Judy Dunn- for bloggers who write and writers who blog | Cat's Eye Writer Blog | Judy Dunn | Blogger | Writer 5 Killer Facebook Marketing Infographics 0Share 0Share 0Tweet 0Share 0Share 645inShare Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing 5 Fabulous Facebook Marketing Infographics Written by Jeff Bullas - 33 Comments Categories: Facebook, Facebook Marketing, Infographic, Infographics, Social Media, Social Media Marketing It is projected that Facebook will have one billion users by 2013. Facebook as a marketing medium cannot be ignored despite the misgivings of senior management (who grew up in the analog world of Print, TV and Radio) to commit marketing dollars to something their daughter uses to post Saturday night party photos on! Many CEO’s do not know the difference between a “Brand” Facebook “page” and a personal Facebook profile! The penetration of the digital social web world into our lives is not a fad that is going away, it is here and it must be embraced. Some Revelations 1. Source: AES Connect 2. Source: AllFacebook 3. Source: Webmarketing 123 4. Source: Flowtown 5. Source: KISSmetrics More Reading Image by _tar0_ 645inShare Powered by frugal
Conversation Agent Craig McBreen Three steps to add bling to your blog If you think your blog could use a little more punch, listen up! Here are three ideas that anybody can use to make your blog posts sing with some editing bling! Let’s get phat. Go non-linear. In school and in business, we’re conditioned to write in a linear way. We start at the beginning, discuss the middle, and conclude with the end. Edit ruthlessly. Bring some heat. Boring: A strategy to build a Twitter Community Blingified: Bringing Down the Twitter Snobs SEO for Bloggers How I Became a Google Whore Building Social Media Relationships Blingified Social Media and My Big Conversation Fail See? If you added a fourth editing tip to this post, what would it be?
Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing By Jeremiah Owyang, from Silicon Valley In many respects, Silicon Valley sits atop the world. Its growth and influence has made it the globe’s top location for innovation, STEM jobs, IT patents, venture capital funding, and Internet and software growth, and Unicorn startups galore. And yet there’s also been a shift in the Valley’s culture. Growing social and economic rifts have bred fraud, anger and protests. Where housing isn’t in high demand, neighborhoods lay abandoned. One could argue that there’s an emergence of signs that strikingly resemble Detroit in the glory days of the age of transportation. In Detroit’s case, where I visited earlier this week, the Motor City reveled in its dominance in the 1950s, but growing social unrest soon culminated in a massive riot in the late 1960s. Here are four threats, aside from natural disaster, or whole scale physical attack for Silicon Valley today, along with a futuristic probing of their possible conclusions in the coming decades:
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How To Use Twitter (It’s Easier Than You Think) What’s A Tweet? Let’s begin with the basics. Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, where your messages, broadcast to anyone who wants to listen, are limited to just 140-characters. That means every letter counts. You are free to post as many of these micro-messages (tweets) as you like. But you must realize there are readers on the other side of those tweets. Tweet Like You Mean It The last thing you want to do is alienate your Twitter Followers (people who read your tweets). Never go on and about how great you are, no one cares. Always place quality over quantity. Tweet like you speak, and your readers will read like they listen. Be sincere. Make sure the content you’re linking to is interesting and always be aware of how much you send. Avoid The Pitch You might think Twitter is a tremendous sales tool, and it is, but don’t be the guy at the party handing out business cards when everyone else is talking about the game. Social media is relationship marketing. 1. Click here for more Twitter tips.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change Soren Gordhamer,Wisdom 2.0 Summit Organizer I am filled with gratitude to Soren Gordhamer for his vision of bringing together an amazing group of people who work in the area of mindfulness and technology for Wisdom 2.0, a three-day event aimed at addressing an compelling issue: "The question for most of us is not if we will use the technologies of our age, from cell phones to social media, the question is how can we do so with mindfulness, meaning, and wisdom?" Soren is the author of the book, "Wisdom 2.0" and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. If you want to explore the intersection of technology use and mindfulness, follow Soren's work. Technology stress and information overload have been around for decades. The new framing for this familiar issue is one of balance. Here's my notes (and live tweets): Managing the Stream: Living Consciously and Effectively in a Connected World Don't React All Day To Email Take Care of Yourself First Playfulness