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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Social Media

Social Media Incubator Betaworks Gets $20 Million From NYT, AOL Ventures, Others

1 hour 6 minutes ago - Paid Content
Betaworks, the NYC

SXSW 2010: The Complete Social Media Guide

Yesterday - Mashable!
This year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) festival is rapidly approaching. Beginning with the Interactive Media events on March 12th, Austin, Texa...

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media Jobs

Yesterday - Mashable!
If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all ou...

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Twiagnostics: Do You Have a Social Media Disorder?

Yesterday - The Huffington Post
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Noah J. Nelson A panel of top expert...

Ramon Nuez: Why SMX Echo is the Leading Multicultural Social Media Monitoring Tool

2 days ago - The Huffington Post
I had the great pleasure of meeting Claudia Goffan about a year ago. I quickly realized that Claudia was an incredibly talented and driven person...

Corey Haim Dies: Fans Pay Tribute on Social Media Sites

Yesterday - Mashable!
Corey Haim, best known as one half of “the two Coreys,” was found dead in his home this morning at the age of 38, apparently from an acci...

Radian6 Launches Powerful Social Media Engagement and Monitoring Console For Brands And Agencies

Yesterday - TechCrunch
Brands are engaging in the conversations that are taking place on social media sites now more than ever. But in order to tap into the social conversa...

Open Thread: Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?

Yesterday - Read Write Web
Social media gurus: We all know one. If you're lucky, you know only one. They are the attendees of tech parties, the "Twitter consultants," the armch...

HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media

2 days ago - Mashable!
Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she w...

For SXSWi, Chevy plugs into social media

2 days ago - CNET News
An ambitious load of marketing initiatives from the GM division, which is preparing to launch its Volt electric car, emphasizes that brands increasing...

Spigit offers social media platform for company contests

2 days ago - Venture Beat
Spigit, the maker of a social networking platform that lets businesses use crowdsourcing to solve internal problems, is launching a new platform today...

The Social Media Expert Crisis Descends

2 days ago - The Inquisitr
Back in August last year I wrote about my fears that we are facing a trust crisis in the social media space. I’ve been disconnected from the Un...

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media Events

3 days ago - Mashable!
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. Fo...

VIDEO: Social media “dorks” get Jay-Z parody anthem

3 days ago - The Inquisitr
Although as a rabid Jay

How Job Seekers Are Using Social Media for Real Results

3 days ago - Mashable!
The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you...

“The Cove” Movie Uses Oscars to Promote Social Media Activism

3 days ago - Mashable!
One of the men responsible for The Cove — 2010 Oscar winner for best documentary — used the Academy Awards stage to promote a web and mobile

Residents use social media to fight organized crime in Mexico

4 days ago - CNN
Renewed violence in Mexican cities bordering Texas has ignited fear among nearby residents, some of whom have turned to social media despite cartels'...

Social Media Dorks Get an Anthem [VIDEO]

3 days ago - Mashable!
Remember the Pantless Knights of “I’m on a Mac” fame? Well, they’re back today with a new vid titled “The New Dork,R...

Social media at work -- bane or boon?

3 days ago - CNN
Social media are, by definition, supposed to be a social experience. Make a profile and start connecting. Reach out to friends, old and new. Post a pr...

The New York Times is hiring 12 techies and a social media whiz

3 days ago - Venture Beat
While pundits climb over each other to predict the death of The New York Times Company, the NYT is looking to hire at least a dozen full

How Companies are Using Social Media to Make Better Decisions

7 days ago - Mashable!
Mat Fogarty is the Founder and CEO of Crowdcast, a leading provider of collective intelligence and prediction market solutions.  You can read more...

UPDATED: Who Uses Social Media More, Men or Women?

7 days ago - GigaOM
Updated: Men are more positively inclined towards social media activities and use social networking sites more than women, according to what Liberty...

2morrowknight: Jazz Baker: Social Media Visionary

7 days ago - The Huffington Post
This is the third post in our 12

American Idol Strips Contestants of Social Media Accounts

7 days ago - Mashable!
This year American Idol made headlines for pushing out individual Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts for each of its 24 finalists. However, the...

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Development Jobs

7 days ago - Mashable!
If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all ou...

3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age

A week ago - Mashable!
Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications, the nation’s top crisis communications firm...

Online video publisher thePlatform launches new social media video player

03/03/2010 - Venture Beat
ThePlatform, Comcast’s video publishing subsidiary, has unveiled a new video player that integrates access to 10 social media networks. The new...

Social Media 101

03/03/2010 - Chris Brogan
Should your company be blogging? What’s Twitter going to do for you? Why is Facebook all the rage? I’m happy to report that my new book,...

Omniture, Facebook Expand Social Media Marketing Partnership

03/03/2010 - TechCrunch
Omniture, acquired by Adobe for $1.8 billion last year, has expanded its partnership with Facebook. Together, the companies aim to provide marketers w...

Social Media – turning into a failure it didn’t need to

03/03/2010 - The Inquisitr
Human nature is a fascinating thing to watch and yet when it comes to Social Media there seems to be a total lack of understanding about human natu...

Premiere: Hulu’s Social Media-Infused “If I Can Dream” [VIDEO]

03/02/2010 - Mashable!
Hulu’s first foray into original programming — a reality show called If I Can Dream — premiered today with a 25

How Small Business Is Using Social Media [STATS]

03/02/2010 - Mashable!
The University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business looked at the relationship between social media and small businesses and found that the t...

How Companies Are Using Your Social Media Data

03/02/2010 - Mashable!
Companies are mining the social web to build dossiers on you. Information posted publicly on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, forums and other sites is fai...

ExactTarget Buys CoTweet, Sets Up “Social Media Lab” In San Francisco

03/02/2010 - TechCrunch
Email marketing software giant ExactTarget has agreed to acquire CoTweet, a young company that offers a tool that enables multiple people to communic...

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Conference Guide

03/01/2010 - Mashable!
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. Fo...

Use Social Media to Track the Chilean Earthquake

02/27/2010 - GigaOM
As with the earthquake in Haiti, social

Pentagon OKs social media access

02/27/2010 - CNET News
With new policy, the Defense Department acknowledges the impracticality of an either/or decision between network security and information sharing via...

David Meerman Scott: US Department of Defense Ahead of Most Companies with a New Social Media Policy

02/27/2010 - The Huffington Post
Late Friday, the U.S. Department of Defense released its official policy covering new media and social media. With some three million employees, the D...

 

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@Southwestair uses www.wordle.net to measure their brand's tone in #SocialMedia - #AMAOKC (oops!)

by eJasonTrout

#socialmedia Tip 5 (of 6): Engage - How can you get involved? How can you create conversation?

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#socialmedia Tip 5 (of 6): Engage - How can you get involved? How can you create conversation?

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#socialmedia Tip 5 (of 6): Engage - How can you get involved? How can you create conversation?

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