Submitted by Amsall:
Amber Naslund shares "a couple of big lessons to be learned here about proper outreach to your community, and how not to engage with bloggers.". (Read More)
Submitted by Amsall:
Social media simply means listening and communicating i.e conversations for better action. So social media should be pervasive in the company: Marketing/PR,
Sales and Business Development,
Customer/Client Services, Product or Brand Management... (Read More)
WordPress Theme Designer
Hi guys! Thought I’d generously share PR juice and Link Lovin’ every weekend. However, as you know I am currently busy with my project so this is a post to invite you..1. To point me out at any article or posts on your blog that you think is useful and deserves a mention.2. To let me know a little something abou (Read More)
FriendFeed thePuck
I think that to succeed in the social media world, a key concept is social density. I work towards this by constantly looking for new sites and services to maintain a presence on and being active in many different microblogging communities. (Read More)
Ars Technica
Regator is a new filtered social blog aggregator that combines social news features with a good ol' fashioned RSS reader. The company hopes to be a social news hub that makes it easier to find the interesting stories, but we find that a few of its features are half-baked.Read More...
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New York Times
With world leaders watching from inside the latticed shell of the National Stadium, the 2008 Beijing Olympics began with an opening ceremony of soaring spectacle and Chinese national pride. . (Read More)
China Web2.0 Review
As Kaiser Kuo said Beijing 2008 is the first web 2.0 Olympics ever, we will start to consume and enjoy the Olympics in social media, rather than only in main stream media. I will try to summarize China’s social media campaigns on the Games. If you know any good Olympics social media campaign, please leave a comment be (Read More)
Submit 10
The positive effects of social bookmarking for publishers of news sites, blogs and other web sites is outstanding. Social bookmarking can introduce the sites that you own or you like to others with relevant tastes, can drive traffic to your site, and valuable backlinks. Some social bookmark sites like Propeller.com pass on (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
Social media is one of the hottest buzzwords in tech circles. But can you actually get paid to play with Facebook at the office? Don't show your boss this Mashable article written by Ben Parr asking if social media jobs are here to stay. It only validates the lack of any hard evidence. Parr says social media roles — either (Read More)
Submitted by Eristoddle:
This web roundup will list nine developers that absolutely must be tracked on Twitter. They represent the best of the best and are extremely active in the community. Be sure to follow each and every one of them. They might even help you if you've hit a bump in your coding! By the time you're through with this list, you'll p (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Earlier this week we ran a competition for 2 full tickets to the New York Web 2.0 Expo conference 16-19 Sept. The tickets are valued at over $1000 each and we also have a consolation prize of a free Expo hall pass (value $100).To be in to win one of the 3 prizes, we asked: for the 'Web Meets World' charity auction at the We (Read More)
Times Online
Bess writes: Good news from Iran. Especially if you’re a woman and accused of adultery. Death by stoning, the legal penalty for sexual infidelity is apparently off the menu. According to the BBC, a spokesman for the state judiciary says that four Iranians sentenced to die by stoning have had their sentences commuted, while (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck:
Defining “social media” has been a hot topic for some time now. There have been almost as many different definitions for social media as there are people following me on twitter.One of the best showed up in my RSS reader today and it is from a new blog to me called, A New Marketing The post is called, “a definitive explanat (Read More)
The TLS
Reading the Olympic Games is a complex and potentially exhausting task: twenty-eight sports, 300 events, over 200 countries and 10,000 athletes offer no shortage of narratives. Host governments, the international media, global NGOs and local protestors of every kind increasingly struggle to shape and mould those stories, to (Read More)