Social Media

I speak about social media a lot - I’m interested in how customers interact with brands and how social media opens up a new dialogue…I’ve covered aspects of social media in this blog and highlighted some basic principles / rules of engagement. This presentation by Marta Kagan says it best….it’s simple, irreverent in parts and very [...]

For the past one year i have been a registered user and a regular visitors to payperpost.com. As a regular visitor i am curious about the new developments and innovative measures taken by izea in the field of social media and internet marketing. I would like to mention the new venture by izea named social [...]

Payperpost is one of my favorite sponsor that has been always there to provide me relevant contents to post on my blogs. I have been so happy with the business that I have with them. And now IZEA has created a new way to bring bloggers more great opportunities to write about. IZEA offers a wide variety of Social Media Marketing services, from blog posts, blog sponsorships and even product samplin

This article is guest posted by Publishers Weblog. So you want your article to get digged and stumble upon’d as often as you can. What can you do to help things along the way? What can you do to give you an edge in the market niche of your blog/site that will beat your competitors? Here are a few tips I call the, ‘Money Makers’! Write a top list! - All diggers, if you have notic

  Before the massive success of Hypnotic Marketing 2.0, one of Dr. Joe Vitale’s previous bestseller was the book “Hypnotic Traffic Tools: How 183 Viral Marketing Tools Can Help You Double Your Sales!” Why? Because if you can harness the raw power of viral marketing, it’s like cloning yourself 1000s of times or having a full-time marketing staff [...]

Believe it or not, Microsoft can actually help you create the ultimate social media tool! If you use Microsoft Outlook 2007 as your email client then you have the basic foundation for creating a powerful social networking monster. Here’s how I use my most important communication tool on a daily basis. Most organizations have Microsoft Windows [...]

I have written before about my issues with IM'g and talking on the telephone. To say I'm uncomfortable with those two things is to downplay the hyperventilation. Social Media, on the other hand, seems to be a completely separate issue...

A social network for older people to stay in touch with distant families, a X-factor style version site of Myspace, and a social network for avatars, presents how social media goes nicheread more | digg story

Social media and networking sites include kirtsy, Digg, del.icio.us, Plurk, StumbleUpon, Twitter, etc. They are a place to mingle and discuss everything from the latest technology to what you're making for dinner. Many of them (e.g., kirtsy and Digg) rely on readers voting for their favorite stories by visiting the...

Nicknames.  Every where I turn there is someone named trnky2fun or something like that.  Every social site I belong to I get invited to be a friend by someone with NO profile, or with a description of 'what do you want to know'.    Their name?  Nothing descriptive. How can I say yes to that? I have 2 people in my gmail talk alone who I have NO idea who they actually are.&n

If you are wondering, “Exactly what is Web 2.0/Social Media?” you certainly are not alone. We will provide you with an overview to aid you in understanding each term and how it probably has already had a significant impact on you and/or your business and, most likely, how your business operates. More: continued here

Don’t look now but social media and social networking tools have begun its assault on the enterprise! They have successfully penetrated company firewalls and have started to infiltrate corporate email systems without anyone noticing yet! How have they accomplished this impressive task despite all of the security measures that anti-social media administrators have set in place? [...]

Social media or SMO (Social Media Optimization) has become a victorious bedfellow of SEO in the promotion and marketing of a website. SEO companies have set up departments to deal particularly with social media and social media optimization, creating social media profiles with which to promote their client's websites. If a business has neither the time, writing skills, nor passion to update a blog

Interesting article about Social Media and it’s fast progression by Joe Mandese of MediaPost. Below is a short snippet of the article: “Text messaging, blogging and social networking have reached critical mass, with more than half of adults now relying on at least one of these so-called Web 2.0 platforms for communicating with friends, family, or [...]

Honestly speaking, I’m a newbie in this Creative and Innovative World Of Blogging. Impressed and fascinated by a good friend of mine, Carl Ocab from CarloCab.com, who start blogging at the age of 13(now he is 15) and earns big income from it. So, I make a move which I start to blog ShockingHomeBusiness.com. So, first [...]

Social Media, Social Networking, Leveraging Web 2.0 - it's known by many names and it's all the rage! Let me start by saying I am a fan of social media, I personally choose to participate in social media. However when you read about social media, you often only hear one side of things - the message is clear - Participate or miss out! And while I do believe that is true, I think it's no

If you’ve been resisting the Social Media wave, a recent study reflects you can no longer ignore the writing on the wall. Check out these latest stats: More than half of adults now relying on at least one of these so-called Web 2.0 platforms for communicating with friends, family, or colleagues on a regular basis. it is [...]

