The Archive · 2009 — 2026
Seventeen years of watching the social web become the world.
313 essays on social media, network intelligence, and the social fabric the internet wove around us — written as it happened, from the rise of Twitter to the arrival of generative AI.
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- June 7 Binary Enlightenment: Code to Consciousness
- May 5 Social Data Analysis: Harnessing the Power of ChatGPT
- May 4 Introducing GPT-4: The Revolutionary Language Model by OpenAI
- March 28 Embracing the AI-driven Afterlife: A Five-Step Plan for a Seamless Transition
- March 28 The Dawn of Synthetic Celebrities: AI Influencers and Brand Marketing
- March 23 Architecting the Golden Age: A plea for help to ChatGPT
- February 9 The OSINT & SIGINT Imperative 2023
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- December 10 Audience Intelligence Formula - Late 2017
- October 27 Who is the actual human we are targeting?
- October 10 Love is the Real News
- September 9 A Formula for Better Insights on Consumers & Their Emotions
- August 20 THE SOLOMON BRAIN: How the Machine Became Self Aware and Why It Matters Who Wakes It Up
- August 19 The Advent of Machine Learning as related to Social Listening
- August 2 How To Perform Audience Intelligence - 2017
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- September 23 More On The Adjacent Possible
- August 18 Forming a relationship with the customer is number one
- August 18 The value of listening for the human family
- August 15 Corporate Social Analysis and Action - Part 1
- August 11 The Common Thread
- July 19 The Power of the Listening Hub for the Enterprise
- June 12 2015: A Fully Woven World Focused on Jubilee
- April 6 Deep Transparency requires Deep Compassion
- March 21 Enterprise level planning and campaign execution
- March 11 Why Spotright is the leading social analytics platform (and could be for years to come)
- January 20 Social Media Monitoring 2014 techniques and outlook
- January 19 We signed up in order to fix the world
- January 8 Love stories birth businesses
- January 1 Me, the Selfie and I: How Your Mobile Device Will Act as a Magic Carpet to Your Dreams in 2014
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- December 8 The rewards of social network activity
- December 3 Applying smart marketing tactics to B2B prospect lists
- November 30 THE LINKEDIN LEAD-BUILDER MACHINE v1.0
- November 25 Insights into problems and opportunities in your competitive marketplace: a process
- October 6 How Storytellers transformed the psyche of Athens
- October 2 How Analysts Deliver Meaningful Actions to Stakeholders
- September 22 Customer First Yields Success Over and Over Again
- September 18 Social Business Intelligence Advance #4
- September 4 On Networks and Individuals - a vital shift for the corporate mindset
- August 15 Social Business Intelligence Advance #3
- August 9 Social Business Intelligence Advance #1 and #2
- July 3 The Sweet Spot in Social Business Intelligence for Weaving Marcoms and Sales: The Machine & Marketing/Sales Process
- June 26 Weaving Humanity Into a Golden Chord For the Seventh Generation
- June 17 The Relationship between Marketing Communications and Sales
- May 16 Questions for Social Business Intelligence Software Providers
- April 13 Replacing email blasts with relationship marketing
- January 28 Growth Hacking Lessons: A list of links related to measuring viral loops, customer retention, engagement, and lifetime value
- January 15 A process for translating insights from social media data into innovative and emotional experiences
- January 4 Share Your Experiences and Story with the World
- January 3 Finding Your "Familiars" In Social Networks: A Step by Step Process
- January 1 Stepping Into the Skin of Your Avatar
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- December 29 From Here to There: How To Open a New World
- December 13 The Black Box and the White Box: Moving towards better collaboration with markets
- December 10 The Land of Smiles: What a Bank Can Be
- November 13 Deep Transparency
- November 11 The social networks are a visual experience of the subconscious
- October 16 The New PR – How to become a Brand among Friends
- October 7 Architecting Heaven: the action of writing one's ideal world into being
- August 14 SOCIAL STORY WEAVING
- July 7 Research leads to freedom
- June 29 The beauty of human expression in social networks
- April 29 Inspired by Greece
- April 10 Three Trainings Every Community Manager Should Consider
- April 5 Good technology serves and nurtures humanity
- April 3 Conversation as a vessel to heart destinations
- April 2 Humans are in the process of knitting the global heart together
- April 1 Four Courses every Corporate Leader Needs in Social Business
- March 29 Facebook could be an IPO of the heart. Humanity deserves that.
