Facebook Makes Your Friendships Pay
Facebook is developing one of the world’s largest marketing databases from information gathered on their site. They have the opportunity to be the model of personal information use for years to come, if they do it right.
How to Jump Into Social Media
There was a time to learn how to use e-mail, texting, and even an ATM, but when is the right time to begin using social networks? The answer may be that you have already started. Thirty-five percent of American adults already have a profile on a social media web site....
BeyondThe.Biz Briefs: This Weeks Top Social Media Resources – Jan. 23 09
Here are some of the more interesting leads of the week coming from Twitter users: > Print your blog. Yes, take it from the paper-saving Interwebs to paper. Just like they used to print news on. http://www.theprintedblog.com. Thanks to @danschawbel for the find....
Free Blackberry Candy
President Obama loves to keep in touch with his Blackberry, and now his new NSA approved unit. The rest of us look for the candy - the applications - that make our Blackberry more useful for work, business and for fun. Here are my picks for some of the best apps to...
60 Years of Advertising and Marketing in 3.5 Minutes
With a tip of the hat to mediatransparent.com for the post, and to the creator Michael Reissinger for posting it on Vimeo, here is a (very entertaining) review on advertising from the 1940's to today and the role that social media plays. Scholz & Friends: "Dramatic...
Social Media Hurts Broadway
The lights, the music, the stars... It's Broadway! Some 16 Broadway plays are closing or have closed in the span of a few months. Observing Broadway's sharp downward trend, I looked for a similar upward trend. I found that trend in the growth of social media....
