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Steal Eloqua’s Social Media Playbook
Aug 31st
Joe Chernov (Director of Content for Eloqua), blogged recently about giving away the “Eloqua Social Media Playbook”, a 42 page guide to conducting business (and yourself) on the Social Web.
There is something both thrilling and humbling about taking your best work, undressing it of all commercial value, and giving it away for free. But I am beginning to think the thrill outweighs the humility, because for the second time this week, I am giving away a major resource to anyone who wants to repurpose it for his own gain.
Here’s a one page sample:
Get your copy of Eloqua’s Social Media Playbook here.
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Global Social Media Check-up – 2010
Aug 30th
Surprise! Only 20% of the Fortune Global 100 Companies are using all four platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Blogs
Burson-Marsteller released the results of a global survey of social media use by a sample of the Fortune Global 100 list (29 U.S. companies, 48 European, 20 Asia-Pacific, 3 Latin America) – between Nov 2009 and Jan 2010.
The results are very interesting
Although most of these companies are using at least one of the social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Blogs), and 70% are using Twitter, almost half do not have a Facebook Fan Page. Only 50% have a YouTube Channel. Only 30% have corporate More >
Our Geosocial Universe [Infographic]
Aug 23rd
Jesse Thomas of award-winning creative agency Jess3 has been working through an infographic challenge: trying to accurately depict the size of the key players in the geo / social space and has created a handy visual of the size of the internet’s behemoths—including Skype, Facebook, Yahoo Mail—and new tech companies on the scene like Foursquare and BrightKite. The infographic also includes a visualization of each company’s proportion of users who access the service through a mobile gadget.
Via Gigaom.
15 Most Popular Twitter Clients
Aug 7th
This post was originally posted at Tweet Valley:
Here is an Infographic of Top 15 Twitter Applications. First Place goes to Tweet Deck, although I would rate HootSuite as a close second!
Which is your favorite app for tweeting?
Today’s Selected Tweets
Aug 3rd
Bella beats Max for six years in a row http://su.pr/1pZySs Top 10 Dog Names of 20096 minutes ago via Su.pr
10 Ridiculous iPhone Accessories [PICS] – While there’s no question that the iPhone experience can be greatly …http://ow.ly/18pphQabout 2 hours ago via HootSuite
SRSLY? SMS Celebrates Its 25th Birthday – According to a press release from Sherri Wells, one of the leading SMS mes…http://ow.ly/18ppiBabout 2 hours ago via HootSuite
Rdio’s Unlimited Music Streaming Service Opens to the Publichttp://ow.ly/18pczTabout 8 hours ago via HootSuite
Video: Sun Puts on a Spectacular Eruption Show – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a trio of awesome solar …http://ow.ly/18oSJKabout 17 hours ago via HootSuite
Toyota running Facebook More >
Addicted to Social Media? – A Revealing Study
Jul 29th
Retrevo.com did an exceptional report on Social Media use. Their latest Retrevo Gadgetology study asked >> social media users << questions such as:
When, where, and how much time they spend on sites and services like FaceBook and Twitter?
No surprise that many people seem to be obsessed with their social media!
This study portrays two groups: under and over age 25. Take a look at the differences of usage of people under 25. The future generation is all about mobile: The Mobile Generation.
Social Media Around the Clock
Your Own Twitter Parade
Jul 29th
Here’s a fun little twitter app that shows your twitter followers following you in a parade, with some of them tweeting. Just go to IS Parade, fill in your twitter name (or a keyword) and let your parade begin.
Below is a screencast that @laikas made of her animated twitter parade. @Laikas is a Medical Librarian, Scientist, Mom, Wife and Human in Amsterdam.
Check out the @KentBeatty Twitter Parade!
Pluggio – Makes Twitter Easy
Jul 17th
Pluggio (which is entirely web based) does much more than fix Twitter’s shortcomings. It manages to create an entire workflow system around Twitter that makes it easy to manage nearly every aspect of your Tweeting life.
This is a really great twitter client, simple enough for everyone
yet powerful enough for power tweeters!
Use this to publish “Rolling Tweets”! A rolling tweet is essentially a bunch of tweets that are titles of articles that others have written that include the link to those articles for my networks to check out. These posts are generated by the RSS feeds I choose to have pulling More >
The Anti-FaceBook – Diaspora
May 15th
I knew that sooner or later, someone would build a different and prob better social app than FB.
