About Yasni

Many people lose track in the Social Media-jungle. Facebook…Twitter…Blogging… Where and how do I reach my customers the best?

A great article on the topic “communication with Social Media” by Soren Gordhamer is available on mashable.com.

Conclusion: There is a fine line between reaching out people and ’spamming’ people.

Here are the 7 Lessons for better networking with Social Media:

1. Find a Person’s Preferred Communication Channel: Go where they are!

2. Say Just Enough: Less is more!

3. Don’t Expect a Response: Say what you need to and then let it go.

4. Clarify Early: Say it up front.

5. What You Want is Not the Point: No one knows what the future may hold, so make the moment count. Ensure the door stays open, even if no one is walking through it right now.

6. Be Open Without Needing: Speak from openness rather than need.

7. Give Space: Focus on thoughtful instead of continual contact.

We will do our best! Thanks for the great tips…

We’re all using the web, but some questions remain open:

How are we using the web?

How many people are using it?

How many websites are there?

The Royal Pingdom blog has some answers for us! Here is the internet 2009 in numbers:

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First of all, i have to thank myildiz for his latest contribution Visibility for Yasni via collaborative effort. We are looking forward to more of your contributions and the subsequent discussion within the Yasni community.

At the moment, the topic “Social Media” is very present in the media. I’ve found something interesting on digitalbuzzblog.com - the new social media policy of Coca Cola:

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I am relatively new and have been a member of Yasni for a year now. In the beginning I did not know anything about it until I met Mr Andreas Wiedow who coached me online and encouraged me to use it effeciently. Keeping my content in one place and getting them to be rated by independent co-networkers is important for the credibility of my content. Therefore I continued to add more content, make new contacts and recently started blogging for Yasni.

Within my capacity, I created some visibility for Yasni in English speaking networks. For example, a number of blogs and discussions in Ecademy, several Tweets in Twitter for my followers around 5000+ now. I am also superfan of Yasni and promoting it in the Superfan which become a popular fav with 29,908 points.

Despite these contributions, my knowledge in mechanics of Yasni is still low. Recently, I was nominated for the Tedora Awards which made me grateful and motivated for recognition of my contributions. However, until I was being nominated, I did not know about this award. I believe there are a number of other points that we don’t know about Yasni in English speaking countries. I know it is very popular and well known in Germany however we need to create more visibility for Yasni in English speaking countries.

To be able to do that, we need to create a forum and an FAQ (frequently asked questions) centrally available online for all members. For example, the first page of Yasni site must be like a dashboard and it should branch from there to all other content and details of members through encapsulated links. Through the dashboard, we should be able to see blogs, access member areas, member content, FAQs, various branches of Yasni, news, awards, promotions, and other relevant items.

So we all have roles and responsibilities to make Yasni more visible and extended to other geographies. I’d be delighted to help for creating more visibility and would like to obtain your views to make Yasni a better known system globally which will also be good for us, i.e. the members and the other stakeholders. Let’s make this reputation system a more reputable one together!

Regards,
Dr. Mehmet Yildiz

I still believe that art and science are strongly interrelated and philosophy fills in the gaps and/or provides essential connectivity. You can guess what technology, religion and epistemology relate in this equation and resemblance.

What is sense of harmonious proportionality? It is symmetry. There is symmetry in objects in various ratios. Symmetry in dictionaries is usually defined as “an imprecise sense of harmonious or aesthetically pleasing proportionality and balance such that it reflects beauty or perfection”. There are various kinds of symmetry such as, reflection, rotational translational, helical, and most prominently fractals developed by one of our genius colleagues who works in schreIBMaschine you may know who he is.

Today I am inspired by a recent scientific discovery. It is exciting to see that golden ratio discovered in a quantum world. In fact hidden symmetry was observed for the first time in solid state matter. Details in the new issue of Science Journal, titled “Quantum Criticality in an Ising Chain: Experimental Evidence for Emergent E8 Symmetry”

I am also inspired by a world premiere, previously unseen show in Melbourne, Australia depicting extraordinary work of Leonardo Da Vinci. It is titled Anatomy of Robots: The Artist, The Anatomist, The Inventor.

Here’s a sample symmetry experience from Da Vinci’s work

Ref: image source

Do you notice symmetry in your daily life? What sort of feeling does it give to you when you recognise it. Is it also part of your day to day life at home, outside, in the workplace? How about the asymmetric aspects?

Regards,
Mehmet Yildiz

ORM is an acronym for Online Reputation Monitoring.

