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Referring Domains Report. The Online Community Guide. Drury University Online Social Media Certificate. Social Media Certificate and graduate credit online in FOUR or EIGHT week delivery with this professional graduate course.

Drury University Online Social Media Certificate

Drury’s SMC webinar course, facilitated by author and social media consultant Deltina Hay and award winning researcher Dr. Jonathan Groves, now offers three weekend, four week and eight week versions! Sweep the Sleaze. By Oliver Reichenstein Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web.

Sweep the Sleaze

Because of this, almost every major site and world brand is providing free advertising for Twitter and Facebook. Using Social Media to Drive Your Content Marketing Campaign. People love to share interesting content.

Using Social Media to Drive Your Content Marketing Campaign

Both “interesting” and “content” can have very broad definitions. Content is anything that is public and shareable. This can be webpage content, videos, photos, articles, PubCon Las Vegas blog posts, graphs, podcasts and more. Content marketing is a critical component of inbound marketing. Analytics » Social analytics. Assessing the ROI on Your Social Media Efforts. By Ronn Levine • 11/30/2011.

Assessing the ROI on Your Social Media Efforts

Paper0778-burke.pdf (application/pdf Object) HOW TO: Add Social Sharing Buttons to Your Website. Social-The-Next-Search.pdf (application/pdf Object) Social Plugins  Do social sharing icons make users more likely to share online content. A social media wish list for news publishers. You’ve started a Facebook page for your publication.

A social media wish list for news publishers

You tweet several times a day. You’re even hawking stories over on Google Plus now. But that’s not enough for you. If you’re like me, the tools and metrics you use to connect with your audience through the major social media services aren’t enough. We’re greedy consumers, we news publishers, and we want more. In that spirit, here is my wish list of tools I’d like to see the major social media services provide to news publishers. On Facebook I’d love to be able to see, somewhere, a list of everyone who has liked a URL from my site that has been posted to Facebook. I’d also like to know what people are saying around Facebook about the pieces published to my websites. Self-appointed privacy police officers, cover your ears now. Bostinnovation: Boston Start-ups, Innovation and News Blog.

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Public Relations Matters. CHE articles. Facebook. Social objects. Digital Era Leadership: The Role of Business Schools - Social Media in Organizations (SMinOrgs) Community. This post is intended to start a dialogue about the role business schools should play in fostering Digital Era leadership.

Digital Era Leadership: The Role of Business Schools - Social Media in Organizations (SMinOrgs) Community

It describes the importance of education in preparing professionals in all business disciplines (not just marketing and sales) to address the opportunities and challenges new digital technologies (in terms of both social media and mobile devices) present. It offers suggestions for changes to both curriculum and pedagogy and provides recommendations for business school leaders. Although focused on business schools, it can promote similar dialogues for professionals in non-business fields, through the application and extension of comparable ideas with respect to schools of public health, social work, education, public administration, etc. Visualizing the decline of the destination web, the rise of the social web » *supercollider. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the end of the destination web.

visualizing the decline of the destination web, the rise of the social web » *supercollider

I think we are a long way off of the “end”, and brand websites and microsites will still have a key role in most marketing plans for some time to come. After all, millions of people are still visiting these sites. However there is a definite trend away from destination websites that has major implications for brands and agencies.

As an exercise, pick any of the top 100 brands from the Millward Brown or Interbrand list. Then go to Google Website Trends and enter that brand’s URL (i.e. bmw.com), selecting “websites” above the resulting graph to get unique visitors. Navigating News Online. Whatever the future of journalism, much of it depends on understanding the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the behavior of what might be called the new news consumer.

Navigating News Online

Despite the unprecedented level of data about what news people consume online and how they consume it, understanding these new metrics has often proven elusive. The statistics are complicated, sometimes contradictory, and often introduce new information whose meaning is not clear. To shed more light on Web news behavior, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has conducted an in-depth study of detailed audience statistics from the Nielsen Company.

The study examines the top 25 news websites in popularity in the United States, delving deeply into four main areas of audience behavior: how users get to the top news sites; how long they stay during each visit; how deep they go into a site; and where they go when they leave. Among the findings: The End of the Destination Web and the Revival of the Information Economy Brian Solis.

InShare639 In recent weeks journalism and the future of all media have once again gone under the knife.

The End of the Destination Web and the Revival of the Information Economy Brian Solis

Experts on either side of new media debated whether or not Twitter’s CNN moment truly was indicative of the future of journalism. Twitter Chat Schedule. SurveyGizmo - Online Survey Software : An Online Survey Tool for Creating Surveys, Polls, Forms and Quizes. SurveyGizmo now integrates with Facebook!

SurveyGizmo - Online Survey Software : An Online Survey Tool for Creating Surveys, Polls, Forms and Quizes

This Facebook survey app links your SurveyGizmo account to Facebook, and allows you to publish Surveys, Polls and Quizzes to your Facebook fans, friends and even people you don’t know yet! In the spirit of being social, SurveyGizmo also gives any Facebook member that accept the survey app, the ability to create their own surveys, polls and quizzes. It will automatically create a free SurveyGizmo account for them, based off of their Facebook profile settings. Here is what the main dashboard of the Facebook survey app looks like: