BryanPerson.com:
I’ve always wanted to speak at Harvard.And earlier this week, I did just that, co-presenting with Bob Collins to Mary Lou Roberts‘ Harvard Extension School marketing class, Social Media for Web 2.0.I discussed how brands can build and join online communities (specifically from the vendor/agency perspective), while Bob focus (Read More)
Submitted by Recruiterguy
from Google Reader:
Non-Standard Descriptors and the Role They Play in Social MediaArticle by Valerie Scarsellato, Sr. Sourcer at Intel CorporationCo-written by Glen CatheySourcing has always been a significant component in the recruiting lifecycle. However, in recent years, sourcing has taken a giant step into the forefront and has become rec (Read More)
The Future Buzz:
Facebook wants to become the one-stop-shop for social networking. They didn’t upset 94% of their users without good reason. I was hoping someone would map out their potential path, and Robert Scoble did just that:The 7 phases Facebook is going through:Phase 1. Harvard only.Phase 2. Harvard+Colleges only.Phase 3. Harvard+C (Read More)
Marketing Mystic:
In this social media age, where everything is public and privacy is mostly an illusion, it’s easy to get the lines blurred between what’s personal and what’s business. Many social media champions forget to remind their clients that social media is not without its pitfalls and companies have a responsibility to help their em (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
Social media conversations are everywhere. Even most “die-hard” web 1.0 addicts (who once considered social networking insane) have engaged into social media by now.People share thoughts, exchange opinions and reviews every single second. It is really hard to keep track of those conversations and sometimes you just need to. (Read More)
Submitted by Daniel J Pritchett
from Google Reader:
Dave Barger, from LunaWeb, was able to make it to the interactive portion of South By SouthWest (SXSW) this past week. This massive, Austin, TX based, conference has a heavy focus on learning and sharing information on technology and Web 2.0. But what has typically been a festive, party atmosphere, took on a more serious (Read More)
: "One bright spot in the midst of this gathering, was the serendipitous and spontaneous creation of several unconference-like core conversations. Dave was lucky enough to be a part of one of these conversation, when several SXSW attendees converged on a session that had reached max capacity. These 50+ rejects went on to form there own conversation group, “The Rejected Connected”."
Submitted by Courane01
from Google Reader:
The other night I was up late (as usual!) and came across a hilarious spoof post by humorist Brian Briggs revealing Twitter’s supposed new business model. Not wanting to put a tweet out to something so fun while most of my compadres in the US were sleeping, I used Tweetlater to program the tweet to go out at 7:30am (PDT) th (Read More)
WebProNews - Social Media:
It appears that they never sleep at Gmail. After the most recent improvement in conversation-saving with the service, they have now added the ability to preview YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, and Yelp content with a new Gmail Labs experiment."Gmail currently automatically detects package tracking information, addresses, and event (Read More)
Connie Bensen:
I enjoy receiving questions from people. These questions are going to become common as community becomes an integral part of marketing plans.
I have a startup making a product. We. (Read More)
: "Whether you have a blog and/or forums, it’s all the same. You need to build community around YOUR community. That’s how I started my online community work.
Submitted by Sarahintampa
from Google Reader:
A company called Digital Outlook has developed a social media toolkit that will allow Xbox gamers to share their personalized, customized Xbox avatar creations on various social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Live Spaces, and more. The new toolkit will also allow those avatars to be shared in the form o (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Nielsen Online, an analytics firm that tracks time spent online at various websites, has issued a report finding that throughout 2008 social networking sites and blogs saw more time spent by users than personal email. While not shocking, the finding does mark an important point in the history of the web.Youth watchers have (Read More)
: Facebook is the best way to visit/to see the world in a few time. Not only it has an amount of nice various applications from usefull applications such as Time Zone, Google Earth and more to the hobbies such games for brain development BUT you meet too from Facebook differents cultures: foods, languages, fashions, movies, news, friends, family, .... . Some of them as a link so you can develop your view to everything to a few time! ONLY, I don't use Facebook for professional exchange mails.
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
Labor has cloned its own fledgling Facebook-style social media site:UnionBook is the social networking site for trade unionists. Unlike other social networks such as MySpace, FaceBook and Bebo, UnionBook is advertising-free, respects your privacy and is specifically designed to serve the trade union movement. Use it to me (Read More)
Submitted by Frinsen
from Google Reader:
Today the social advertising network AdNectar announced data confirming that its branded virtual goods campaigns can boost purchase intent among social network users by 20% or more. The data was sourced from both third parties and AdNectar's client advertisers and released as part of an AdNectar whitepaper. (Read More)
Social Media Breakfast:
Join us for Toledos inaugural Social Media Breakfast on April 3 (7:30-9:30 a.m.) at the Elks Lodge (3250 Holland-Sylvania Rd.) in Toledo near Wildwood Metropark.Our fledgling efforts in the Toledo-area center on defining trends and best practices, and highlighting new apps and experts, as we all try to stay abreast of the (Read More)