Firebelly

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Search engines and social networks are competing (and combining) in a myriad of ways. Heres a brief play-by-play: First, Googles Social Search feature graduated from an opt-in Google Labs experiment to a default feature on Google.com for signed in users - although it wont leverage much of Facebook. And there you have it.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress | Main | Stop tweeting about your emotional break throughs » October 25, 2009 Stop tweeting about the # of followers you have Matthew Inman who runs The Oatmeal site posted this recently.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

It’s got a cleaner look, a few extra features, and most importantly, it’s much faster. Writing a new tweet* The greatest feature in Tweetie 2 is its offline powers. It is rewritten from the ground up with a fast and powerful new core, Tweetie 2 offers the most polished mobile Twitter experience around. They're great.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. And we're firm believers that design makes everything better. Design thinking should be embedded in how we approach making things in general. Check out this story.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Fun idea and I had a few laughs, but (see update at the end of post) Toyota really should have included the YouTube URL at the end of the ads!

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Audi Audis Green Police Super Bowl ads, featuring a group of faux police officers who protect the environment, will direct consumers not to Audis website, but to the Green Police YouTube channel where people can view more of the funny PSAs and share them with their friends.

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Firebelly

JUNE 3, 2010

  The best way to improve this logo, to me, would be to replace the silver ring with the recognizable gold that the old logo featured. Oh, it doesn't help that every time I see it, I think of this guy.  That feeling or warmth would give it the perfect combination to make me yearn for a cup of a coffee.

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Firebelly

MAY 21, 2010

Find out below in this weeks 5 social media stories I wouldnt want you to miss: 1. A Closer Look at Twitter’s Latest Features for Businesses By Adam Ostrow Later this year, Twitter is expected to release a variety of features for business users, some of which have already been enabled for testing on a number of accounts.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 29, 2010

After Facebook’s failed attempt to buy Twitter, Facebook has embarked on a policy of “If you cant buy them, destroy them” and has slowly but surely copied the features offered by Twitter. However, we believe that one of the major reasons for this decline is Facebook’s gradual Twitterfication.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The zoomed-in hands demonstrating the features of the phone. Whether the feature is purposeful product placement or not,the power of video is still demonstrated. When I saw the new T-Mobile MyTouch 3G commercial, Iimmediately thought of the Apple iPhone commercials. The solid-colorbackground. Themellow music.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Webupon > Social Bookmarking. Nine Notable Uses for Social Bookmarking. Bookmarking doesnt need to be limited to tracking websites for yourself. Social bookmarking sites excel at maintaining an online grouping of websites for many purposes (e.g. for ways to use social bookmarking more creatively?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

tools and services (blogs, wikis, chats, shared workspaces) which form the basis of the PLE concept would be an inevitable component of education in the future, given that students will arrive at college or university with considerable experience of these tools through their use of MySpace , Bebo and other social networking sites.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They are also the most likely to pass the word along to their circle of friends, family, and acquaintances (a prerequisite to “going viral” within social channels). However, if your website and email messages don’t call attention to these features you’ve lost out on the opportunity to reach these folks and make these things happen.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

SixDegrees was certainly one of the first, but you have to define what a social media site is before you can say which is the first. For example, the PLATO system, developed by the University of Illinois in 1970, had many features of an early social media network but was largely used in academia. So, how old is social media?

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 50 social media links. [.] ¬

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Mixx has a lot of potential, and as new features are added to the service based on user feedback, it’s a viable social news network that can certainly deliver. With so many social networks available now, it’s definitely hard to keep up with all of them. Can’t hurt to find more social bookmarking sites!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. The social side is interesting when it comes up in B2B or B2C. bookmarking.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Here are a few tips and tricks to get started developing your own personal learning network: Join a Social Network. ve all heard of MySpace and Facebook , and while those are great ways to connect with friends and colleagues, an even better place to start is a social network with a focus, like Ning. What else am I missing?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Let the Social Media Traffic Quality Analysis Begin In order to answer the question of whether niche social media drives higher quality traffic, two social networks were chosen for analysis — one generic and one niche. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Lesson # 5 Use Social Networks. Be it MySpace or Facebook or whatever network works for your target demographic, companies and individuals interested in maintaining their personal brand need to establish and maintain a presence on social networks - especially if youre looking to connect with the younger crowd. Thanks Facebook."

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Mike Alton updates a detailed post about post promotion, helpfully advising readers not only how to promote their blog posts but also which tactics to avoid or drop, as they are no longer effective; for example, regarding social sharing sites, “The New MySpace no longer allows link sharing.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 4, 2009

Longer if the article has gone popular or hot on a social bookmarking site like Digg. How often It Stays – Usually at least a day or so, it really depends on how long the main site wants is featuring it. How You Get There – The mainstream sites know how to get their article there: feature it on the home page.

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Firebelly

JUNE 18, 2010

Firebelly Memo: Great new feature Youtube has rolled out. Would love to see them add social sharing functionalities to the editor that make it even easier to share the video directly from the video itself. But YouTube today rolled out cloud-based video editing tools.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking and others â?? Collaboration tools often possess production capabilities Social Bookmarking See LTCs Social Bookmarking Resource. These tools â?? create a significant shift in the educational experience. Podcasts See LTCs Audio Resource. Communication.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The article has examples of how social media worked too. The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. Chris Bennett features some great parallels in his article. Note: I was interviewed.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Wordpress : Great flexibility and more features. Socialize Within a Blog-Community. Leverage the Power of Social-Bookmarking. Social-Bookmarking applications are amazing tools that incredibly boost search productivity. Leverage the Power of Social-Networking. Socializing online is limiting.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. This description of StumbleUpon has been taken from the book: StumbleUpon [is] a social content discovery engine with bookmarking features. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. Maybe next year, folks!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

SEOmoz PRO : SEOmoz PRO features a rich library of informative guides, a myriad of tools, and a strong active and close-knit community. In the social media sphere, these are the guys who spam sites like Digg and other niche social bookmarking sites with totally off-topic spam. Answers Yahoo!

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more.

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Kikolani

JUNE 11, 2010

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Blog World Expo Poll, Akismet commentary, and what’s new on kikolani.com. How to set social media goals – if you have no plan, here’s how to gets started. Is social media dangerous for your brain ? The Resources Mashup.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Twitter.com is a must if you have a social media audience. Facebook and/or MySpace are useful social networks where you can build outposts (see next list). account for social bookmarking. Build a similar outpost on MySpace, if your audience might be there. It also connects you to other practitioners.

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