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3 Key Announcements from Facebook F8 and What Social Media Marketers Need To Know

Ignite Social Media

After listening to the announcements and processing what we believe this may mean for marketers like us in the social space, we’ve distilled it into 3 key announcements and implications for brands. 2) Social Virtual Reality with Facebook Spaces. 1) Innovations in Augmented Reality through Camera Effects.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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7 steps to shutting down a social media site

Laurel Papworth

The photo sharing social network Radar.net is shutting down and, thankfully, they have all undertaken all the key steps to do that sensitively and graciously. More in Social Media is Not An Experiment. Their shutdown process is equally commendable. Export facilities to other social media sites.

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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

IBM Social Computing Guidelines. Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. Since then, many new forms of social media have emerged. The effort has broadened the scope of the existing guidelines to include all forms of social computing. Country/region [ select ].

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #257

Twist Image

Simulated Worlds Will Soon Be Indistinguishable From Reality - Motherboard. What if virtual worlds are indistinguishable from real ones? That has some pretty significant ethical and social consequences--most simulations could be better than our real worlds. social media. Alistair for Hugh).

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Social media Donations it works for Wikipedia. Virtual Real Estate a tough one again if you are not a virtual world like Second Life but how about a special forum for payment. Social ads is the worst revenue payer in social media (MySpace make $2.17

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Practice Safe Networking

Almost Savvy

As with any relationship, when someone starts to make you feel uncomfortable for any reason, even when you feel you had initially found an affinity though virtual interactions, you have to change course immediately. Last month, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Chris Brogan *, one of the greatest minds in the area of social media.

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