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Presentation: social media in (attributed) numbers

Another slide deck with big numbers. But lots of the numbers are attributed, so this is useful.

What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later

View more documents from Marta Kagan.

Video: What is Google Wave?

Great post from Steve Boese on how Wave can help organisations (and especially the HR function) as a communication tool.

10 tips to optimise your profile in Linkedin

Good set of tips.

Video: Digg's Kevin Rose talks growing site users

Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose from Carsonified on Vimeo.

Links: call to action buttons, coming soon pages, user errors

Tips on how to make an awesome coming soon page

Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices

Handling user error with care: getting users back on track

Picture: the gagging order-related trends on Twitter

The power of the many lift the gagging controls of the few

UPDATE:

Guardian editor Alan Rushbridger writes The Trafigura fiasco tears up the textbook

These three links to explain today's lifting of a gagging order on The guardian newspaper.

Trafigura and Carter Ruck: How social media can guard against misuse of libel

The Day Twitter Destroyed a Gagging Order

Gag on Guardian reporting MP's Trafigura question lifted

Future of B2B publishing looks journalism-lite

Thought-provoking piece sparked by last week's Association of Online Publishers conference in London.

Take a look at the B2B sector and you see that the direction of the bigger publishers is away from news and towards content that helps readers and users do their jobs better.

This, though, was the most compelling point . . .

Demand Media runs eHow, a site that delivers regular doses of US-style “how to” journalism to around 32 million unique users every month. This is slightly more than the number of uniques generated on a monthly basis by Mail Online, Britain’s most popular national newspaper site. Yet eHow employs no writers.

Top 10 mistakes in web design

OK so this list has been around for a long time but it is so useful I had to reproduce it. I'm currently studying an Open University course on web applications and this week's focus is on usability and accessibility. That's why I'm looking at this list.

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen produced this list - go to his site to read the full version and check out some more of his top 10s at the end of the post.

1. Bad search
2. PDF Files for Online Reading
3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
4. Non-Scannable Text
5. Fixed Font Size
6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility
7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement
8. Violating Design Conventions
9. Opening New Browser Windows
10. Not Answering Users' Questions

From online to print

Now this is turning things upside down. Crowdsourced images from the recent dust storms in Australia were used to create this magazine.