The Twitter Guide Book

August 5, 2009 No comments yet

Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. But where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if [...]

Social Media Marketing in the Enterprise

April 28, 2009 No comments yet

What are the key challenges that an enterprise faces today in this social media age?
In my assessment, companies still lack a cohesive social media strategy, which is a great challenge. As a matter of fact, social media can not be done in isolation and you can not have community on the side. Community and social [...]

Need Help Drafting A Social Media Plan?

February 4, 2009 2 comments

Many folks ask how to go about creating social media for their company. As a service to the industry, find here an open source version of a draft social media content development process.
This process is general enough to guide development of specific initiatives. It does not recommend blogging or video, per say. Rather the process [...]

Avoiding the “Urgency Addiction” of Social Networking

November 24, 2008 1 comment

Between “friend requests,” “pokes,” “tweets,” RSS feeds and the constant barrage of text messages and email blasts that invade our attention every second of every day, it’s easy to lose sight of whether we are the dog wagging the tail, or whether the digital tail is wagging the dog.
In Stephen Covey’s “First Things First” (1994), [...]

Social Media, an Exploration of Interactivity, Sharing, and Collaboration

November 1, 2008 1 comment

Like it or not, the Internet is changing, and it is changing fast. This change, however, is in our favor. In favor, that is, of individuals, small businesses, authors, and small presses. Web 2.0 and Social Media are here to stay, and are likely the beginning infrastructure of a fresh, new Internet. So, if you [...]

Facebook :: Sharing the right content with the right users

October 17, 2008 No comments yet

Facebook Pages are a powerful way to reach a mass audience and their friends. Sometimes, however, you’ll want to limit who sees what. Here are three tools to help:
(1) Age Restrictions for Pages: You can restrict your Page to users over age 13, 17, 18, 19, or 21, or the legal drinking age where they [...]

Twitter SEO Value Revisited

October 8, 2008 1 comment

I seem to have created a little controversy, in Twitter, to some of the comments of the above post.  I wanted to take the time to make it clear that I do not mean to say that Twitter has no SEO value.
Indeed, syndicated links can provide some ‘link juice’ which can be seen as a [...]

Companies Should have Social Media Presence

October 1, 2008 1 comment

An overwhelming majority (93%) of online Americans say companies should have a social-media presence, and 85% believe these companies also should be interacting with consumers through social media, according to research from Cone.
See the full article here.

does Twitter have any SEO value?

September 26, 2008 No comments yet

“…does Twitter have any SEO value?”
This question came to George via Twitter last night about the value of using Twitter as a part of your SEO strategy.  Twitter is a great social networking tool to create relationships with your ‘followers’ about the activities of your business.
From a structural standpoint, Twitter creates a “nofollow” tag advising [...]

Ad network launched by LinkedIn

September 18, 2008 No comments yet

Professional network company LinkedIn has taken strides into the online marketing sector with the launch of the new LinkedIn Audience Network.
The network will allow marketers to target professionals more specifically and effectively, the firm suggested.
Steve Patrizi, the company’s advertising sales manager, implied the move was the result of LinkedIn listening to what the marketing industry [...]


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