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12 Most Stupid Twitter Behaviors - 12 Most ... See the bottom of this post for for a video of @Josepf where he recants the rant! After you’ve been hanging around Twitter for a long time (over 3 months) certain things start to irk, annoy, or just outright offend!!! I’m going to go out on a limb and call these the 12 Most Stupid Twitter Behaviors that I can think of, off the top of my head, on a rainy Saturday, in June. 1. TrueTwit : Saver of Spam or just wrong? “Namewithheldtoprotecttheguilty uses TrueTwit validation service. To validate click here: 2.

Are you the Wall Street Journal or Mashable? 3. “Namewithheldtoprotecttheguilty wow, you’re great (even though I have no idea who you are) please fan my awesome facebook page blah blah blah”. 4. There are many ways to make stinky links! 5. We all have a few friends like this. 6. It can be fun to watch a profession stalker, like my friend Jackie Shelley, decide they are going to get so & so to notice them and follow back. 7. paper.li, there, i said it 8. 9. 10.

Social Media Relevance and Your Business [Infographic] Your users are connected… If your business isn’t connected you are missing out on social media opportunities to reach: Mobile UsersFacebook LikesTwitter FollowersUsers online looking for answersOnline shoppers Today users are looking for company’s to connect with them on a more intimate level. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to engage with your users before they begin to engage with your competitors. © 2011 – 2014, AriesGDIM / Tami Highbaugh-Abdullah. All rights reserved. Copying and reblogging (reposting) this blog or the use of the blog post images are NOT permitted without direct permission of AriesGDIM.. About the Author Hi I am Tami Highbaugh-Abdullah, IMMS. All About #SMM / Social Media Monitoring Tools. Now that you have set up your profiles on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn (and other places) you need to monitor them. Sure, you could log into all of them and check them individually but why do that?

I mean really, who has time to be checking several different pages for social media engagement? You don’t if you are busy running your business. If you are serious about marketing via social media platforms it is time to look into some Social Media Monitoring tools. I know, I know, you aren’t sure if it will be worth your time to even learn a new tool or platform. Maybe you are concerned about which social media monitoring tool is the best one for you and your company. Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application © 2011, AriesGDIM / Tami Highbaugh-Abdullah. All About #SMM / Social Media Monitoring Tools. All About #SMM / Social Media Monitoring Tools [Infographic] Aries-Graphic Design & Internet Marketing | Stand OUT from your Competitors! Anticipating the Verizon iPhone 4? Some are saying hold up, wait a minute. Facebook is making changes again... did you notice?

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Why Social Media Is Vital to Corporate Social Responsibility. Melissa Jun Rowley is a freelance entertainment correspondent for CNN, a writer for Causecast, and producer for "That Morning Show" on E! Entertainment. She is @MelissaRowley on Twitter and blogs at melissajunrowley.com. A cultural and corporate shift is taking place in the world. The result of things like the current economic climate and recognition of global climate change, society is starting to push past awareness and into action.

As this transition takes hold, companies are evolving from their reactive states, and moving toward more pro-active approaches. Social media has begun to play a key role in how companies shape their corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and present themselves as good corporate citizens. Corporate Social Responsibility Until recently, corporate social responsibility among businesses has revolved around risk mitigation and self-regulation. Today, CSR functions as more than just a set of guidelines to keep companies out of trouble. 1. 2. 3.

Win Xbox With Kinect, Guitar Hero And 22 Tech Prizes in Today's MashPack. 'Tis the season and Mashable has been getting into the holiday spirit by showcasing some of our favorite wish list items in the Mashable 10 gift guide. But what spreads holiday cheer more than the gift of giving? That’s why we’ve been giving away a MashPack filled with awesome social media and tech prizes every weekday during the past two weeks. Since it's our final day of the giveaway, today's collection of prizes is the biggest and best yet. Today's grand prize is the coveted Xbox 360 with Kinect and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Other big prizes include a myTouch 4G and E-Ink watch. You'll find a list below detailing the 22 other fantastic prizes in today's MashPack — and see information on how to win. Yesterday's MashPack went to Jason Williams from St. Happy holidays from Mashable! How To Win The Final MashPack Tweeting for today's MashPack will end Monday, December 20 at 12 p.m.

