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The Anti-Social Media Douche List #3: Indifference on Twitter

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010


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The Internet is progressively becoming more social everyday through the social media platform with the established social networking sites and the new tools and services sprouting on a weekly basis that enhance interactivity online.

The powerful and operative term here is “social” and you really can’t deny the leverage sites like Facebook and Twitter can provide for brands. The previous reached its over 500 million active users and the latter recently having generated its 20 billionth tweet.

 

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Weekly Link Roundup (08-13-10)

Friday, August 13th, 2010

The 3 Most Effective Content Marketing Principles (DesignDamage.com)

Social media is warping people’s brains. The Screen Age generation is easily distracted, and many are actually actively looking for distractions. This raises the challenge for marketers to create engaging and compelling content. Here are three tips to increase the effectiveness of your marketing messages.

5 Ways Twitter Can Streamline Your Life and Enhance Productivity (Geekorporate)

It is ironic, how the place we look to for distractions also helps to boost our productivity. Because there are so many platforms that have Twitter integration, there is little excuse to perform a certain task immediately anymore.

5 Reasons Why Social Media is Explosive (DirectMarketingObservations.com)

In marketing and advertising parlance, “explosive” is something that makes a lot of impact, something that gets people to talk and perhaps even act to the marketer’s advantage. Here’s why social media is exclusive, listed plain and simple for everyone to understand.

7 Great Social Media Websites and Blogs for Insightful Advice and News (WindmillNetworking.com)/span>

You may have seen these websites pop up on our weekly roundups from time to time. It’s because their blogs are awesome and provide great insights to the world of social media marketing.

10 Super Social Media Songs (Mashable.com)

Social media may be regarded as an effective marketing tool by many businesses but for the rest of the world, it is simply a part of their life. Several social networking platforms have become so popular that they’ve inspired people to write songs about them. Ending this week’s link roundup with a little novelty, here’s a sampling of some of the best social media songs floating around the web today.

What Google Wave’s demise taught us

Friday, August 13th, 2010

In social media, we are trained to be creative and put both innovation and social engagements online at the top of the priority heap. Google, among many other companies, is in the forefront of this curve with one service cropping up after another. However, with all their forward-facing attitude and love for it, Google Wave, one of their recently touted “innovative” products, got the axe last week.

 

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Using images on your blog and where to find them

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010


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Aside from organically spreading through social media sites and SEO-ing their links offsite, one of the best ways individual blog posts can get attention from the Internet is by optimizing your actual content. This involves creating original write ups intended for both human readers and search engines to go through and then polishing them with relevant images. Depending on their quality, context and relevance, images will definitely help magnetize both your existing audience and attract new, untapped markets to read your piece.

Unfortunately, not all bloggers are created equal and some may lack the creative skills and/or the proper equipment to craft illustrations, render animated elements or shoot photos of their own. Unsurprisingly, its vastness, the Internet, is just a browser click away to aid you.

 

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Social Media & Online Gaming:
biggest time sinkholes online

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Social Media, followed shortly by gaming, are dominating the race for the biggest time sinkholes online this side of the globe, according to a recent study from Nielsen titled “What Do Americans Do Online.”

The marketing research and analysis firm kept tabs on 200,000 Americans users online and compared their June 2010 results against the June 2009 findings, showing that consumption of media content and trips to social networking sites eat up about 23% of online use which shows a significant jump from its previous 16% standing. That’s a 43% increase on the time spent on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

 

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Weekly Link Roundup (08-06-10)

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Boosting the Power of Marketers’ Tweets (eMarketer.com)

While there are many marketers who own and update their own Twitter accounts, the majority of Twitter users remain to be ordinary people, the consumers. It is the goal of these marketers to get the consumers to help them leverage their brand. This can be done by providing share-worthy information and direct engagement.

Influence is Bliss: The Gender Divide of Influence on Twitter (BrianSolis.com)

It seems women are dominating the social media landscape. Statistics show that they tend to update more and hold a wider follower-base than their male peers. Does this mean that women hold more influence than men on the web? Click the title to find out.

Sherlock Holmes on Social Media Popularity (BrainsOnFire.com)

Popularity does not always translate to authority. Take Sherlock Holmes, for example. Despite being a master at his craft, all the credit goes to more publicly-visible law enforcers who seek his advice. With so many self-made social media gurus out there, it’s easy to overlook the true experts from those who are simply following the trend.

Mommy Bloggers: Tips for Marketing to the Mom Crowd (DontDrinkTheKoolaidBlog.com)

Mommy bloggers hold a lot of pull as consumers on the web. In this post, BG Creative blogger Beth offers a few tips on how marketers can catch their attention and get them to support a brand.

iPad and Social Media: A Perfect Pair (CompuKol.com)

After months of being lost in the woods of pioneer product limbo, has the iPad finally found its niche as a social media power tool? According to business and editorial expert, Carolyn Cohn, having an iPad may actually help make social media even more effective.

Jump into the influencer marketing engine

Friday, August 6th, 2010


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One of the best tactics you can jump on to while wading through the social network streams is by imbibing Influencer Marketing strategies into your campaign. Whether they’re celebrities in real life or merely Internet-famous, people who follow influencers hold on to their every word and so trust is forged on an intimate lever.

 

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