Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

Communities 117

Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. sites have video tours of their features, and in this day and age of added broadband capacity and rich content, knowing how to teach others and communicate benefits of a product is terribly, severely important. advertising. opensocial.

Class 274

Class Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 274

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. advertising. opensocial. ReadWriteWeb.

Crowdsourcing 245

Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

They will have to fix this or risk really turning off their core community and fall into the, "oh, no, another annoying spammy tool" category. LinkedIn searches through a single source of content that they dont make fully available to 3rd parties, while Google searches the entire web and has to deal with the noise. advertising.

LinkedIn 109

LinkedIn Google Directory API 109