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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. 003 from Laurel Papworth on Vimeo. CHART: 2008 Amazon traffic.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince & Convert

Stelzner on Vimeo. Create a social media steering group (cross-functional) for your company. Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

004 from Laurel Papworth on Vimeo. Mostly because a lot of companies I speak with still can’t get their head around if it’s free, why would people pay? With more than 1 million people joining each month and projected 2008 revenue of $75 million to $100 million , LinkedIn Corp. USA Today 20th January 2008).

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The “Getting Started with Government 2.0” Guide | Social Media.

Social Media Strategery

Social Media and the Federal Government: Perceived and Real Barriers and Potential Solutions – written in 2008 but should give you an idea of how far we’ve come since then. Many of the points are still valid. Transparency and Open Government Memo – issued the day after President Obama took office Open Government Directive – issued on Dec.

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