Posts about social media as of August 13, 2009

Last night, BoomTown moderated a really interesting panel for an organization called Girls in Tech, titled “Journalism 2.0 RoundTable.” Girls in Tech describes itself as a “social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent & influential women.” With those lofty requirements–combined with the fact that I was a girl when we had yet to land on the moon–I have no idea what I was doing there.

FACEBOOK LITE: The Early Details and Screenshots Hmmm. More activity from Facebook. This may be an assault on Twitter – but Twitter didn’t work because is was simple. It worked because of Tweetdeck, or Twhirl, or Twitter Search – i.e. because you could use and access Twitter in many ways from many places. Facebook has always had a twitterlike function in terms of its status updates (they did this well before Twitter was around). But because these were contained within the Facebook walled garden, they didn’t ‘become’ Twitter.

by Hema Mahesh Marketing campaign with postcard printing tool yields quick response from your customers. It is a simple but an effective tool to make an impact on a wide range of customers with product information or about services of a business house. This proposal is affordable to invest and small business owners can take immediate benefit of this system of postcard printing. You do not worry about the investment size but grow a lot from postcard printing services.

I apologize for the tardiness of this alert, I usually try and feature free webinars ahead of time but I didn’t find out about this one until early this morning.  Are you interested in using a few social media tools but your are unsure of how what their impact will be and whether they will be effective for your library?  You might consider registering for this free seminar  which will be Thursday August 13th at 10:00am PDT (1:oopm EST).

If you haven’t caught Li Evans post on Understanding Social Media Communities over at Search Engine Watch.  She’s got some great thoughts on how marketers should (and shouldn’t) approach online communities.

Don’t friend your boss on Facebook, and then complain about him or her, or your job. Ever. The latest social media scandal is being reported by The Next Web . This gaffe is epic: It’s simple to prevent these gaffes from happening: Don’t post anything in social media (Twitter, Facebook, your blog, Friendfeed, LinkedIn) that you would not want your parent, boss or an investigating police officer to read. Ever.

What are the marketing trends for 2010 and where does Social Media Figure in the mix? A report by  Equation Research   indicates some interesting trends that highlight that “Social Media” is certainly past being a fad and becoming mainstream.   The 5  Highlights 1. Current and Intended Social Media Use Yes, it’s currently part of our marketing activity 59% We’re planning to implement social media 28% No, we’re not using or planning to use social media 13% When you break this down by company size, there seems to be a schism between Social Media use among small brands.

Should sex offenders be allowed to use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networking sites? Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (pictured) thinks not, and this week signed into law a bill that bans all registered sex offenders in his state from using social networks. This sounds satisfying on first listen – after all, why wouldn’t we want to take every possible measure to prevent the horrendous crimes of sex offenders? But many legal blogs are pointing out that the legislation is overzealous and possibly unconstitutional.

My predilection for the occasional cigarette has more to do with the rules of engagement than any kind of nicotine craving. Mom, I know you’re rolling your eyes and muttering, “you have an answer for everything”, but hear me out. I’m an extremely gregarious person – I carry on chatting with strangers at bus stops, [...] Related Posts: Dear TOMS: Keep on Rockin’ in the Social Enterprise World I had a conversation with my older brother the…

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