Last night, at my Lamorinda Toastmasters club, one of the Table Topics questions was, “if you could live in any time in history, what time would you pick?”  My answer to that question is TODAY.  I can’t think of a single period in history that I’d rather live in than today and social media tools are [...]

Social Media. It's talked about now more than ever before. I was reminded of this when I read Ted's post yesterday, titled "How to Become a Top 100 Twitter User." New web applications & technologies are released literally everyday. Some die a quick death. Some fade slowly. Others manage to stick around for some reason, although the reason why isn't easy to pinpoint. I'm always doing

Deltina Hay recently wrote about social media newsrooms citing (among many things)... the quote at right.Her vision is not unlike the general vision of a common newsroom. The premise is that [organizationally], everything about a business or a person is collected into one location for easier findability. This is a noble undertaking – something that will typically pay big dividends if ac

Maybe you’ve seen the ads. There’s probably one on this page somewhere. Ryan and the Lost Zombies crew hit me up last week about their site and I loved it. I’ve been vocal about my personal burnout when it comes to zombies but let’s face it, they’re probably the easiest, most fun [...]

By Deltina Hay (c) 2008Imagine having just one place to send the media, prospective clients, book reviewers, or anyone who wants to know all about you, your business, or your books; a place where they can: • View all your major media coverage. • See all of your past and present press releases. • Look up all of your past and future events. • Read and link to all of your book rev

Small business owners know that effective marketing requires investment. An effective marketing campaign utilizing social media outlets is no different than other marketing efforts in this regard and will require time (in both strategy and implementation) and likely financial investment as well.Most small businesses are also familiar with the popularity and success social media marketing can retur

„WOM - das Marketing-Thema des Jahres“, habe ich zuletzt behauptet. Ein Segen, dass ich hier (auch mal) prominente Unterstützung in einer These bekomme: denn das Finale der Demokratischen Nominierungs-Aktivitäten für den kommenden Präsidentschafts-kandidaten in den USA wurden von einem Buzz begleitet, der Seinesgleichen sucht. Zusammengetragen von Jeremiah Owyang kann man sich hier mal e

With social media it is imperative to be very meticulous about how you tread and interact in social communities. There are unwritten laws of the land in terms of participation, voting, noise, comments, shouting, sharing, and more. I want to talk about a few of the fundamental unwritten laws to educate any Internet marketers out [...]

Sachi and Lee LeFever of CommonCraft does it again with "Social Media in Plain English".Oh, by the way, if your are still thinking what the hell is Social Media and why is media and people like us from the blogging fraternity are going bonkers (if I may say so), then definitely this 3:44 minute brilliant piece from CommonCraft will help you.So go ahead, give yourself and your customers a chance to

From the talented minds of Common Craft comes this simple, and engaging explanation of social media marketing today. Simple format - clear and concise message. Enjoy… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In 2008, the buzz keyword is social media and how social media can transfer a site that brings in zero traffic to a five figure viewership in less than a month. By using social media site, you are able to develop your own community and group of friends who are there to support what you have for them, it's like a micro-blog system that allow you to keep in contact with online friends and in the mea

Social media is in full swing. Using social media to build traffic to your website is referred to as social media optimization. Content sharing, social bookmarking, and collaborative websites form the basis of this initiative and it is these types of website that you need to use in order to leverage the power of the social web. Social Media Optimization As Guerrilla Marketing The nature of Soci

I have a whole category of thoughts devoted to social media. Yet none of these posts have really answered the question, what is social media? An answer in non-techie, laymens terms. Something my boomer parents would understand, well my mother definitely, pop on the other hand shuns computers so I guess he’s a lost cause. Rather than [...]

By Derrick MarkotterHow would you like to make $25,000 in the next three weeks? Brian Campbell is an Internet marketer who's shown people exactly how to do that. You can use the same techniques on all the social networking sites, like Orkut, Hi5, MySpace and Bebo. How exactly did Brian do it? Brian gave away access to a 3 1/2 hour video training session in which he revealed everything he did to m

Liebe Freunde, ich freue mich Euch einen sehr interessanten Artikel über SMO “Social Media Optimization - Einführung und Tipps” vorzustellen! Meine Artikelreihe auf meinem Blog über SMO (Social Media Optimization) hat sehr viel Interesse geweckt. Die Einführung in SMO, über die Ihr schon auf meinem Blog gelesen habt und noch ein Paar Neuigkeiten dazu, kann man jetzt auf  [...]

