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Customer Service: The Man Behind the Conversational Curtain
Lisa Barone wrote a post this week lambasting companies that are too timid to get involved in social media, and rightfully so. The reality is...
Was Yesterday’s Twitter DDoS Attack Cyber Warfare
Twitter bites the dust again, along with FaceBook, LiveJournal and even YouTube… Yesterday, August 6, 2009, will be talked about on the web for a...
Interview with Sarah Blow of TweetMeme
Tweetmeme is one of the most popular and smartest Twiiter-based services. It’s well-known “Retweet it” buttons are used throughout the Internet. So today we are...
Social Media Rock Star: An “Interview” With Musician Michael Wainwright
“Come On…I’m Talking To You…Come On” Tears For Fears “Shout” Social media professionals endlessly debate tactics and best practices in this developing realm of communication. ...
3 New Cool Twitter Search FireFox Addons
As much as I love Twitter search, I find it funny that there’s not really an overwhelming number of FireFox addons to tweak it. Apart...
Twitter Highlights Search on New Home Page
We all knew that Twitter is about to launch its redesigned home page. But we didn’t expect it to be this fast and neither did...
Interview with Brian Carter on TweetROI and Overall Marketing on Twitter
Last week we reviewed a new smart Twitter monetization service called TweetROI. This week we are discussing it with one of the creators, our very...
Customer Service Has a New Name and It’s Twitter
According to Wikipedia, “customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase”. To prove how current they are, small...
Twitroduce: A Fresh Approach to Twitter Social Networking
There is a new Twitter app that has a fresh approach to Twitter social networking. It is called Twitroduce. It has been described as a...
Twitter Tip: Utilizing RSS & Yahoo Pipes
I have always been a huge fan of RSS. More specifically, I have been a fan of XML. Quite a few of the projects I...
No Precedence For Social Media – Amazon Hangs Us Out To Dry
A Disconnect Between Social Media Marketing And Amazon.com Recently I had an interesting interaction with Amazon’s affiliate program. Rather than telling you the story from...
Cash Motivation: Getting the Users to Participate
Users are the most important “elements” (forgive me the “impersonalization“) of any websites (especially social media ones of course): that’s them who build content and...
Interview with Fraser Kelton of Glue, New Promising Social Network
This week we feature the interview with Fraser Kelton, working at new and exciting social media project Glue, developed by AdaptiveBlue. 1. Please share your...
Flickr Rolls Out Twitter Integration Feature
Flickr has just introduced a new feature that it should have done long ago – Flickr2Twitter. If you use Flickr, this new feature would allow...
StumbleUpon Tip: Use Google to Choose the Best Category and Tags
Sharing stories on social voting and bookmarking sites both grows your social media profile power and enables you to reach your audience. Surprisingly enough, being...
Facebook or Just Face-Look? Are People 55 And Older Really Using Social Networking Websites?
Facebook is estimated to have 70.2 million unique visitors per month in the United States according to comScore. Social networking is booming, everyone is friending,...
Grab You Facebook Fan Pages’ Vanity URLs Tonight
Tonight, Facebook will start allowing Facebook fan pages owners to get their preferred vanity URLs. If you will recall, Facebook started allowing Facebook users to...
Twitter SEO – The Slow Death of Twitter Hash Tags
Hash tags are a fad. Hash tags were cool for about 10 minutes. But then they started to remind us of IRC, Meta Data, and...
Buying and Selling Social Media Profiles?
Last week I stumbled across an interesting service that allows to buy-sell social media accounts. It is called Assetize and apparently functions as an auction....
Twitter SEO – the Future of Keywords
The future in search appears to be how real-time data is going to be accessed by users. Twitter is at the forefront of this with...
Twitter Search Gradually Becoming a Real-Time Search Engine
Although Twitter’s search market share is not significant enough compared to other search engine, it is still interesting to know that gradually Twitter search is...
Twitter Rolls Out Verified Accounts
A week ago, Twitter announced that it will start verifying accounts of Twitter users to prevent further impersonification of famous people. This decision was Twitter’s...
Twitter SEO: 4 Simple Tips to Help Your Twitter Profile Rank
Twitter SEO can help you take one more step towards owning your online reputation. When people think of Twitter, they don’t usually think of it...
Lawyers, Guns, and Twitter – Who Owns Your Twitter Account
Last week I read an article on BusinessWeek.com that presented the results of a survey of c-level executives regarding employees and social networks. According to...
Awkward Social Media Relationships: Inevitable?
I ran across this on Facebook the other day: Brutal. Thankfully, my parents aren’t there yet. But more and more I’ve got coworkers, friend’s parents,...
Constantly Update Your Facebook Status with Twitter & GMail
If you are into Internet marketing, you probably have so many online friends that you can barely remember most of them. Finding friends and partners...
There Is Definitely Something Devious Going on Over at Reddit!
For the last five months, I have been an active user of Reddit. When I first got started with Reddit, I was really impressed by...
Best Travel Social Media Networks : Traveling 2.0
Summer is fast approaching and I already can’t wait to have some rest. Of course, the social media geek inside me made me get prepared...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media
The oft-discussed Seven Deadly Sins apply to Social Media as well and are worth exploring. Here’s a quick lesson to keep you from the sure...
Decrease the Twitter Drop Out Rate & Increase Retention
More than 60% of Twitter users in the U.S. fail to return the following month, as recently reported by Nielson Wire. Quite a negative statistic...