Jay Collier

"Professional schools are joining undergraduate institutions in creating strong online video communications to tell the story of the expertise and opportunities available. The UVA Law School has ... 26 videos that start with an opening tour of the school." - Jay Collier

Via Bob Johnson: "As marketers and writers we must learn to say more in fewer words these days." - Jay Collier

"Although users interact with channels in different ways, four common factors quantify social media success: Attention, Participation, Authority, and Influence." - Jay Collier

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"Acquia has announced the availability of Acquia Drupal, a free and commercially supported distribution of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system" - Jay Collier

Via Nelson: Read both letter and comments. "We think it is important that Congress hear from the well run financial institutions as most of the concerns have been focused on the problem companies. Attached are the issues that we believe are relevant from the perspective of healthy banks." - Jay Collier

"The tools exist for newsrooms to collaborate in creating a continuously updated news aggregation on the homepage — all that’s required is for a news site to decide it makes both editorial and economic sense to be in the aggregation business, to be a starting point for news." - Jay Collier

Via Jeremiah: New feature in YouTube. "The Hot Spots tab in Insight plays your video alongside a graph that shows the ups-and-downs of viewership at different moments within the video." - Jay Collier

Recording of live Twitter comments -- some interesting, others not -- superimposed over Obama/McCain debate. - Jay Collier

"While many websites streamed live video, the Current/Twitter broadcast certainly wasn't watched by as many people as the first televised Presidential debate. But new these new media are expected to ripple out over the world just as far at television has." - Jay Collier

"Anything that does get published must have an identifiable owner. That owner must commit to regularly (every six months at least) checking their published content. It is absolutely no excuse for them to say they don’t have time. Don’t let them publish if they don’t have time to review and remove." - Jay Collier

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"Twitscoop was built to help you stay on top of twitter's hot topics or discussions. Through an automated algorithm, twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentionned more often than usual" - Jay Collier

Via EchoDitto: A $10 million Google project. "A call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible." - Jay Collier

"More than 50 percent of the students surveyed said they want course material to be avaalble to them even after the complete a course." - Jay Collier

Newest annual report from Technorati goes deeper and is being released in daily installments. - Jay Collier

Via Mark G.: "The five second test is a simple usability test that helps you measure the effectiveness of your user interfaces." - Jay Collier

"The Calais Web Service automatically creates rich semantic metadata for the content you submit – in well under a second. Using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods, Calais analyzes your document and finds the entities within it." - Jay Collier

"Social applications in particular, such as communities and social networking sites, are cost-effective and have a measurable impact on prospects' decisions in the consideration stage, which will be important to companies under recessionary pressures. Interactive marketers should stop toe-dipping and invest only in programs that can deliver on measurable metrics." - Jay Collier

"Right now, your customers are writing about your products on blogs and recutting your commercials on YouTube. They’re defining you on Wikipedia and ganging up on you in social networking sites like Facebook. These are all elements of a social phenomenon — the groundswell — that has created a permanent, long-lasting shift in the way the world works." - Jay Collier

"How do you gather feedback and manage the ideas you get from your customers, partners, and employees? ... By creating an interactive Ideas forum where people can vet their best ideas, you can become a more responsive company, uncovering new opportunities and instilling a sense of co-ownership with your most passionate evangelists" - Jay Collier

"Unigo.com — a free, gigantic, student-generated guide to North American colleges for prospective applicants and their families — went live for the benefit of tens of thousands of trepidatious high-school students as they try to figure out where and how to go to college." - Jay Collier

Nice interactive interface for customizing the appearance of a WordPress blog. - Jay Collier

Single WordPress theme, huge flexibility in positioning, styling, aesthetics. See screenshots, right. - Jay Collier

"Viewing learning as a social process which engages both teachers and learners makes the why go to college question moot. ... Learners in general, however, need mentors or guides who are regularly available over a period of time." - Jay Collier