All Entries Tagged With: "Social Media"
Twitter Not Useful? Think Again!
I love Twitter. It is a continuously open tab in my Firefox browser right alongside Bloglines. Yes it can be a huge time waster and some people “abuse” it by updating about the most ridiculous things. However, I like it and find it quite useful for a number of things. Maki of DoshDosh has come out with an excellent post listing 17 ways one can use Twitter.
7 Things Twitter Addicts Can Do When Twitter Goes Down
Twitter is scheduled to be offline tomorrow from 10am-10pm PST – 12 whole hours. That is a half a day folks! What are hardcore Twitter addicts to do with their time? Here are seven things that certainly won’t replace the Twitter experience but are sure to help you get through the downtime.
How Small Business Can Benefit From Social Media
I published a piece today at Search Engine Guide entitled “5 Ways Small Business Can Benefit From Social Media/Networking Sites” which lists five ways small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) are benefiting from the social media/networking space. Sites like Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube and many others are providing numerous opportunities for SMBs to brand themselves, build link popularity, attract traffic to their sites, interact with consumers and network with others in their industry.
Social Media Is Infiltrating Everything, Even NBA Basketball!
You know it is inevitable – that is social networking functionality will eventually infiltrate just about every web site on the planet. Now, my favorite basketball team, the Phoenix Suns, have embraced social media with the launch of PlanetOrange. PlanetOrange is the team’s new site, which was created in conjunction with KickApps, featuring iStreamPlanet for this white label solution. Based on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, iStreamPlanet offers the site’s streaming media player.
Using Social Media To Help Manage Online Reputation
In today’s socially connected online world, reputation management is becoming more and more a concern for any business. Sure, most companies are able to secure the number one spot in the organic search results for their brand via their company web site. However, what about the remaining first page real estate and even that of the second and third pages? What is an effective means for companies, especially small to medium sized business to control that real estate without necessarily deploying multiple company web sites? The answer – social media.
Traditional Companies Need Not Fear Social Media
Traditional companies have been very slow to embrace social media. In fact it seems that some are downright scared to death of it. Sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, even Twitter continue to grow in popularity as well as usage and yet the willingness of many companies to jump on board is to say the least – apathetic. One of the most common fears seems to be the lack of control a business has once they step into that social media space.
BUMPzee – Social Community for Search & Affiliate Marketers
Are you tired of seeing newsworthy stories on various topics of search engine marketing buried at popular social bookmarking site Digg, simply because the powers that be don’t care for the SEM community? Well now there is an alternative – BUMPzee, which is described as a niche blog aggregator with a community on top. BUMPzee is organized into bite-sized communities into which they pull the latest relevant blog entries from around the Internet. Members of those communities keep up with the latest news, vote on the best stories, and discuss them, either here on BUMPzee or over at the blog itself.
MyBlogLog Tightens the Reigns
The folks over at MyBlogBlog have made some updates that will make it more difficult for spammers to game the system. This action is in response to an exploit taken advantage of over the weekend where a spammers sent multiple requests to join their communities as co-authors and then automatically approve the requests. Danny Sullivan and Shoemoney were just a couple of many impacted by this.
Disney Joins Social Media Fray
Is this a sign of trends to come? Large companies setting up MySpace types of sites? Disney has now jumped on the social media bandwagon and will launch a new site next week focused on social networking for kids. The site will be similar to MySpace.com but will have parental controls and feature chat and video clips. WebProNews goes on to say that analysts are skeptical about the success of the site despite the strong brand behind it.
Brand Advocates Closely Tied To Growth in Social Media
What is a “brand advocate” anyway? ClickZ defines them as “consumers who spread opinions via word of mouth, as well as over social networks, instant messaging, chat, photo sites and blogging.” According to a new research report released today by Yahoo! and comScore Networks, not only is social networking’s influence on marketing growing, but particularly vocal individuals are having more of an effect than ever.
