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One of my favourite lines for putting social media in context is " it's not about new tools, it's about new behaviours " and it featured here from the speakers. Yet in the group discussions afterwards the tools still dominated. Twitter this and Facebook that. Someone needs to start to put all this stuff in the context of social marketing and behavioural economics. Why was this? A local government technology leap. Find ‘Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared. Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck. Thankfully there are more than a few third-party resources that you can turn to for finding new people to follow, and new tools to help you do what Twitter won't let you.
We'll shed a little light on these 15 directories by separating them into four categories: applications, people, politics, and strictly business. Applications Twitter Fan Wiki Overview: The apps section of Twitter Fan Wiki is like Wikipedia for Twitter apps, so it's for you, buy you mentality, making it the most robust in terms of applications listed, but potentially the most unreliable if entries aren't current. What you won't get: There's a limited feature set, which means you can rate, sort, or comment on applications.
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In short, a quality infographic done well could be what your blog needs right now. Designing An Infographic Some great tips for designing infographics: Keep it simple! Ideas for infographic formats include: Timelines;Flow charts;Annotated maps;Graphs;Venn diagrams;Size comparisons;Showing familiar objects or similar size or value. Here are some great tutorials on infographic creation: Creating Your Infographic Plan and research.If required, use free software to create simple graphs and visualisations of data.Use vector graphic software to bring these visualisations into the one graphic. Free Online Tools For Creating Infographics Stat Planet Hohli Creately New York Times Many Eyes Wordle. CNN International | “Shared news matters more", say results from CNN’s first international study into Social Media recommendation. Buy Mattresses from Argos.co.uk - Your online shop for Home and furniture.
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And watching them #Cats (via @GetGlue) 6 Facebook Search Engine & Data Visualization Tools. Facebook Marketing is a topic we’ve covered for several years and with the significant increase in Facebook users there’s even more interest in how to make sense of what people do there. I’ve seen a significant increase in referring traffic from Facebook to web pages over the past 6 months and while a lot of that lift comes from marketing activities, I don’t anticipate the trend in Facebook users leaving to visit websites slowing down any time soon. Participation on Facebook has traditionally been behind the login or confined to your network. With increasing amounts of content available “to the entire internet”, it’s worth exploring. Here are a few tools that you can use to search and visualize what’s happening on Facebook. Booshaka - Facebook search.
If you want to get creative with search and Facebook data, then check out the Facebook API Browser created by Google’s Ka-Ping Yee. Like Button – This is a handy tool that shows you what people “Like” in Facebook terms. The groom and I pre-ceremony...three piece suits in 35 degree Italian heat! #TrimboliWedding. The story behind "Sometimes I just want to copy someone else's status..." aka Chinese Twhispers - Adam Vincenzini's Share-house. Vodafone VIP – Festivals, Festival Tickets. Roger Federer Hits Another Tweener Between The Legs Shot - US Open 2010 - 1st Round. When you have too much to say...
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Questions? Can I help you? Contact Christine. Social Media SEO. Army Golden Knights: SFC Dave Herwig (@gkdave), SGM Steve Young (@gksteve), LTC Joe Martin (gkjoe) My presentation on how to leverage Social Media SEO to improve the reach and effectiveness of blog content for marketing at OpenCa.mp DFW this weekend ended up being a lot of information in a very short period of time. The use of a video interview I did with Brian Clark as the segue into my presentation ate into some of the 30 minutes I had to present plus I simply had too many slides. (Thanks to Lt Colonel Joe Martin for the photo taken right after the presentation. His team were literally sponges for information at the event.) The good news is that there’s Slideshare, so I’ve embeded a copy of that presentation below. Chris Pirillo and Brian Clark gave witty, informative and entertaining presentations on blogging and copywriting for blogs before me, so the stage was set to talk about marketing that blog content. Check out the presentation below and let me know what you think.
NBA, adidas Use Social Media to Engage Fans Online During All-Star Game by Jason Peck. Leading up to and during the NBA All-Star Game last night, there were some great videos and initiatives created by the league and brands like adidas to insert themselves in the conversation online and engage fans. Here are some things I noticed. Facebook/All-Star Game Live Streaming Facebook, TNT and the NBA teamed up to live stream the NBA All-Star Game online and pull in fan conversations in the same page via Facebook Connect. Fans could watch the activities last night live on TNT’s website and choose from any of the four different camera angles available. While they were watching online, all the conversations from Facebook from the other people who were watching were pulled in to the page on the right side.
