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Month: May 2009

#FollowFriday

#FollowFriday – Movers & Shakers: The Legend Continues

This is a weekly series that I’m hoping to help add some more relevance to the #FollowFriday (what’s this?) Twitter activity that originally started through Lijit’s own Micah Baldwin to help connect Twitterers with one another. For this week’s selection, I’m looking at some more people who I believe are making serious headway into the world of the web – whether […]

Marketing

A New Search Engine Is (Apparently) Born

So if you haven’t heard, the latest news coming from the technology world is that Microsoft is set to unveil its latest attempt at squashing the search engine giants Yahoo and Google. How exactly? By revamping their existing search engine with a totally new method of conducting search queries online. So dubbed “Bing”, it was […]

Marketing

Managing ROI for Community Managers

 Graphic credit: Buzz Canuck Earlier this month, I responded to a question that was posed by a friend on Twitter about her role as a community manager. There was an issue about determining what return on investment (ROI) there is for having a community manager working within a particular company. Is there one? Shouldn’t we […]

#FollowFriday

#FollowFriday – Brands That Say It All

This is a weekly series that I’m hoping to help add some more relevance to the #FollowFriday (what’s this?) Twitter activity that originally started through Lijit’s own Micah Baldwin to help connect Twitterers with one another. For this week’s selection, I’m nominating brands that you know of and have established a personality and presence on Twitter that has become one of […]

Marketing

Value Relationships, Not Get Twitter Rich Schemes

I thought I had covered this issue in a previous post, but looking back I don’t think as adamantly as I had hoped, but with recent issues surrounding Twitter, it seems that I might need to be a little bit more vocal. As you know in the past couple of months, Twitter has become the […]

Marketing

Case Study: Haamonii Shochu & The Social Media Experience

Last night at the Social Media Club (#smcsfsv) monthly meeting, I took part in perhaps the most interesting discussion that I’ve had since I’ve arrived in San Francisco. The topic of the conversation was about the “Social Media Ecosystem” and it was led by Ravit Lichtenberg, Founder and Chief Strategist of Ustrategy LLC, and who is an […]

Apps

A Recession Isn’t A Good Time For A Job Board’s Site Usability To Fail

As many of you may know, I recently moved to San Francisco to seek out my fame and fortune. In doing so, my 9-5 career has, in effect, been rather unfortunate. So I’ve been working on trying to reclaim that standing by looking on job boards for any available position. Over the course of my […]

Social Media

How To Use FriendFeed To Disrupt Twitter’s Noise

During a discussion that I had with Brian Solis and Shashi Bellamkonda earlier this month, an interesting topic came up that led to me to write this post. One thing that has become apparent on Twitter is that there is way too much noise. How can people break through the clutter and get their voices […]

#FollowFriday

#FollowFriday – Capturing The Moment With A Shot

This is a weekly series that I’m hoping to help add some more relevance to the #FollowFriday (what’s this?) Twitter activity that originally started through Lijit’s own Micah Baldwin to help connect Twitterers with one another. For this week’s selection, I’m nominating some people who I believe are great photographers and inspire me everytime I see their photos. They may not necessarily […]

Network Solutions

It’s Not Information Overload When You Can Control It.

This is a cross-blog post from Network Solution’s Solutions Are Power website that I guest wrote. Originally posted on SolutionsArePower.com on May 7, 2009. One of the most common issues surrounding social media these days is trouble we’re having getting our message across through the noise. Everyone is online using sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr or […]