Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

It’s The Customer, Stupid! – Viral Marketing and Engaging Your Community

(Photo by Scott Ableman) One of the best things that can happen to you as a company or organization is viral marketing from your community.  This can take in the form of video clips, images, e-books, Flash games, or even email messages.  Bear in mind that when this happens, it’s usually initiated by your community [...]

Building Communities – Barack Obama and Politics 2.0

(Photo by Telstar Logistics) I recently read Time Magazine’s June 16 article by Karen Tumulty about how Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama won the nomination (overcoming a front runner) and changing American Politics forever.  The author shared how Obama put together by far the best political operation of either party by building a “rare, frictionless [...]

Prep up your blog NOW

After the launch of Social Median, the opening up of Yahoo! Buzz and the spread of micro-blogging with Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, not to mention new ones like Utterz, Rejaw, and a lot more, NOW is the best time to redo, redesign, and relaunch your blog. Social media provides us with the tools to communicate [...]

Purple News: It's Official, Yahoo! Buzz announces open house

It was just a month ago when I received an email from Yahoo! Buzz announcing it will soon accept submitted stories from anyone.  Today, I got an email from them announcing that it’s now for real. Launched last February of this year, Buzz was initially limited to a number of invited publishers who can post [...]

Social Median and 50 Fastest Growing Niche Social Media Sites

It’s not news anymore how important social media websites have become. However, many people can be turned off by the fact that established sites like Digg or Reddit can be hard to penetrate, meaning not everyone will get the benefits they supposedly offer.