Daniela Barbosa Chitchating about Information Delivery

Daniela Barbosa writes the wonderful blog, Chitchating about Information Delivery. The very prominent blog, ReadWriteWeb recently named her one of the Seven Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists. It said, “Daniela Barbosa is the Business Development Manager, at Synaptica, a division of Dow Jones Client Solutions. Barbosa is one of the most prominent advocates of semantic technology and data portability inside of a legacy institution. Her personal blog leverages almost every bleeding edge web technology you can think of.”

Her blog also includes a beautiful banner of photos across the top and then excellent content underneath with a lot of cool widgets running down the right column. I need to ask where she got some of that stuff. The archives go back to February 2005.

Daniela gives bloggers some good advice in her post, I Knew There was a Reason I Never Started Smoking, I Was Waiting for Something Better. She writes that it is important to understand the behavior that drives people to read blogs if you want to make them successful. Then Daniela covers a small sample study she found on the blog, Paid Content. Many of the bloggers were more obsessive than me about reading their favorite blogs but the idea that stuck out for me was the comment by one of the respondents that she quotes, “Rather than focusing on helping readers wade through a deluge of information content, one could envision tools that focus on the reader’s relationship with the blogger or allowing more fluid, nuanced interactions between bloggers and readers.”

Daniela went on the think of some ways to expand the engagement between readers and bloggers such as matching the readers 'Attention' to specific blog posts so the first posts the visitor sees when visiting a blog are the most relevant to them based on their current attention profile, allowing readers to comment beyond text for example with video replies, and allowing 'real-time' chat on blogs once you post some content.

I find the first one the most intriguing. You can do that manually now in a primitive by going to the categories on this blog that interest you but a more sophisticated multi-dimensional tag-based profile might provide better matches. We also have Google site search on this blog to help you find past content that is off the front page. Perhaps adding more social features like we do with the Google Search Application for the enterprise might enrich the readers experience and the connections with other readers of the blog. When we integrate Connectbeam with Google Search Appliance inside the firewall the combination provides additional ranking based on number of times tagged. This Google integration also offers related tags, related users, and related communities. You are able to see who else did the same search, what they found, what they thought about it, and are provided with the ability to contact this person with a similar interest. What do you think? Daniela asks for more ideas and I do also.

Comments

[daniela barbosa]

Thanks for the mention Puneet- we need to catch up it seems like ages! Just caught up on your newest blog posts- sounds like you folks are doing some excellent work and putting some good ideas out there. I can't talk to an enterprise about social tagging without Connectbeam coming up!

User engagement is so important to the information consumption ecosystem- thanks for keeping the conversation going!

[Puneet]

Daniela:
I look forward to catching up with you soon.
Lots of exciting things underway, and will be happy to share with you our product roadmap for the next few months.

[vibram fivefingers]

Wow,good!
I love what you wrote.
I think we can make friends.

[JulietteBarlow29]

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