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Tag: Social Media
I’m an Omnivore. I like technology.
I like Twitter. It really allows me the chance to meet interesting folks and learn stuff about the Internet and social media that I can share with everyone. Take for example the great folks at Burson-Marsteller. The introduced me to the fact that the Pew Internet & American Life Project created a study that will […]
My results of a social experiment
So as many (or at least some) of you know, I recently headed down to New Orleans for the Allstate BCS Sugar Bowl at the Superdome. Seeing that this was going to be perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime chance, I thought I’d share this moment with as many people as I could, but obviously within limits. So […]
Bad Yaari: Social spam isn’t okay
So I get an e-mail today from one of my contacts in my GMail with the subject line: XXX sent you a friend request on Yaari… and so I decided to check it out. What’s Yaari you ask? Well I honestly don’t know myself. The website says that it’s a social networking sites for Indian […]
eMarketer: Social networking ad spending & usage
So I stumbled on eMarketer for the first time in a while (been a little busy) and saw a synopsis of a report that they put together on the ad spending & usage habits for social media networking sites. As you can see from the graph above, ad spending on social networking sites have increase […]
The Issue of Social Media Sustainability and Durability
So this past week I’ve been mulling around on Facebook and it got me thinking about the usability of social media. Is this interactive form of marketing applicable in ALL circumstances? I don’t think so. Taking my work in tourism as an example, social media applications like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Dopplr, Seesmic, Qik, […]
Can viral marketing result in us being accomplices to violence?
I was watching Cold Case on TNT and the trailer for the upcoming Diane Lane flick “Untraceable” came on. The premise of this movie is that Diane Lane’s character is in charge of the FBI’s cyber-crime task force and she comes across this website that shows a live stream (a la Ustream.tv) of someone being […]
Offering my two-cents on the Twitter-Seesmic war
Okay, so there’s not a war between Twitter and Seesmic. In fact, everything is quite cordial…no problems whatsoever. So why did I call it a war? Well I thought it would spark some interest in this posting. Richard Scoble recently posted a Seesmic video in which he explains why he finds Seesmic better than Twitter. […]
How social can you be to influence someone?
So while I was on Twitter early this morning, I came across this post where Shiv Singh had written an article/paper on why people and companies should “Think Social Influence Marketing in 2008” and after reviewing it, it definitely makes a lot of sense…and when you read it yourself, you’ll probably think that it’s common […]
DMNews: The Week in Stats
So jumping back on the bandwagon over my previous entry about the POST method, I happened to read the December 3 edition of DMNews and found some interesting statistics on social media and what people are doing. Here are a few snippets of what it said: 78% of marketers see social media marketing as a […]
From Twittering thumbs to extreme Utterances and to Seesmic expressions: the Evolution of Communication
I’ve noticed over the course of the past few weeks, there has been a huge evolution in how people communicate in the digital age. If you’ve been on your cell phone and also on the Internet, then sending and receiving text messages isn’t anything new and is used quite often by the younger generation (those […]