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| | I was reading some interesting articles about social media mistakes and the three that seem to be talked about the most are: [LIST=1] [*]Not every company needs a big presence [*]Over-investment rather than simplicity and keeping nimble [*]Believing that the SM efforts must be tied into existing IT infrastructure rather … |
| | If you didn't know, John Mackey of Whole Foods (CEO & Co-Founder) wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal where he outlined how Whole Foods model of healthcare services and other common sense steps could provide reform without adding another 2 Trillion dollars to the national debt. And the … |
| | [url]http://mashable.com/2009/08/19/google-identity-blogger/[/url] Mashable and a number of new outlets are covering the story that a Manhattan judge has ordered Google to reveal the real identity of a blogger in relation to a defamation of character lawsuit filed by a model. If this ruling stands then the precedent will be set and … |
 | WordPress allows customization of blogs into informational business related websites. As I am exploring this for myself, I am wondering what has been your experiences of creating a non-blog on WordPress rather than creating a website on HTML/Flash. Would you do it again? Any recommendations? Thanks |
| | WebProNews has launched a new service called Twellow, yellow pages for twitter. They are proactively monitoring twitter and capturing twitter account names and categorizing them based on the info they tweet. You can also add yourself to the listing. The idea is that if someone is looking for companies that … |
| | Twitter has announced that they are taking a hard line on companies that offer paid followers to help seed your follower group. Twitter deems this spam and is eager to do everything possible to eliminate spam before it starts. I hope there next step is to crack down on the … |
| | Hi I've built a classified ads site and in it's first month I only got 12 ads posted by 10 users! It's terribly awful! I tried some email advertising telling every people I knew that I got a site here but as you see it didn't work out. Any ideas … |
| | I received an e-mail with the URL below for a free plug-in for Google analytics that lets you import web analytics data from Google into an excel spreadsheet. It is open-source and free for everyone. I am going to start playing with it this week and I encourage others to … |
| | We all are aware that social media is now a very important part of internet marketing. But what about measuring it? I found this on the Forrester blog - [url]http://blogs.forrester.com/marketing/2009/07/why-i-like-the-sim-score.html[/url] 1. Calculate the number of positive, negative, and neutral conversations happening for your brand 2. Use the formula (Positive + … |
| | I found a blog post (link below) with 100 Free twitter tools that are available. I don't know how many work and if so how well but it is 100 free tools for us all to test and play with. Enjoy! [url]http://seocolumn.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-than-100-free-twitter-tools-for.html[/url] |
| | [url]http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/enterprise-twitter-tools/[/url] The link above is to a really interesting article on corporate twitter tools that are available to help companies and organization better manager and track their twitter activity as well as discussions that may lead to sales or customer engagements. As I am trying to show one of my … |
| | Hey all, I'm interested in getting an independent opinion if you've used both phpBB and vBulletin. I'm starting to set up a site with a forum and would like for the forum to be: - in php - have seo friendly urls (like mydomain.com/forum-name/this-thread-title-here - secure - able to have … |
| | [url]http://www.47project.com/2009/08/19/ijango-facebook-ploy-cmon-now-we-arent-stupid/[/url] I just read this blog post and could not believe how stupid some people can be. This is a good example of behavior to watch out for in a social network or online community and if you catch people doing it they should be cast out and shunned. Read … |
| | Mashable wrote a post on Tweetblocker tool which allows users to identify top Twitter spammers. Have you used it and how has it helped your Twitter experience |
| | I was just reading a thread on Linkedin about setting up social networking sites that are vertical market-specific (manufacturing, entertainment, CPG distribution, etc.). Does your company reside in a vertical that could support its own social network? Would you try to set one up if you saw the need? |
| | [url]http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html[/url] The link above is to the about page for Google Wave, a new open-source collaborative tool from Google that looks like it has the potential to be a serious online community building tool. Check it out and post what you think and if you would use it. |
| | I found the following statistics regarding Social Media on the econsultancy.com blog. While these would be somewhat bizarre stats to bring up in a business meeting to prove the efficacy of social media, they are startling all the same. Read and enjoy. * If Facebook were a country, it would … |
| | For anyone using Linkedin, if you belong to a group you are part of growing online communities. You also have the opportunity to create sub groups (with the permission of the original group creators). Would you create a sub-group off of a group created by someone else in order to … |
| | While poking around on Mashable I came across Blippr. It is a platform that allows you to log on and post reviews and discuss books, movies, games, music and apps with others. With a nod towards the Twitter model, reviews are limited to 160 characters or less. Now, this seems … |
| | Wikipedia now has its own app for iPhones. From what I have read it is simple, open source and while not fancy it gets the job done. For people who create their own wiki's, does this offer an opportunity for people creating their own wikis to take the open source … |
| | I started a PTC (paid to click) and other forums few days ago. We have around 23 members right now. To boost things off, I decided to start a referral contest with first place winning $20. Do you think it would actually work? Thanks |
| | I got invited through a contact at ning.com to join a new social network for small business owners and professionals called [url]http://startup.biz[/url] I joined to check it out and it looks like a pretty sizeable network (1.8 mil and growing) and it looks like an opportunity for networking similar to … |
| | Hi I am always on the lookout for resources to strengthen my knowledge and understanding of this ever changing online landscape. I do have my list of blogs I visit often like Mashable and CNET but I wonder if anyone else have other "hidden gems". Thanks |
| | What questions would you ask a social media consultant who you or your business wants to hire to grow your brand's online pressense/community? |
| | I keep reading about all of these newspapers that are going under and also about NewsCorp planning on charging for access to all of their news websites. I am thinking that social media and the online community building that it entails might be what the print newspapers may need to … |
| | Facebook is being sued again, this time under privacy law violations in the state of California (the same state that found OJ innocent and almost didn't send the Menendez Bros away for murdering their parents because they were 20+ year old orphans!). The lawsuit is on behalf of 5 people, … |
| | 3 Men, 130 million stolen credit card accounts stolen, most of the owners of those credit cards already planning on not using their credit and debit cards for purchases at 7/11, one of the vendors whose systems were hacked for info. Will this all affect the ability of companies to … |
| | I have heard that some companies are banning the use of social media platforms in the office. Will this affect your communities if it becomes more widespread? |
| | One of my clients has invited all of their clients to follow them on twitter and about 45% of their clients do. They then sent out an extensive customer survey that 90% of their clients filled out and sent back. My client then sent out a thank you tweet for … |
| | Mashable issued a report earlier this year and reported the following: 63% of companies are planning to increase their spending on social media marketing in the next year Of the most popular social media platforms being utilized, the tops are Facebook (74%), YouTube (65%), Twitter (63%) and Linkedin (60%). Taking … |
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