Mecca Ibrahim's Bits & Pieces

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

Jan
28th

Thu

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
23rd

Sat

The What and Why of Blogging - SOTB 2009 - From annual Technorati Blogging report

Jan
22nd

Fri

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)

Dec
16th

Wed

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

Oct
8th

Thu

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

High Scalability - High Scalability - 10 Ways to Take your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose

At the Future of Web Apps conference Kevin Rose (Digg, Pownce, Wefollow) gave a cool presentation on the top 10 down and dirty ways you can grow your web app. He took the questions he’s most often asked and turned it into a very informative talk.

Sep
22nd

Tue

Don’t lose existing members of your online community | Community Building

Good to see the same classic tips on community retention

Sep
10th

Thu

Google - Internet Stats

This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place. These have been collected from a number of third party vendors covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.

Sep
7th

Mon

The many ways in which the experience of Twitter’s development and growing popularity is very much like the experience of early blogging - meish dot org: life, unfolding

The reminder a couple of weeks ago that pioneering blog publishing engine Blogger was launched ten years ago got me thinking.

I’ve been blogging for nearly ten years now - since it began with a W - and being involved with something from the beginning, plus passionate (and sometimes despondent) about its potential and usage in the years since means I’ve had a lot of time to watch and think about how it has matured and been used. There are certain things which we can now look back on and consider milestones in the development and maturing of blogging - like how the media responded to it, how people embraced and used it and how it penetrated mainstream web usage over time.

Likewise, Twitter.

Sep
2nd

Wed

Charles Miller has had his media diet reshaped by social networks.

Just a year ago, the marketing executive for DirecTV in Los Angeles began his day by looking at the home page of the Yahoowebsite, surfing links to the major news stories selected by the site’s editors. But today Mr Miller begins his day on Twitter and Facebook - primarily social networking sites - where he reads stories and watches videos suggested by his friends and connections.

Mr Miller’s changing habits are representative of a broad shift occurring among internet users

— FT.com / UK - Friends, not editors, shape internet habits