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. As these communities permeate and reshape our lifestyle and how we communicate with one another, we’re involuntarily forcing advertisers and marketers to rapidly evolve how they vie for our attention. Stephane Dupuis brandMIND New social media stats. MORE >>

MySpace is dead and I blame Rupert Murdock. After doing some research into the history of MySpace I realized something – it’s totally the fault of News Corp that the once-mighty social networking pioneer is going to be sold for parts in the coming months, maybe even weeks. We won’t go into the changes (or lack thereof) nor will we look at the commitment (or lack thereof) that News Corp put into MySpace. Now we’re saying ByeSpace to MySpace. Here’s what they did wrong: MySpace Should Have Been A Leader, Not a Supporter. MORE >>

As always, I replied and we started a very interesting conversation regarding social networking sites, marketing and artists. For Independent Artists branding facebook Hammerblaze independent artists marketing Myspace social networking sites success ValgorthA couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by an artist called Valgorth. He had visited this blog and wanted to thank me for writing the article titled “5 major errors independent artists must avoid.&# quickly. MORE >>

Called “Search Plus Your World,” this addition of the Google+ data has far ranging implications for online marketers. Marketing Social Media facebook google LinkedIn MySpace PageRank search Search Plus social networks traffic twitterPerhaps you saw the epic war of words last week between Twitter and Google. The conflict revolves around Google’s inclusion of Plus activity into its search algorithm. It dramatically increases the value of Google+ activity in comparison [.]. MORE >>

Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. Does Does it occur to anyone that children six to ten years old (Togetherville’s target) don’t need social networks, and to encourage them to use one is the antithesis of responsible social networking? Any serious adult user of Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace knows these sites are both social and anti-social. MORE >>