I have recently introduced an activity of our recent study in a blog post here titled “Importance of a central user generated content validation system”

Content validation help one’s credibility increase in complex online world. However, the validation activity itself is inadequate in the full life cycle of reputation management process. Another key function is reputation monitoring. ORM can be resembled to an automated systems tool which monitor the critical systems 24/7/365 to ensure that they are available and perform within SLA (agreed service levels).

The best solution to online reputation monitoring is to have a centralised tool like Yasni. A number of social and professional networking sites have this function in an integral part of the system usually embedded as part of the feedback obtained from the members for the content creators. Yasni has a well embedded monitoring system to achieve to this end. I believe other emerging social networks can leverage this functionality as perhaps by creating some APIs linked to Yasni’s core application infrastructure.

Talking about APIs, I noticed that my content in Twitter, Linkedin, Naymz and Ecademy are picked up easily through Google by Yasni in the same day. I still do some kind of manual work to claim my own content but the effort is minimal, 2-3 minutes a day which worth the invested time. Then with this little invested effort, Yasni performs the monitoring for us i.e. we can see how our content credibility in a dashboard-like view such as whether it is going, up, down or gradual.

How is your content monitored on Internet?

Sharing my knowledge is an important aspect of life. Fortunately, my organisation (IBM) recommends us provide give back activities to communities and society which is a kind of implementation of sharing at business level. This means that when I provide giveback activities as an employee I get credit for my career development.

Today, I would like to highlight one of the specific sharing tool on the web which called the Slideshare. It is a networking tool based on sharing knowledge specifically presentation materials globally. It is a powerful and flexible tool which allow us to share with a target group or everyone.

For example, I decided to share my public conference presentations at the Slideshare which can be viewed from this link. I’d appreciate it if you can follow me and recommend my presentation to relevant people in your networks. If you are a member of Slideshare, please let me know and I will follow you too. The more the merrier!

Let’s remember that shared knowledge exponentially grow! And knowledge is certainly power for our business!!

This is a discovery post rather than prescriptive on how to be transparent and authentic online. There are a number of recent incidents in various online environments which triggered some thoughts and feelings requiring associated decisions and actions for me. In this post, I’d like to discuss the environment factor.

Environment is an essential factor for success. I believe, like it is in the real world, one expect the online world to be clean and healthy to play with confidence and enthusiasm. If an environment gets toxic with mediocrity and childish behaviour, one’s enthusiasm and willingness relatively decrease. I believe authentic and transparent people instantly affected by their environments. An environment, for example for blogging, makes difference for one’s participation and collaboration.

Spirit of networking is directly related environment which play a significant role for participative actions. Who has the key impact on environment? Without doubt that the members of the environment have the key impact to keep the environment clean, healthy and pleasant to play with.

I’d like to discover how one can be transparent and authentic in this online world. How would you define and describe a clean, healthy and pleasant environment. Look forward to obtaining your insights stemming from your online experience, thoughts, and personal preferences.

Regards,
Dr. Mehmet Yildiz

Do you believe in security? What does it mean to you? How secure do you feel at home, in the workplace, whilst driving, on your holidays?

I was reading a new interesting media release from the University of Maryland titled “Building Real Security with Virtual Worlds” which brought more questions than answers to the topic.

It is good to know that “advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and predict results of many different possible military and policy actions”.

They have some important technology components as stated in their paper such as stochastic opponent modeling agents, artificial intelligence software that uses data about past behavior of groups in order to create rules about the probability of that group various actions in different situations, “cultural islands,” which provide a virtual world representation of a real-world environment or terrain, populated with characters from that part of the world who behave in accordance with a behavioral model; and forecasting “engines” CONVEX and CAPE, which focus on predicting behavioral changes in groups based on validated on historical data.

What are your views on building computer-generated models that can automatically adapt to changes in group behaviors and to conditions on the ground? What could be the implications and risks? And what possibilities do you see in your business, your country, overall in your lives?

Dr. Mehmet Yildiz

Today, I have posted a blog to Ecademy which could be characterised as abnormal.

The title of the blog is “Magic box for mission impossible“.

The blog has a number of features which may make one to think from various angles. Every word and sentence, including the image has a message which could be linked to certain important things.

Please feel free to rate or comment on the blog but I cannot guarantee to keep your comments on in the beginning. No offense is intended; just its abnormality caused this idiosyncrasy :-)!

Have you ever posted or seen unconventional blogs? What did you learn from them?