Social Media Updates: Page 442

  • First swing

    Ok, here goes...I'm in Gold Coast, Australia, hours away from giving a talk at a seminar for 250 franchisees on you guessed it, social networking and its effect on their business. Â This would be appropriate that I join today, post today, & report back after the session as to how it goes. Â...

    By • Sept. 4, 2008

  • Facebook Experiments -- Advertise At Your Risk

    If you're Mark Zuckerberg, you've got to find a way to monetize the huge traffic Facebook attracts, which they recently claimed has grown to 100 million active users. Advertisers want to reach this mostly young, tech literate demographic. Last week Facebook announced a new beta program that cou...

    By • Sept. 1, 2008

  • A few questions for companies to consider as they join Twitter.

    More and more companies have joined the Twitterverse. Over the past week, I have been followed by Whole Foods, Starbucks, American Airlines and Popeyes Chicken. Hopefully, these companies and others are discovering that Twitter is a great place to join the conversation with those customers. Mu...

    By • Aug. 25, 2008

  • The Case of the Exxon Twitterer

    (Cross-posted from TheEnergyCollective.com) The Houston Chronicle is reporting that the Exxon Twitter ("janet from ExxonMobil") account, which was launched to great fanfare and using Exxon's logo, is not authorized and does not originate in its public relations department. From the Chronicle: ...

    By • Aug. 2, 2008

  • L'EQUIPE ELECTORALE DE BARACK OBAMA LUTTE CONTRE LES RUMEURS ISSUES DU WEB

    Le Sénateur [Barack Obama]url:http://www.barackobama.com a très vite compris qu'[Internet représentait une des clés de la mobilisation]url:http://www.verbalkint.net/OBAMA,-LE-CANDIDAT-DU-NET-DEMOCRATE-US_a495.html nécessaire à l'obtention de l'investiture dans un premier temps, puis de la vict...

    By • July 25, 2008

  • 15 JOURS DE BREAK PLUS TARD

    De retour. Voyage magnifique de Riga à Talinn, de Helsinki à Stockholm. Totale déconnexion au programme. Je vous encourage à aller y faire un tour, vraiment. Ce blog reprend donc vie jusqu'au mois d'août. Copyright chroma'fresh Le blog de VerbalKint - www.verbalkint.net - ...

    By • July 14, 2008

  • Un état de la Twittosphère française

    A découvrir sur Twitter Facts, le premier "état de la twittosphère française". En quelques mots : L'auteur annonce que le nombre réel d'utilisateurs de Twitter en France excéderait probablement les 6229 ("still active users"), dans tous les cas, cela reste encore très faible. Twitter identifi...

    By • June 27, 2008

  • Le MeCommerce : avenir des réseaux sociaux ?

    Aujourd'hui, le nombre d'inscrits à au moins un réseau social sur Internet est supérieur au nombres d'habitants aux États-Unis (soit plus de 350 millions). On peut sans conteste dire que l'explosion des réseaux sociaux est l'une des tendances fortes de ces derniers mois sur Internet. Mais qu...

    By • June 25, 2008

  • Quelle utilisation une entreprise peut-elle faire de Twitter ?

    Je vous parlais la semaine dernière de la possibilité pour une entreprise d'utiliser Friendfeed comme outil de veille : Friendfeed, un outil de veille ? Friendfeed, au même titre que Twitter, et que d'autres nouveaux services Web, font partie de ces services qui peuvent avoir une utilisation pa...

    By • June 23, 2008

  • QUAND DAWN NOUS PARLE DU CIBLAGE DES PAPY-BOOMERS INFLUENTS SUR INTERNET

    [Dawn Anfuso]url:http://www.imediaconnection.com/bios/bio.aspx?id=569 a longtemps travaillé pour le portail marketing [iMedia Connection]url:http://www.imediaconnection.com en tant que Senior Editor, une référence dans le milieu communautaire marketing américain. Dans le cadre de ses fonctions,...

    By • June 22, 2008

  • Le business model des réseaux sociaux

    Le business model des réseaux sociaux L'une des principales tendances de l'année 2007 fut sans nul doute l'explosion des réseaux sociaux, FaceBook en tête. Le principal enjeu en 2008 pour ces plateformes sociales de plus en plus utilisées par les internautes sera de monétiser leur trafic tout ...

