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 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 [...]
Succeeding At Social Media
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To Tweet or Not to Tweet
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The divide is pretty strong even among social media advocates. Check out this post from Steven Hodson. [...]
The Future of Social Media Predictions
All we do here at Ignite Social Media is social media marketing. So we watch it carefully, looking for trends, what’s coming next, what’s likely to bubble up. And it’s got me thinking. I believe that social media is in its infancy. Not everybody does.
But I’m quite sure we don’t have [...]
Facebook Versus Twitter
I was working on writing a comment for the latest blog post by AJ Vaynerchuk at ShoeMoney.com but it turned out that the comment morphed into something more, so I thought bringing some attention to the post as well as my thoughts on it might be a good thing.
AJ selected the names of fifty prominent [...]
All Hail the 140 Character “Twitterbyte”
The New Speed of Mass Communication
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