Will Facebook Sell Recommendations?
Posted on April 15, 2009. Filed under: Facebook, Social Media | Tags: Facebook, Facebook features, Facebook Markup Language, FBML, social networking |
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As Facebook continues to evolve it is interesting to note how much attention they have given to the development of the Fan page concept. Originally Fan pages were a very limited, cut down version of the personal page. They had much less functionality and their ability to provide a communications platform was minor.
The recent revisions [...]
You’re A Competitor – I’m A Fan
Posted on April 9, 2009. Filed under: Marketing, Social Media | Tags: Company, Facebook, Friend or Foe, Social Media, social networking, twitter |
Social Media has brought a lot of new opportunities to build stronger connections with customers. That’s what everyone talks about. How wonderful all this transparency is and how being able to engage with customers will only strenghten the buying relationship. While all of that might or might not be true (a lot of variables involved [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )5 Ways Twitter can Monetize without Ads
Posted on January 19, 2009. Filed under: Business, Observations, twitter | Tags: Application programming interface, social networking, TweetDeck, twitter |
Recently there has been some discussion about Twitter monetization. Its the same conversation that has been going on for the past few months as people become more aware of Twitter. Unfortunately all the conversations seem to come back to the same suggestions, how Ads can be worked into the Twitter stream without annoying Twitter users.
What [...]
Money Makers on Twitter
Posted on December 4, 2008. Filed under: Marketing, Social Media, twitter | Tags: CrowdedInk, Geeks, Magpie, Make money on Twitter, Pepsi, social networking, SXSW, Twittads, twitter, Twitter profile |
Over the past few weeks there has been much discussion of how 3rd party companies are attempting to monetize the Twitter world.
Twitter themselves have so far avoided doing this, though rumors abound about how they might decide to charge for various parts of the service.
The first two attempts to monetize Twitter have come from Magpie [...]
Twittelator – Guest Post – Damien Basile
Posted on December 1, 2008. Filed under: Social Media, Technology, twitter | Tags: iPhone, Mobile Twitter applications, social networking, TweetDeck, twitter, Twitter Applications, Twitter tools, Twitterific, Twitterlator |
Continuing the series of guest posts on Mobile applications for Twitter users, I am very fortunate to have Damien Basile contribute today. Not only is he a great contributor to Twitter but writes an extremely well thought through blog at TheCauseIsTheHabit.com If you haven’t already read it I would highly recommend that you do.
Damien [...]
Mr Tweet: Virtual Networking Assistant?
Posted on November 26, 2008. Filed under: Social Media, Technology, blogging, twitter | Tags: Mr. Tweet, social networking, twitter, Twitter tools, Twitter use |
This week saw another rising star in the Twitter apps, Mr. Tweet. Still in Alpha, Mr Tweet offers to scour your Twitter network and make recommendations for two different groups of people for you to follow.
Influencers beyond my network
Which of my followers I should be following back
This is an interesting concept, better executed than [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Who I am I reading?
Posted on November 16, 2008. Filed under: Observations, Social Media, blogging | Tags: blogging, friends, LinkedIn, reading, social networking, twitter, Writing |
Most people know who the “Rockstars” are in blogging these days. With an estimated 1 million blogs being created everyday in the US you would think that it would be very hard to get noticed or have your voice heard. Those who have been blogging a long time have already managed to differentiate [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )How May I Help You?
Posted on October 20, 2008. Filed under: Observations, Social Media | Tags: help out, how may i help you?, networking power, social networking |
Following on from my post on Friday – How to Improve your Twitter gradings and why you should – if you have decided to follow those steps you are probably already seeing results, growing your network, so what is the next step?
This coming Friday, October 24th I have decided its time to put online social [...]






