BrandsAmongMany

Seen the latest in this series yet? They just keep getting better!

See the rest via @meat99 on Made With Computers.

A while ago, this video called Did You Know? made waves across the interwebs. It put some startling data in front of people in a compelling, digestible manner thanks to the work of Karl Fisch and Scott McCleod. If you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth watching:

And now, it appears the pair have taken their expertise into the realm of social media. Challenging traditional media’s view of the social world with the question “Is social media a fad?”, the newest installment uses the same impactful presentation style to demonstrate the value of social media for brands today and in the future:

via Socialnomics

From David McCandless

Blogger Samuel Degremont has put together an impressive post (read the Google translation to English here) outlining the proliferation of information on Twitter, and how this new medium has changed the game. His analysis is based on this post by Jeff Jarvis which used the spread of the news of Michael Jackson’s death to explore the idea. Degremont has taken the idea a step further, applying the same notion to the news surround the Iran elections.

More interesting in my mind, though, are his infographics of the before and after (Twitter) view of information proliferation (perhaps this is the beginning of BT and AT?):

Before Twitter

After Twitter

There’s no question that Twitter has changed the info stream. I get most of my world news from Twitter now before it ever hits the major news networks. Degremont does, however, raise an interesting question around how trustworthy this crowdsourced information is, and the manner in which information gains context when it comes from a variety of (often disconnected from one another) sources. Thoughts?

Came across some Twitter dialogue about The Conversation Prism this morning. Of course, my infinite well of curiosity got the best of me and I had to check it out. For whatever reason, the link that I clicked on to get to the site didn’t take me to the home page - which I didn’t realize at first - making it very difficult for me to decipher what I was supposed to be looking at. Once I figured it out though…

The Conversation Prism is a pretty sweet looking poster that would be right at home in any agency setting (or at least any agency that has an eye on social media). It’s probably one of the most comprehensive, carefully thought out visualizations of the social media landscape I’ve seen to date. Want to know more? Check out the site or give a shout out to the creators, Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas.