This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to speak at a seminar sponsored by AIR Marketing, here in Phoenix. My presentation was in fact the first in a three part series on Social Media. Yesterday’s topic was “Harnessing the Power of Social Media”. It is really an introductory presentation reviewing how consumers are using social […]
The popularity of user generated videos seems to have found a pretty creative niche in Live Internet Weddings. I came across this company while watching YouTube videos from Turtle Bay Resort in Hawaii. The concept is pretty simple. For the price of an airline ticket you can hire them to broadcast your wedding live via
It’s humorous, but only because its true. Ross Wolinsky has had a revelation and published the authoritative ten commandments to govern Facebook. Here is the list: Thou Shalt Not List Every Movie, TV Show, Band and Book You Have Ever Heard Of In Your Profile Thou Shalt Not “Poke” Indiscriminately Thou Shalt Not “Friend” People
The last few weeks there has been some major revisions to the Facebook interface. Until very recently you could switch back to the “old” view, but now that has been taken away. So, users are left with the new version. And some don’t like it. I browsed through some of the entries at “iF YOU
Wordle has a cool word cloud generator which gives a nice cloud view of all the text in a particular document, blog or, website. It may seem like a frivolous tool, but I find it rather insightful. Similar to a Tag Cloud the Wordle tool gives you a visual representation of what was really said.
… the following articles/posts: My WordCamp Notes: SEO for blogs – Christen Dybenko shares her notes from WordCamp and has a cool diagram dissecting Google famous Page Rank. Online TV Viewership Doubles in Two Years – this a post on MarketingCharts.com, and has data on online TV viewership. I am personally not surprised at such
There is an insightful study out today regarding Online Social Networking. The survey was conducted by Synovate (via eMarkekter) and it asked adults worldwide if they knew what social networking was. A clear majority, 58% to be exact, of people surveyed did not know. But the other side is 42% of them did – and
I can’t remember how I found out about Seesmic, but it was a few months ago when I started checking it out. It’s not like I needed another social media site to be a part of to suck more of my time, but the idea of video updates – instead of text updates such as
CEO’s can blog too. Even CEO’s of large multi-national corporations with global name brand recognition and revenue comparable to small nations. And in many ways blogging is a lot more effective when the person at the top of the organization starts to engage people on the web. Not only will there be a positive impact
Facebook is rolling out a new type of ad called “Engagement Ads”. The idea behind the ads is that Facebook users get to interact with the ad in one shape way or form. For example users can leave comment on the message, forward a virtual product etc. Here are details from Jeremiah Owyang’s blog: Engagement
