I’ve used Foursquare several times a day for over 2 months now. Social networks and other types of community have come and gone so often that when something new comes along, we can all be forgiven for being tired of it before even trying it. It would however be unforgivable for anyone working [...]
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April 6th, 2010 - 11:20 pm § in Social networks
Foursquare: almost there!
Tags: Bing, Crunked, Dennis Crowley, Dodgeball, Foursquare, Google, Google Inc., insurance, insurance premiums, iphone, Legal & General, Legal and General Group PLC, location-based social networking website, mayor, mobile devices, Naveen Selvadurai, online behaviour, online marketing, Online social networking, social media marketing, social media marketing works, social media;, Social networks, Starbucks Corporation, Starbucks;, Sydney;, twitter, World Wide Web No Comments
March 24th, 2010 - 6:32 am § in SEO & marketing
The new SEO: Visibility strategist
SEO has moved on in the last 5 years (considerably some might say) yet I still see the same skill requirements and the somewhat vague job descriptions in job listings. It isn’t easy to hire for the role of SEO if you’re not an expert in it, so word of mouth does go a long [...][...]
Tags: Business, Google, Google Inc., information management, Internet, Internet marketing, marketing, search engine, search engine optimization;, Search engines, search space, Semantic web, SEO analyst, social media;, Social networks, strategist, Technology_Internet, Visibility strategist, Web development, World Wide Web 4 Comments
March 11th, 2010 - 10:42 pm § in Social networks
SLNA: social network analysis
Who is in your social network and how do they influence its behaviour? Which events affect it positively or negatively? You need to find out if you’re carrying out social media campaigns. The research that ignited some fire in my belly today is from a computer scientist (Andrew J. Scholand at [...]
Tags: Andrew J. Scholand, Community building, computer scientist, Cultural economics, James W. Pennebaker, language processing;, Linguistic Inquiry, online communities, PageRank
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August 11th, 2009 - 9:18 am § in Guest posts
Thinking Hat on Samir: A Social Media Interview
Samir Balwani wrote a thought provoking post on his blog called “Social Media is a Culture, Not Just a Strategy“. I got in touch with him and had a conversation about it which was pretty interesting, so I decided to share it with you here: I found that particular post very thought provok[...]
May 29th, 2009 - 12:23 pm § in SEO & marketing, Tutorials
PYO SEO
“PYO strawberries” are words usually found on a hand painted wooden sign at the side of the road in the British countryside during the summer months. It means “Pick your own strawberries” for the non-countryside types! This can be adapted to the SEO world too. This post is ai[...]
May 18th, 2009 - 11:19 am § in Guest posts
Tool Wishlist: Topic Tracker
This is the second guest post to appear here on SFS, and I’m excited to present a piece by Samir Balwani. You will know him from Mashable also. Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter and join in the conversation. here we go… There’s been a lot of recent news about a series of [...]
April 23rd, 2009 - 9:12 am § in Social networks
Twitter marketing genius
I have been following DC Comics for a while, and noticed that I didn’t see any tweets from them. I decided to investigate and visited their Twitter page: Stats: - 0 Tweets - 0 Follows - 1,668 followers Now why do you think they get followed with such a poor record? This defies all Twitter [...[...]
April 21st, 2009 - 2:17 pm § in Social networks
Social media policy
I have a lot of requests for inclusion into my social media sphere, and I have to admit that although I don’t want to appear excessively exclusive, I am fairly selective. The reason for this is that I want to keep my social networks useful and interesting. I am strapped for time, same as every[...]
March 31st, 2009 - 2:00 pm § in Social networks
Masters Degree in Social Media
The Birmingham City University has announced that it is offering a masters in Social Media. You can read more about it on Mashable and also in the Telegraph for example. Mashable have a conversation going on with a number of different opinions. There are a fair few people who read this blog who [...]
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March 26th, 2009 - 10:56 am § in Social networks
The Tao of Twitter
I tend to assume that everyone around me knows all about Twitter and seem to think that everyone engages in it and has an account. Therefore my jaw drops to the ground when I realise that quite a lot of people don’t get Twitter, and even more worrying, many companies don’t get it eithe[...]
