding Blogger and Picasa

Mashable reports that the Blogger and Picasa names are going bye-bye, as Google re-brands the products as Google Blogs and Google Photos, respectively, as part of its larger effort to unify its brand under Google +.

As someone who first started blogging on the Blogger platform, it’s a bittersweet moment.

Twitter Job Hustle

If you’re not following Tim Siedell on Twitter @badbanana, you’re definitely missing out on some humor. Tim’s blog recently featured a video about how two creatives used Twitter to land a prized agency job for the summer. Check it out: Twitter Job Hustle

Blogger and Picassa to Be Retired by Google (accesscomptech.wordpress.com)
Google Takes Another Crack At Social Media (cincinnatisearchengineoptimization.com)
Cincy named top social media-savvy city (news.cincinnati.com)

Pictures From The January 2011 Event

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:11:50 +0000

via Christiaan Todd Photography

A huge part of the strength of the community we’ve developed over the past three years through the Second Saturday events comes from individual participation. As each person shares about the community online and in-person, the wider the reach the community has. We have this blurb that people get to read when they register that says:

Unless otherwise specified, New Media Cincinnati events and content therein are licensed under Creative Commons to promote the sharing and distribution of new media content.

In other words, please

take pictures and add them to the Flickr group and elsewhere,

record audio and video,

blog,

tweet,

record audio and video,

live-stream, and

otherwise create and share content to document and promote this event on the internet

And that’s what happens. We update Twitter and Facebook statuses and check into Foursquare during the events. We take pictures and post them to Facebook. Some of us write blog posts. Here are some pictures that Vickie Sceifers and Christiaan Todd have published from last week’s Second Saturday event: Naked On The Web! How’s YOUR Privacy?

What we have in common (danieljohnsonjr.com)

Twenty Questions About Online Nakedness And Privacy

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:20:00 +0000

The Steering Committee has been discussing possible questions around privacy, the web, and social networking tools in preparation for tomorrow’s Second Saturday event.

Some background posts and resources that have prompted our discussion:

Twenty Questions About Online Nakedness And Privacy

The order below is in no particular importance, but useful for reference in the comments:

What are some must-haves for your privacy on a Facebook Business page? What are your must-haves for privacy on Facebook?
How private is too private? If you keep yourself totally locked down, then doesn’t that defeat the purpose of being social on social networks?
Does your IT department block social networking sites at your work? What is their rationale, and how does this hinder your ability to use social networking sites on your job?
From a legal standpoint, what can I do to protect what my employees are saying online, either as explicit representatives of my company/brand, or as themselves but otherwise associated with my company/brand?
What is your personal strategy for using Facebook? Do you use it to connect with family and old friends, or do you use it for business? Is there a way to keep them separate?
What steps have you taken on social networking sites to keep your profile private?
Were pictures of you among the 750M uploaded to Facebook on New Year’s Weekend?
What do you do when you realize you’ve been tagged in a photo? What if a questionable photo was live on your page for a week, and you happened to be offline but your boss and colleagues were not?
Should you or have you connected with your boss on Facebook?
What is going on with Facebook’s Instant Personalization? What are its benefits to me, and what can I do if I don’t want it enabled?
Should you really be concerned about posting where you are on sites like Foursquare and Gowalla or Facebook Places? Should you be concerned about the premise of PleaseRobMe.com?
Should you “geotag” your tweets (updates from Twitter)?
How can I manage what I say on Twitter best protect my privacy?
Describe some potential situations in real life in which you think it would not be best to connect online.
How do you tactfully decline a connection request (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz, etc.)?
How do you remove a connection/friend on these social networking sites? Do they get notified when I do this?
How does posting content online affect your career? We want our businesses to be high profile, but what about the behavior of our employees when that content is less than attractive?
Is there a benefit to having lists or groups of people on Facebook? Is there a way to control what people in these lists see? (Limited profile settings, perhaps?)
Should I accept a Friend request from a profile that is a business (i.e., not a human at a business)? Facebook friend vs Facebook page, etc., on Foursquare, too.
What benefit, if any, is there to being connecting with a venue on Foursquare?

Report: Facebook and Twitter Most Unsafe Social Networking Sites in 2010 (socialtimes.com)
Ways to Protect Your Privacy on Social Networking Websites Like Facebook (computersight.com)
Social Networking Etiquette (thinkup.waldenu.edu)
How to Control Your Privacy With Foursquare and Other Geolocation Services (socialmediatoday.com)
4 Quick and Easy Ways to Protect Your Online Self in 2011 (socialtimes.com)
What Your Business Needs to Know About Social Graphs (socialmediaexaminer.com)
Year in Ideas: Social networking and the end of privacy (nationalpost.com)

Get ready! Tomorrow’s the day!

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:17:12 +0000

I just recorded this video update for tomorrow’s event.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Ten Things Businesses Should Know About Intellectual Property, Including New Media and the Law, copyrights and trademarks

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:33:44 +0000

New Media Cincinnati began in October 2007 as a simple meetup group of people in the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Northern Kentucky areas who were passionate about new and social media technologies like blogging, podcasting, Twitter, etc.