Xbox 360 With Kinect Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock T-Mobile myTouch 4G Phosphor E-Ink Watch iPom ZAGGsparq 2.0. 6 Ways to Use Ning for Business. David Spinks is the Community Manager for Scribnia, where the world's bloggers and columnists are reviewed by their readers. He also blogs at The Spinks Blog about business, careers and professional communities. There is an almost overwhelming number of options on the social web for businesses to create and participate in communities.

You hear a lot about Facebook Fan Pages, Twitter communities, and even LinkedIn Groups; but businesses have another option when looking to build a community online that's often overlooked despite having nearly 40 million users: Ning. Ning allows businesses to create their own off-site social network for their brand’s community, and participate in existing conversations with the communities they are looking to engage.

What is Ning? Ning, which just announced that they’ve reached 37 million registered users and 1.6 million social networks, is a web service that allows anyone to create their own branded social network. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Giveaway: Win a Holiday MashPack With 19 Tech Prizes & Kobo eReader. This year, Mashable has been getting into the holiday spirit by talking about the most gift-worthy gadgets available and inviting readers to get together at Mashable Holiday Meetups. But what spreads holiday cheer more than the gift of giving? That’s why we’re giving away a MashPack filled with social media and tech prizes every weekday through Friday, December 17.

A different grand prize will be added each day, getting bigger and better as we get further into the holiday season. Today's grand prize is a Kobo Wireless eReader, complete with eBooks chosen by Mashable staff. You'll find a list below detailing the 19 other fantastic prizes in today's MashPack — and see information on how to win. Yesterday's MashPack went to Vanessa Williams from from Bethlehem, Pa. Happy holidays from Mashable!

How To Win Today's MashPack Tweeting for today's MashPack will end Wednesday, December 15 at 12 p.m. Kobo Wireless eReader & Mashable-Picked eBooks Today's grand prize is a Kobo Wireless eReader. iPom. Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla's "School of Webcraft. Mozilla is getting ready for the January semester of School of Webcraft, a 100% free developer training resource run in partnership with Peer 2 Peer University. Last semester, the School of Webcraft offered 15 classes; now, Mozilla is trying to get around 30 classes going for the January semester. Classes will be between six and 10 weeks long; they'll revolve around topics relevant to web designers and developers, including HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Previous classes have also included non-developer topics such as organic SEO. Requisite skill levels will run the gamut from novice to expert.

The volunteer-run courses will begin on January 26, and proposals for new course ideas are still being accepted. Students learn through a combination of free and open learning materials, online study groups and hands-on assignments that test their hacking skills. If you're a leader in the developer community, you can also step up and lead a course yourself. Aries - Graphic Design & Internet Marketing Tips. #Creepy! Are you being Cyber Stalked? Are you sharing too much information via social media platforms? I know we all love to post via Facebook Places & FourSquare, where we have been or where we are going because we are oh so popular right? Oh and don’t forget sharing your location on Twitter…. Well now an App called Creepy is showing us just how easy it is to track/stalk a person based on the information they share via geolocation tools in Twitter, Flickr, FourSquare and Facebook places.

Creepy takes the information you share daily and “makes it easy for other users to analyze your location patterns.” To use the app you simply need to enter the usernames of your stalkees for Twitter and Flickr. The app was created not to assist stalkers but to educate social media users that by sharing too information with geolocation enabled is dangerous. “Creepy can be downloaded for free from their official website and it works well on both Windows and Ubuntu. . ” © 2011, AriesGDIM / Tami Highbaugh-Abdullah. Social media is 24/7 Are your posts? Companies almost invariably fire out their Facebook status updates during the workday. However, research from ExactTarget and CoTweet found that 65% of Facebook users do not log-in during the workday, but rather at night and on weekends.

