Social media
Small business social media use increasing
According to a study by Sage Software and AMI-Partners, more than 260,000 small businesses in the US and Canada employ social networking tactics, too.
Most of them used professional social networking sites such as LinkedIn. General social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook were also widely used, followed by niche communities and job sites.
Less popular [...]
Barcamp KL this weekend
Barcamp Malaysia is now Barcamp KL. Get registered registered. Facebook event page here.
I’m not planning on giving a talk this time around but who knows. It’s barcamp, things happen spontaneously. See you there!
Social Media report for Asia by Ogilvy
Slides here
Social Media Optimization project: Democrats Abroad
Talking about Social Media to increase SEO for Vote From Abroad, photo by Democrats Abroad Cambodia
I’m just back from the Democrats Abroad Asia Pacific Regional Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I was representing Democrats Abroad Malaysia and gave a short talk on using Social Media to increase site traffic to our online voter registration tool, [...]
Friend lists add privacy on facebook
photo by Johnny Blood
Here’s an informative post over at ReadWriteWeb on how to use Friend Lists feature on facebook.
Social Media 2009 – eMarketer predicts transactions for social networks
photo by roevin
eMarketer predictions for 2009 are out. According to David Hallerman, online video will steam ahead rising by 45% in 2009 to reach $850 million. Traditional media (TV, Newspapers) are in for some hurt. Retail e-commerce growth rates will decline however Debra Aho Williamson predicts b2b marketing is coming to social networks.
Expect both MySpace [...]
YouTube HQ video by default
Go to your YouTube My Account / Playback Setup page and choose “I have a fast connection. Always play higher-quality video when it’s available.”
Enjoy high quality video by default now on any youtube video and embedded video. I notice that the HQ videos also play faster here.
Social networking increases efficiency at work
photo by Flipped Out
According to a recent survey that Dynamic Markets did for AT&T in Europe, employees say that social networking increased their productivity, extended their abilities and enhanced creativity.
A pan-European survey of more than 2,500 people in five countries shows that the use of social networking tools as part of everyday working life has [...]
Online video viewers better informed voters
photo by AgentOdd
This is interesting for me because living overseas almost all of my election news is online. I’m curious how the news is being absorbed back home. Most of what I watch is from Huffington Post, Crooks & Liars, DailyKos, YouTube. The vicious loops of stateside political coverage from CNN International (and mind numbing [...]
Take surveys for $150 per hour on LinkedIn. Kind of.
photo by Zombie37
OK, not exactly.. But according to AdAge you can make, “50 cents to $2.50 per minute of your attention while you fill out surveys, in the form of “gift cards, charitable donations and opportunities to view survey results as rewards.”
The online survey companies need to get beyond work at home mentality when targeting [...]
LinkedIn Apps: WordPress
The LinkedIn WordPress app is super easy to install and has a nice feature to filter posts on your profile using tags.
7 Facebook apps for Enterprise 2.0
The financial downturn is accelerating business interest in social media.
The global recession is turning out to be a global catalyst for accelerating changes in technology, marketing and advertising. Social media will be one of the beneficiaries of this change along with metered access to multi-tenant cloud environments like SaaS / PaaS / HaaS.
Word of mouth [...]
Social Media in Plain English
CommonCraft videos are really well done. Here their ‘ice cream’ as a metaphor for social media video.
via OnDemand Beat
Four score and seven tweets ago
Just saw this over at Joe Trippi’s blog,
If you haven’t already heard, a big win came over the weekend in the form of Franking Reform that will open the doors to allow Congress to log on and communicate over the web with their constituents and anyone else out in the cloud. One of the main [...]
Cloud computing in plain english
One of my competitive intelligence research clients is a NYC startup in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) space. Here is a well done short video by GoGrid describing cloud hosting. Nice use of social media by GoGrid.