Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? Social Mention also lets you set up alerts (simiar to Google Alerts) and offers a widget that can be installed on a website or blog to display the real-time buzz about your specified topic. cool, free blog widget that automatically displays links, along with thumbnail images, to related posts on your blog at the bottom of each blog post you publish. Looking for a way to monitor social media activities and results on a tight budget? Cool Web Tools. Social Mention. ** 5 stars. uberVU. MORE >>

According to Anne Herngaard , there core technologies that will make it happen can be grouped in three categories: “1. SOCIAL PLUGINS : Consists of easy-to-use widgets to incorporate on your website with a simple code to provide the user with a more personal experience. believe very soon you are going to notice such kind of recommendation widgets on all major websites and blogs. OPEN GRAPH: Connecting websites with Facebook so that you can connect content outside of Facebook with your personal profile. This way you have socially enabled you site with some simple html. MORE >>

I’m going to get to present to a group of government officials from another country. Thanks for reading, Josh “Shua&# Peters Tweet This Post Written by Josh Peters « Previous Post Next Post » Rob That's really cool you got to speak to that group. hope they succeed as well, they are a very intelligent group that wants to see some change. Today I’m going to get a rare opportunity. Ukraine to be exact. I can also say that I will be talking about the use of social media in government and how it’s being done here in the U.S. MORE >>

Let’s say you have a widget to sell. It’s not a revolutionary widget, but it’s a damn cool one. While you still use TV, or radio, or other “traditional media” to advertise, this won’t tell you why your widget is selling (other than folks like your advert, possibly). Every flyer or ad you send out comes with a vanity URL (make sure the URL appeals to your audience and the needs your widget meets). Type in your keywords and marketing efforts (WIDGET X on the radio, for example). What Groups do they belong to on Facebook? MORE >>

Below is a view of videos that is in a widget on their home page.  With all of the groups we’ve worked with, no-one has had any issues with finding enough content – but being a good curator of that content is a skill to be paid attention to and developed internally. I just ran across a great article Association Publishing Priorities, Challenges and Hot-Button Issues for 2012.  The article goes on to talk about different kinds of opportunities that trade associations and professional societies have including Associations Social Media Opportunities. Association Curation Examples. MORE >>