Submitted by Michaelfidler
from Google Reader:
Yesterday I wrote how a police force in Canada had moved their cold cases online. Now today, we hear about small businesses turning to social media to track down people ripping them off. Once again of course I have to give the high fives because one of the stories has to do with Canada.Apparently a group of retailers in Cap (Read More)
Submitted by Bergholt
from blog:
We're continuing the experiments with various social media platforms. Our lest test spin has been the Vox platform ryn byt platform provider Six Apart. Six Aparts announced the day before yesterday that the lead developer and other key Pownce people are joining the Six Apart team. While we're going to miss the Pownce platf (Read More)
Submitted by Bergholt
from blog:
Battle & Bounce continues the experiments with various social media platforms. Our lest latest spin has been the Vox platform. (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
from Google Reader:
A little storm-in-a-teacup erupted online today around a press release issued by Matt Bacak. The release was almost comically self-promotional, evidenced by the headline:"The Powerful Promoter Promotes Himself Straight to the Top of Twitter - Matt Bacak Achieves Another Social Networking Milestone"Quoting the release:"Anyo (Read More)
Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog:
Social sites like Facebook and MySpace have long struggled to effectively monetize the social networking space. The Internet's watering holes have tempted advertisers with an engaged and captive audience. But advertisers have seen minimal success with users who balk at unwelcomed and overt advertising tactics.An article ove (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
from Google Reader:
A trend I'm seeing develop on Twitter is the use of automation for such things as auto-follows, auto-responses (which often include a pitch...visit my blog at www...) and scheduled tweets.I think this is a terrible trend that should be avoided at all costs. To me, Twitter is the most personal and conversational of all s (Read More)