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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. The cross-channel customer is also a multi-device consumer and smart phones play an increasing role in communication, networking, social media usage and entertainment. Or that more people own a smart phone than use Facebook? hours on email.

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7 Tactics for Promoting Your Brick-And-Mortar Business Online

The Social Media Incubator

QR Codes – You can put one of these funny looking images in your store window that allows smart phone users to scan it and visit your website or other online sales page, helping to build connections with your customers.

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SEO Firm Impersonates Google, Claims Local Listing to be Deleted

Bill Hartzer

In a post on the Local Search Forum, Linda Buquet explains what disturbed her about the call she received from the SEO firm: I started off saying to him: The recording said my listing is in danger of being deleted or something? It is a lie, and your company listing, if verified properly with Google, will not be deleted.

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Five Reasons to “Dislike” Social Media

Webbiquity SMM

And with smart phones becoming the standard, autocorrect has become the new typo. The minute you get used to a forum and style, it gets changed. Grammar goes out the window when users are squeezing their message into 140 characters. You spell a word wrong and you can blame it on autocorrect.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Augmented Reality (AR) is the ability to place computer-generated information, such as text and labels, on top of live real world data, such as video from a smart phone. Augmented Reality Applications Will Start to Go Mainstream. Most AR applications in 2009 were quaint curiosities designed to demonstrate the AR concept.

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Twitter Best in Events and Emergencies

Net-Savvy Executive

Conferences and Meetups Back in 2007, I followed the back-channel conversation at the NewComm Forum using Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ). Relaying information from broadcast media to people without power in their homes (who were presumably using smart phones for Twitter). Lots of people shared what they could see.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Create your own niche online social network with ready to use blogs, RSS feeds, forums and more. Do you have a smart phone? Set up an organization page on an existing popular social network to connect with others. What will you name your page and what will you feature there? www.facebook.com. www.ning.com. Mobile Apps.