Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
I constantly hear people talk about their fear of letting their employees talk to the public via social media.
As if most of them weren’t talking to the public every day in the course of business, either in person or on the phone.
Social Media Today, May 10, 2009
Tags: enterprise, Social Media
As they mature, social networks are increasingly becoming viable systems for information management. We’re seeing this with Facebook, and with FriendFeed and even to some extent with Twitter. The combination of social graph plus information is a powerful one. And that’s exactly why CubeTree wants to port that idea over to the enterprise world.
TechCrunch, May 10, 2009
Tags: enterprise, launch, Social Media, tool, tools
I’m happy to announce an updated version of my free ebook, “The Art and Science of Blogger Relations” is now available on Scribd and Docstoc as a free download. For all of you Kindle enthusiasts, it is also available in Amazon’s Kindle Store.
Social Media Today, May 9, 2009
Tags: blogger, blogging, ebook, Social Media
Facebook might not hold onto its huge success for much longer, thinks Malcolm Gladwell, author ofThe Tipping Point, Blink andOutliers.
The author, whose books have dealt with what defines popularity and what underlies decisions, told RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium that what makes Facebook different is not just the social networking phenomenon or the number of users it has, but the age and attention span of those users.
TechRadar, May 7, 2009
Tags: facebook, gladwell, malcolm gladwell, Social Media
While everyone is talking about social tools and services in the consumer market, things have been comparatively quiet in the enterprise market. Yes, there are very noteworthy case studies out there (Sun, Wachovia, TransUnion, and also some of our clients), but the number of initiatives and scale can’t stand up to the things happening in the consumer market.
Social Media Today, May 7, 2009
Tags: Business, social, Social Media
There is a lot of talk about the way ‘old’ and ‘new’ media combine – how newspapers are using Twitter and how television broadcasters and production companies are working with online media. So this week we take a look specifically at examples of online communities in the TV industry
Social Media Today, May 7 , 2009
Tags: communities, social, Social Media, social networking, tv
… the United Methodist Church, has opted for a boldly redesigned web presence to ask users, “What if church wasn’t just a building, but thousands of doors? Each of them opening up to a different concept or experience of church – and a journey that could change our world. Would you come?”
10ThousandDoors.org goes far beyond a Facebook page or Twitter account. It pulls in information scraped from the web to track trending topics, then curates collections of articles on those subjects.
ReadWriteWeb, May 7, 2009
Tags: church, social, Social Media, social networking
Ning’s social network-building platform is getting a huge boost today, with the private beta launch of Ning Apps, a new suite of applications and features that Network Creators will be able to deploy across their networks with only a few clicks.
TechCrunch, May 6, 2009
Tags: ning, Social Media, social networking
Pretend for a minute that you’re not already up to your ears in social networks and take a look at a new offering from Microsoft (news, site). Aptly named Vine, the social tool is designed to connect strings of people for the specific purpose of passing along news.
But this ain’t no 140 character good time. Fashioned as a sort of life-support system, Vine’s shtick is to connect users with the people and places they care about the most, when it matters the most: in times of crisis.
CMS Wire, May 6, 2009
Tags: humanitarian, microsoft, Social Media
Almost everyone is using social media in some capacity to promote themselves and their businesses because the various forums offer an immense opportunity to network. However, there are some things to avoid when using social media for business purposes.
SitePoint, May 7, 2009
Tags: advice, Business, list, Social Media
While the U.S. economy is still puttering through a recession, a new marketing study from the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org and Forrester Research found that at least some online retailers have been able to take greater marketshare in the last few months. About 46% of the 117 retailers polled in this study also said that they had no plans to scale back their original budgets for 2009, though 54% of all respondents expect their overall growth to slow during the next 12 months.
ReadWriteWeb, May 5, 2009
Tags: ad, Advertising, email, Marketing, recession, retail, Search, Social Media
