Content Marketing: Page 607

  • Africa's First Pro Blogger !!!

    Its another Monday and as usual i always dirt around my mail to approve and reject comments.I have been blogging for nine years now, i have built up a reputable blog, but thats not just it! I realize that blogging need not just be a hobby for me- but an avenue for self expression.It could also ...

    By Collins Mbalo • Sept. 8, 2008

  • 5 raisons pour lesquelles Twittad ne marchera pas

    Twittad est un service de monétisation de Twitter...qui ne marchera pas à mon sens et pour 5 raisons:Le placement des bannières est très mal choisi et pas du tout optimisé. Rares sont les personnes qui au lieu de regarder le timeline iront vers le le haut de la page...Twittad sera vite perçu co...

    By • Sept. 8, 2008

  • Social Media, Rumors, and Defamation

    A week ago, I posted an article entitled Social Media and Brand Control: A Historical Perspective. I received some interesting comments from an anonymous reader who asked what ramifications there might be to spreading false rumors and whether Social Media might be used by companies to spread ru...

    By • Sept. 8, 2008

  • HBO's True Blood "Viral" / ARG Campaign

    HBO's new show True Blood premiered last night. It's based on Charlain Harris' South Vampire Mysteries series. The Japanese have developed synthetic blood called TruBlood and this development has allowed vampires who have been effectively hiding to "come out of the coffin" and join mainstream so...

    By • Sept. 8, 2008

  • Graphic analysis of 204 social media marketing examples

    Last week, I shared a list of about 120 companies using and/or being used by social media marketing. Less than a week later, that list has almost doubled solely based on community contributions. Thank you for sharing. The list seems big enough to support some analysis. What do you think abou...

    By • Sept. 8, 2008

  • Blogger of the Week - Marc Meyer

    Marc Meyer, this week's Blogger of the Week, is Director of e-commerce and interactive marketing for Emerson Direct, a Naples, Florida-based marketing and communications company that focuses on direct response. About two years ago, he says, he noticed that social media and social networks were...

    Sept. 8, 2008

  • Chrome - It's Not Just For Wheels Anymore

    So...did you greet the news that Google unveiled its own browser last Tuesday with a roll of your eyes, as in, "Whatever?" And perhaps you think anyone who fawned over it is nuts as in, "Google could put out a poo brick and people would fawn over it." Well, that's not my M.O. Yes, I really do l...

    By • Sept. 8, 2008

  • Représenter le web 2, mais pour quoi faire ?

    Le web 2 étant prolixe en services en tous genres, il a très vite généré toutes sortes de représentations. Il y a les planches de logos, des nuages de mots-clés, des cartes de la d'une prétendue blogosphère, des réseaux sociaux façon la Terre du Milieu ou géopolitiques, des cartes sémantiques, ...

    By • Sept. 7, 2008

  • Micro PR

    There's been much blogging and Tweeting about TechCrunch50 and DEMOfall- two conferences where tech start ups reveal new products and services. However, you have to keep the product or service under wraps until it is seen at the conference. Which makes sense for the conference, but inventing th...

    By • Sept. 7, 2008

  • How to Use Link Building Through Social Media and Social Networks to Your Advantage

    Link building is an essential tool for SEO, and using social networks and other social media can be a fun way to build links. Using popular social networks such as Myspace and Facebook allow a website owner to connect with relevant consumers or business owners and presto: increase traffic to a ...

    By • Sept. 7, 2008

  • Podcasting from the heartâ€"with editing

    Two of my good friendsâ€"C.C. Chapman and Mitch Joelâ€"have, on their most recent podcasts, extolled the virtues of podcasting without editing. "Live to the hard drive" is the phrase I hear most often in reference to this podcasting style; a lot of shows I listen to are recorded this way, includ...

    By • Sept. 7, 2008

  • Business Week's Business Exchange: What It Needs To Escape Beta

    Well, it's not quite like Business Week made me a columnist, but this is pretty interesting. BW's Business Exchange is sort of a cross between LinkedIn's Answers and Social Media Today (or maybe even Techmeme). Users of the service (now in beta) can even import their LinkedIn profile data.Every...