So someone asks you: "What's your Twitter name?" and you look at them like they are a loony. Twitter? Huh? And then the next person asks you, "You blog, right? What's the URL?" Hold it. What happened? In the seeming blink of an eye, suddenly there's all this new so-called 'social media' on the web, and you know nothing about it.What's worse, is that everyone else seems to be there already. It's li

So someone asks you: "What's your Twitter name?" and you look at them like they are a loony. Twitter? Huh?And then the next person asks you, "You blog, right? What's the URL?"Hold it. What happened? In the seeming blink of an eye, suddenly there's all this new so-called 'social media' on the web, and you know nothing about it.What's worse, is that everyone else seems to be there already. It's like

Internet regularly seems to throw up buzzwords and ideas some of which catch on and the latest one around is social media. Social media describes the online tools, platforms and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Popular social mediums include blo

Social Media Marketing is a modified term of conventional Product and Service Marketing. Social marketing is not about advertising, at least not advertising on its own. It is the art of getting others to talk about your brand or products. Social marketing is the future so learning to get it right is very important. It’s [...]

Since inception, earthandeconomy has completed a number of user profiles as part of the registration process for various social media platforms. We have compiled a list of these profiles, displayed below and on our BlogCatalog profile, to share with readers...

Questa che vi presento è l'ultima news in campo di Social Media ed è l'interessantissima ricerca Social Media Tracker (Wave 3) di Universal McCann sull'impatto dei social media. Non vi dico niente perchè é giusto che ve la godiate pagina per pagina, 80 pagine di facile consultazione, da non perdere.Questi alcuni dati interessanti per conoscere meglio qualche numero della blogosfera:8 milioni d

Few days back, got this mail as part of my MarketingProfs newsletter. The topic was "Getting Results with Social Media: Q&A with Lena West". Though every now & then, we all marketing and social media enthusiats get emails like this but this one somehow struck some chord which prompted me to include a part of the interview into my blog. I found the Q&A quite insightful, interesting and

The Duct Tape Marketing blog has an inspiring podcast about Brown Lures, a company using social media in the low-tech fishing industry to sell their products. It’s a must listen for anyone in the plumbing, contracting or lawyering trades. Even so, I bet there’s a lot of nay sayers who doubt the value [...]

There is a growing debate going on at the moment about Social Media and the validity / effectiveness it has from a marketing and business growth point of view. Mike, Andy and Marc have recently highlighted the issue which has resulted in much discussion. I’ve commented on all the above posts but my main point is [...]

From: Kevin Johnson Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:30 PM To: Platforms & Services Division; APSP FTE - Adv & Pub Solutions Platform;Employees.all.corp.adf@main.corp; Employees.all.adf@main.corp Subject: Online Services Strategy Update We have been executing against the core strategy I first presented at our Financial Analyst Meeting in July 2007 to go after the growing opportunity in online

We’ve had a lot of success with a particular client recently and I wanted to share that with you guys today. They wern’t exactly getting ‘nothing’ from blogs or top sites but it wasn’t anything to talk about. However, in pretty much one month of brand building and recommendations we changed all that. In April [...]

We’ve had a lot of success with a particular client recently and I wanted to share that with you guys today. They wern’t exactly getting ‘nothing’ from blogs or top sites but it wasn’t anything to talk about. However, in pretty much one month of brand building and recommendations we changed all that. In April [...]

(image credit: orange_beard) • Listen. Listening is the absolute cornerstone of any social media engagement and marketing strategy. If you don’t listen well, there isn’t much hope of you understanding your market or audience online. Listen with • Explore and Play. Explore different communities. Explore different media. Explore different social media [...]

Branding: • What is the purpose of your social media strategy? Is it to increase customer support? Branding? Marketing? Product and service innovation? • How is the blog helping your branding? • How could the blog better help your branding? Audience and Customers: • What content should you be addressing for your audience? • How can [...]

Finding Parenting Resource and Social Media - A parent may have to determine for himself/herself which parenting resource is helpful and applicable. And also today families are linking together in social media for the purpose of keeping in touch with a cyber focal point. More: continued here Other Review: That's Not My Puppy: Its Coat Is Too Hairy (Watt, Fiona. Usborne Touchy-Feely Books.) (Bo

It is really hard to convey how different marketing on the web is today compared to years ago. If you weren’t online “back in the day” having to wait for Google for months(instead of as little as moments today)to index and rank pages, you just don’t know. If you have no idea that we used to have [...]

