Posts Tagged ‘social-networks’

Social Media Marketing: Best Successes?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

There are myriad things you can do with social networks to promote your blog or your business. Creating a community on Twitter, Groups on Facebook, Linkedin Associations, FastPitchNetworks articles…
What have you found to work best for you?

Dear Corporate America, stop creating your own social networks!

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Every so often a new technology comes along and fascinates and excites businesses and consumers alike. Previously, e-commerce won our hearts. Then we all fell for search engines, and the world wide web was redefined. Now, that new technology is social networking and it’s an exciting place to be. New technology [...]

What Is Your Youtility?

Friday, July 18th, 2008

In economics, utility is a measure of the relative satisfaction from or desirability of consumption of goods and services. Given this measure, one may speak of increasing or decreasing utility using the World Wide Web, and thereby explain social behavior in terms of attempts to increase one’s Youtility.
Each new function and feature added to our [...]

Your “Ranking”: Up or Down?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Social rank or simply rank is a hierarchy based on one’s perceived importance in society.
In modern usage, the term is somewhat ambiguous; is this importance to be determined in the traditional sense, based on class and lineage (or breeding) or are factors such as wealth, education and notoriety to be considered?
Social rank has usually been [...]

Inevitable news: Facebook finally beats Myspace.

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Facebook finally tallied more visits than Myspace. It doesn’t seem surprising, but while everyone is focused on whose side to take or why Myspace’s redesign came too late - I see something bigger. Here are the statistics: According to Comscore, in May 2008 Myspace pulled in 114M visitors while Facebook captured a remarkable [...]

Twitter Marketing

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Joining social networks or other types of social media sites doesn’t mean you will automagically start getting valuable web traffic and possibly new customers. Like television advertising and radio advertising, there is a science to good messaging and finding the right audience (does anyone still advertise on the radio?) Since Twitter doesn’t allow [...]

Groundswell

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Pay attention to this blog on the Forrester Research site. It deals with a movement online they call Groundswell in which people engage in sharing activities that can change the way people look at your brands and products.
Already news giants like the BBC Corporation are investing millions to reach out to these social networks to [...]