Measuring the Value of Social Bookmarking Referrals
This morning I read an article by the BlogOnExpo blog, which discussed "Why 100 Organic Visitors are better than 10,000 Social Media Visitors"...
22 January, 2008
1 in 4 Have No Internet Access: What’s the Impact on the Social Media Agency?
As a social media agency, we're very interested in reaching people through conversations on the Internet. A question many clients ask us is, "How many people use this stuff?" Today we have a few more answers to that question, particularly if you define "this stuff"...
21 January, 2008
Comparing Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn and More
Ok, it's Friday. I'm busy. Grabbing lunch now and decided to search "funny social media" to see if I could find some Friday fun to share. Found Lee Hopkins Wiki, on which he had placed this image from a Wired Geekipedia page. ...
18 January, 2008
PR Heading Towards Social Media or Another Buzzword?
In doing a little PR for Ignite, I typically use free, basic services like PR.com and PRLeap. For the most part, these are pretty decent for getting a traditional release "out there" easily and affordably. It has also led to Google News inclusion, which has...
17 January, 2008
6 Ways to Deal with Spam Blogs
Anyone who has been blogging for more than 90 days or so has likely seen their work sucked up and re-appropriated on a spam blog. (In fact, I'm pretty sure this article will end up on one or more, ironically.) I noticed on Twitter the...
16 January, 2008
Is Mobile Social Finally Ready for Primetime?
"Things that are inherently social are inherently mobile" Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook co-founder USAToday, Nov 13, 2007...
15 January, 2008
Not laughing so much now: Delta’s blog effort
One of the things we do as a social media agency is analyze what other people do and comment on it. To that end, way back in August, Lisa wrote a post called "Delta starts a blog, I'm still laughing." At the time, the...
14 January, 2008
January Triangle Social Media Club: Podcasting
Now that we are getting back in the swing of things for 2008, it's time to vent all the pent up "social media talk" you spared your family from during the holidays....
11 January, 2008
5 Steps to Beating Social Media Marketing Cold Feet
I just read an article from Read Write Web which covered a genius topic entitled, "A List of Objections, Replies and Concessions Regarding Social Media and Tools". The article reminded me of my own post about the 10 Most Common Social Media Myths, simply...
10 January, 2008
More Non-News re: Google and Facebook
Yesterday, Read/Write broke the news that Google and Facebook had joined the DataPortability Workgroup, which got a bunch of Social Media folk all moist and whatnot. Read/Write called the news a "Bombshell," Scoble took the opportunity to complain about getting kicked off of Facebook for...
09 January, 2008
Submit Blog Ideas to Ignite’s 2008 Editorial Calendar
Hi Everyone! Since I've been out for the holidays to recharge (and then most recently to assume a role as a maid of honor) I'm really just now getting back in the social media groove of reading, writing, and participating....
08 January, 2008
Social Media is a Waste of Time, Part II
In Friday's post, I admitted the social media can be a waste of time. I talked about doing some unproductive things online and how, despite that (or even because of that), marketers should be paying a LOT of attention to social media marketing. ...
07 January, 2008