Social Media

I’ve been using Facebook Ads for a little less than a year now. And contrary to my initial thoughts and most of the posts I’ve read about them, they have worked out pretty good for me and my clients. Just to be clear, it has nowhere near the scale or robustness of Google Adwords, but [...]

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pic thx to Anthony Cain
The 2008 presidential campaign has had the largest online ad spend of all other U.S. presidential elections combined. With that said, we still have a long way to go to catch up with traditional media when it comes to total dollars spent.
As of September 2008, TNS Media Intelligence estimated that [...]

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This is a first in a series of guest posts by Yogini. Detailing how to use Social Media to raise awareness for charitable causes. In the coming posts I will go into much more specific detail on tips and techniques used to do this.

Over the last 15 months, I have been using the Internet, specifically [...]

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On July 23, 2008 right after the f8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, Ca. Facebook opened up its Facebook Connect program. Initially it is launching with 24 Partners including Digg, Hulu, Six Apart, CBS, CNET, CollegeHumor, Disney/ABC, Seesmic and Vimeo. A notable statistic is that 33% of the initial partners are from the Online Video [...]

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Yesterday friendfeed launched it’s ‘rooms’ feature. The “who’s who” of the Social Media crowd were there rubbing virtual elbows and commenting back and forth on each others “shares“. In fact, the first Social Media room was created by Muhammad Saleem within hours of the launch.
The rooms are very easy to set up. Just click the [...]

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I have been using FireFox exclusively for 4+years. I love everything about FireFox, the add-on’s, the themes and definitely the versatility. A year ago, I started playing around with the new Mozilla based social browser called Flock. Several versions later, I think I’m ready to make the switch to full time use of Flock for [...]

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Today as the Olympic Torch drama was unfolding in San Fransisco, CA  many of those who are passionate about Tibetan human rights issues, but not internet savvy, had to wait for reports on CNN, MSNBC or even worse the local news to be informed.
Others, with a bit more internet prowess, accessed the information via AP [...]

I have to confess, I fiend for the Twit, I love Twitter, I can’t get enough of it!
That being the case, I have to ask myself ,what is that important on Twitter that I have to have it on a PermaTab on my Firefox browser?
It reminds me of watching MTV. I mean the old school [...]

“Watch out Uncle Spam is watching what your up to on Social Media!”

 
Check out this PowerPoint presentation I found on Google. It is entitled - Social Media -2007 Web Managers Workshop- by: The World Bank-US Government
It was presented to conference of Government webmasters and IT professionals earlier this year.
The presentation starts off friendly [...]

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