Social Media Etiquette
You’ll see all types of articles, advice and opinions trying to de-construct the true nature of social media. At its simplest, social media is a conversation between like-minded people using various different software platforms to communicate with each other.
What you need to understand first about social networking is that it’s just like social networking [...]
FriendFeed As A Reputation Management Tool
I am a FriendFeed fan boy.
That is saying a lot, because I am usually pretty critical of everything.
The platform is easy to use, and makes the first real concentrated effort towards making a single platform for all social media.
Social Media And The Olympics
The next Olympics is big news, not only for its presence in China and all the rigmarole that’s created, but for the way Olympic news will be broadcast and the steps some Olympic sponsors are taking. With Twitter, Plurck and all the other microblogging apps, we’re going to know what’s happening quicker than you [...]
Social Networking By The Numbers
Facebook, Filkr, Fllxter, Friendster and that’s just the F’s. Have you ever tried to figure out which of the growing number of social networks deserve your time or which services attract the exact demographic you’re looking for? Consultancy Rapleaf has some answers.
In a follow up to a study of social network users vs. age, Rapleaf [...]
Social Media Defined In Two Words
Jason Falls asked his followers on Twitter to define social media in two words or less. Here are some of the results:
Overrated
Relationship Building
Communal Interaction
Community Building
Shared Narcissism
Citizen Journalism
Confusing
Authentic Minutia
Scaled Intimacy
Serendipitous Networking
Movable Relationships
Establishing Trust
Business Networking
Participate. Reciprocate.
My two words? Communal platforms. What do you think?
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Social Media Monitoring
Social media monitoring and social media measurement are two very different things, but I think many of the searchers and social media taggers using those phrases don’t always make the distinction. For some quick insight from a qualified audience, I turned to Twitter and within an hour had about 40 replies.
It started off with this [...]
Social Media Network Study
For Marketing Pilgrim readers who love data - here is a follow-up to Rapleaf’s social media study. The link has a spreadsheet that you can apply formulas to. The study looked at 49.3 million people on social networks and breaks them down by age and gender. This is good to study to look at if [...]
Can Social Media Do What It Claims?
July 5th was the five year anniversary of my blog. I started thinking about the bigger issues, and wrote this post on July 8th - and waited until I could get more information (see sidenote on bottom).
Ten-plus years ago, I started my career in public relations. One of the first campaigns I worked on was [...]
Succeeding At Social Media
You can’t escape social networks or social channels even if you tried to. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed, Orkut, Bebo, LinkedIn - give access channels for strangers to meet and attempt to become your friends.
As a marketer, social networks or web 2.0 networks and services give you an opportunity to reach out to potential customers [...]
All About Social Media
Here are some social media articles that I have found on the Web which I hope inspire you as this week kicks off to a firing start.
Chris Brogan writes about 50 Steps that can be used to establish a consistent Social Media practice while Information Week has a look at Google’s online encyclopedia offering and [...]