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An Introduction to Vertical Social Networks

Buffer Social

Vertical networkssocial platforms solely dedicated to niche interests — are there to support those interests. Reddit may come to mind as it is essentially several vertical networks (subreddits) in one horizontal network. What are vertical networks?

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YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Media News: Top 5 Stories of the Week | Main | 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week » July 27, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer The Social Network , aka "The Facebook Movie," hits theaters October 1st. The film is about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and how the popular social networking site got its start.

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Experiment: Do Other Social Networks Hate YouTube Links?

Hootsuite

At this point, there are dozens of places to drop your original film work. Or there’s the option that many of us do: upload your video to Youtube and simply share the link across all of your social platforms. my own social feeds) to see with my own eyes (a.k.a.

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Youtube Makes User-generated Feature Film

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Version 2 of Viral Success Why And How Your Employees And Business Can Become Trusted Influencers » Youtube Makes User-generated Feature Film: Life In A Day Posted by Anne Herngaard Jul 9th, 2010 Tweet Youtube is launching a global experiment to create a user-generated feature film shot in a single day.

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YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network (Kinetic Typography)

Firebelly

On Sunday, The Social Network took home Oscars for Original Score, Film Editing and Adapted Screenplay. This kinetic typography video shows off some of the dialog and music in a unique way. Enjoy! Video URL: [link] ].

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Social Networking In Your Face

Ari Herzog

Jena Kingsley is the latest in a series of comedians to poke fun at social networking systems by forcefully interacting with people in public places and proving that our online lives are silly when taken literally. The lingo and the descriptive language, such as friends on Facebook vs connections on LinkedIn, frustrates my students when I explain the basics of social media. Media culture identity networking Youtube

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Social Network: The Movie

Social Media Marketing

As Facebook prepares to celebrate hitting 500 million members this week , we're seeing more news of the controversial film The Social Network. ** With the tagline "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies," the trailer for the film has been running on thesocialnetwork-movie.com or 500millionfriends.com. To get you started, here are ten individuals in the social media space and their Hollywood doppelgängers.

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The Story of The World's Most Powerful Social Network – Facebook

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Old Spice: Successful Social Media Campaign Evolution of Privacy on Facebook » The Story of The World’s Most Powerful Social Network – Facebook Posted by Jonas Klit Nielsen Jul 16th, 2010 Tweet As written on my blog , the movie about how Facebook got started in a Harvard dorm room is now scheduled to hit the theaters around the world in October this year.

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Australia Toyota Yaris social media campaign Downfall

Laurel Papworth

Toyota have chosen 5 or 6 agencies and have asked them to spend $15,000 each on a “social media marketing campaign&#. If you want a different kind of engagement than social media stunts, please retweet or comment or link or something? My wish for a indepth social media engagement from Toyota goes unanswered so far I guess. Or put it this way: social media becomes social advertising, a completely different kind of relationship.

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Hawaii Musicians & Film Makers: SXSW Wants You!

Bare Feet Studios

Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > News > Hawaii Musicians & Film Makers: SXSW Wants You! Hawaii Musicians & Film Makers: SXSW Wants You! SXSW is the leading annual conference in Austin, TX for music, film, and internet interactive.

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1/3 of Moviegoers Purchase Tickets Via Mobile Phone

The Realtime Report

The study looked at smartphone use among moviegoers, or respondents who said they would see a film at theaters within the next three months (this equals about 50% of adults). Related Stories Selfies and Beyond: What Americans Are Really Doing With Their Smartphones Half of Consumers Read Email Exclusively On Mobile Social Networking Stats: Facebook To Acquire WhatsApp, #RLTM Scoreboard.

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Old Spice Spoof nails it! New Spice – Study like a Scholar, Scholar

Mindjumpers

Doing a spoof of a popular commercial, film or simple a private YouTube hit, happens all the time, a few is good and a lot really bad. On the blog site, [link] – you can go behind the camera and see the making of the film. Lee Library Posted in Best Practise Cases , Marketing & Communication , Social Media Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Youtube Makes Interactive Gallery

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « 5 Tips for Making a Consistent Social Media Effort Social Media Marketing Policies and Education: The Employee Perspective » Youtube Makes Interactive Gallery Posted by Anne Herngaard Sep 8th, 2010 Tweet You may remember Youtube’s user-generated film project called Life in a Day which I wrote about earlier this summer.

