Social Media to Support Causes > Haiti Positive Impact

One of my startups is centered around creating group sites. Group sites can be used for many purposes such as Marketing, Support, Sales, Loyalty and Causes. Our group sites are like ning but are more super charged for business using Online Meetings, Email Marketing, Social Analytics and other industrial strength web tools. As a test [...]

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SOCIAL: Online Conversation Models

Online Conversations Are Evolving It wasn’t long ago that to be a credible participant in social media one only had to have a decent blog and keep it updated fairly regularly. The rise of social media was an astonishing and novel enough development that most people still don’t blog today, despite the enormous influence that [...]

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SOCIAL: Aggregation & Syndication

Centralizing and Syndicating Your Online LifeIt’s beginning to look like 2008 might be the year of the social aggregator as users begin to employ these emerging new tools to better manage and track their various online relationships, both personal and professional. The introduction of these new Web applications, such as Friendfeed, Socialthing!, Spokeo, Second Brain, [...]

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SOCIAL: Viral Loop Methodology

Remember the days when viral meant “send to a friend”?, well now its becoming a full blown tactic that may be the key to your success. Some of the most successful viral apps have spent as much time on their viral formula as on developing the app itself. While this is more a facebook phenomena [...]

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TECH: Monetizing and Marketing Thru Widgets

Lots of continuing discussion everywhere, about Widgets. Widgets are the new cool. Everyone agrees they are a big phenomenon that’s here to stay. That said let’s revisit this trend. In their current form, widgets are the next step in the trend towards disaggregation of content at the production end and aggregation of content by the [...]

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SOCIAL: Monetizing the Social Graph

The blogosphere is loaded up with all flavors of Facebook Advertising analysis, and much handwringing over the notion of users expressing their enthusiasm for Diet Coke or “American Gangster” on their Facebook page and Coca-Cola or Universal Pictures placing ads in the newsfeed as the items are spooled to their social graph. (Beyond Facebook, it’s [...]

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SOCIAL: Thoughts On Google’s OpenSocial

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you know that Facebook is presently the industry darling in social networking, having largely pushed MySpace off the industry’s stage, as it seems to offer a more compelling model for social interaction to users overall. Just as importantly, Facebook also lets any other company that wants to [...]

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SOCIAL SCIENCE: Social Network Analysis

With all the activity around new sites that build community and support networking and collaboration, I wanted to dig deeper into the science behind social media and networking. This is one of these paradigms that is driving many new useful services such as Linked-In, Friendster, MySpace, Ryze.com, Spoke.com and Yahoo 360. Social networking sites can [...]

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