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 | With technology and actually with anything else, adoption of the new item or technology takes times and lots of effort. With the adoption of social media at fast speed, I truly believe that now the laggards are embracing it. You are seeing older generations on Facebook. One important fact is … |
 | It could help if your site: 1. Testimonials 2. Good tagline 3. Good pictures of smiling couples From a marketing aspect: 1. Improve your SEO 2. Optimize your SEM/PPC - drivers to the site 3. Do lots of offline tactics. This can help increase traffic to your site. |
| | Smartphones have increased the ways people are connected. Thus, it is very easy to integrate Facebook, TweetDeck, and other applications to your phones. I have FB on my blackberry but I dont follow tweets. I used to but not anymore since I was getting tweets all day on my cell … |
 | Thanks Jay for bringing this up. The fascinating aspect of it is that it is a form of digital surveillance rather than pledging "I am a Follower" since you never know who will access your account and make assumptions from it. |
| | Thanks for sharing this. Yes, I do believe that though these online communities do foster a sense of "community" it also have made lives more transparent. My biggest concern is that there could be "researchers" out there who are using such updates for non-benevolent means. If I was a parent, … |
| | I read on the Forrester Blog that it found in its recent survey that: [LIST] [*]Young singles and couples are the most connected. [*]Young families are heavy tech users, especially for shared experiences. [*]Older families are straddling different worlds. [*]Older singles and couples use technology more surgically. [/LIST] This is … |
| | We all know that Twitter and Facebook allows for some level of privacy in regards to your tweets and updates. Some users just make it very public while others make their updates very private and for the eyes of selected few. Thus, there was a concern that search engines, especially … |
| | Nielsen found that 18% of online visitors (at least from their sample) use social media as a discovery tool aka as research tool. I know I do it. It is a way to find "hidden gems". [url]http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/social-media-the-next-great-gateway-for-content-discovery/[/url] So what do you think? I am very big into finding so much … |
| | In this digital age where tweeting and updating your Facebook page is such a common place behavior, one major concern for me is online reputation management. The information you put online can come back and bite you. Most people may not realize this. HR folks facebook potential employees and now … |
| | Thanks for sharing this link. I was cracking up. Since this is a social media campaign, imagine if users also post "pictures" and "audio/video" of their experience. This could mean bring advertising or buzz as media people call it, but it sure will be lots of "crap" as well. :-) |
| | Well, 140 characters limitation for twitter reminds me of the ancient days of the telegram. It had to be succinct and straight forward. But you know what it was lost? The ability to make it fuzzy - make it sticky - which blogs have been able to create. Thus, it … |
| | Myspace was the "it" community until Facebook came around. Facebook cant be on its pedestal forever. So I like your question. I could assume the online community would build on Facebook engagement as well as have a gmail like interface or capability. So the site becomes really integrated with your … |
| | Online identity validation is becoming increasingly important in today's connected society. Thus, I strongly vote for such move. I think there is OpenID which had some momentum some time ago but I have not heard much about it these days. Now, it is "Facebook Connect". |
| | Your client is not the only one. Twitter is seen as a fast, useful, free platform that allows businesses to engage quickly with their customer. The issue is that not everyone Twitters. Period. As a business client, I may not be able to tweet if my company as a fire … |
| | As companies are realizing that their employees are indeed spending time on social media, both at work, and off work, creating corporate social media policy is actually a good idea. It greats a foundation for at least some form of structure. Nowadays, when colleagues meet someone at a professional setting, … |
| | Re: This is cool This is really cool. It is a dashboard of sorts which feeds from a combination of raw data, but it makes it look live "live" data. I can see the business applications for such dashboard on internal and external business related sites. |
| | From a social media research perspective, such wealth of user generated content provides lots of opportunities for Brands and PR agencies to dig through the data and find some "hidden gems" in regards to consumer insights, trends, and competitive intelligence. |
| | Since these search engines use different algorithms, even if Google and Bing/Yahoo both have parnterships with these major social media communities, I predict results will be slightly different enough to warrant both search engines to be used. What do you think? |
 | Thanks for sharing that link. Perhaps I am being Devil's advocate, but this up a concern about privacy. It seems that now a days, users forget how precious their privacy can be. Thus, with their updates being in "live" mode, their employers can track them if the user is not … |
 | Thanks for sharing this story. A warning to all tweet and getting penalized for it. This is also a good warning for others to be careful of sharing certain type of news. |
| | I read on a blog about how RSS may be out. I dont know about you but I actually subscribe to many blogs and I look forward to reading or at least glancing my Google Reader's headlines. Yes, I dont have time for all the feeds but I do scan … |
| | Thanks for sharing this story. Many clients are not as convinced on the success of social media campaign. Your story proves that at the end of the game, it is the results that help make a campaign a success or a bomb. |
 | Once you are logged into your Craigslist account, make sure you post an ad in the right category and area. If you dont place the ad in the right category, you risk your ad to be flagged and deleted. You dont want this. I have personally put a few ads …  |
| | My recommendations: 1. Conduct a usability test on your landing page. You may want to create separate pages/tabs for the specific content on your landing page. Thus, it will be easier for the visitor to read. 2. Submit site map to Google. 3. Constantly create new and relevant content. 4. … |
