The Social Media Clarity Podcast

15 minutes of concentrated analysis and advice about social media in platform and product design

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Ban the Banhammer

Episode 28 | 23:35 | Randy Farmer & Scott Moore

Scott and Randy discuss the (mis)use of the various forms of the "ban" tool, and provide alternative techniques.

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Episode 27 - Responsibility.com

Episode 27 | 12:43 | Marc Smith, Scott Moore & Randy Farmer

Marc, Scott, and Randy talk about recent changes at social platform companies as they wrestle with the ethics of their customers causing conflict, such as racism/sexism in AirBNB and Nextdoor.

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Why Comments Suck

Episode 26 | 21:31 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer

Scott and Randy tear into the history and problems of comments on "news" sites, and identify the most overlooked problem. They then talk about current and future solutions.

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Amplifying Influencers

Episode 25 | 19:13 | Marc Smith

Part 4 of our Social Network Analysis Series. Marc details how seeking out specific influential people, or mayors, in your topic areas can lead to better engagement with new networks of people.

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Two Recipes for Stone Soup

Episode 24 | 10:37 | Randy Farmer

A Fable of Pre-Funding Startups

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Quantifying Empathy

Episode 23 | 19:50 | Marc Smith, Randy Farmer & Scott Moore

You KNOW Marc, Randy, and Scott couldn't let Twitter messing with Favorites and Facebook Reactions go without some spirited discussion.

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Best Practices - Starting Enthusiast Communities

Episode 22 | 21:18 | Randy Farmer & Scott Moore

This episode is for people starting an online community based on an existing group, family, friends, team, club, fans, church, guild, or hobby enthusiast.

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The Rise and Fall of a Comment Empire - Justin Isaf

Episode 21 | 14:56 | Marc Smith, Scott Moore & Randy Farmer with Justin Isaf

This is the third in our series of episodes critiquing Huffing Posts changes in commenting policies and technology. This time, we interview an insider: Justin Isaf who was in charge of community at HuffPo in 2011 and 2012.

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ForumCon 2014 Musings, Continued

Episode 20 | 12:36 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer

Scott and Randy continue sharing thoughts and observations inspired by ForumCon 2014, held in June. This time focusing on the transformation of the industry driven by mobile (keyboardless) devices.

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ForumCon 2014 Musings

Episode 19 | 13:33 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer

Scott and Randy share thoughts and observations inspired by ForumCon 2014, held in June.

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Social is Big Data: Get Scala! - Alexy Khrabrov

Episode 18 | 14:30 | Scott Moore & Marc Smith with Alexy Khrabrov

After updating our previous episodes about Huffington Post comments and Facebook reach, Scott and Marc speak with Alexy Khrabrov from By The Bay introducing the Scala programming language for large social datasets.

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What does your hashtag look like? Lee Rainie from Pew Internet Research

Episode 17 | 15:11 | Scott Moore & Marc Smith with Lee Rainie

Scott and Marc speak with Lee Rainie from Pew Internet Research about the new report Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters and how its findings can be used to better understand and grow online communities.

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Five Stages of Grief - Facebook Likes are not Community

Episode 16 | 17:58 | Scott Moore, Randy Farmer & Marc Smith

Your hosts - Scott, Randy, and Marc discuss recent very public changes to Facebook reach as an indicator that companies may be looking in all the wrong places to connect with their community.

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Pandemic! UX meets Game Design with Matt Leacock

Episode 15 | 13:43 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer with Matt Leacock

Bryce Glass returns to the show to join Scott and Randy interviewing Matt Leacock: A mild mannered UX designer by day ... but after hours he uses his super-powers to design award-winning boardgames.

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LinkedIn's Scarlet Letter

Episode 14 | 16:17 | Marc Smith, Scott Moore & Randy Farmer

Marc, Scott, and Randy discuss LinkedIn's so-called SWAM (Site Wide Automatic Moderation) policy and Scott provides some tips on moderation system design.

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Thriving Online with Howard Rheingold

Episode 13 | 13:22 | Marc Smith, Scott Moore & Randy Farmer with Howard Rheingold

Marc, Scott, and Randy interview Howard Rheingold - critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media.

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Q&A: Social Media Resources

Episode 12 | 12:46 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith

In this, our first Q&A episode, we answer a question from Ryan Crowe @doctorcrowe of Twilio, who asked us about what resources we use to keep up with our social media related areas of expertise.

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Teens and Social Media

Episode 11 | 13:23 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer with danah boyd

Scott and Randy interview danah boyd about her book It's Complicated: the social lives of networked teens, coming out February 25th and available for preorder now.

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Social Sharing - Snapchat and the NSA

Episode 10 | 14:02 | Marc Smith, Randy Farmer & Scott Moore

Marc, Randy and Scott discuss the inherent weaknesses of social sharing on the internet, and how recent NSA revelations have pushed privacy issues into the mainstream.

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Ratings, Reputation and Incentive Design

Episode 9 | 14:01 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith with Dr. Paul Resnick

We take a short, but deep, dive with Dr. Paul Resnick - a leading researcher in incentive based design, recommender, and reputation systems.

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Disney's Hercworld, Toontown, and BlockChatβ„’

Episode 8 | 10:38 | Randy Farmer

Stories from The Vault #1 - Randy Farmer's story about community moderation issues for early kid-centric virtual worlds.

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E-Sports and Live-Streaming

Episode 7 | 15:41 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith with T.L. Taylor and Trump

With big announcements from the game console companies, live-streaming has been thrust into the mainstream. Join us as we discuss the phenomenon with lead researcher T.L. Taylor and a full-time streamer Trump.

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Origin of Avatars, MMOs, and Freemium

Episode 6 | 11:51 | Randy Farmer & Scott Moore with Chip Morningstar

An interview with Chip Morningstar (and podcast hosts: Randy Farmer and Scott Moore) who created and ran the first MMOs/Virtual Worlds.

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Crowdsourcing, Volunteers, and the Sharing Economy

Episode 5 | 13:26 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith

This episode we talk about the emerging idea of the social economy and how it interacts with the commons: existing crowdsourcing and volunteer-supplied content and resources.

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Influence is a Graph

Episode 4 | 12:20 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith

This episode we talk about web influence - what it is, how you measure it, and what you can do with it.

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Save our Pseudonyms!

Episode 3 | 17:21 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith with Dr. Bernie Hogan

Second of two shows on Identity and Content Abuse Mitigation. Interview with Dr. Bernie Hogan of the Oxford Internet Institute - He says pseudonyms are important!

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HuffPo, Identity, and Abuse

Episode 2 | 12:20 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith

Huffington Post to require ID to post, says "It's good for you!" We beg to differ!

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Social Networks 101

Episode 1 | 11:51 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith

News: Is Facebook limiting access for apps to user data? Topic: What is a social network, why should a product designer care, and where do you get one? Tip: NodeXL - Instant Social Network Analysis

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