Social Media Posts That Are Igniting- 9/12
September 12, 2008
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Here are the top social media picks for the week. Enjoy 
Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don’t Use Social Media
Marshall Kirkpatrick from Read Write Web answers the question on how to use social media to reach people who “don’t use social media”. He includes simple ways to transition these people over, while debunking the myth that some people are unreachable by this medium.
Flickr Homepage Update Exposes “Hidden” Social Features
Great article by Michael Calore that details the changes Flickr has made this week in hopes of encouraging users to use the social networking features on their site.
I love this video made by EA Sports in response to a YouTube video. It’s a great use of social media for a brand, and I think the points that Valeria Maltoni make in regards to this are perfect.
The Future of Viral Marketing…
The best viral ideas are quirky and fun. Proof: awesome video created by Slate (and posted here by Amanda Gravel).
What I Learned by Increasing My Forum Membership by 400 in 24 hours
Darren Rowse gives some insight into growing your online forum community. Although email is not always the best community outreach strategy (mainly because people are inundated with annoying spam), Darren’s post gives great advice on who to outreach to and why.
Top 5 Reasons Social Media Require Commitment
So you have started your blog, made a few friends on facebook, and followed a few people on twitter but it doesn’t seem to be drawing any traffic. Don’t give it up yet. As Cohen writes (and we have said) you have to stick with different sites to get results!
The Ultimate List of Custom Ubiquity Verbs - ReadWriteWeb
Corvida pulls together a valuable list of Ubiquity commands in this post. The list has a great variety of verbs that any hard core Ubiquity user should check out.
Wendy’s Takes First Stab at Viral Video With ‘Crazy Lettuce’ - Advertising Age - News
Wendy’s “viral” attempt is dissected by Emily York from Adage. She notes the campaign cost only 25k vs. a typical TV spot costing around 300k
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Thank you for including me in your list! It alerted me to your blog and some other resources I hadn’t seen before. Thank you for sharing!
Best,
Adam
Adam Cohen’s last blog post..Top 5 Reasons Social Media Requires Commitment