I have to eat some crow this evening. (morning) It is 2:22AM EST and Ashton Kutcher hit 1.000,000 Twitter followers before CNN. This competition was tracked live and Twitter even helped by blocking any attempts to “unfollow” either Ashton or CNN as the race to one million got closer. Seriously though, beyond the sort of [...]
While I usually try to dedicate one theme per blog I have been really cranking out the Foo today and have to combine two very cool things in one blog. Social Media Today is a moderated social community that allows you to start building a personal network with your peers, create a profile and promote [...]
This evening I went out and visited the Social Media Club site. It contains lots of material for beginners as well as experienced s.m. consultants. I wanted to share that Bash Foo has joined SMC as a member. I’ll be sporting their logo and giving them the all important “nofollow” backtrack. I am fairly certain [...]
Hey guys, I just got off the phone with Larry Signorile from Johnson Resource Group. He had asked about how employment and recruiting firms could benefit from the use of Social Media. While the job market may be at its lowest in 25 years, there is still difficulty for recruiters to place the right candidate [...]
Most Corporate Social Media Efforts Will Fail – Search Engine Watch (SEW). This excellent write-up by Liana Evans focuses in on the many pitfalls that Corporate marketing teams fall into when building Social Media sites and attempting to manage their Online Reputation and Brand. The fact is that simply driving users and traffic across the [...]
Social Media can enable good business practices, enhance sales or totally transform your business. And it does not matter what business you are in!
RT @mashable: Tip: all Mashable’s social media lists, resources & how-tos are found here: http://bit.ly/FHg04 # Keep it Social. Can social media “corral” new and existing customers? http://bashfoo.com/?p=29 # RT @carsonmckee: How to leverage sponsorships via Twitter: http://bit.ly/jL0Dr # Celebrating some breakthrough thoughts and motivations. http://bashfoo.com/?p=29 ♫ http://blip.fm/~49fke # Keep it Social. Can social media [...]
Social Media has an opportunity to “corral” self-indicated consumers around products they want and desire. Now, can it replace traditional salesmanship?
The newest technology innovations today all call for loosely coupled integration points. For lay folks, loosely coupled technologies refer to an approach to designing interfaces across modules to reduce the interdependencies across these modules or components. This essentially ensures that changes made to one system do not cause fault within another. Social media and Social [...]