| | As we all know DaniWeb has a new look and feel and I like it. It also allows users to include tags on post and responses. From a SEO perspective, tagging helps content be crawled by engines. But how many of us actually tag content outside this site? |
| | We all know that any lead helps with this economy. Online job boards are full of job seekers who are really looking. But I read on a site about how social media has helped job seekers find jobs. There are many job related twitter accounts and also other karma related … |
| | I just read a Comscore report stating that the click through rates for display ads have gone down throughout the years. Hence, if this revenue stream is being diminished, will this push companies to start charging members for membership? I remember this was done in the early 2000s and those … |
| | To be honest, I dont think this class will be no different than reading the blogs of these experts, keeping up with various sites like CNET and Mashable, and best of all, you save the money! The "experts" will probably regurgitate the same information from their blogs. |
| | Re: Create or Copy I totally agree - from an ethical and from a SEO perspective. First of all, social media is about unique user generated content. Thus, if you just copy and paste, such behavior is not contributing unique content to the online community. Second, search engines dont like repeated content and your … |
| | If you have not heard yet, there was a study coproduced by Comscore and Group M about social media and paid search. [url]http://www.scribd.com/doc/20703026/The-Influenced-Social-Media-Search-and-the-Interplay-of-Consideration-and-Consumption[/url] Above is the 6 page link. Basically it found that social media increases visitors consumption on context, experience, and increases click through rate. |
| | I actually would like to mention - serendipity and chaos, especially in cases where a patient is looking for personal stories of other patients encountering the same treatment or condition and there are other patients who already shared their journey. |
| | With the exception of Digg, all the major social networking sites had more women than men. I wonder why? Why do you think so? Personally, I know I have been on social networking sites since 1992 via Usenet and IRC. Yes, you might not have heard of these two, but … |
| | I just read that Google have added new filters: Here's a list of the new filters: * Past hour * Specific date range * More shopping sites * Fewer shopping sites * Visited pages * Not yet visited * Blogs * News So how do you think this will affect … |
| | Wow - this is scary. I really thought that on Facebook, only friends could poke you. Thus, this lawsuit represents a new realm of legal liability cases - liability for online behavior. I am afraid this type of lawsuits will cause a slippery slope. What do you think? What's next … |
| | For the FTC to do this, it must have meant that they saw the urgency to do so from a consumer's perspective. This reminds me of the days when Nader would advocate for such legislation. I personally do believe that ethical bloggers should disclose but it is also a sign … |
| | We all know majority of businesses are jumping into social media. The question is: "When is it not appropriate to do so?" I personally dont recommend it for certain type of businesses like funerals, unless you are adding sending a gift. What do you think? |
| | I just read on a blog about how Fox News had a blogger and this blogger developed a strong following. The importance about this blogger was that the visitors to his blog also visited other pages of Fox site and this is what content publisher sites really desire - to … |
| | Thanks for this important advisory notice. This is also a very real remainder to all to constantly change their login information. This is surely a real threat to our online identities. |
| | Thank you for sharing. In a way I am not surprised about DIGG since it does demonstrate the level of social connection on DIGG and Facebook which is not as strong on search engine Google. Why? That is not what the site is intended to do in the first place!! |
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| | Yes, I do agree with some of those points. Most of all, I do believe that the same points were said the same about email. Now it is social media. Who knows what is going to be next? |
| | I just read on a blog post about how social media may save businesses. What do you think about that? I do think social media may help certain businesses more than others. For example, social media may help a beauty product than a pesticide product. |
 | This is no surprise to me. Look at the USPS, I read somewhere that it will be run by private company soon and mostly computerized kiosks. I went to a post office in the 90's that is like that. Anyway going back to this blog post, this buy can start … |
| | Definitely!!! I personally have used social media as a research tool to develop qualitative findings on consumers' intent, mindset, sentiments, atitudes, and most of all plan/shape their buying behavior or attitude towards a brand. I did this manually back in 2007 and earlier before the advent of many research tools. … |
| | First of all, I believe that tweeting attracts a certain type of behavioral profile of a person who enjoys constant updates on themselves and other information. From a business perspective, the endless stream of tweets may seem like an attractive way to "put it out there". My issue is that … |
| | Though I have not seen an app for this, I have seen other professional social media sites trying to be exclusive based on industries. You know what happened to them? They are not around nor did these companies achieve the status of LinkedIn. Actually, I was an early adopter of … |
| | I just read an article that Google has removed Pirates Bay from its search results. Okay, Pirate Bay may have violated a few rules here and there. ut what happens if your online community encounters similar roadblock? What would you do to grow it? |
| | I have done similar ones and sure, I got a few hits, but the most important aspect here is to be able to link this promotion/marketing tactic with actual lead generation - most likely through website analytics. |
| | AS we al know, there are millions of online communities and presence, yet only a few actually were able to penetrate and influence people to join and engage, like Facebook and Myspace. so my question is: How did these online communities set themselves apart to make them so widespread? Why … |
| | I just read an interesting report on eMarketer. [url]http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007303[/url] It found that over 48.5% of tweets that menitoned companies were comments. It is no surprise. What do you think? |
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