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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

RSS and email subscriptions, site traffic and social sharing may all be continuing to increase. These are tracked through a variety of tools and even popular commenting system Disqus scours social networks to find blog posts being shared and displays those as “interactions&#. I love comments as much as the next blogger.

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Google Me – quick thoughts for and against…

The Way of the Web

For example, Mike Arrington argues Google should clone Facebook , Kim-Mai Cutler argues the opposite. They might not have completely aced social search and the social graph yet, but they’re used to working with humungous data sets. Location – combining social graph with location-based apps and great mapping software.

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MLB's Social Pulse

Jeff Esposito

For example, over the weekend, I saw a marriage between a great game and one of my current passions, social media. Now you don’t need to hand me a cold compress, the ole ballgame has embraced social media in a cool way with their new MLB.com Pulse. article by @jeffespo linking live sport with social media activity with [.]

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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

Justin Levy

You should also consider taking part in Blog Action Day , a once a year event in which thousands of blogs pledge to write at least one post about a specific social cause (last year it was fighting poverty). By increasing the size of their social graph, you’re increasing the size of their reach.

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Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown | Email Marketing.

Convince & Convert

. “We want to give SMB a complete tool to allow them to move the needle on the 20% of social media that matters.&# The more email addresses a person uses across the social Web, the less ideal the results. For example, Flowtown’s data on me isn’t particularly accurate, because I use several different email addresses.

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

We are aggregating vast amounts of data, and in our integration with Facebook for example, we don’t open up everything we get because some of it just isn’t relevant. RK : Measuring social media’s direct impact on sales. I use this example: The USA Today has more audience than the Washington Post. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Combined with the new geo-targeted social interaction tools like Foursquare and Gowalla, and the just over the horizon technology of QR codes , social graph portability and the “site-less&# Web (as Paul Gillin calls it ) is an area that smart agencies need to know now. As Jay Baer recently [.] Im Jay Baer.