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Despite the fact that Barak Obama seems to have done so well with social media, others seem to have more problems.  It is all a question of signal to noise ratio. Two contrasting discussion threads this morning typify this.

Twitter may be all the rage, but I find it unintuitive and therefore have not heavily adopted it.

With FriendFeed, however, I can keep up on the "tweets" of folks involved in the nonprofit tech/social media space, and get so much more to boot.

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My organization, jerseyarts.com, is a nonprofit program cosponsored by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and ArtsPride NJ. Our mission is generally to increase the awareness and participation in the arts in NJ, more specifically to make it easier for the field to get their message to the people of NJ.

I just got hired as the Marketing and Communication Associate mostly I think because of my history of following the nptech conversation over the years and trying my best to stay ahead of the curve. Alas, I feel as if I am falling behind. The internet age seemingly makes young people old before their time.

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It seems like the internet is evolving to match it's ever growing potential as a processor of knowledge, opinion, information all tailored to the individual. And it seems the the way to do all this is by aggregating feeds. I'm a web designer of sorts and wish sometimes there was a Karin feed that would tell people everything I was accomplishing online. But alas, that is harder than it sounds. But Friendfeed comes close for sure.

But, enough about me, lets talk about my cause. My question is this, we have a lot of content in our organization's calendar and changing content online. We use facebook and flickr and will be using youtube. We also are thinking about a blog page. Is friend feed the answer? Could it be?

• Google launches its Official Traditional Media Blog
• Google Apps save One million pounds for UK construction firm
• Google now “captures” Flash Content
Source: Tech Bytes at Use Bytes

It’s time!

You folks may have read about the tiff a while back between Robert Scoble and Twitter. Scoble did meet with Twitter and resolve the situation. Some folks are speaking about a business model with these micro-blogging services where popular users pay for the service.

I just glanced through an interesting article today - When Micro-blogging Grows Up

It gives you analysis and predictions as to what people use - a blog or twitter or friendfeed etc. and what’s the next big thing ? If it’s up your alley, please have a look at the article.

Friendfeed becomes your own personalised Techmeme (according to me)

How ?

[Underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage, you now have links to see the “best of” FriendFeed from the past day, week, or month according to the people you’re subscribed to. The results are entirely personalized to you.]

Friendfeed gets a semi public room feature, multiple administrators feature and admin ability to delete entry and comments.

Two days ago I gave up on Twitter. Yep, I quit and I quit publicly.

This afternoon I started up again.

Pretty weak, eh? For what it’s worth, I still “stand behind” most of what I wrote. Clearly, I need to manage my own little tensions though…

A month ago I was pondering social bankruptcy, but since then I really hadn’t made any changes–until today. The recent and frequent twitter outages have inspired me to give that service up cold turkey.

Outages = aggravation. Who needs aggravation? Not me.