wannabeMogul

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Posts Tagged ‘social media’

When a computer goes down

Could this be the first written Rick Roll?

When iChat is down, good employees improvise…
Notepad iChat Transcript:
Lance: Man, not having Internet blows
Lance: Oh, s***, but check this out…
Lance: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiV
Me: That one’s cool, but it’s nothing compared to this one.
Me: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rtFotf7NEWg

When You Win Over A Community: The Story of Help A Reporter Out

I don’t want to sound like a fanboy of Peter Shankman’s Help A Reporter Out (HARO) since I already posted about it recently, but I wanted to point out this video produced by one of the many fans of Shankman’s new query service.

High quality blip.tv verison also available.
In truth, I am sort of a fanboy [...]

Do you really understand social media?

I mean REALLY understand it? Even on paper?

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
How about now?
I bet you want ice cream now, too.
Video from leelefever (Common Craft) and found via Todd And

Why I Have Resisted FriendFeed

I stand in the world without a FriendFeed. It may be a slightly darker, colder less RSS-blissful place, but I am okay with that for the moment.
If you’ve been trapped under some Web 1.0 rock, FriendFeed is an aggregate service that allows you to link all your social media profiles, blogs and services into one [...]

Why I Love Twitter and Became ProBlogger/YouTube Famous

Last month, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net asked his Twitter followers — that includes me – why they loved Twitter. He took those responses and turned them into a video slideshow on YouTube enhanced with a rocking instrumental track.
Check me out around 4:03 AND AGAIN at 4:17. Yeah, that’s right — twice. Don’t worry. I’ll sign [...]

Time to work: Public Relations pitching in a social media world

Pitching bloggers, just like traditional media outlets, takes research and significant effort. To be effective, you really have to know your audience and what will interest them.
Off-topic pitches are a bad first impression, and they can stick with you if you are unlucky enough.
With the growing number of social media communication tools and the rampant [...]

Is Community Management the future of marketing?

There’s a reason that I want to train myself on social media and integrate a role as a community manager into my normal public relations duties. As more and more marketers profess the equal ground that social networks create between marketers and consumers, marketers have to redefine themselves.
Jeremiah Owyang questioned on a recent post how [...]

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