Here are the top social media related stories and resources found around the ‘Sphere today:
This one is excellent. I love these kinds of videos!
I hear the jingle jangle of the Social Media Ice Cream truck …
Commoncraft does it again. Thanks Lee Lefever and crew. Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
How has social media changed PR? - An interview with Ross Mayfield …
Recently, we blogged about some new trends in social media PR—namely Stowe Boyd’s call for pitches via Twitter and Marshall’s request for an OPML from PR firms. We blogged about those items because they are areas where much of the PR …
Social Media Breakfast is coming to Ottawa
I’ve been traveling quite a lot lately, and one of the things I always enjoy about visiting a new city as a social media user is meeting face-to-face with my “social graph” - Twitter friends, blog readers and others who I may have had …
Social Media and Non-Profits: How can organizations find their …
I had the opportunity to meet with an outstanding organization yesterday to talk about social media. This organization is a faith-based group that is focused on social justice and eliminating poverty. They already have a rather large …
Women dominate the social media scene
In a study by Rapleaf, women outpace men by far in usage of social media. There is especially a disparity in usage between married women and married men. While single 20somethings are all on social networking sites due to having more …
“Social media’s awesome power can really take your breath away when you take a second to step back and see the change that it can cause in the world. Many brands and traditional media companies are focused on social media’s effects on …
Monitoring 600+ blogs on social media marketing
As part of our day to day, we collect, organize, listen and engage with blogs and social media that talk about .. social media and we’ve build and organized a list of 600+ blogs that relate to this topic. …
Email is great for real conversations and can be much more powerful than social media in involving intimately someone else into looking at something. Popular social media destinations tend to be relatively superficial. …
Is Your Site Social Media Friendly?
You should consider many factors when getting involved in Social Media Marketing, such as the quality of your content, your domain name, and who is submitting your content. But there is almost always one thing I find myself looking at …
One Egg, One Hundred Baskets: Social Media Leverage
You are a smart cookie and you have definitely heard of social media and social networking. You have also seen around the place that you can use these tools to help you to market your stuff, but where do you start? …
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Eric Brown 05.29.08 at 4:23 pm
Nice compilation…thanks Jack! The “Is your site social media friendly is a great post for any and all who have existing sites that are not in an open source CMS of some sort like WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal
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Andrea 05.30.08 at 8:28 am
Great information and lots of it at that! I also like the creative way you used your new blogging tool.
Always Grateful,
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andrew goulding 06.03.08 at 5:56 pm
I don’t know if anyone visited the “women dominate social marketing” but that brief post may have put the female liberation movement back 40 years.
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Jack Humphrey 06.03.08 at 6:18 pm
Andrew,
How so?
andrew goulding 06.03.08 at 7:03 pm
I merely meant in an observational way…but:
“…While single 20somethings are all on social networking sites due to having more time and looking for social connections…”
“…[Married women] spend a lot more time decorating their profile pages with themes, backgrounds and photo widgets like RockYou and Slide…”
…however statistically correct, wouldn’t sit well with quite a few women that I know.
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Jack Humphrey 06.03.08 at 8:12 pm
I see. I have feminist friends and I would just rib them on the fact that they just can’t control what other women will do outside the ivory tower, lol.
The real world is always a shocking place for purists. I say that as someone who has some pretty lofty ideals for how the world should work and am continually disappointed by the fact that the world won’t listen to me.
That’s life.
andrew goulding 06.04.08 at 2:50 am
Absolutely, Jack, a terribly shocking place. Still, you’ve got to admit, it’s always fun shocking them a teensy bit more.
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