After seeing a tweet from @JessicaRMurray I decided to read the post by Todd Van Hoosear on the Social Media Club website which makes some goods points about the Digital Death campaign. Also it’s not like the Digital Death campaign didn’t recieve a lot of press/media coverage. Just do a Google Blog search and you’ll see that when the campaign started everyone was blogging about it, from tech blogs, major media outlets and various social media sites. Sorry to say but they might be still dead. So far they have raise $282, 922. Kaput. MORE >>

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Social media Donations it works for Wikipedia. SMS other social networks are built on SMS revenues such as SMSFun. Collectibles buy an account and get special badges like the Pro badge above. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Social ads is the worst revenue payer in social media (MySpace make $2.17 MORE >>

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am not ignoring what happened last week online, not just with Guy Kawasaki’s trip to the social media gallows, but the general nastiness of social media experts last week. Prominent social media experts went on tirades last week, barking at people who autotweeted, said “inappropriate” things, or took advantage of the Boston Marathon bombing by “newsjacking” The policing of Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and blogging by these experts demonstrated vigilantism at its worst. This is not a social media phenomena. MORE >>

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How Businesses like Sylvan Learning Center and Computer Explorers Can Use Foursquare Depending on where you live you may be seeing more and more businesses advertising that they participate in Foursquare. Foursquare awards points and badges when users check-in at locations (check-ins can be done via a mobile phone with internet access or a computer). Simply upload a generic avatar or cartoon/clip art picture and you’ve fulfilled the photo requirement! MORE >>