Corporate Blogging at its Best
Posted in Around the Web, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Social Media News on Jan 31st, 2012
A little while back, we spoke about how businesses are turning to new technologies to promote their businesses and personal branding through electronic business cards and the like. There are already dozens of job seeker websites where companies can advertise and applicants can easily respond to job ads onlines. Job seekers can upload their resumes [...]
Posted in Around the Web on Jan 23rd, 2012
iMark Business Card. Image Credit: Joanne Dang. Mashable and American Express OPEN Forum have been debating the merits of traditional business cards. After all, in today’s day and age, after receiving such a card, it is still a necessity to transfer the names, phone numbers and email addresses into one’s phone or contact database. Business [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Social Media, Social Media News on Jan 13th, 2012
This map depicts the physical movement of and movements of tweets. Created by Social Media cartographer Eric Fischer, this tracks the physical movement (in green) and @ replies from someone in one location to someone in another (in purple) and a combination of the two (in white). Fischer has also created maps on the use [...]
Posted in Around the Web on Dec 27th, 2011
Google has put together a year in review in the world as reflected in social media. Alot has happened this year and the following clip shows what was important around the world in 2011:
Posted in Around the Web, Social Media, Social Media News on Nov 25th, 2011
Customers are increasing going online to find the best deals. According to the National Retail Federation, last year a total of $45 billion dollars were spent on the United State’s biggest shopping day of the year. Social media is not playing a bigger role that ever before with the marketing of this year’s Black Friday, [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Blogging, Social Media on Nov 10th, 2011
The creator of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, tells the tale of a whale’s rise to Web stardom. Well, not really. He talks about the rise of social media in the story of Mister Splashy pants. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conferences, where leading thinkers from around [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Social Media News on Oct 6th, 2011
Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman of the board, former CEO of Apple and industry icon for decades, has died yesterday. Apple released this statement: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Social Media on Aug 16th, 2011
Posted in Around the Web on Aug 9th, 2011
TED, an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design, is a set of conferences taking place globally, to disseminate “ideas worth spreading.” Their mission statement is: We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Social Media News on Jul 14th, 2011
It’s been said and said again: be careful of what you post on the internet! According to Social Media Today, in a ruling by the Federal Trade Commission, entitles such as the Social Intelligence Corporation can keep an archive of your social media activities for up to seven years! This means that any information, no [...]