From this post onwards, I will try to post some personal insights on Marketing, Technology, Media, Advertising & to whatever life has to offer. I hope I'm able to express all my thoughts clearly through this specific blog posts henceforth. Please pardon me if I come across as someone who knows it all; As for me it's a just a learning curve and I would need ur admiration and criticism equally as I move along. I have named these post as "Swainism" (Pun intended!!).Man is full of contradictions whereas community thinks in a linear fashion. That’s why marketers should try influencing community on the basis of engagement & trust rather than demographics since the networked world has ended demographics. Social Media is not just another channel to push your message. It’s more about bu

As per Watblog.com article Social Media branding may be paid or non paid dependent upon what you are proposing.If you are commercial entity or a big brands then there are two options either you tie... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I think we can all agree that all types of organizations and campaigns will use some form of social media marketing in their mix. And like all emerging communication channels, the pitfalls will come... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Marketing Sherpa recently published a social media marketing case study for Social Media Playbook. TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog was cited along with Seth Godin’s blog as contributing to the early success of the program. Conversions from TopRank’s coverage of the Social Media Playbook were documented as 200% over the average conversion rate. You can read [...]

If you have read this blog for any length of time you will know I’m a bit of a stats geek and love researching things in quite a bit of detail. This post is no different; I decided to check if there was any correlation between the amount of mentions on 3 big social media [...]

If you have read this blog for any length of time you will know I’m a bit of a stats geek and love researching things in quite a bit of detail. This post is no different; I decided to check if there was any correlation between the amount of mentions on 3 big social media [...]

Come join your fellow RE.net/Social Media Realtors attending NAR's Mid-Year meeting for dinner/drinks on Wednesday, May 14. Matthew Rathbun is heading the efforts and has more information on his site. -Danilo

"You may have heard of Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of Javascript, but are you using it to its fullest potential? There are hundreds of scripts available for installation from userscripts.org, so it can be difficult to know which ones are must-haves."[via read write web]

Just about anyone in today’s marketing/advertising/pr community can tell you - social media is here to stay, and may very well be the most powerful channel media in today’s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Social Media - Evolution or RevolutionSee this slide share and decide whether Social Media is Evolution or Revolution.For Social Media Optimization or services contact social media consultant. | View | Upload your own

This is the Social Media Research done by Universal McCann including 17,000 people in 29 countries. The research provides a comprehensive global trends in Social Media usage.I think the presentation's findings are quite interesting and insightful. | View | Upload your own

Whoever said that hanging around social media platforms never helped anyone is flat out lying. I’d like to think of myself as ahead of the curve in most situations. I try to be an early adopter whenever I can now. So I’ve been eager to jump onto the bandwagon with new social [...]

Whoever said that hanging around social media platforms never helped anyone is flat out lying. I’d like to think of myself as ahead of the curve in most situations. I try to be an early adopter whenever I can now. So I’ve been eager to jump onto the bandwagon with new social [...]

Mixx vs. Digg in a three rounds battle Social media is the big thing in 2008. You can view what is the biggest news around the web. Actually, be able to submit your news and see how much people like this news. Since a couple of month, many people have been not so kind on [...]

Image Credits: IndiephotographerWe all know the importance of how social media can help broaden and speed up the flow of traffic to our blogs without the use of exchange for credits or buying useless traffic from companies that guarantee your enormous traffic yet these readers do not stay for more than 20 seconds.Social media sites are a good way to communicate what you have on your blog to your readers. Social media are also a good form of way to generate further interest giving good rating and "audience appeal" to the content that is being deliver. Popular articles that hit the front page usually have something special or unique that carries along with the content the writer is trying to deliver.Image Credit: e5ioSome of the ways you can excel or keep visitors keen in reading your next p

16 Great Ways To Approach Social Media Marketing - A Beginner’s Guide Monday, April 28th, 2008 By Jon Rognerud found at marketingpilgrim.com     Quick! What is the hottest social media tool to emerge on the scene this year? It’s ‘Twitter’, and you may get hooked too… I recently came back from a fully packed conference on social media marketing, the [...]

So my mom and sister are driving me to the airport because I was on my way to SMX Social Media in Long Beach, CA. On the way they were asking me what the conference was about that I was going to. I was explaining social media to them when my sister pulled out a [...]

What exactly is this Social Media malarkey, and why do some people reach the lofty status of influential rockstar while others fall flat on their faces? There seems to be a growing consensus among the down-trodden majority that social media simply isn’t fair, and that a handful of power-users must have got where they are by [...]

