The Future Buzz
Catering to those with an interest in a specific niche is important, but this alone is not a guaranteed recipe for success. The other necessary ingredient is to cater to the influencer audience within that niche. It’s simple, effective and not a novel strategy. Although this concept seems rather basic to marketing, most (Read More)
Conversation Agent
People flee sellers, especially in a bad economy. Public relations was born and thrived for many years on the wave of
mass media - newspapers, television news, and magazines, for example. It's quite logical to think that if you get someone else to talk about how great your company is, then
you are much more likely to gain (Read More)
Scripting News
Like a bunch of other people I had the new Twitter lists feature turned on today. Immediately I needed a list to explore and had a bunch of ready-made ideas. I had already done aggregated feeds of the top 100 most followed people on Twitter, the employees of the Twitter company and the NY Times, the Twin Cities and most rec (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com
While TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop remain the most popular Twitter desktop clients, many people are turning to web-based alternatives. But why, when there are so many desktop clients around?There are several reasons why this may be a preferred way to use Twitter:Running a separate desktop application (usually with Adobe AI (Read More)
: There is a web application named Threadsy.com that grabbed the "ball" and ran with it. One can view all their web mail, Hotmail-Google-Yahoo and facebook in one place. I am not connected with them except as a beta tester.
: Earl: I am checking Threadsy and may write about it soon on MakeUseOf. The only hitch is I'm not sure how fast they're giving out invites, and they haven't yet responded to my inquiries.
louisgray.com
This morning, Google introduced a feature called SideWiki for Google Toolbar users that lets people add comments and annotations to Web sites. This is not a new approach, and it has been tried with varying lacks of success in the past, as most people without an agenda don't want to spend time marking up third party Web page (Read More)
: I don't see why this type of interaction couldn't be fun and useful along with all the other ways of conversing and commenting. I don't think we've experienced the death of any conversation form thru the introduction of any of the new methods. I think we can use all the forms. With respect to Jeff Jarvis, who I've always found insightful, I'll listen closely to his concerns, but at this point, I'm like, "why not?"
Search Engine Optimization
Author : Matthew Loop DCAre you a chiropractor who's purchased an expensive website, only to find that new patients are not knocking your door down like your practice management group promised you? If you can believe it, this applies to the majority of chiropractic professionals that shell-out big bucks on sophisticated web (Read More)
Submitted by Koltregaskes
from Google Reader:
Mark has written about the new features introduced in Google Reader, the significance of them was the ability to share and comment on posts with your friends. But if you feel that the Google Reader interface lacks pizzazz, you should be using Feedly instead. I am in love with Google Reader’s social features (here is my shar (Read More)
Louis Gray - FriendFeed
Ok. So, social media. It’s the darling of the internet, it’s going to eat Google’s lunch. Real time search is the bomb. Engagement. Blah blah blah. You know, I buy into social media. You can find me participating on Facebook, FriendFeed and Twitter as well as whatever random other networks I’ve tried and not found particula (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Freely moving from one service to the next is clearly part of the nature of the Internet today. On Twitter, Twhirl was the de-facto standard desktop client just a few short months ago, but now, TweetDeck has taken this position. The last version of TweetDeck, however, had some serious memory leaks, which led a lot of users (Read More)
TechCrunch
FriendFeed is a wonderful application that allows users to track what their friends are doing online. Photos, videos, blog posts and anything else that’s published online with a RSS feed can be brought into the service and viewed by anyone who wants to subscribe to you. And the FriendFeed team is continuously innovating an (Read More)
: The new Friendfeed is amazing. This should put them in a stronger position than Twitter with people who have even a little tech savvy. Let's hope so.
Slate Magazine
As Twitter-mania reaches new levels, Slate V presents a mockumentary about a company that wants to take microblogging to the next level. (Read More)
Mashable!
Mark Ghuneim, (@mediaeater) is the Founder/CEO of digital marketing agency and technology incubator Wiredset and social media tracking service Trendrr.It’s amazing to think just a few short years ago the “interweb” was abuzz with the dominance of Friendster, YouTube was a simple beta test of cat videos, and the word tweet w (Read More)
TechWag
Image by Will Lion via FlickrThere are hundreds of social networks, of course we have all heard about Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, and dozens of others that are equally popular. Then there are some that are not popular in the US, but are popular in other countries. Orkut, a Google product, is popular in Brazil, HI5 is popul (Read More)
: I was expecting a little more about the next tier of Social Networks. The biggies are obvious. What are the options and how to the compare say if you wanted connections in Japan or Europe. What are the best networks for business. Are there networks for specific types of businesses? What are the difference between how US networkers interact and those from other countries? The article had good promise, but left me wondering what the point was.
: If you are a business then you want to participate in the networks that your 'buyer personas' are participating in. How do you find that out which networks they use? You either do it by setting up your own Google Alert dashboard, as described in http://www.socialmedian.com/story/3804236/howto-search-the-social-web-ultimate-toolkit - or you use something like radian6.com - or you get someone like me to do it for you . . .
SheGeeks
Following over 700+ people on Twitter can become one of the most tedious and time consuming tasks of social networking. People are constantly following you and unfollowing you. All you really want is for people to stick around, the opportunity to build your very own micro-community, and for people to listen and be listened (Read More)
: I cannot advice on podcasting for example. I wouldn't dare telling people what to do. Social media comprising several things, not just being on Facebook but evidently you need some minimum knowledge. http://illness.city-pack.com/ http://pain.city-pack.com/
Mashable!
Lon S. Cohen is a writer and social media strategist. He is @obilon on Twitter.Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free. It’s equivalent to getting higher education. I’m talking about Masters level stuff. And it’s all available right there on Twi (Read More)
: I'm delighted to have found this article. I'm always looking for lists of intelligent people on Twitter with a lot of good content to share. This list of 12 looks to be a treasure trove. I appreciate Lon Cohen for putting it together.