This stops just short of a total mind melt.
Entries Tagged as ‘social-networking’
03/03/2010
the (truly staggering) state of the internet [video]
Filed under business, google, internet, marketing, social bookmarking, social media, social-networking, twitter, web 2.0
03/02/2010
summary: last week in social 2/22/10
Here’s a few of this past week’s top headlines in the social space. I decided to recap on Mondays because a) I have other things I want to do on Friday’s and b) everyone else does Friday recaps it seems. Overall, a relatively quiet past week with perhaps the biggest announcement being a patent awarded [...]
Filed under facebook, fan-pages, internet, marketing, social media, social-networking
02/05/2010
weekly social wrap 2/5/10
This week’s big topic seemed to be Facebook’s 6th birthday, and Foursquare’s rapid adoption by business. A sixth year and a now 400M-strong active user base shows that Facebook is the place business needs to be. Foursquare’s strong showing of a tripled user base in three short months, as well as the launch of a business campaign page, shows that Foursquare is where businesses will need to be in the near future.
The articles below make the case better than I can. I’ve also thrown a few great pieces on CSR, and some thoughtful reflections on social media’s past, present & future.
Filed under business, communication, facebook, fan-pages, internet, marketing, public relations, social media, social-networking, web 2.0
01/29/2010
apple’s ipad has amazon’s kindle on notice
This morning the top email in my box was (not surprisingly) from Amazon. I seem to get fairly frequent updates from Amazon, usually promoting weekly top deals with a Kindle plug in the mailing somewhere. Normally I just delete the email or let it work its way down to purgatory portion of my inbox, but this one actually caught my attention and seemed to warrant a closer look.
05/20/2009
social media 101: downtown alliance meeting 5.19.09
Yesterday I had the priveledge of attending the Grand Rapids, MI Downtown Alliance’s Social Media 101 info meeting. Ian MacLurg and Joel Leo of Pomegranate Studios presented. Ian and Joel presented first what they felt are the core tenants of sociail media: Communication Social media is a two-way channel between customers and a brand, not [...]
Filed under branding, business, communication, marketing, social media, social-networking
