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| | As many of my clients use tweetdeck to monitor their own followers and the accounts they follow, I am interested to see some of the new functionalities from the new release in action. Has anyone played with them yet and if so what do you think? |
| | I found this interesting blog post through one of my groups on Linkedin and I wanted to share it with everyone. Here is the link [INDENT][url]http://www.relationship-economy.com/?p=6591[/url][/INDENT] The basic premise is that in the world there are either creators or copiers and that is social media if you simply copy other … |
 | 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. |
| | [url]http://www.digitaltonto.com/2009/chaotic-social-networks/[/url] I found the blog linked above and thought I would share it to get everyone's thoughts. The author basically says that the chaotic nature of social media si the secret behind its success. What do you think? |
| | 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 … |
| | Mashable is reporting that despite recent innovations and a new CEO, MySpace has lost almost 20% of their unique US visitor traffic since June. This equate to a serious loss of income for their parent company and while Mashable states that the site will probably not disappear totally it is … |
| | [url]http://mashable.com/2009/10/10/facebook-poke-arrest/[/url] In a society that has become as litigious as ours, this was inevitable. If you read the link above you will find out that a woman has been charged with violating an order of protection for poking someone on Facebook. If found guilty, the woman could get a month … |
| | It seems the FTC has issues new regs covering the review of products by bloggers. Below is the link to the Yahoo news piece on this. Basically, under the new regs, bloggers who are reviewing products have to disclose if they are paid in cash, gifts or freebies for their … |
| | 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 … |
 | I just read today that Twitter's traffic grew [URL="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Facebook-Sees-Nearly-200-Visit-Boost-While-Twitter-Traffic-Also-Soars-794088/"]over 1,100%[/URL] from Last Year. Additionally, there has been some talk about Twitter rolling out some new features like "geolocation API" and "Lists." Personally, i think Twitter is a great tool for aggregating all the news, information, and people I am interested … |
| | [url]http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/gmail-accounts-exposed/[/url] The link above this is to a report on Mashable that one day after 10,000+ hotmail accounts had their usernames and passwords posted on-line due to a phishing scheme, today the same problem has hit GMail, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink and Comcast accounts bringing the total number of compromised accounts … |
| | In an analysis of search engine and social media sites, Facebook was shown to have the most loyal visitors in terms of browsing habits. The study done by the ad network Chitika studied browsing habits of the top SE and SM sites in the month of September. What was really … |
| | Mashable is reporting that the results of a survey of 1.400 CIOs from companies with 100+ employees (conducted by Robert Half Associates) show that over 50% of companies totally block employees from accessing Facebook, Twitter and MySpace while at work. Of the companies that do not block access, 10% limit … |
 | A couple of weeks ago, I wrote, "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220784.html"]Has Linux Fallen Into a Well?[/URL]." It was a tale of two brothers, aka The Cave Dwellers, who had too many complaints and angst concerning the Windows XP installation on my wife's old HP DV-5000 laptop. Reinstalling XP didn't do any good the … |
| | B.L. Ochman, writing on SocialMediaToday.com 2 days ago, listed the following reason many companies avoid participating in Social Media and/or block Social Media sites on their internal networks. What do you think? [LIST=1] [*]Employees will wast time on social media sites [*]Haters will damage our brand name [*]The company will … |
| | 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. |
 | GovLoop, an online social network for government workers that was started by a federal worker, has been sold to GovDelivery Inc., a venture-backed government communications platform, with GovLoop founder Steve Ressler as its head of social networking. Terms of the sale were not [URL="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090928_8720.php?oref=rss?zone=NGtoday"]disclosed[/URL]. The service currently has about 20,000 … |
| | I am sure that some people do this in informal ways but are there any companies that you know of or work for that actively use social media and online communities to gather market research? I just read a quick blog post about Domino's Pizza doing this and I wonder … |
| | It has been discussed in previous threads and mentioned on social media and news sites that the drop off rate for twitter use is substantial. But usually the stories talk about the whole tweeting universe. I am curious to know if anyone was using twitter as part of a social … |
| | I am not indicating that I have knowledge of the what Linkedin is doing, I am simply using them as an example. Linkedin has become very popular as a social media site for business professional and it is huge. I could easily see Linkedin or some other company create a … |
| | 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? |
| | One of my clients recently started filming customer case studies to use on their website along with their new youtube channel. With the advent of the shoot and post cameras like the Flip and the simple to use editing software that comes with the camera, small companies can create decent … |
| | 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? |
| | I was reading an interesting blog post that described social media and online communities as country club-like, filled with in-groups and cliques. Do you think that in the communities you manage or belong to that there are cliques? |
 | A judge has said a lawsuit can be delivered via [URL="http://twitter.com"]Twitter[/URL]. It's an interesting case, an odd idea and a pity there are going to be so many logistical obstacles. The scenario is simple. Someone is posing as a (real) right-wing blogger - they've effectively 'borrowed' his name for a … |
| | I just read on a blog about how Drew Carey started a bid $25k to buy his username on Twitter. Drew is willing to go up to 100k!!! So what about the non-celebrities out there. Would you buy your name on Twitter if someone else already has this? What do … |
| | At Social Media Today they are reporting that a recent study by Mzinga and Babson Executive Education showed that 16% of professionals using Social Media are measuring the ROI of their campaigns. Additionally, more than 4 in 10 respondents were uncertain if the social media tool they were using had … |
| | Numerous professional sports teams and leagues as well as many college teams have now banned their players from tweeting while the game is going on. As athletes tweeting during games can sometimes give fans certain inisghts about the game they would not normally get from telecasts and newspaper reports, are … |
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