Adidas/Dwight Howard Videos and Live Updates Adidas created a section for fans to follow Dwight Howard during the All-Star Game. OTHER – Shaq Is A Dancing Machine Shaq + Mask + Dancing + All-Star Game = guaranteed viral hit. My Year Without Newspapers: You are so lucky to be able to enjoy a newspaper this morning... Flickr Makes it Easy to Share Photos on Facebook. My 10 Picks for 2010′s Top Social Media Posts « "PR & New Media Today" | www.RobertBurnsII.com. Over the course of the past year, I’ve read dozens of good (and bad) blog posts and news articles on social media, the field of public relations, and how the two are converging more each day. As 2010 comes to a close, I share with you a list of some of the best posts on the two that I’ve come across, so that you can read through and glean some information to take with you into 2011.
I compiled this list from an assortment of social media sites and personal websites that I frequent in my spare time. After you give these a read, head to the comments section and post an article or two that you found particularly useful. (Or if you want, ten is fine too.) So here are my 10 picks for 2010′s top articles on social media: (in no particular order) • How Web 3.0 Will Impact Social Media and PR - Provides an intriguing look at the future of the social Internet, and how it will directly impact the landscape of the PR world. . • Study: 84% Dont Measure Social Media ROI • 52 Cool Facts About Social Media. COMMS corner: The great divide between personal branding and corporate reputation management. Earn cash from the Web.
Say hello to AriGoldFish and Lloyd (w/ an appearance from @realchopstick) #LoveSaturdays. Farewell, World Cup; Hello, Misogynistic Media. Guest post by Bryce Keane I’m aware that it’s now been more than a month since the World Cup ended, with Spain taking home their very first victory ever. And, in all fairness, I almost let this post go. Image: Axel Bührmann, Creative Commons But the truth is that there was something that really really began to grind my gears as the Cup went on.
Don’t get me wrong, I actually got quite into the spirit of the whole thing (not bad for a guy from a country in which “soccer” is far down the list in terms of national support levels) and really enjoyed the getting along to the local pub to catch as many games as I could. What I didn’t like was reading about those very same games the next day.
Why? Because I quickly grew tired of what I perceived to be an ongoing, latent, misogynistic response from the UK sports media here as they increasingly looked for any wife and/or girlfriend (known as “WAGs” here in the UK) on which to blame a team’s entirely lacklustre performance. Why? She had a point. Brands. Shanik Dassenaike says I absolutely have to choose GiffGaff! I would choose Apple, what with their success with the iPad, iPhone 4, iPod touch 4 and also the new Nanos and Shuffles; but to me, GiffGaff represent good service, amazing value for money and how well you can do in just a year! Their marketing strategy is clever in more ways than one - a consumer knows what a consumer wants, and costs are kept down by using the community.
In addition, using their user base to deliver customer support makes everything so much quicker than having to call customer service and deal with menus that don't make sense, as well as that most of the time what you're looking for will already be on the site. Their innovations in keeping mobile phone communication simple should set an example to other networks, most likely starting with the small ones like supermarket networks and making its way up to the big networks.
David Vardy says Some strong nominees and a lot of merit in the comments above. Digg. Optimize a Single Post On Your Blog for SEO. Hashable.com. The Day When Twitter Lost its Tweets. Rivers of Babylon-The Melodians. Oxo Tower Brasserie and Bar :: London, UK. Site Memory | Evernote Corporation. Awards 2010: Tales from the big night - PR and Public Relations news - PR Week. Over 1,000 attendees scrubbed up beautifully, in their DJs and glittering ballgowns.
Golin Harris’ Matt Neale went for his usual 1960s London playboy look, while Mark Borkowski stuck to his 1970s impresario attire. And Weber Shandwick boss Colin Byrne was wearing….er, what exactly was he wearing? The dresses were equally individual, although spare a thought for Kindred Agency’s board director Anastasia Scott. She quickly discovered that the girl sitting behind her was wearing exactly the same dress. A few public sector comms heads were noticeably absent from the event. No such absenteeism from the 2010 PR Professional of the Year, Alex Cole (formerly Cadbury’s comms chief and now corporate supremo at Freuds) who was celebrating in style on the dancefloor – well into the early hours - alongside her new Freud Communications colleagues, including the legendary Oli Wheeler. Do you have a funny story about the night? What The New Digg Means For Your Business.
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