The group consists of people who are using new and social media for a living, but also includes people who are simply involved as a hobby. Anyone interested in learning more about these technologies and in connecting with others is welcome to attend. New Media Cincinnati has become, as one attendee remarked, “the premiere social networking event in the Greater Cincinnati area.” The group’s mission has grown to one of promoting digital literacy in our community.

People who come to New Media Cincinnati Second Saturdays

make and foster business and personal connections with at least one other person,
have face-to-face time with social media connections made online,
learn from one another about social media technologies as we share best practices and other tips
have the chance to talk about their own online presence
have opportunities to share something they know with the rest of the group
partake of food and drink and in general have a great time!

Connecting at New Media Cincinnati Second Saturdays has led to new business and employment for some.

This month we will be meeting again at Molly Malone’s in Covington from 3 PM to 6 PM.

Agenda

3:00-4:00 PM: Socializing/ice-breaker activity. A/V equipment setup (if needed)

4:00-4:15 PM: Steering Committee update and other announcements.

4:15-5:00 PM: Roger Bora, from Thompson-Hine, “Ten Things Businesses Should Know About Intellectual Property,Including New Media and the Law, copyrights and trademarks.”

5:00-6:00 PM: More socializing

What you can expect to learn

Federal Trade Commission’s Guidelines for advertising and endorsements, which include promoting products/services via blogging and “tweeting”;
Use of non-disclosure agreements to help grow your business and business partnerships while protecting your intellectual property and proprietary information;
Intellectual property infringement trends in social media and how to protect your IP rights;
Copyrights: What are they? How are they acquired? How to best protect those rights online and in social media networks;
Spam laws: What are they and how not to voilate them;
Virtual worlds and your intellectual property: Things you should know.

About Roger Bora

: Image by danieljohnsonjr via Flickr

Roger is a member of the Intellectual Property practice group at Thompson-Hine LLP. Roger concentrates his practice in trademark law. His practice includes the management of global trademark portfolios; counseling clients on the selection of trademarks; trademark clearance; trademark prosecution; trademark policing and enforcement strategies; trade dress law; conflict resolution; representing clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in trademark registration opposition and cancelation proceedings; federal trademark litigation; domain name registration, counseling and enforcement; preparation of trademark licenses and other agreements pertaining to intellectual property; copyright counseling and registration; internet issues.

Before joining Thompson Hine, Roger was a practicing trademark attorney in a major law firm in Northern New England. Prior to entering private practice, he was a practicing trademark attorney, and previous to that an intern, while in law school, at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in Arlington, Virginia. Roger also interned at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board under the direction of Judge Gerard Rogers, and worked on detail assignments with the Office of the Commissioner for Trademarks and Post Registration Division while employed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Roger is also one of the members of the New Media Cincinnati Steering Committee.

Event Details

Event Tags
- Twitter: #nmcincy
- Elsewhere: newmediacincy

Create and Share Content

The strength of this group comes from everyone’s participation. The more you share about the group online and in-person with others, the wider reach this group will have.

To that end, unless otherwise specified, New Media Cincinnati events and content therein are licensed under Creative Commons to promote the sharing and distribution of new media content.

In other words, you are welcome to

take pictures and add them to the Flickr group and elsewhere,
record audio and video,
blog,
tweet,
record audio and video,
live-stream, and
otherwise create and share content to document and promote this event on the internet

More about the New Media Cincinnati web presence can be found at the website.

Participating in the event means that you understand that your image and voice may be captured and used for non-commercial use.

Late-breaking news

Any late-breaking news will be communicated via the New Media Cincinnati Twitter feed (@newmediacincy). You can also follow updates via the #nmcincy hashtag.

See you on the Second Saturday!

Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Protecting “Built-In” Trade Secrets (constructionlawva.com)
Trademark, Copyright and Logos (plagiarismtoday.com)
Thompson Hine Partner Recognized on Lawdragon List (eon.businesswire.com)
Intellectual Property Rights Protection (socyberty.com)

As mentioned in the TechnoTools podcast

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:53:14 +0000

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originally uploaded by justinrains.

He may have only attended a New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday once in 2009, but it’s obvious that we’ve had an effect on Matthew Evins, aka @evinsmj on Twitter.

In 2009 Matthew moved from the Greater Cincinnati area to Houston, Texas for a new job, but he still remains a friend of New Media Cincinnati and keeps in touch with a lot of us online.

As mentioned in the TechnoTools podcast

I was intrigued last week when he mentioned he and his friend Chris were going to mention our group on their podcast. They were going to be talking about privacy in social media, and so were we.

One of those moments of serendipity.

Take a listen to their podcast episode. I’ve linked to their podcast file directly in this post, but do check out their shownotes page: Social Networking and Privacy

Thanks, again, Matthew, for being a friend of New Media Cincinnati! Best of luck to you in Houston! You’re welcome to come back and visit anytime!

The CinDaily Podcast Interview

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:58:32 +0000

Joe Wessels, the host of the CinDaily podcast, had Daniel Johnson Jr on his program yesterday to talk about New Media Cincinnati and specifically the recent “tempest in a teapot” situation that occurred over the past week. It was a great opportunity to tell the story of New Media Cincinnati and how this social media community has evolved over the past few years.

Direct link (mp3, 55.9 MB, 61:03)

crossposted to danieljohnsonjr.com

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Event Details

Create and Share Content

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