- 10 Reasons Why Brands Fail at Twitter - This is a really great list, especially about listening and responding when appropriate.
What Else I'm Reading
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Social Media Reading - 090809
What Else I'm Reading
Monday, September 7, 2009
Social Media Reading - 090709 Part Two
- Should Your Organization "Go Google"? - Examination of whether or not your organization should switch to Google Apps
Webinars and Conferences
- Boston Media Makers
Social Media Reading - 090709
- Don't Take This the Wrong Way - A must read post on the difference between criticism and feedback and how your organizations social media policy should respond to both.
What Else I'm Reading
- McKinsey's Web 2.0 survey: What do execs know
- Report Reveals: 15 Best Practices of Social Media Implemented by Top 100 Brands
- Twitter Fever: 5 Red Hot Twitter Trends to Track
- Stats: Young People are Flocking to Twitter
- WordPress Enters Real-Time: 7.5 Million Blogs Reach Twitter Speed
- Life Recorders May Be This Century's Wrist Watch
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Social Media Reading - 090609
Tips and Tricks
What Else I'm Reading
What Else I'm Reading
- Want 5,000 More Facebook Friends? That'll Be $654.30 - Silicon Alley Insider explores some of the different pricing schemes for things like Facebook friends, Twitter followers, Digg recommends, etc.
- Walmart Classifieds - Walmart creates a very Craigslist-like classifieds system on the Oodle platform.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Social Media Reading - 090509 Part Two
- Worldwide Facebook Mobile Usage up 300% in Last 12 Months - Facebook for iPhone has 12 million active monthly users; Facebook for Blackberry has 9 million active monthly users
- The First Twitter Class - DePaul University is offering a class on how to use Twitter to its journalism students
- City, neighbors encounter Facebook challenge - More staff than expected is causing parking problems at Stanford Research Center and in surrounding residential neighborhoods
What Else I'm Reading
- Rules of the Pool
- What is Google Doing For You? - A short, but informative, list of the tools that Google offers non-profits for free.
- Can a School Library be Replaced by E-Readers? Apparently, it Can - Cushing Academy is spending $500,000 to eliminate its library and replace it with digital e-readers and a more friendly laptop environment
- Google Wave: 5 Ways it Could Change the Web
- Map Wars: How Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Deal With Bridge Closure - Interesting look at how the big three mapping programs are noting (or noting the Bay Bridge closure). Comments show that this might be a Bay Area phenomenon and not happening with other bridges.
Social Media Reading - 090509
- Amazon Apologizes to Kindle Users for Deleting 1984
- Reuters: Amazon offers to replace deleted copies of 1984
- NY Times: Amazon.com Offers to Replace Copies of Orwell Book
- Cnet: Amazon apologizes for deleting Kindle e-books
- Want better digital strategy, ban seven dirty words - Matt Dickman has a great idea on how you can get people talk strategy on social media instead of talking about tactics - don't let them talk about the seven top platforms.
What Else I'm Reading
- There's no social media revolution - Paul Seaman breaks down some of the most talked about social media by big business case studies.
- Where does brand fit in your marketing - In a down economy should you worry more or less about your brand?
- Fox's Fringe "Twitter on TV" Experiment Irks Fans - Instead of doing something with a split screen and then showing the tweets along the bottom or something like that, Fox put the tweets from cast/crew right on top of the video. This is a cool idea but the implementation was flawed.
- The Future of Search and Search Engine Optimization
- 5 Key Questions When Selecting a Social Media Firm - Great questions to get the conversation started with looking at a firm to work with your company on social media.
Friday, September 4, 2009
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