Yes, I’m saying that as someone who runs a social media agency, but I have a point. 
I’d consider myself to be fairly immersed in the world of social media and so from my perspective, it is all that the world ever hears about or writes about. I often wonder what people talk about who aren’t already active in this online world and are outside the ‘tecchy’ circle. The type of people who would give you strange looks if you said “Would you mind if I just twitpic my dinner? My followers love to know what I eat” . My answer came at a recent conference I spoke at : it’s still social media.
Email signatures may seem like a mundane every day thing that are a necessity in life but if used correctly and innovatively they can be used not only to grow traffic to your blog but also to increase the number of fans, followers and subscribers you have for you social media profiles. We show you a great Firefox plugin that works with Gmail and most other email services such as hotmail and Yahoo mail that allows you to edit your signature and pull in your latestt blog posts via RSS so as your email signatures are constantly changing and encourage people to click through and read your blog posts. Increase your blog traffic by adding one now…
Our selection of the best of the web this week, easy reading for a Friday afternoon and a random video just for the fun of it…
Sydney Police Force are ramping up their use of social media, in a bid to help catch more criminals. They’re using youtube and Twitter to help distribute wanted criminals and spread awareness.
Twitter is a great way of consuming news but there is a lot of noise on the service and it can be hard to filter all the good quality content but the new service from Twitter time.es aims to eliminate that by delivering you a copy of a newspaper based on all the news in your stream. Itbrings the freshest and most relevant content based on what your friends are reading and it is well worth checking out. I just had my first paper delivered and I must say it is very good indeed…
Twitter traffic has been growing for a couple of years like crazy but October 2009 has seen it drop for the first time and it comes hot on the heels of further bad news with Stephen Fry claiming that he has quit the service. The traffic reports comes from a variey of online services including compete, Quantcast, Alexa and Hitwise who all measure traffic online and although this is only traffic that reaches the Twitter website directly and doesn’t include 3rd party apps such as Tweetdeck and Seesmic it does give a good overall indication of where things are headed.
Is this bad news for Twitter or is it simply a pause in growth before it starts another spurt? Have a look through the graphs after the jump and see what you think yourself…
Social media has resulted in an era of openness, the likes of which we haven’t seen before. We now expect people to be open online, recognising the potential of this and understanding that this is what social media is essentially about. Just how far will we take this though and in a few years time, will privacy even be a relevant concept online?
There are hundreds of ways to exploit social media to help your business or to build your personal brand but one that should stand head and shoulders above any other is the simplest of them all and has been around for as long as we have been on the planet….help other people. It sounds really really easy and you probably don’t even think itwarrants you reading the rest of this post but if you stop and think about it for a second do you really help others? Do you consistently go out of your way to help others and put their needs above yours?
Let me let you in on a little social media secret…Helping others is the key and any work you put in to help others will come back to help you in the long run 10 times over. The beauty in this day and age is that it is so easy to help others through social media now. You just have to want to.
Social media has been widely adopted by individual users all over the world but companies and large corporations have been more wary to use the tools that are available to them. There are a bunch of great services, most of which are free, that can be used to communicate and collaborate internally.
The opportunity for large companies to adopt these tools is there at the moment but the transition period will probably take longer than with individual users but hopefully this list of some basic tools will help you out with making a start within your company or organization…
Yesterday saw the third Measurement Camp in Dublin, with attendees from a variety of backgrounds contributing to some great discussion on the central issue of how you measure social media.
Phil Macartney from Bebo presented the example of a Coca Cola campaign to demonstrate how they might measure a campaign on Bebo. You can see Phil’s [...]
