Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About Revealing the People Defining Social Networks October 1, 2009 View Comments Source: Shutterstock Social Networks are among the most powerful examples of socialized media. It is the zeitgeist of socialized media and it’s manifesting into an obsession for branding, advertising, “viral,” marketing, and communications experts and professionals worldwide. link] Webbie Q in top 100 websites on alexa 70% are social networks!you'll MORE >>

Jay and I talk about the relevance behind activism and the support of causes via social media. But we wonder, what percentage of those people who changed their avatar actually wrote their legislator? Malcolm Gladwell has leveled this type of critiscm at social media. He states that social media does not create movements because the ties are so weak and fragile. ” social media social networkingLet me first apologize for blatantly ripping this blog title from CNN. Does this kind of behavior really have any impact? MORE >>

Useful information on how to add "social" into your marketing mix with measurable results. HOME | ABOUT ME | MY COMPANY | @AARONSTROUT | QND PODCAST | 5 MINS OF ME | FLICKR Monday, July 19, 2010 What Do Facebook, The Social Network, Guy Fieri and Scott Monty Have in Common? If you havent seen it, he riffs off the new movie, The Social Network which parodies Facebook and their march toward 500 million members. got a kick out of my dopplerganger and Food Network star, Guy Fieri , who ironically, I met last summer in New York City. Citizen Marketer 2.1 MORE >>

Wikipedia defines “avatar&# as “…a computer user’s representation of himself/herself or alter ego…&# That is to say, an avatar is the “you&# of the computer world. Most of us think of the word to mean the graphic we use alongside our social media account, but that’s only part of what defines an avatar. In this post, we’ll talk in a somewhat more rounded what about how your avatar on the web becomes quite important to doing business in this new world. I’m a fan of using a picture of yourself for your avatar. MORE >>

The beauty of social media isn’t in the online connections. No the beauty of social media is in it’s potential. The article was good but it was really similar to a thousand other articles that I have read over the years about how brands need to do this or that in social in order to be successful. As I neared the end of the piece, I read the following: The great social wave is an opportunity that no business can afford to ignore or look at myopically. Taking social offline should be the goal of every online social media encounter worth its weight. MORE >>