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Going Beyond Microblogging 101: Enterprise & Open-Source MicroBlogging

Comments 05 November 2008

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I’m more than a little amazed at how quickly the discussion on microblogging has matured beyond Twitter downtimes.

Here is the definitive list of resources for you to stay op top of the latest trends in microblogging/ microsharing/ presence applications –

Enterprise MicroBlogging

- Laura Fitton’s Pistachio Consulting has an excellent comparison of 19 enterprise micro-sharing tools (based on the microsharing matrix that first appeared at Mashable!)

- Jeremiah Owyang and Laura Fitton are maintaining lists of enterprise micro-blogging tools.

- Pistachio Consulting also has an enterprise microsharing reading list and a blog for enterprise microsharing case studies.

- Peter Kim from Forrester Research has written a report titled ‘Microblogging For Marketers’.

- BusinessWeek has a CEO’s Guide to MicroBlogging.

Open Source MicroBlogging

- John Eckman has a list of open source microblogging tools.

- Evan Prodromou of Control Yourself Inc. (the company behind Identica and Laconica) is promoting the OpenMicroBlogging standard.

General Resources on MicroBlogging

- TwiTip is a blog on Twitter tips run by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.

- Twitter Facts has great analysis on Twitter, often by country.

- O’ Reilly Radar has a report titled ‘Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution’.

Academic Research on MicroBlogging

- ‘Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities’ by Akshay Java and Xiaodan Song.

- ‘Microblogging: A Semantic and Distributed Approach’ by Alexandre Passant, Tuukka Hastrup, Uldis Bojars and John Breslin.

Socio-Cultural Implications of MicroBlogging

- Brave New World of Digital Intimacy by Clive Thompson, New York Times, September 2008.

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