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Update 2: Woz is done. His efforts may have kept him around longer than he would have made it otherwise, but in the end, he just didn’t make it.
Update: Woz has survived another round of Dancing with the Stars for all of you who want to stay up to date without having to watch the show.
Original article: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak appeared on Dancing with the Stars last night and came in last place. Now he wants help getting votes.
A comprehensive guide on leveraging social media for small businesses, covering best practices, platform choice, and measuring success.
I’m not going to wax philosophical about social media marketing. I’m not going to tell you that you should be using social media or that you shouldn’t. I’m just going to show you some examples of how local businesses in the hometown of Murdok – Lexington, Kentucky – are utilizing it. It is up to you to find parallels between what these businesses are doing and strategies that you could be implementing within your own marketing efforts.
Making Customers Aware of Your Presence
Forrester Research just released a report that suggests the tough economy will be the catalyst for more spending on social media marketing.
Nielsen Online’s VideoCensus indicates that in February, 17-month-old Hulu grew to become the second most popular video site (after the behemoth YouTube)—so, Hulu, what are you going to do now?
BusinessWeek asks if Twitter is the Next Monster.com, which is an interesting question because at PubCon South, Top Rank Marketing’s Lee Odden referenced a company that bought ads with Monster (and other places like it) but got better results from Twitter.
Social networking and blogging have become more popular than sending email, according to a new report from Nielsen.
More than two-thirds (67%) of the global online population now goes online to visit social networks and blogs.
"Social networking has become a fundamental part of the global online experience," says John Burbank, CEO of Nielsen Online.
Every so often a blogger will provide me with an “Uh, duh” moment, what some might call a minor obvious epiphany, something I should have thought of already. Steve Rubel gets the credit for that this time, in a Micropersuasion post about Twitter and Facebook’s impending impact on search.
Hulu’s got a lot working in its favor: good content, high-quality clips, and the whole it’s-actually-legal thing. Now, both users and advertisers should be happy to hear that the video site is gaining a social component, too.
Google has added a lot of sharing-based features to Google Reader in recent memory, but it has now launched the ability to have conversations among those who are sharing items. Google acknowledges that this is a key element of sharing that the service has been lacking. I would have to agree.
