Social Median Hiring – You Want Them to Teach You, But First, You Must Teach Them
20 February 2009The most productive way Very often we're told by businesses that they would like to hire a social median to assist them as a company to learn social media, and how they should implement it in their business. All too often, the company will hire a pro to do just that and it can be truly effective in giving the entire team a fast track lesson in engagement from various departments- and what's wrong with that? Nothing, if your goal is to tackle social media by accident. What I mean by that is there is no point in everyone hammering the exact same nail ...
Social Media Experts Write Book for Charity
18 February 2009Experts gather for a cause Benn & I recently wrote a section for "The Project 100" book which if you watched the presentation above (you did watch it, didn't you?) you'd know we wrote under 400 words about social media. I won't reveal yet what we wrote because it isn't released until April 6th (get your PayPal accounts ready, y'all!) but it involves martinis and beer, so you'll totally want to read it. So enough about the excitement of our involvement, on to the reality- did you know that about 85 percent of all women diagnosed with breast cancer DO ...
Texas Social Media Award Finalists
18 February 2009For weeks, people across the globe have been casting their votes for the Austin American-Statesman's first annual Texas Social Media Awards and finally, the 25 winners have just been announced with the top most awesomest (yes, that's a word) social median in the state being announced at the awards show party on March 15th. We are honored to be named among the 25 winners and look forward to the party! Party Time! Judges for the winners were Internet Editor Robert Quigley, food writer Addie Broyles and technology culture writer Omar Gallaga. An overall Texas Social ...
Hiring a Twit- Awesome or Suckey?
11 February 2009Auto Responders Microblogging site Twitter is the most rapidly growing social network in the world and hundreds of services are now offered to supplement your Twitter experience from applications that put Twitter on your phone and website, automate responses or help you find a restaurant. Many say that the social network is being dumbed down and abused by people to have timed or auto responses while others say its smart business and its up to the user culture to determine such. On top of auto responses, Twit4Hire.com has launched which is a service businesses or individuals can pay for and have someone Twitter for them. ...
Facebook Up, MySpace Down
09 February 2009Social networking site Facebook turned five years old this week and has a marked impact on social media as their market share continues to grow. According to our 2008 Social Media Statistics Study, Facebook grew 85% in 2008 alone and boasts over 150 million users. Hitwise Intelligence reports that "one year ago, visits to Facebook represented 15% of the total social networking category while MySpace captured 73%. In January 2009, Facebook’s share doubled to reach 31%, while MySpace’s total share of the ...
What’s a Tweetup?
05 February 2009A Tweetup is an impromptu social gathering of people using Twitter, usually held at a restaurant, bar or coffee house. It's not a sponsored or ticketed event, it's just a gathering so people can meet face to face that spend time networking with each other online. Next week, we will be going to an impromptu Tweetup at Rudy's on 183 North where we'll eat barbeque and chit chat with everyone there. There are usually between 20 and 100 people depending on the date, time and organization, so you never know what you're in for. Click here for all the details- ...
Austin Twestival
05 February 2009What's a Twestival? A Twestival is a play on words for Twitter + festival and the first annual (and global) Twestival is being held on February 12th at Ace's Lounge on 6th Street. All ticket sales will go directly to providing clean water by building two wells in Africa because 1 in 6 people globally don't have clean drinking water, and all it takes is a well dug deep enough to reach the clean source, so buy your tickets now.
Austin Social Media in Public Relations
04 February 2009With one quick search of our social networks, we found a great deal of Austin public relations specialists implementing new media into their marketing strategies. Because Austin is the Live Social Media Capital of the World, we are frequently looked to as the playbook writers, and the public relations field is no exception. We've listed only 10 Austin PR people and welcome you to add more in the comments: Aaron Bramley (@AaronMSB) Valerie Kusler (@pureaslight) Jon Ray (@jonray) Christina Felton (@christinafelton) Dana Marruffo ...
Austin Social Media & Texas Football
03 February 2009Austin (the Live Social Media Capital of the World) is not just a bunch of people playing around on computers, it's non profit organizations, realtors, politicians, moms, dads, doctors, priests, professors, technologists and more. It's also made up of many UT Longhorn fans, so for those of us who either paid a lot of money to be a Longhorn (like me), were born with Bevo horns or just like wicked awesome football, below are 10 UT Football social media sources in Austin: Hook 'Em!!! Bevo Beat (@bevobeat) Jeff Beckham (@jeffbeckham)
Twitter Hires a Business Developer
03 February 2009A good problem to have? Microblogging site Twitter has a long history of being criticized for an unstable platform, is often misunderstood as a noisy chat room and has been looked at with an mistrusting eye by a public that believes it will eventually monetize through advertising or for use. That said, Twitter's 752% growth in 2008 alone is cause for the company to reexamine itself. This explosion in use is a blessing yet puts a bigger microscope on the company, so is it a good problem to have? Yep. Yes, this massive growth is such a great problem that Twitter has grown ...
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