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May 18: this week in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

Here’s my pick of the week’s top social media news. May 18: this week in social media. May 18: this week in social media. What''s new and cool in the world of social media. Actress Emma Watson hates social media. The 23-year-old actress claims young girls worry about their looks younger She claims this is because of photos being uploaded to social media sites Film star was speaking at Cannes launch of her new movie The Bling Ring.

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Government vs Social Media and YouTube bullying video

Laurel Papworth

As social media sites continue to turn over the rock of social evils and shine a light on social ills that we assumed were “rare&# or “exaggerated&# the Government’s response is to blame the medium. If you are going to go after those that film bullies, why not go after the bullies themselves? The filming is only part of the story – what about the millions of viewers? Shall we make it illegal to watch the film of an assault?

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The Importance of Local Activation on Social Media: India

Mindjumpers

Our ever-growing global network of Local Social Media Managers around the world helps us ensure contextually relevant content through social listening, content production and response management. It’s a network filled with talented people who possess great knowledge of social media in their local context – one of them being Khyati Gandhi from India who shares some of her great insights on the topic below. . Social behavior varies across demographics.

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How To: Enjoy SXSW (Without Being at SXSW)

Almost Savvy

In the real world, it may not be that big of a deal, to many in the tech, film or music worlds, it is a must place to be to see the latest and coolest things happening and mingle with those making it happen. The festival has three primary tracks: Interactive (Tech/Social Media): March 12- 16 Film: March 12 – 20 Music: March 17 – 21 I’ll be attending Interactive events and will be blogging one of them (my blog posts will end up on the SXSW site, not here).

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Twitter – Verified Spam for MSF_USA Doctors Without Borders

Laurel Papworth

Social networks, because they are about people coming together around a Purpose and a Value system, are targets for everyone with a story to peddle. You can read more about the i mportance of offering verified accounts in social networks here. LES_ TY for watching a #STRVD for Attention film, 1 of 195 million stories of malnutrition: [link] RT and rewrite the story! Twitter: Social StoryTelling (14). Twitter: Reputation Management in Social Networks (20).

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Social Media Training: 3 Day Intensive Advanced Class

Laurel Papworth

If you are a company, government department or organisation interested in social media training for your staff, this three day class held privately at your premises (or we can organise premises for you) suits those looking for a more indepth course. Those who do not yet have any social media profiles online may struggle as this course is fast paced. Social Media Workshop Outline. Three Day Class for the Advanced Social Media Specialist.

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Agency Flash Mobs vs Social Flash Mobs

Laurel Papworth

While traditional media spends most of their time dissing social media (it is a competitor after all), traditional agencies find social media a rich source for client campaigns. Let’s look at some comparisons: Professionally Created: You’ll never see “Official&# on anything social. Social Created: Circular Quay 2008: Hundreds of normal (heh) people recruited from the internet. Because, hey it’s about being social, not flogging stuff.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Social media Donations it works for Wikipedia. SMS other social networks are built on SMS revenues such as SMSFun. Real World Events Music labels, film studios pay MySpace for record launches and Secret Shows. Different types of Social Networks (3).

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

HotelsMag has come up with 10 Internet Marketing Resolutions for 2010 including social media ones. Engage your customers directly via social media and mobile initiatives, and Web 2.0 I will take full advantage of Social Marketing and enhance the social media strategy for my hotel in 2010. Over 44% of Internet users are active in social media. No wonder that according to the recent Business.com’s 2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study, 83% of U.S.

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Media140 Sydney: Social Media Twitter & Journalism

Laurel Papworth

I spoke at Media140 Sydney – I want to highlight some of the “arguments&# used against social media by the panels, also focus on Everybody co-creating The Human Narrative and the diminishing role of journalists who take news from one part of the community and deliver it to another part: It’s not YOUR content. So it’s a bit of a surprise that few people addressed the popular questions of “how will Freelancers survive&# , “how will social media make money&# ?

