Social media geeks, myself included, have been looking for/waiting for the “Twitter Killer” to emerge over the last few months. While Twitter’s famous crashes seem to have lessened, the stream of consciousness style doesn’t seem to facilitate effective conversations as well as we might hope.
If you live in the Southeastern United States, you’re going to want to pencil in Internet Summit ‘08 in Chapel Hill, NC on November 19, 2008.
We’ve decided to start a new fun thing here at Ignite Social Media. Limited edition social media shirts. We’re geeks. You’re a geek. We’re proud of it (well, most of the time…). Hopefully you are, too. So let’s wear our social media geekiness, not just on our sleeve, but on our whole upper body.
Need to get up to speed on social media marketing? I’m leading a full-day workshop for the Triangle (NC) Chapter of the American Marketing Association next month and, since you found out about it through social media, I can hook you up with a $15 discount. But hurry, the early bird discount ends Monday.
Picking up on yesterday’s post on social media buzzwords explained, here are explanation for numbers 14-25, as included in our original tongue-in-cheek post. Enjoy.
In December, as part of a tongue-in-cheek print ad, we listed 25 social media buzzwords that make you feel cool if you say them. Surprisingly, that post still gets a fair amount of traffic, and with so many people new to social media, we still get questions about, “What do these all mean?” The most recent request for definitions was just last night.
One of the things that social media is great at is soliciting and distributing user-generated video.
As a social media agency, we’re very interested in reaching people through conversations on the Internet.
One of the things we do as a social media agency is analyze what other people do and comment on it.
In Friday’s post, I admitted the social media can be a waste of time. I talked about doing some unproductive things online and how, despite that (or even because of that), marketers should be paying a LOT of attention to social media marketing. But as many of you have commented in the first post, social media is really not a waste o
