From Social Media StarFish To Conversation Prism
Illustration by Brian Solis and Jess 3
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Darren Barefoot created a visual called "social media starfish" in his book "Getting to First Base." It was a remix of Scoble's white board. Brian Solis has created the next reiteration - the conversation prism. (Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity)
The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate.
I'm seeing a remix of the Social Media Game cards. However, the existing "tool cards" have about 3/4 of the tools listed above - but people get so overwhelmed with choices. The holy grail would be a grid that shows prism category, lists the tools, and column that describes possible applications or uses.
I absolutely agree! I actually did some of this work in the social media manifesto and the essential guide to social media. If you give me access to wikispaces, I can help populate the grid...
Posted by: Brian Solis | August 07, 2008 at 01:52 PM
Oh, I'm brian at future-works dot com
Posted by: Brian Solis | August 07, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Whoops .. should have been an open wiki - no registration required. but if you do register, can make you organizer.
Posted by: Beth Kanter | August 07, 2008 at 02:50 PM