So what does this mean for marketers ? It means that you had better develop a media schedule around your posts that revolves around customers not you. Like it or not brands are media today. This is especially true on social media sites like Facebook. It’s easy to develop a Facebook page that looks nice, the hard part is both developing engaging content to get the discussion going and keeping content fresh to ensure people come back to your page. When a consumer wants answers and goes to Twitter or Facebook to ask a question they usually expect the answer pretty quickly. 5 Compelling Reasons To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly. Posted on April 13, 2010 Filed Under Advertising, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Traffic Building Maybe it is a matter of convenience, or in this age of zero patience, it could be a matter of instant gratification even, but the number of people turning to mobile devices to access the web has been steadily increasing.

The increasing popularity of smartphones only underscores this emerging trend. Last year saw iPhone sales doubling while the worldwide sales of smartphones shot up by 24%, and by the end of 2011, they are expected to outsell PCs. So, you get the picture, we are smack in the middle of the smartphone boom, (in hindsight, this should have been foreseen the minute we learnt Google was venturing into the phone business). We will more than likely, see a paradigm shift of a kind in the way people access the web. If you don’t want to take my word for it, here are five compelling reasons to optimize and calibrate your site for mobile devices. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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This is one of the beat ways we as a society show our growth and our progressiveness. After being researching last few weeks Now we glad to present the List of Top Social Media Network Sites which may help you in sharing information and networking all at the same time. A New Age for Social Media Marketing | Brian Solis. InShare7 In 2010, Social Media will rapidly escalate from novelty or perceived necessity to an integrated and strategic business communications, service, and information community and ecosystem. Our experiences and education will foster growth and propel us through each stage of the Social Media Marketing evolution.

As MarketingSherpa observes, “2010 is the year where social media marketers gain the experience required to advance from novice to competent practitioner capable of achieving social marketing objectives and proving ROI.” It’s a powerful prediction and it’s one that I also believe. This is your year to excel, teach, and create your own destiny. To document the evolution in maturation of new media marketing, MarketingSherpa published its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report. This is why I believe that business success stories shared to date were wonderful to read, but they didn’t necessarily serve as a framework for my work. I believe to the contrary however. Nikes Goes Social with Customizable Kicks. 10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010. This time last year, I wrote about the 10 ways social media will change 2009, and while all predictions have materialized or are on their way, it has only become clear in recent months how significant of a change we've seen this year. 2009 will go down as the year in which the shroud of uncertainty was lifted off of social media and mainstream adoption began at the speed of light.

Barack Obama's campaign proved that social media can mobilize millions into action, and Iran's election protests demonstrated its importance to the freedom of speech. This guest post was written by Ravit Lichtenberg, founder and chief strategist at Ustrategy.com - a boutique consultancy focusing on helping companies succeed. Ravit authors a blog at www.ravitlichtenberg.com. Today, it is impossible to separate social media from the online world. So what will social Web bring next? What will "being connected" mean? Social Media Will Become a Single, Cohesive Experience Embedded In Our Activities and Technologies. LinkedIn and Twitter have been affected by the Gawker Hack Monster…

Main Page - Social Patterns. Seven Reasons Why Social Media is a Must for your Brand. Aries - Graphic Design & Internet Marketing Tips. Social Networking and Product Development. 23 Jul, 2009By: Tom Shoemaker Web 2.0 technologies bring advantages, disadvantages, and applicability to the product engineering processes. Are Web 2.0 tools appropriate for use in product-development settings? Raise your hand if you say "Yes. " How about "No way"? The Upside Companies can realize tremendous gains by incorporating social computing technologies — an initiative that product-development software company PTC has termed . A key value of social product development is that it allows engineers, project managers, and other product-development professionals to reach out to a broader network to gain knowledge and form new interest groups or communities.

Each of the three communities that participate in social product development can be defined by its activities. A project manager at an industrial original equipment manufacturer (OEM) sets up a web portal to act as a secure project collaboration hub for an outsourced design task. Want to see more? Social Media Marketing: A Three-Legged Stool « Shoestring Brandi. A New Age for Social Media Marketing | Brian Solis. 15 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed. 6 Social Media Success Metrics You Need to Track. “FarmVille for Dummies” Is Real and Available for Pre-Order. 14 Powerful Tips for Marketing on Facebook.

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