I attended an event done by the Social Media Club in Atlanta. It was “The practice and pitfalls of running promotions and games of chance through social media.” It sounds like an in depth and jargon filled program, but it was in fact done in very easy to understand English. The presenters were Mark Staples, […]
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Social Media WTF Day!
Today and in the last hour its been a WTF day. By that I mean we learn that Yahoo! is shutting down Delicious Book Mark site and Facebook released the new page layout to match the profiles. The first thing is that it was leaked that in an presentation that Delicious was in “sunset.” Meaning […]
Entertainment Goes Social
Location based marketing starting to take off with FourSquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places, now entertainment has a check in service as well. I should say it has a few, but I fill focus on Miso and GotGlue. I will admit I love all things entertainment. If you check my iPhone you will see the TV […]
Twitter Analytics – Its coming!
I work mainly with small businesses in my consulting. The one area I seem to have the most problems is finding information for reporting purposes. I know many of you out there use Radiant6, and other tools, but having a much-limited budget, I have to put together information where I can get it. Which can […]
When is Social Anti-Social
I was on Facebook and saw Evan LaPointe said “Social media isn’t feeling very social lately. Anyone actually want to talk to someone, or are we just having a link sharing spree?” If you follow me on Twitter you saw me mention this a few weeks back. Why is it that most social people just […]
Twitter Making Music More Social!
If you watched the video above, you will see how iTunes and Ping is tying into Twitter. You can put links from itunes directly into Twitter and have someone listen to the music right there. This will be done after you link Ping with Twitter. Now, this won’t work with a client such as HootSuite […]
Social Media Engagement – Participate
I was reading Mashable and one of my favorite people in social media today, Brian Solis, wrote 21 rules for social engagement. Which all are pretty good. I urge you to go look at them all. The one I’m going to focus on one rule in particular: 9. Become a true participant in each community […]
Facebook Make Voting Social
If you have logged into Facebook today, you have seen the, for a lack of better word, a vote widget. Its at the top of your stream and shows how many of your friends who voted today. Its taken the “I Voted” sticker and made it social. I like this because I think voting is […]
Social Media Atlanta
I just wanted to say if you are in Atlanta, in two weeks the Social Media Atlanta events are happing. Its all about social media and most of the events are FREE. Whats not to like about that! It’s going to be a great week of events. This was started by Burt DuMars from Newell […]
New Facebook Photo Features
Has anyone seen the new photos? I haven’t yet and am looking forward to it.