- March 28 Why choosing light is vital!!
- March 25 Listening technologies aid heart-based initiatives
- March 1 Growing Community: the KPI of the heart comes first
- February 5 Internal and External Data: The Nexus Point
- January 24 Matching internal and external communities
- January 14 Social networks can be "mise en abyme", a lived experience of stories within stories
- January 10 The story behind a product, the tale of a community
- January 10 A brief description of Social Business Intelligence
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- December 28 From Wall St. to Love St. - Istanbul Marketing Summit - Dec 2011
- November 27 Why study influencers' social streams?
- November 13 Social Business works for the Hearts of your customer first
- November 7 Webcast: Social Intelligence and Foresight by Recorded Future and The Socializers
- October 27 Finding your Sweet Spot - Why it takes Technology AND People to succeed in the Social Web
- October 3 The new adventure travel: a snapshot from Facebook
- September 4 Discovering, Building and Growing Community: Challenge and Opportunity
- August 21 You are already living on your planet. Own it!
- August 12 Grow your forest. The world needs oxygen NOW!
- August 9 Cultural and Financial Revolution Makers
- July 28 Council Circle: An ethos that our world needs now
- July 25 Bloom Where You Are Planted
- July 19 Pre-Populated Networks based upon Social Objects
- July 16 The Application of Collective Intelligence UPON Collective Memory
- July 5 Essential Education for Humanity heading into the Future
- July 3 A Living Myth: Collective Intelligence yields Collective Action
- June 18 Social Analysis and Insight: Why Your Customer's Conversations and Social Objects are Vital to Sales and Community Growth
- June 11 Back To Social: Everything has Changed and Nothing has Changed
- June 9 We have the conversations, we need people to analyze and synthesize what customers are saying
- June 5 Selling the value of Social Networks to the Silos
- June 4 The Socializers presents in Cyprus and Piraeus Bank (WINBank) wins social banking award in Paris
- May 28 A THOUSAND TRUE FANS as derived VIA KEY INFLUENCERS: A POSSIBILE PROCESS FOR DISCOVERING YOUR PERFECT AUDIENCE
- May 16 Social Network-Weaving
- May 6 The World Wide Mind
- April 30 Social Intelligence reveals the Heart of a Business
- April 22 Linguistic relativity is a vital wand for transformation
- April 19 Creativity and Critique: The Dance of Life
- April 18 Where Story can Take an Organization, A Community and a Nation
- April 18 How To Bring a Deity Back to Life: The Importance of a Culture Remembering its Gods
- April 17 Social Business: The WHOLE enterprise MUST be involved!!
- April 6 Actionable Steps into Friendship for All
- April 6 The Value of Limerence: Community Precedes Commerce
- March 30 The Socializers presenting at Boussias Social Media Conference March 22, 2011
- March 27 Social Networks: Born from Greek roots of storytelling and socializing
- March 25 Follow your muses: a social journey from image to reality using the World Wide Mind
- March 23 Business Intelligence via Social Media Data - Presented March 22, 2011 Athens, Greece
- March 19 Sharing The 10 Criteria of Social Business Maturity at 3rd InnoFORUM AIT, Athens, Greece
- March 17 SOCIAL TV: Fiction is seducing Fact, Reality is becoming a Dream
- March 8 Use social networks to grow your heart and spirit
- February 22 Soul Monitoring: Peering into the collective for meaningful connections
- February 20 The Secret of Artificial Intelligence: The human is the "last mile"
- February 14 The World Behind the World
- February 10 Weaving the Omega Point...Asking the Last Question
- February 9 Funding your Creative Today!