    By • June 19, 2008

  • How to Twitter (the right way) on Behalf of Your Brand

    Twitter in a nutshellTwitter is a messaging platform, also referred to as micro-blogging. Information is exchanged between users in the form of messages comprising 140 characters or less. Updates are sent and received via web, SMS or third party applications like Twhirl. The basic idea is you c...

    By • May 12, 2008

  • 4score and . . . how would Lincoln do on Twitter?

    I received a call today from a friend who asked for assistance in brainstorming a two-and-a-half hour presentation on a topic she was very familiar with. She doubted that she could keep the attendees' attention for that long, though she knew the material.My first suggestion was "engage them."So...

    By • April 28, 2008

  • Microblogs are the world's fastest instant global mass media.

    Microblogs have now grown into a category of their own. English, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Russian microblogs are all available. http://microblogs.ning.com Any information can be pasted on globally within 5 minutes. The feedback loop o...

    By • April 18, 2008

  • The Wall Tweet Journal Twitterzine Set for Launch in May

    The Wall Tweet Journal Twitterzine Set for Launch in May To Fill Niche as an Unofficial Knowledge Base for Twitter Fans SMT members with a unique Twitter story to tell are invited to be Guest Bloggers The Wall Tweet Journal, [www.walltweetjournal.com] a Twitterzine created to help people under...

    By • March 19, 2008

  • Building A Twitter Following

    Lots of people ask for tips on building a follower base in Twitter. If you are wondering about this, you should also ask youself another question: what's your goal? My colleague, Lisa Creech Bledsoe, and I are both avid Twitterers. However, we Tweet for entirely different purposes, and our comm...

    By • March 14, 2008

  • Best of 2007: Web 2.0 Sites

    A number of new social networking, social search, social bookmarking, and other Web 2.0-related websites and tools either got their start or got traction in 2007. Here are some of the most notable new sites and tools that made it onto the radar last year.Go2Web20.netBilled as "the complete Web ...

    By • Feb. 28, 2008

  • Should Bloggers Be Held to the Same Standards as Traditional Media?

    An interesting thing happened to me on Friday after I began following @amandachapel on Twitter. Yes, that "Amanda Chapel", the one who loves to rail against all things social media. In reviewing "Amanda's" last 20 posts (or "tweets") -- something I do before following anyone on Twitter -- one e...

    By • Feb. 8, 2008

  • Six degrees of LinkedIn

    This is just too random to keep to myself. You know the game people play, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? This morning, I searched LinkedIn for Jake McKee (making sure we had connected in LI), and I got two results in my network: Jake (no surprise) and Kevin Bacon. Really, I wasn't looking for a pa...

    By • Feb. 6, 2008

  • Twitter For Business Communication

    My Confession...Hi, my name is Jeff, and I'm a Twitterholic! So exactly what is Twitter?Twitter is a free online social networking service used to send/receive short messages within a specified group. Very much like sending an email to a distribution list, a Twitter post conveys a message to ...

    By • Feb. 5, 2008

  • Sociology 2.0: Creating a Model of the Twittering World

    I thought I'd say hello and kick off my presence on SMT with my a post on my my favorite theme around social media: developing good mental models of the sociology of the technology. It is surprising how little attention this gets, despite the many bits we expend on commentary on technology.Cons...

    By • Jan. 29, 2008

  • A bad user interface can kill your site for some

    The additions blog has a post up from yesterday comparing the user-interfaces of Twitter and MySpace when you land on their home pages. It's hard to come at this comparison without some sort of bias, and I'll admit, I think Myspace is a visual quagmire, especially in comparison to Twitter. The ...

    By • Jan. 15, 2008

  • Getting the most out of LinkedIn

    I often get asked questions about how I manage the fact people who you don't always know may want to connect to you on LinkedIn and then may want to be connected to your own personal network. For quite sometime I did look at my LinkedIn network as one that was effectively a group of people who ...

    By • Jan. 2, 2008

  • Facebook or LinkedIn: which one should you join?

    Earlier this week I received an invitation to join an online social networking community from an old college friend who is now based in New Zealand. My heart sank - not because I had just heard from her - no it was the idea of having to join another online social networking group. So I carefull...

    By • Dec. 13, 2007

  • Social Networking: LinkedIn

    Networking. That is what a man has to do. Show me your network, and I tell you who you are ;-). Yep, I still visit tradeshows, receptions, drinks, happy hours, vernisages, golf tournaments, and race tracks handing out a gazillion business cards. And yes, I did collect a plethora of shiny cards...

    By • Dec. 4, 2007