Mecca Ibrahim's Bits & Pieces RSS

Who am I? And why might you be interested in my bits? I've written a book about the Tube called One Stop Short of Barking - Uncovering the London Underground.

I've had other bits & pieces published online.

I work for ehow.co.uk as Marketing & Community Manager.

You can find out where I've worked in the past on LinkedIn

Some of the photos I've taken are on Flickr

Some of the music that rocks my world is at last.fm

People keep telling me I should join Tumblr. I tend to post a lot of links that I want to share on Facebook, but apparently this is better.

I have other places where I have secret links but funnily enough, they're secret.

If you want to follow my tumblr'ing join tumblr & you' ll then see "Follow" in the top right when you next visit my page. Click it & you're done.

Archive

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Loyalty lessons from Lady Gaga: Church of the Customer Blog

5 lessons in building brand loyalty Lady Gaga style
Feb
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Jing | Add visuals to your online conversations

Great screencast tool
Feb
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The Competitive Spectrum Pattern - Design Pattern Library - YDN

The degree of competitiveness of a community depends on the individual goals of community members, the actions they engage in, and to what degree inter-person comparisons or contests are desired. Articulating the community’s competitiveness can help the designer of a reputation system determine which specific reputation patterns to employ
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Knol Help - a knol by Knol Help
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Handpicked Media's micro-media network hopes smaller is better | Media | guardian.co.uk

Network of “female-focused” blogs that give members support, contacts & hopefully a sustainable revenue model
Jan
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comScore Reports Global Search Market Growth of 46 Percent in 2009 - comScore, Inc

Google Sites Accounts for Two-Thirds of 131 Billion Searches Conducted Worldwide in December while Introduction of Bing Helps Microsoft Post Significant Gains During the Year

Reston, VA, January 22, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on growth in the global search market in 2009. The study revealed that the U.S. remains the largest search market worldwide, while Google Sites retains a commanding position in the global search market.
Jan
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The What and Why of Blogging - SOTB 2009 - From annual Technorati Blogging report
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Brands calling for user-generated content should remember these simple guidelines themselves:

1. Make it easy. Give users easy tools for connecting and uploading.

2. Give suggestions, but minimize rules. Users need some guidelines, but they should be more inspirational, not intensely restrictive.

3. Show diverse examples. It’s good to have the site seeded with your own content to give users a feel of what you’re looking for. Asking your team to help out by uploading amateur shots helps diversify what you launch with.

— Too Many Rules Around UGC Won’t Get You Much UGC (Three Minds On Digital Marketing @ Organic)
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Online community metrics: numbers you need to pay attention to | Community Building

I’m surprised people haven’t pulled me up on this yet – I often state that member count isn’t a reliable indicator of the success of an online community; but nobody has asked me what numbers are better to use. Here, I’ll offer you some suggestions. - By Martin Reed
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The Future of Television & TV Ratings - BusinessWeek

TV as we know it is being turned upside-down. Here’s a look at some of what’s coming to the viewing experience