- January 24 Insight-driven Action and Customer-Centric Operatives
- January 24 Educational systems in America need to be replaced by personalized education using social tech
- January 14 Spend 36 Hours with Lorrie Thomas, The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Online Marketing!
- January 12 Social Analytics in 2011
- January 3 Falling volumes and budget cuts. What is the role of marketing during a recession?
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- December 19 Business Presence 2011
- December 15 Social Fishing Rods: The W's of Social Intelligence Gathering
- December 13 Create the action!
- December 4 Social networks re-training humanity
- November 28 Aphrodite and Merlin: Stories that teach AND delight potentiate an evolution in consciousness
- November 27 Good Social Tech works on multiple dimensions
- November 20 Six Ways To Be Likeable in Social Networks
- November 18 Customer Intelligence in a real-time social eco-system
- November 17 Scenarios for using information from social monitoring tools
- November 15 The Shaman's Spellbook
- November 14 Useful questions related to assembling social intelligence reports
- November 10 What is real-time social business intelligence?
- November 4 Your social network is a symphony just waiting to happen!
- November 3 Transparency yields evolution to the good ol' boys network
- October 30 Ultraintelligent Machines, Transparency and Progress
- October 24 Spreading the news of your offering to the World
- October 20 The World Behind the World
- October 18 The future is MOBILE
- October 17 Be a fit node
- October 15 The fittest node: Who will "grab all the links" and "shape the network into a star"?
- October 15 Body, Heart and Mind divide the lead, developing Context and Content
- October 13 Creating an Oracle from social intelligence tools
- October 11 What Dreams May Come: A vision of GoogleTV and the Internet from 1946!
- October 5 Good questions for brands to ask when getting into social media monitoring
- October 2 On Seelesorger "Soul Carers": The Leaders of the emerging single interconnected civilization
- October 1 Hospitable Brands: Listening, Strategy and Action
- September 29 The Golden Age of Video has Arrived! (Or wait, is that, of The Unconscious Realm?)
- September 28 HEART-ORIENTED BUSINESS: A life of warmth, a business characterized by vitality
- September 26 Athens is a babushka doll: there are worlds within worlds within worlds here
- September 26 The single greatest resource humanity has is the imagination
- September 25 YOUR 1,001 NIGHTS: You have created your own best medicine through the stories within stories upon your Wall
- September 21 The Value of Audience Intelligence
- September 20 THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO BE A HUMAN: What is the Trans-Revolution and what does it mean about humanity’s current evolution in consciousness
- September 14 ROOT INFLUENCE: At the root of every word, there is a god or deity, a revolution waiting to happen!
- September 9 HEALING THE ECO-SYSTEM AND THE HUMAN SOUL: How Transmodern Leaders And Social Strategists Gave Golden Keys To The Most Valuable Online Community And Set Them Free To Usher In a New World
- September 4 REVOLUTION OF THE HEART: The friendly people of the world are weaving humanity together!
- August 29 THE ROSEBUD LABYRINTH: Opening your social graph in the context of spiritual and communal evolution
- August 26 Follow your bliss: The future of human interaction with the invisible
- August 24 Birthing potent thought-animals: The importance of memetics in internet marketing
- August 20 The Psyche and Social Networks
- August 18 Passage to the heart of vitality: Why brands must humanize in the context of social networks
- August 16 The year Oprah leveraged her audience as hosts for maximum profit
- August 15 Transmedia, OnDemand and the power of listening to audiences
- August 10 Listening is a crucial skill in social architecture
- August 4 Robert Boyle's prophetic 'wish list' made in the 17th Century
- August 2 A single thought
- August 1 Firmly within a renaissance of expression
- July 28 The race to organise television
- July 26 The best strategic alliances
- July 22 FACEBOOK CELEBRATES 500MM USERS + FACEBOOK STATS
- July 22 Everyone can create communities from their content...Everyone!