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Mashable Summit and Foursquare Dennis Crowley

Laurel Papworth

Mashable Summit and Foursquare Dennis Crowley is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Social Media Monetization: Leo Laporte TWiT (14). Hitler Downfall: Constantine Film vs The World (9). Australia: Electrolux Global Social Media Summit (4). Tags: Online Communities social media social networks dennis crowley facebook credits foursquare mashable mashable summit summit

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 2 of monetizing online communities looks at donations – an overlooked revenue stream and the social media tools that enable donations online. This does NOT have to be Not For Profits – social networks that have a “community&# feel, can also connect with the goodwill of the members and seek donations as a revenue stream. Online social media services provide scope for members to donate time, resources and money how and when they want.

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Academy Awards: Oscars Social Media

Laurel Papworth

When I speak and write on the COI of Social Media – the Cost of Inaction – one cost is cultural relevancy. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held Thursday, May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928. The 82nd Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 2009 , was held on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood , with actors Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin hosting the ceremony. [2].

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Online Communties: Crossing Boundaries Aboriginal

Laurel Papworth

Sometimes we think we are doing the right thing in online communities and real life networks but are we? Many Aboriginal films , books or websites warn Aboriginal people that they might show images of Indigenous people who have passed away. Others seem to waltz in and “get&# the rituals and rites of each social network very quickly. Online Communties: Crossing Boundaries Aboriginal is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy.

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Successful Ways To Create User Involvement | Mindjumpers

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Why You Need a Blog: Blogs Are The Websites of The Social Media World ‘Jumo’ – The New Social Networking Site For Non-profit Organisations » Successful Ways To Create User Involvement Posted by Anne Herngaard Sep 27th, 2010 Tweet Communication today is all about creating engagement and involvement and to create experiences for the individual user or receiver.

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Is Lady Gaga and your Brand a good match?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Recently a client of Networked Insights approached us about exploring a celebrity endorsement and/or a product placement with the pop music star Lady Gaga. So we deployed our social data analysts to look at the Lady Gaga audience and our client’s audience to see if indeed there was a good fit for this brand. As a result we thought this data was so worthwhile that we had to share it with a broader audience in our new Social Intelligence Report on Lady Gaga.

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Consolidate and Coordinate your Media

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This goes against the adage offered by Danny Kaye’s character in the old film “The Court Jester” – that a jack of all trades is the master of none. Advertising Business Intelligence Data Mining Interactive Marketing Social Media Social Networking Earned Media Owned Media Paid Media Social InsightsForrester has observed that advertising/PR agencies are battling each other for dominance in the digital media space.

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Your ultimate guide to social media icons

Sprout Social

Social media has become so ingrained in our daily lives that most social media icons are instantly recognizable. For marketers and business owners, this offers an excellent opportunity to implement social media icons into their marketing strategies. At the same time, there’s a lot that you should consider before you use these social media logos including the best practices and legal conditions. The benefits of using social media icons. Social Networks

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We've come a long way - Disqus is Now as big as Youtube

Stay N' Alive

They had recently launched their new commenting platform for blogs the year before, and wanted some exposure from the Scobleizer himself (see the interview in 2008 here and here , where I''m in the background - filmed on Qik - remember that?). If Facebook is the largest social network in the world with 1 billion+ active users (is that the same as monthly uniques?), The cool thing about Disqus is they''re a social network of blogs and blog readers.

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I’ll Drink To That! #NekNominate

Laurel Papworth

The original parameters of the game required the participant to film themselves drinking a pint of an alcoholic beverage, usually beer, in one gulp and upload the footage to the web. A high profile Northern Ireland judge has owned up to her “foolish behaviour” after she was filmed taking part in the ‘neknominate’ drinking game. Social Media doesn’t create the behaviours, just puts a spotlight on them. What is Neknominate?

