social networking

SPAM! Does MySpace Need a Comments Manager, or what?

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

How much MySpace SPAM do you get daily?
If you have a MySpace profile, then you are probably aware that spammers frequently gain access to personal MySpace accounts of people who don’t have difficult passwords. The result of this is that you start to receive tons of crappy spam comments from people who are legitimate non-spammer […]

How to Guarantee Your Social Media Marketing Flops

Friday, May 11th, 2007

What comes to mind you hear the term “social media marketing”?
Blogs? Podcasts? Wikis? Digg? YouTube? MySpace?
Yes, all of these topics float around in the social space. But blog posting and Digg diving should only afterthoughts in a well-planned social media marketing campaign.
As Jennifer Laycock of Search Engine Guide said at the SES Columbus […]

10 minutes to social media workshop

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I’m in the presentation room right now here in Columbus. Hopefully, I’ll be able to Twitter my way through it. More soon… Get real time updates while I’m in the workshop. Text message “follow occasional” to 40404 (no quotes).
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Columbus Search Engine Strategies Live! Event Two Days Away

Monday, May 7th, 2007

I’m going! Are you? I’ll also be attending the social media workshop training session.
Throughout the day, I’ll be broadcasting updates on Twitter. You can receive all my updates from the SES Live! event sent directly to your mobile phone.
Simply text message “follow occasional” to 40404.
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Embrace Transparency To Reclaim Control of Your Brand Message

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Marketing is no longer about crafting a rigid, isolated message.
Marketing is about how you handle your half of the conversation.
I just listened to an episode of Marketing Voices that featured an interview of Guy Kawasaki. It’s a short, feel-good interview that packs an education. One topic that was covered is the fact that widely-known […]

Social Media Youth: Marketing to the Empowered Generation

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

It really wasn’t that long ago that I was in high school (10 -14 years ago). But since that time, the technology that is cheaply available to young people has exponentially increased in scope and ease of use. Teenagers today are incredibly empowered by technology, especially Internet-based technology.
As an example, as teens we occasionally […]