Posts Tagged "Social Media"

  • Twitter Overtakes New York Times, Bests 911

    Yes, you read the headline correctly. According to comScore and as reported by TechCrunch yesterday, Twitter now has more unique visitors each month than The New York Times and the gap appears to be widening  (click chart for larger view):
    In February, 2009 Twitter drew less than 10 million monthly unique visitors. [...] Fast-forward to April, [...]

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  • Facebook Gets ‘appy

    Now that Apple has proven the model works everyone wants an app store of their own. RIM has added one for Blackberry and now Facebook, who published their API for 3rd party developers months ago, is getting into the ‘appy act. As reported in the Cynopsis Digital newsletter this morning:
    Like [...]

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  • Web 2.0 — What Will Make it Work?

    Join us this Friday for a deep dive into marketing and Web 2.0 technology at  The Executive Summit: Marketing & Technology-the Next Frontier hosted by Pace University’s Lubin School of Business. Click here for more information and to register.
    According to the program notes “This has been the most discussed area of marketing and yet it [...]

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  • Is There a Downside to the Upside of Social Media?

    Between the Susan Boyle phenomenon, participating in a panel discussion on the importance of social media in business as part of NYC Entrepreneur Week and watching clients eyes cross when I urge them to Twitter, I’ve been thinking a lot about social media lately. Is it only today’s flavor? Is there a downside we’re not [...]

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  • Top 50 Social Media Brands

    If a brand is at essence a promise and a collection of public perceptions, and arguably it is, monitoring a brand’s currency in social media should be the best way to rank them.
    At least that’s the argument at Buzz Study, a blog dedicated to monitoring and measuring trends in conversation volume, including blog posts, news [...]

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  • Social Media and the Future of Business

    Join us on Tuesday, April 21st at the Samsung Experience, Time Warner Center, NY for a panel disciussion on The Future of Business: Is Social Media the Answer? produced by our friend Bill Sobel for NYC Entrepreneur Week (NYC ENT). Click here for event details and registration information.
    We’ve got a great panel moderated by Merrill [...]

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  • Brand You According to Google

    Let’s face it, the ability to manage and control our personal and professional identities has taken a big hit thanks to web services like Google, MySpace, Facebook, social bookmarking and now challenges like “25 Random Things About Me” that’s been making the rounds.
    Depending on how you play it out it’s either the underside or simply [...]

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  • As Julien Sharp noted recently, “Getting followers on Twitter is relatively easy, but what is really important in making Twitter a worthwhile experience is the type of followers you get – and the type of “Twitterers” you yourself follow.”
    Sage advice but easier said than done… until now. WhoShouldIFollow is a Twitter mash-up that looks at [...]

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  • Join the Global Game Jam, an intense 48-hour journey of creativity, innovation, collaboration, and experimentation. Maximize your creativity by designing games within specified constraints, in a limited period of time, and build your game dev network in the process.
    The event takes place simultaneously at 44 different locations in 15 countries around the world. In New [...]

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  • My TV, My PC

    For years I’ve been my own best Guinea pig for testing new tools, technologies, techniques… anything I could use to tell a story or that might impact my customers and audience. And because of my first career as  producer and director, web video has held special interest that way.
    Years ago when a defense industry client [...]

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  • Julien Sharp of Stylo Creative – who is also the newest member of our professional association here at RC/A Digital Media – offers clear, step-by-step instructions for how to build your Twitter following in her post: Building Your Twitter Following: It’s All About Planning. Here’s an excerpt:
    Getting followers on Twitter is relatively easy, but what [...]

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  • Excellent interview: Guy Kawasaki tells Robert Scobel why Twitter is more important than his cell phone, rants about bailing out banks and the auto industry, differentiates the good and bad kind of asshole bosses, talks about making the competition crazy and remembers what it was like working at Apple back in the day. Oh yeah, [...]

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