Max Gladwell (MG) covers the trends of social media and green living in ways that are relevant to how you live. Their mission is to provide practical information about how these new technologies contribute to a better quality of life....

Recently, I have seen some bad and some good examples of marketing on Linkedin. Like Seth Godin mentions in his Meatball Sundae book, the new type of marketing is not interruptive, like broadcasting to an audience. What not to do when marketing on Linkedin Do not post blatant self-promotion in the Answers section. Here’s a real world [...]

It's no secret that blogs and social networks have become the preferred sounding board for consumers fed up with poor customer service. Now, a study from Society for New Communications Research has attempted to quantify the impact on brands. Sponsored by Nuance Care Solutions, a Burlington, MA-based provider of voice-recognition solutions, the online study found that 72 percent of respondents used social media to research a company's reputation for customer care before making a purchase, and 74 percent choose to do business with companies based on the customer care experiences shared by others online. Meanwhile, 59 percent said they regularly use social media to "vent" about their customer care frustrations, suggesting that consumers looking to make a purchase decision first wade through a

Alltop.com has been described by many as an online magazine rack. It is a place where average Internet users can find hundreds of blogs, view the 5 most recent posts and preview the first 2 paragraphs of articles. I'd like to thank Alltop founder Guy Kawasaki for including this blog in the Social Media section of the site - Thanks Guy!Most of us who are active bloggers or social media participants use a feedreader to stay updated and informed. The average Joe/Jane Doe doesn't understand or utilize this technology though - only 5.4% of Internet users take advantage of RSS, according to Daily Blog Tips.Alltop uses feeds to populate the site, and caching to optimize load time (otherwise, the gargantuan number of feeds would make loading it insane on any computer). It refreshes itself every

this is social networking?, originally uploaded by skampy. Over the last 4 days, I've had this conversation no less than 5 times. There are two benefits I got from this "presentation" of concepts; first - I got a really good...

For Internet Marketers in the Travel industry, there are plenty of opportunities to get engaged in Social Media Marketing. Here is a list of 25 travel specific social networking websites that let you get engaged with your audience.   TripAdvisor - “Featuring real advice from real travelers, TripAdvisor-branded sites cover 300,000+ hotels and attractions.” The largest [...]

As more and more people look for the “easy solution to making money”, they find themselves exploiting affiliate links on their favorite social networking sites. Unfortunately these social networking sites are also yours and my favorite social networking sites. It’s sad to see the fruit of the web rotting in front of my eyes and, [...]

As more and more people look for the “easy solution to making money”, they find themselves exploiting affiliate links on their favorite social networking sites. Unfortunately these social networking sites are also yours and my favorite social networking sites. It’s sad to see the fruit of the web rotting in front of my eyes and, [...]

As more and more people look for the “easy solution to making money”, they find themselves exploiting affiliate links on their favorite social networking sites. Unfortunately these social networking sites are also yours and my favorite social networking sites. It’s sad to see the fruit of the web rotting in front of my eyes and, [...]

  Sound familiar? Hi There, I totally like your site, and have voted for you. If you have some time, please have a look at … website and vote. Cheers   The same spammer send me this message 14 times on my Magnolia account. I had no choice but to click 14 times spam button. By the way, thank you for the [...]

I often see the terms “social networking” and “social media” used interchangeably when in fact they are two different concepts. Attracting clients via the internet is hard work that requires a tightly focused plan. If you’re going to do it effectively and efficiently, you have to know the difference between the two so you can target the right activities, have realistic goals and achieve them. So here’s the scoop.Social Networking is very much like face to face networking. The primary goal is to connect with other people (old classmates, new friends, love interests, potential clients and sub-contractors) for similar purposes and start conversations that can lead to specific outcomes.Social Media is about content: articles, news, videos, absurd stories, jokes. It’s about using

I was fortunate enough to be a panelist on the Social Media/Blogging Presentation at the NAR Mid Year Conference on Thursday, May 15th from 9:00 to 11:00. Here is the flyer for the event. Social MediaBlogggin Presentation for NAR - Get more documents

Social Media is a great thing. Both to make money and to become more social,even famous. Blog spying is also great.So here are two very nice and informative posts we found on the web about social... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

SMO stands for Social Media Optimization. The term was coined by Rohit Bhargava, for using social networking methods on the internet for promoting websites. Gone are the days of looking at website... [[ Visit the link to read more ]]