Some cool Social images:

The Social Media Olympics

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A citizen reporter captures the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron at Vancouver\'s Jack Poole Plaza by The Great One Wayne Gretzky while fireworks sparkle in the bokeh.

Photo by my friend Kris Krug, a tireless and prolific documentor of world events from Copenhagen to Torino and now in his home town, the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Watch things unfold on his stream and follow him on Twitter.

Post-processing by me.

The consensus is this Olympics is the one where social media comes of age and has the opportunity to be fully felt around the world. It is doing this in both coverage of sporting events and the cultural side of the Olympic experience.

Events in Vancouver have been discussed and shared within seconds of their unfolding. This is likely to grow as a phenomenon as people become more interested in exploring what they can do as citizens with their globally connected electronic devices.

In service of this my colleagues and I have created an online citizen media resource centre to help people understand the ins and outs of citizen reportage.

Please visit our True North Media House resource centre, get self-accredited as a citizen journalist, and join the rapidly growing ranks of over 100 people roving the streets and venues of Vancouver and Whistler with our credentials proudly displayed.

For more information:

info (at) truenorthmediahouse (dot) com

Join the Mailing List:
groups.google.ca/group/vancouver-2010-alternative-media

Follow on Twitter: @TNMH

More importantly, join the ranks of those who now understand that in the social media-enabled world, people are listening. You need only speak.

Social art




Image by kevindooley

Anish Kapoor\'s Cloud Gate (a.k.a. The Bean) in Chicago\'s Millennium Park has to be one of the truly great works of art of our time. Not only is it beautiful and classic and endlessly interesting unto itself; not only does it provide a unique and public window into Chicago\'s ever-changing skyline; it makes consumers artists themselves, thus creating a true piece of social art.

In the same way that social media breaks down the barriers between producers and consumers, social art breaks down the barriers between viewers and artists. Every person who visits the Bean with camera in hand can create new art, which in turn depends on the other people there doing the same thing.

Regarding the image, I have learned from looking at other similar pictures on Flickr that this is a shot of the Bean\'s navel. Please note the entire image is a reflection, so from this vantage point Cloud Gate is basically showing itself. (Explore)

Social-Media-Campaign




Image by Gary Hayes

If you embed the image please link to Laurel Papworth laurelpapworth.com AND Gary Hayes personalizemedia.com - not the flickr image as that is already in the embed! Thanks!

More here personalizemedia.com - By Gary Hayes and Laurel Papworth - From a presentation I gave at SPAA Fringe on Saturday 25 Oct 2008 in Sydney. Concepts behind this covered in the slides embedded on www.personalizemedia.com/the-future-of-social-media-enter...

* INVOLVE - listen to, live the social web, understand it, this cannot be faked
* CREATE - make relevant content for communities of interest
* DISCUSS - no conversation around it, then the content may as well not exist
* PROMOTE - actively, respectfully, promote the content with the networks
* MEASURE - monitor, iteratively develop and respond or be damned!