Posts about social media as of July 17, 2009

A couple of days after #140conf I sat down with The Deal’s Mary Kathleen Flynn and spoke about twitter and “The State of Now.” – - – What do you think about “The State of NOW” ? Has the way you are approaching the Internet noticeably different this year as compared to last year? What markets do you think will be the most disrupted in the advent of the Real-Time Internet? – - – Tags: 140conf , social media , 140 Characters Conference , twitter , Jeff Keni Pulver

I asked Beckie from BornFit if she would consider doing a guest post for us and lucky for us, she agreed! Here is what she has to say: Before my husband and I had children we hiked just about every weekend. Since the children came along we have sort of left our hiking adventures behind. Until recently we read an article in the Denver Post about hiking trails that were suitable for children.

Content aggregation is as old as the web itself. What are search engines if not world wide web aggregators? Folks have a lot of conversations going on, on a lot of different channels — Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Tumblr, Disqus, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and lots more — and FriendFeed attempts to bring all a person’s goings on into one easy-to-follow feed. Easy listening In my experience, FriendFeed is a great listening tool. With live updates (as opposed to manual refreshes), the feeds I’m following are presented as they happen.

TechCrunch released more info about Twitter from documents that “landed in its inbox” after a hacker obtained them. The latest, which Michael Arrington says will be the last installment, focuses on Twitter’s internal strategy — minus the most sensitive stuff. The released document briefly talks about Twitter’s media strategy, focusing mostly on its intent to kill the “Twitter TV show” .

Social media policies and procedures : More companies are getting into social media (internal, external or both) and having a policy can ensure employees understand how to use it right. PRWeb news releases tools and tips How to Distribute Effective Release [Link: Writers Inspired ] How to Write a Successful News Release How to Format Your News Release How to Write a Bad Travel Story : How many places have you visited that are rustic? Charming? Quaint?

By Ethan Lyon , Senior Writer Razorfish , a large branding and marketing firm, recently released a comprehensive report analyzing social media influence. Fluent , the Social Influence Marketing report , takes aim at the many myths about on and off-line marketing. Razorfish sheds light on areas of branding and marketing, with key research and insights, that have long been uncharted. Through a survey with 1,000 N.

“I bought my motorcycle at Best Buy,” is a sentence I bet you never thought you’d utter. And yet, that may be exactly what you do in the near future, if you were to buy an Enertia electric motorcycle from Brammo. Along with the comic book sound effect name, Brammo has put a lot of thought into this bike. And they have answers for the questions people may have about them. Like the fact that regular motorcycles are already a lot more efficient then automobiles. True, twice as efficient, they acknowledge.

No Space for MySpace ? For the past week we have been on the topic of competing software and social networks, however there have been no mention of the once popular MySpace. Unfortunately MySpace hasn’t had a great year. With competitive sharks such as Twitter and Facebook, Myspace has been left struggling in the deep end. Once a very popular hub for the music and entertainment community, MySpace seems to be loosing its entertainment edge.

We all talk about change. But most hate it and most of all most hate to have change imposed upon them.Back in 2005 when NPR ventured into a nation wide debate about how everyone in Public Radio would have to change, we could all agree on what we should do – but like knowing that you should give up smoking or lose 20 pounds, we got stuck on the do.

by Matthew Kerridge Search engine optimisation is an integral part of internet marketing. With ever increasing queries on the search engines capturing traffic is a fanatstic opportunity that any serious online business should be looking to exploit. As competiton for high seach engine positions is increasing day to day, leaving SEO to an internet marketing agency is wise choice. Despite email marketing being used less today than it has in previous years, many companies that internet marketing services are able to increase the response rates of the emails you send.