    By • Sept. 7, 2008

  • You can't "do" blogs half fast!

    I was reading Paul Chaney's blog post on Social Media Today this morning in which he thinks that there is a serious reduction on the number of comments flowing into blogs and he's right. the quality is going down as well as the quantity. Part of the reason is that we now have more ways to acc...

    By • Sept. 6, 2008

  • Le point sur le (vidéo)podcasting

    Se sentir toujours plus nomade au sein de sa tribu, choisir son moment et son lieu pour consommer l'information, mettre à profit les temps morts de son quotidien (les transports, les salles d'attente, ses courses), tout ceci explique aussi le succès des médias "de poche"(le mobile, l'iPod, le ...

    By • Sept. 6, 2008

  • Shhhh! Sworn to Secrecy

    I recently told you a little about an innovative start-up named Akoha, that founder Austin Hill described in an interview with Tara Hunt as: "...based off Aboriginal gift economies and it's a pay it forward giving game whereby you earn points based off how well you give to other people. So aside...

    By • Sept. 6, 2008

  • Microsoft explains why the ad is so lame

    "This first set of ads features Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Think of these ads as an icebreaker to reintroduce Microsoft to viewers in a consumer context. Later this month, as the campaign moves into its next phase, we'll go much deeper in telling the Windows story and celebrating wh...

    By • Sept. 6, 2008

  • Social Media Best Practices Start with Blogging

    There are several different tools and tactics included under the umbrella of "social media"â€"including podcasting, video, social bookmarking, wikis, forums, and social networkingâ€"but the ideal starting point is blogging. Having your own blog provides a "container" for all of your thought lea...

    By • Sept. 6, 2008

  • Média Sociaux pour Les Nuls

    Voilà la même en français, il suffisait de demander ! Médias Sociaux Pour Les NulsView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: microblogs forums)Link to original post

    By • Sept. 5, 2008

  • Delivering ROI on Social Media

    My last post discussed why the nature of social media need not be compromised by pursuing lead generation through these new media.Today, let's turn to some examples of how B2B marketers are embracing social media for this purpose.A few weeks ago, McKinsey & Company released the results of t...

    By • Sept. 5, 2008

  • Trust Based Networks, Are you Using Trust to Grow your Business?

    Remember the word trust? In case you don't the word trust means having a firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing. So I ask again remember trust? Most of us who own or work within the small business community know that trust is the true bottom line. If you hav...

    By • Sept. 5, 2008

  • Liste d'exemples de marketing des medias sociaux

    Je crois que beaucoup de gens en marketing vont être heureux : voici une liste de plus d'une centaine de grandes marques jouant le jeu des médias sociaux.A List of Social Media Marketing Examples>> Last update: 4 September 2008>> Total brands: 162Peter Kim a compilé une longue liste ...

    By • Sept. 5, 2008

  • Microsoft, Seinfeld, Gates; Apple beware!

    Microsoft is launching a $300 million ad campaign starting September 4th, says the WSJ. The ad campaign will star comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, and it was developed to combat the negative image that many consumers have about Windows Vista and also to finally push back against Apple's p...

    By • Sept. 5, 2008

  • Zappos and EGM: Employee-Generated Media

    One aspect that is too often omitted from Social Media discussions is the increased importance of front-line employees. In the "old days," companies had many employees who spoke one-to-one with customers and very few employees who broadcast information to many customers. The former were folk...

    By • Sept. 5, 2008

  • Les 10 indices qui indiquent que vous êtes une vedette du Web

    Ce billet est particulièrement vrai pour des gens que je connais ... de réputation Web. Il nous vient du copain Phil qui n'est pas une star du Web non plus. Moi je ne connais que des quidams du Web. Bon c'est dit... Toujours est-il que si vous avez déjà subi l'une des circonstances traduites pa...

    By • Sept. 5, 2008

  • IndieGoGo - Film Projects Community

    IndieGoGo is an awesome Film and TV community for creating independent projects. In a nutshell, post your idea for a film project and find others to help you create it - the project management/producer stuff is handled on the site. IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers...

    By • Sept. 5, 2008