- July 19 Work Can Be Done Anytime, Anywhere!
- July 19 Iridescence
- July 17 An Open Invitation to The Babyboomers from Gen X and Gen Y
- July 11 THE CYCLE OF AWARENESS IN THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF THE INTERNET (REDUCED)
- July 5 On AR Commerce
- July 4 Strategy for small businesses in crisis times
- June 29 The Social Media Checklist by JWT Intelligence
- June 26 How to make the transition from outer to inner reality, from Earth to Cyberspace
- June 19 Giving Infographic
- June 15 Recent video from presentation to Conservation group in California on social media
- May 23 The most basic and powerful way to connect to your audience is to listen
- May 23 When the hubless wheel turns, Master or no master can stop it.
- May 20 The Heart is a Critically Important Muscle in Social Marketing
- May 19 Social business reflections
- May 18 Reflections on The Dachis Group/SOMESSO Social Business Summit
- May 4 Think globally, act locally
- April 30 Can transparency be shaped?
- April 29 Meet the predecessor to the upcoming "social divinities"
- April 27 Thank you for the inspiration, Arielle Ford!
- April 27 Why Brand Managers will report to the Chief Customer Officer
- April 26 The love affair between Critic and Creative, Left-Brain and Right-Brain
- April 26 Star Wars jurisdiction NOW
- April 26 What is the name of your planet?
- April 25 Now
- April 24 Facebook heals humanity through ancient Greek technique - Know Thyself
- April 24 Social networks owe a lot to the hippie movement
- April 23 An excerpt from Robert Scoble's experience at the F8 conference...Amazing stuff!
- April 23 Social networks have changed the face of what it means to be human.
- April 22 NO FACEBOOK FOR PRIESTS - Really?
- April 22 Cool ideas!
- April 21 Is a single psychic event possible in the context of global social networks?
- April 20 Being tapped into the spiritual and emotional root of a circumstance is vital to true contribution.
- April 20 The collective multi-dimensional experience
- April 19 Marvin Towler, co-founder of The Socializers, identified as one of 16 people who inspire the World on Arianna Huffington's blog!!
- April 19 Storytelling
- April 18 More thoughts on transparency...
- April 16 In the era of social business, FRIENDLY and ethical BUSINESSES will SKYROCKET
- April 16 Dealing with crisis in a healthy manner
- April 13 Who Owns Social, Anyway?
- March 21 Thoughts on Transparency
- March 18 You have at least two tribes you can be a leader to RIGHT NOW
- March 14 The first “super-conscious” entity...
- March 9 TIME TO START TAKING THE INTERNET SERIOUSLY
- February 22 5 Fantastic Facebook Fan Page Ideas to Learn From
- February 22 Technically you are already a cyborg
- February 14 Greek FB page grows to 10K members in 3 days in wake of girl's dismissal!
- February 14 Friday Poll: TED Attendees Talk Top Technology Trends
- February 11 25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips
- February 10 2010: The Year Brands Embrace Social Commerce
- February 9 The State of Social Media Around the World!
- February 9 The Maturation of Social Media in 2010
- February 2 5 Social Media Tips for Better Corporate Social Responsibility
- January 30 Social Media Marketing: How Pepsi Got It Right
- January 25 Marian Salzman: 'Local will be the new global'
- January 24 Social Media Use Up 82% from one year ago
- January 22 Reporters put Twitter, Facebook to 'Big Brother' test
- January 15 7 Takeaways From #BDI: Social Media As a Marketing, Branding & Service Platform
- January 14 Ted.com + KPCB: match made in Heaven!
- January 12 Pepsi trades in Superbowl ad spot for social media play!
- January 12 Why Social Media is the bridge to finding our humanity again - a love letter to my sons from Europe
- January 4 HOW TO: Do Almost Anything Online in 2010
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- December 23 Top Status Trends of 2009 on Facebook
- December 22 10 Must Read Social Media e-books
- December 18 Six Reasons Social Media will win in 2010
- December 14 Is Blippy, the online social media location for viewing and sharing purchases, taking transparency too far?
