Non-Twitter Social Web Updates

There is an argument that blog posts about interesting or instructive social web links have been made superfluous by the immediacy of Twitter tweets.

To a certain extent this is true, although I do wonder how many tweets with links to blog posts about social web trends have in fact been read by the tweeter before forwarding.

To be honest, I am guilty sometimes of only skimming posts before sending them on to Twitter followers. The posts below from the past two weeks, however, I have read and can recommend for their insight and sensible point of view.

ON FOURSQUARE:

• Foursquare is . . . is Five Times Larger Than Gowalla (TechCrunch)
• 21 Unique Location Examples fro Foursquare, Gowalla, Whrrl and My Town (SocialFresh)
• Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use Location-Based Social Networks (Read Write Web)
• Michael Brito: Straight talk on location-based social marketing (SmartBlog on Social Media)

ON SOCIAL MEDIA MEASUREMENT:

• Six reasons you shouldn't invest in ROI (Econsultancy)
• 5 Objectives for Social Media Measurement (Brass Tack Thinking)
• 4I's & 7C's of Social Media Measurement (PRincipal of PRoof)

ON ONLINE ACTIVISM:

• Slacktivism: Helping Humanity With a Click of the Mouse (Fast Company)
• How Political Campaigns are Using Social Media for Real Results (Mashable)
• Fixing Social Media (Cause Global: Social Media for Social Change)
• humo(u)r and (sl)activism (Withoutayard)

Comments

[Meegs]

Thanks for the ringing endorsement, Boyd! That makes 2 readers, after counting my Mom :)

[Boyd Neil]

At a minimum you have the most creative titles for your posts. How do web crawlers manage with them?