richardkong » Social Media http://www.richardkong.com a fascinating site that is almost entirely accurate Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:43:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Business Bytes http://www.richardkong.com/2010/12/business-bytes/ http://www.richardkong.com/2010/12/business-bytes/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:48:19 +0000 Rich http://www.richardkong.com/?p=568 Continue reading →]]> One of the new initiatives I’m working on lately is a series of workshops for local businesses focusing on how to use technology and social media. We’re calling it “Business Bytes” and the first few workshops will teach business owners how to claim their business on Google, set up a Facebook page for their business, and monitor what people are saying about their business on sites like Yelp. The workshops will be held once in the morning (before the library actually opens to the public) and once in the evening so we can accommodate everyone’s schedule.

They’ll be held in our remodeled Business Center, which is turning out to be a great place for people to get work done, catch up on investment news and analysis, and attend a business or job-related program. We recently added a large flat-screen monitor to have business and financial channels like CNBC running throughout the day.

If you’ve got suggestions on what topics we should be offering for future workshops in this series, please let me know. Here’s one presentation (voted one of the year’s best on Slideshare) that I will definitely be using for inspiration!

Social Media for Business

]]> http://www.richardkong.com/2010/12/business-bytes/feed/ 0 Mashable Picks YouTube http://www.richardkong.com/2009/12/mashable-picks-youtube/ http://www.richardkong.com/2009/12/mashable-picks-youtube/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:44:45 +0000 Rich http://www.richardkong.com/?p=401 Continue reading →]]> I’ve had the opportunity to talk a lot about the Digital Media Lab to both patrons and professional colleagues in recent weeks. Whenever I start explaining why we created the space and the context in which we did so, I always find myself starting with incredible growth of YouTube and digital video. Even though the DML enables people to work with music, photos, podcasts, graphic design, and more, I’ve always seen digital video as the heart of the DML.

That’s why I was happy to see that Mashable, hands-down the best source for news and commentary on social media imho, recently picked YouTube as the top social media innovation of the decade. In the article explaining this choice, editor-in-chief Adam Ostrow writes:

In a decade that saw social media move from the fringes to the mainstream, YouTube is the innovation that touched the most lives, became a driving force for change around the world, and ultimately ends the decade with an opportunity to be as disruptive in the next 10 years as it was in the past four. That’s why YouTube is our choice for social media innovation of the decade.

It’ll definitely be interesting to see how YouTube changes over the next few years! Take a look at the Mashable article. It’s worth reading.

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