- December 12 You have at least two tribes you can be a leader to RIGHT NOW
- December 10 This summer it was $3million, now it is $6.5! Dell continues to rock Twitter!
- December 10 The 10 Most Innovative Viral Videos of 2009 (according to Cashmore)
- December 10 45 Musts In Social Media
- December 8 The Socializers likes the Boxee!
- December 5 gBoard - A cool social media gadget and Awesome Christmas gift!
- December 1 Vail Resorts abandons traditional marketing in favor of social media this ski season
- December 1 5 Cool Ways Brands Are Using Facebook for Black Friday and Beyond
- November 21 Social Media ROI conversation
- November 19 Have digital and social media leveled the marketing playing field so much that scale is losing its power?
- November 19 Coke initiates biggest global social media project in advertising history: Coke initiates biggest global social media project in advertising history!
- November 16 An interesting study on online holiday behavior
- November 12 Why Digital Agencies Are Indeed Ready to Lead
- November 8 Despite The Recession, 94 Percent of Enterprises Continue to Invest in Online Communities and Social Media
- November 8 2009 Tribalization of Business Study (more than 400 companies surveyed)
- November 8 SmallBlue-an innovative expertise locator that helps you find knowledgeable people
- November 7 The Power of Facebook Advertising - The Time is NOW
- November 7 Two great links for YouTube enthusiasts
- November 7 The Future of TV IS online
- November 5 Open Table powers through a Dip - Old article with Present Day relevance
- November 4 The Top 10 Social Media Questions Ad Agency Clients are Asking - a 2009 study
- November 3 Facebook's Big Changes: Action Items for Marketers
- November 3 Measuring the ROI of social media campaigns
- November 2 Six Social Media Trends for 2010
- November 2 FB and Twitter 1 year growth graph
- October 29 Facebook IS the NUMBER ONE best AND least expensive marketing tool for small businesses
- October 29 The Two Faces of Facebook - Will FB overtake Google?
- October 27 Embracing social media boosts traffic on news sites
- October 18 Social Media only requires that you act now!
- October 17 Secrets of Successful Social Networkers
- October 17 Ford spending 25% of its marketing budget on digital and social media!
- October 16 Facebook Is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic
- October 15 Layar Augmented Reality App Launches for iPhone 3Gs
- October 13 Going Viral With Video: Think Outside of the Box and Double Your Pleasure
- October 12 My local SB Social Media parea (parea means friends in Greek)
- October 10 Latest Facebook facts from Tom Chisolm, Midwest Director of Ad Sales for Facebook
- September 23 Social Media Revolution movie! Hot!
- September 16 6 Gadget Trends and Their Effects on Social Media
- September 16 Paid Tweets Just as Healthy as Organic Word-of-Mouth?
- September 12 A Wiki of Social Media Monitoring Solutions
- September 10 Skittles IS a social media savvy company!
- September 8 Facebook Trumps Top 20 Sites in Time Spent
- September 2 Business Wants to Go Social - Fortune Brainstorm 2009 - Fortune Magazine - Sept 7 2009 Issue 15
- August 26 This week's insights into Monetization and Social Media
- August 20 How agencies are integrating social media services into their operations
- August 17 There are already plenty of services that will pay you for your participation in social media
- August 14 Attending Extreme Site Makeover with senior Google employees
- August 13 Listening to Charlene Li at SES 2009 - The Future of Search
- August 13 A successful website gets as much traffic, leads and sales from social media as it does from search engines.
- August 13 Attending Igniting Viral Campaigns: Leveraging Consumer-Generated Content
- August 12 Listening to Director of Monetization moderate Turning the Social Web Into Real ROI panel at SES 2009 San Jose
- August 11 Social Media observations - August 11, 2009
- August 1 Social Media observations - August 1, 2009