Posts about social media as of March 20, 2009

Below are some links to recent research news and studies from the collection of items that MarketingCharts didn’t get to writing up this week, … in CanadaDespite Recession, More than Half of Marketers Increase Social Media SpendingPay Gap Widens between … Marketing, Blogs, Integrated/Cross-Media/Convergence, Europe, Demographics, Print Mar 20-09

I am so grateful to all of the interesting feedback and comments and tweets and emails I received yesterday regarding the post on the loss social … !) using social media, will be important to watch.And finally, on a philosophical note, the brilliant Lucy … expression as a catalyst for engagement around civic, social and community issues.  They

at precisely 9:37 am this morning, i woke up. i’d been up for hours, obviously. people who sleep until 9:37 with two little children in the house usually have Child Protective services knocking on the door…or so i comfort myself. morning coffee is most scrumptious dark and bitter. but at 9:37 i became conscious. (

Savvy travel-marketing people already know that popular social-networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn and others are a valuable extension of any major marketing program. As the social-networking phenomenon grows and evolves, travel agencies, home-based agents, suppliers and destination

The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Social Media this past week: Inside P&G’s social media war room Reaching moms with social media at SXSW Marketing means playing it cool at SXSW Meet Facebook’s “Empath” The new (yet eerily familiar) face

There’s a lot of discussion focusing on the changes in the roles and responsibilities of the PR professional as a result of socialized media, … questions about your personal social media engagement: Are you actively listening and engaging … and testing various social networking communities)? Do you have RSS feeds, and use social media

Things are still getting back to normal after an inspirational trip to the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. I spend 4 amazing days learning, talking, and building relationships with my fellow social media hipster doofus web geeks – oh yeah! I got my photos uploaded to Flickr last night, so I went

Hi, As we continue to work with those of you midlife, second half career, new media newbies who are interested in using Social Media to help you connect for your business … . So, If I want to see the updates on my “Midlife New Media Newbie Friends”.  I can click on that Friend

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter … . I am a digital and social media strategist from Brisbane, Australia. I am passionate in how digital technology and social media can be used as a force for good. Having attended ConnectingUp08

Part of what I do for clients is explain how they can use social media like Twitter to build relationships, … on social media platforms like Twitter be protected as free speech? Should what someone says … , with the growing popularity of social media and the increasing use of the same by companies it becomes an issue