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Charlotte Dawson, Cyberbullies and Social Media Pot and Kettle

Laurel Papworth

Social Media: Friend or Stranger? “I do worry about social media. But it’s ok because they are celebrities, y’know someone who is on telly or in film. social media TV Twitter charlotte dawson negative criticism slagging offI don’t support bullies online. I’ve had enough death threats as an online community manager to have experienced all the different emotions – fear, anger, frustration, impotence and boredom.

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Some Perspectives on Pinterest

Social Media Marketing

There are a number of sites and platforms that serve as social bookmarking tools: Delicious is probably the best known one; StumbleUpon, Reddit and Digg are variations on the concept of the merging of discovery, serendipity and search, with tagging as the common thread that runs through each. pinterest trends social networksYou've probably heard that Pinterest is here and in a big way.

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How many social media profiles do you need, exactly?

Absolute PA

Do you ever wonder if you should have 1, 2, 3 or MORE social media accounts to represent your different projects online? The truth is, you won’t have the time to manage all of your different social media profiles. Or, maybe you’re thinking; ‘The more social profiles, websites, and internet spaces I have, the wider my reach!’. Seriously, having multiple social media accounts actually works against you. He hasn’t gone into films (YET!)

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Weibo – a Chinese Social Media platform

Mindjumpers

I am Ursula from China, working with Social Media in Denmark. Whenever I start a conversation around Chinese social media, it probably goes like this. This blog post is not written to criticize the Great Firewalls or censorship in China, but to give you an overview of the most popular social network in China called Weibo. . However other platforms like Wechat and Zhihu are also promising and popular social media platforms in China.

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Social Media Course – $176 – 13 June 2012 Sydney with @InforumGroup

Laurel Papworth

Workshop training on social media strategy and campaigns – I’m teaching (doing a practical session, showing how to set up Facebook, Twitter, blog etc) an afternoon course with Inforum Group. You’ll see how to build a social media monitoring dashboard, set up social media press release site, learn the difference between a 9 step social media strategy, a 5 step campaign and so on. Book social media course. Social Media Training June 2012.

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The big challenge for social media attribution

The Way of the Web

Tracking the effect of social media can be a challenge, particularly in regards to attributing conversion rates and sales in areas such as eCommerce. A study just released by Adobe puts social as the source of 2% of traffic to U.S Back in 2004, a film named Fröken Sverige was released, starring Alexandra Dahlströhm. It was also the first film to star Dahlströhm since her debut in 1998, in a great Lukas Moodyson film.

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You don’t have to bare all to be seen online (here’s what to do instead)

Absolute PA

If the thought of baring all on social media makes you want to hide under a big rock, for a long time, with a strong drink. Some people are happy being totally, 100%, warts and all open on social media. Perhaps you’re a film buff masseuse – don’t hide it, embrace it! I have good news for you! You can still show yourself, your personality and your brand without compromising on your personal life or privacy.

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Facebook Credit: Zuckerberg next Treasurer of the Internet App2User

Laurel Papworth

Called Facebook “Credit&# it includes a real world component named, rather fetchingly, “App2User&# , which aims to encourage merchants and loyalty programs like Qantas Frequent Flyer points and Flybuys and whatnot to use the Facebook points social media system. Social Networks and Online Communities – maybe Twitter? – tonnes more info on my Social Media Monetization slides. Facebook Money for Social Games.

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12 Ways to DO and NOT DO a Social Media Press Release – MSF Medecins Sans Frontieres

Laurel Papworth

I’m a social media strategist that blogs about social media and online communities so I find it frustrating when I am sent a PDF attachment on an email with a traditional media press release using agency created content, professional film crews employed to do the traditional campaign filming and ditto with professional musicians. The only “social” part is to please please please blog about it, tugging on For A Good Cause™ heartstrings.

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techzulu Interview with Rox and Shane

Bare Feet Studios

Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > News , Speaking , Video > TechZulu Interview with Rox and Shane TechZulu Interview with Rox and Shane by Roxanne Darling on November 13, 2008 It’s not often that we see Shane in front of the camera!

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