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Well over a year ago a new social network, Path, was launched. It was positioned as ‘personal network’ and friends were limited to just 50, a number based on the psychology theories that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships any human can handle.
The launch had received a lot of positive coverage, but following the initial buzz things went quiet and Path seemed to be forgotten.  That was until last week’s relaunch which repositions the platform as a ‘smart journal’ for use on smart phones.
Overall, its mission has not …

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Each month I wrap up news and stories featured on this blog into a free email newsletter, and today April’s Social Media News has been published.  This month a range of subjects is explored including:

Facebook cost calculator

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UK’s top 25 tech PRs

LinkedIn’s personal news

SoMed in marketing

Isle of Man Twestival

MySpace loses users

Facebook’s questions

Click here for Social Media News and look below for information on how to subscribe.

Related posts:

February Social Media News
Free report:  Who is talking about you in social media?
Podcast: Social  Media News  summer

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It looks like more bad news for struggling social network MySpace.  Research company comScore has just published figures showing MySpace has lost more than 10 million unique users worldwide between January and February 2011.  Year on year the site has lost almost 50 million users, down from close to 110 million in February 2010.
This huge decrease in  users numbers must come as a surprise to the MySpace team which has been working hard to tranform the network into the Internet’s main music destination, building on its reputation for having launched …

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Gartner’s 2010 Hype Cycle report on social software highlights the most important technologies that enable and support social interactions. Organisations can use it as a guide to planning and investment decisions, and to guide realistic user expectations in light of market hype and exuberance.   Here’s  a summary of the trends identified.
On the rise:
Pattern-Based Strategy: a framework for proactively seeking and acting on the early and often-termed “weak” signals forming patterns in the marketplace. It’s also about the ability to model the impact of patterns on your organisation and identify the …

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The folks over at TheBestOf have asked me to run a social media workshop exclusively for  their  members.  I’ve put together a special programme to meet the specific needs of their members who:

Might have a Facebook profile, but don’t realise much benefit
Don’t have the time to Tweet or update Facebook
Think they can’t sell via Twitter
Think blogging is only for kids on MySpace
Don’t understand the rules of the road in social media
Are starting to get curious about how social media can help their business

Participants will learn:

Facebook’s primary features and functions
How Twitter …

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Today the UK national media were reporting that social network sites like Facebook and Twitter are no longer the preserve of the young with middle-aged people (like me!) logging into them in ever-larger numbers based on a report published by Ofcom, the communications regulator. 
I got a call from Manx Radio here in the Isle of Man asking me if I’d come in and do an interview on the subject, and I said I’d be delighted.   The thing is once the interview got underway we spent most of the time talking …

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Here are my picks for the week.  Some really great stuff!
1. Michael Arrington takes author Michael Wolff to task over an interview published in BusinessWeek in which Wolff is quoted as saying, “…if you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.” Some people don’t seem to let the facts get in the way of their opinions.
2. Another killer …

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Just a note to let everyone know there will be a meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media club this Thursday at 18.00 at Paparazzi in Douglas.
The club’s credo is ‘if you get it, share it’. And that’s what these get togethers are all about.  Anyone with an interest in Facebook, blogging, Twitter, LinkedIn or any kind of interactive online tools and sites is invited.  We just have a meal and talk amongst ourselves about what’s new, what’s cool, trends, hobbies etc.
So if you are interested in running a …

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According to the Social Media Club blog there are nine get togethers organised before the end of the month. All of them are in American cities, plus there is one other taking place right here in the Isle of Man.
The Isle of Man Social Media Club meets the Third Thursday of each month and that means next week, 21 August, we’ll be meeting for lunch at Paparazzi on the Douglas Promenade.  12.30 -14.00.  Everyone with an interested in blogging, Facebook, podcasts, Twitter, etc are welcome.
The Third Thursday …

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I tend to write quite often about Facebook, but it’s another social network that is actually the global leader in terms of users.
MySpace has more than 200 million registered users worldwide and has claimed to be the driving force behind many cultural phenomena such as Lily Allen, the Arctic Monkeys and Enter Shikari.
Also, there are a lot of ‘established stars’ who have started MySpace blogs in an effort to keep themselves in the public eye.
Canadian legends William Shatner and Neil Young are both on MySpace as are TV …