$100K collected via the fundraising platform: KickStarter.com KickStarter Blog (another crowd-funding is IndieGoGo)
From Mashable: NYU Students Raise More than $100,000 to Build Facebook Alternative
Four New York University students have a vision to build Diaspora, “an open source personal web service that will put individuals in control of their data,” or essentially the anti-Facebook.
They started with just a dream and a prayer — that prayer was to raise $10,000 by June 1 so that they could spend the summer making their vision a reality. They reached More >
The Rise of Social Networks
Dec 5th
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This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today. The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:
What’s next? For one thing: Personal Branding. According to Chad Levitt, parts of the next wave of innovation will revolve around social networks, personal brands, massive amounts of data, collaboration and making senese of it all to create value. Also, expect more internal company social networking.
Infographic courtesy of Chad Levitt at his New Sales Economy Blog
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Seesmic Desktop for Twitter – Move Over Tweetdeck
Apr 8th
Seesmic Desktop Launched Today.
This is Twhirl on Steroids!
From Mashable:
The new Seesmic Desktop is a dream application for the frequent status updater, group lover, and social media meme tracker alike, and now includes support for multiple columns that can be rearranged via drag-and-drop, custom and manageable groups, a left navigation bar for managing multiple accounts and searches, and even the ability to snap images via webcam for posting to Twitpic (TwitPic reviews). All of this activity is now conveniently residing within one window.
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First 40 Follow – A Twitter Strategy for Quality Followers
Mar 26th
This is a guest post by David Druckenmiller, producer & editor of video, television and documentary film
"First 40 Follow" – a simple twitter strategy
If you have an established twitter account and a good bit of interesting updates, here is a way of having some great fun with Twitter and gaining relevant followers pretty quickly. This is not automated or rocket science … just basic human psychology. Nearly all twitter users have an INTENSE need to be NEEDED and also like to follow interesting twitterees … so this could be one way to grow your base. (In the last week I More >
KB Tweets – March 3, 2009
Mar 3rd
U.S. Stocks Rise, Extend S&P 500’s Best-Monthly-Rally Since ‘87 http://bit.ly/f3GFg
RT @jowyang, Gartner Releases Report: 4 Ways Enterprises Are Using Twitter, covered by RWW: http://bit.ly/pXgf
Bill Forstchen’s 1 Second After http://bit.ly/ci3NS, We need a Faraday cage to cnx effects of external electical fields
1 Second After: What follows a High Altitude Nuclear EMP Detonation (HAND)? http://bit.ly/yMpSq, N. Korea launching?
dot Eco – Do we need this top level domain (TLD)? http://bit.ly/8z0Jb, Of course, Al Gore supports it. Pointless?
RT @FollowThesePPL Try Following @Brushist @rinox @KentBeatty @Retweetist @KIYO_KIYO @AidanSansom @Christopfarnell
Listen For Another Bubble Popping: the formerly overvalued MBA http://bit.ly/2nYrcK, exposed by the economic crisis
The odd fates of 25 legendary tech products, http://bit.ly/drA0, I’ve owned or used all of these
From Erin’s More >
BLIP.fm – Instant Musical Gratification
Feb 26th
Micro-blog your music with BLIP.fm. It’s the best instant gratification music discovery engine we’ve ever used!, and it tweets to twitter. A twitter for music!
Twitter asks “what are you doing, right now?”
BLIP.fm asks “what are you listening to?”
This morning I’m listening to noisy crumb’s BLIP.fm page.
It’s a tool for suggesting songs -and sharing your story about them – within your network. In true micro-blogging style, blip messages use 150 characters or less. Blip’s seamlessly integrates with FriendFeed, Twitter, Pownce, and Tumblr.
check out noisy crumb’s BLIP.fm
noisy crumb at blogspot
my BLIP.fm page
BLIP.fm Blog
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Twitter – The Book Preview
Jun 5th
Posted by Kent Beatty in Twitter
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The Twitter Book The Twitter Book O’Reilly Media, Inc. This practical guide will teach you everything you need to know to quickly become a Twitter power user, including strategies and tactics for using Twitter’s 140-character messages as a serious–and effective–way to boost your business. Co-written by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein, widely followed and highly respected Twitterers, the practical information in The Twitter Book is presented in a fun, full-color format that’s packed with helpful examples and clear explanations. Download includes additional DRM-free ebook formats attached to last page (Adobe Reader required to access additional ebook formats).