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3 Social Media Start Ups That Are Going to Change Your Life | thinkspace
No doubt, these three companies will change the social media world in the next year to three years. If you want to be ahead of the curve, check out what they do and why we think they they will be so important below. 1. Diaspora: Diaspora started to a lot of hoopla and continues to generate buzz after some students from NYU raised over $100,000 in less than a month using the Kickstarter funding platform. Diaspora aims to be an ‘open’ alternative to Facebook . Basically, Diaspora wants to put the control over your social network in your hands.
Four restaurant companies landed among the 100 “most social” brands, according to the third annual rankings of social-media mentions from Vitrue, an Atlanta-based provider of social-media publishing software. Starbucks Coffee again led all restaurant brands in the total number of online impressions gained through mentions on social networks, blogs, mobile platforms, and photo- and video-sharing websites, which is how Vitrue develops its rankings. The Seattle-based coffeehouse chain earned the No. 14 spot overall. Other restaurant brands to break into Vitrue’s top 100 were the two largest chains in the United States, Subway at No. 64 and McDonald’s at No. 66, and regional player Krystal, which earned the No. 88 ranking.
Meet the 'most social' restaurant brands | Nation's Restaurant News
Restaurants Reach Customers With Social Media - NYTimes.com
Buffalo Wild Wings, a national restaurant chain that offers casual dining and televised sports, is embarking on a campaign, called “Home Court Advantage,” to involve customers beyond the smartphone “check-in” they use to note their arrival. The chain, which has 730 locations around the country, is known for its wing-eating contests and trivia challenges. Beginning this month, it is working with Scvngr, a location-based social media network, to introduce contests and rewards for its customers. Its main target is tech-savvy basketball fans, an important demographic for the chain. Like the social media companies Gowalla, Foursquare and Loopt, Scvngr is largely reaching the people in their 20s and 30s who frequently use their mobile phones to flag their presence at a specific spot, and to notify friends of their location.
"Piers Morgan Tonight" Turns to Social Media to Build Buzz for CNN Premiere
Piers Morgan is stepping into Larry King’s old 9 p.m. time slot on CNN Monday evening, welcoming Oprah Winfrey as the first guest on Piers Morgan Tonight . CNN is hoping that Morgan, who was fired from the Daily Mirror after it published fake photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse and has since gone on to serve as a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent , will draw enough big names and controversy to reverse the downward ratings King’s show suffered in its last years. At minimum, he’ll need to pull in 650,000 viewers, which is what King averaged in his last months on the show, according to The New York Post . “If I don’t, I’m a half-wit. There is no middle ground,” he said.
SEATTLE, Wash.—(October 27, 2010)—In celebration of their upcoming launch tomorrow, October 28, Wrazz.com is giving away $1,000 when its Facebook page reaches 5,000 fans. Wrazz.com connects consumers and their social networks with enticing local deals in the hippest North American markets.
$1,000 GIVEAWAY FROM WRAZZ.COM
seattlewinegal I'm at a skate park watching some kids, and everyone's on scooters- what the hell? Those kids would have been made fun of in my day. 7 days ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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And changing that is one of the company’s biggest business challenges these days. Google depends on having its finger on the pulse of the entire Internet, and maintaining its status as the primary entree to the Web. But as people spend more time on closed social networks like , where much of the data they share is off limits to search engines, Google risks losing the competition for Web users’ time, details of their lives and, ultimately, advertising.
Google Struggles to Build Social Features - NYTimes.com
How Much Are Social Media Shares Worth? [STUDY]
Popular event ticketing site Eventbrite used its in-house social analytics tools to study the effects Facebook shares, tweets and other social sharing behaviors have on ticket purchases. Looking at data from the past 12 weeks in aggregate, Eventbrite found that each social media share equates to $1.78 in ticket sales, with Facebook shares proving to be the most lucrative. As such, Eventbrite believes social commerce — or transactions driven through sharing on social platforms — to be the next big trend in online commerce. Eventbrite’s data is especially telling; here’s the breakdown: one share on Facebook equals $2.52, a share on Twitter equals $0.43, a share on LinkedIn equals $0.90, and a share through e-mail equals $2.34 in sales.
11 – October – 2010 – The Buzz Bin
So it’s the fourth quarter of 2010 and some of you are probably compiling the much anticipated PR quarterly report to be sent to your management team. Are you measuring and communicating your social media results in a way that makes the most business sense to the C-Suite? Try telling them you increased the company’s Twitter followers from 200 to 2000 or you managed to increase your post-to-comment ratio on the corporate blog by 25% and I bet you see a big, bold question mark on their face asking you, “So what?”
I asked the question for two reasons: 1.) to know the answer, and 2.) because it was a way to feed my network. In this case, it was a way to feed it by letting people reflect. There’s an interesting experience that comes with reflection. You and I do it here a lot, don’t we? If I ask you something and you reflect on the answer, you feel a bit more positively about the experience by default (unless you vehemently disagree with whatever I do to color that reflection). Feed Your Networks
Feed Your Networks
Natalie Malaszenko has always loved pets. A 31-year-old resident of San Diego, Calif., she has a dog named Sarge and a cat named Leo. Years ago, when she lived in Texas, she took care of cows and horses and even a stray emu. In recent months, however, since beginning a full-time job at the pet retailer Petco, she has taken on the additional responsibility of tending to a breed of notoriously unruly carnivores, capable of scaring off even the most patient caregiver—namely, online commenters.
Twitter, Twitter, Little Stars - BusinessWeek
I’ve ignored more press releases in my time than I care to remember, but I still scan, and sometimes even read, a bunch of them every single day. Comes with the territory , and I’ve long accepted that – I’m sure a lot of PR folks think of those as necessary evil almost as much as we do. Almost. But as boring as it is to read the same frickin words over and over and over and over again , there are certain times – albeit very, very few – where we manage to distill some actual useful information from the writings (but please, again, stop using words like “leading” and “award-winning” in the first paragraph all the time. Pretty please?). And then there the rare ones that put a smile on our face.
Yet Another Social Network Launches, But At Least With An Epic Press Release
NASA to Host Tweetup at Space Shuttle Launch in Florida
Facebook Twitter Google + YouTube FlickrIn two small steps for the wine world’s social media content creators, traditional broadcast and print media recently moved in giant steps towards integrating social media wine content inside traditional media formats. Camouflaged and stealth like, Gary Vaynerchuk, Alder Yarrow, and Tyler Colman set in motion a series of watershed events that just might debunk the fundamental “party platforms” supporting both sides of the tiring but raging debate between traditional and social media wine writers on whose wine content has more value. Earlier this week, I opened US Airways’ in-flight magazine and noted current contributors included some high profile wine bloggers including Tyler Colman and Alder Yarrow as well as a bevy of bloggers entrenched in other content specialty areas of the blogosphere including William Keens on running business meetings and Carlos Portocarrero on personal finance. Their contributions, in my opinion, added up to the most compelling content in the magazine.
Social Media Wine Content Earns Its Stripes In Traditional Media Formats : WineZag
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