Category Archives: Social Networks

The Bing-Facebook Alliance… Watch Out Google… NOT!

OK, so Bing and Facebook “just made search social”. Fastcompany.com asks the question, “will your online life ever be the same again” after the Facebook-Bing alliance? Uh, yeah! I don’t care how “social” Facebook and Bing become (as if Facebook … Continue reading

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How Foursquare Is Changing The “Game”

I ran across the blog post quoted below when I was newly addicted to Foursquare.  I love how the author outlines the stages of Foursquare usage.  I am still somewhat addicted but I’m slipping from “Stage Three: Socialization” into “Stage … Continue reading

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The Week In Review

Microsoft has completed an integration with my latest addiction, Foursquare.  Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to get your badges but now you can sync your location with Bing maps… although I don’t know why you would want to. I’m … Continue reading

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The Shorty Awards – The best producers of real-time, short form content on Twitter

The Shorty Awards – The best producers of real-time, short form content on Twitter DanielleRicks (daniellericks on Twitter) was nominated for a Shorty Award shortyawards.com The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter across 27 official categories … Continue reading

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Filed under Dreams, Social Networks, Twitter, Uncategorized, Votes

The Progression of Information Technology

This is an amazing video about the progression of information technology.  With research by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and Jeff Bronman we find that emerging technology is still evolving at warp speed and Social Media is here to stay.  After … Continue reading

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MySpace losing members and money

MySpace, the former reigning King of Social Networking is in trouble.  Now being referred to as the digital “ghetto” by social analyst Danah Boyd the site is losing traffic and money and no longer expects to get all of the … Continue reading

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Social Media Will Dominate Small Business Marketing within a year

Many people are still trying to understand just what the heck Social Media is or how to use it for their own brand recognition. However, predictions are that “within 12 months, a full 82 percent of businesses will be using social … Continue reading

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Social Media Pack – Common Craft – Our Product is Explanation

By far Common Craft has some of the best videos demo around.  Still confused about just what Social Media is all about? Check out Common Craft’s “Social Media Pack” for all things social media from blogs and podcasts to social … Continue reading

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Socialtivity: Managing your online content

The power to define and control a brand or cause are shifting to the digital community.  More and more those of us in social media marketing are looking for powerful tools that will allow us to manage our content.  I … Continue reading

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Filed under branding, Business, Content Manager, Marketing, Social Media, Social Networks

What is Social Media?

One of the best slide shows I’ve run across describing just what Social Media is and what it is NOT! Continue reading

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