If you are already a Movable Type or HTML expert, this post is not for you. But many fellow bloggers who are Typepad users (but not programming saavy) asked how I created my Social Media Bio and how they might do the same. For all of you that asked, here is how I hacked mine together – using a bare minimum of coding knowledge and mostly using the tools that already exist within Typepad:
Clear Channel Tunes Into Social Networks
Radio heavyweight Clear Channel is trying out the social networking business. The company’s online music and radio division has plans to roll out a dozen station branded social networks in the next several months.
Local and Social Sites Swiping Big Media Visitors
In the last year, social media sites and local news have been pulling visitors away from traditional online news and media sources, according to Hitwise. Regardless of where online media consumers end up though, they begin with a search engine.
Social Search – The Future of Image Search
[Disclaimer: I’m CEO of Zooomr, we are building both a social based image search system as well as a stock photography platform]
Social News & Bookmarking Mistakes
Listen. Can you hear it? All the buzz about social media marketing? What you might not know is that with all that sound there’s an awful lot of noise. That difficulty manifests itself in the form of basic misconceptions, blunders and flat out mistakes when trying to participate and market with social news and bookmarking sites.
Social Media Disrupts Company Communication
I was inspired this morning by Daniel’s post on his Emergence Media blog titled Marketing Changes: CMOs, Evangelist, Social Media Programs, Website Strategy Positioning, it’s a very meaty article and worth a good read.
Longer Tail of Media Consumption
EconSM – Social Media Meets Deals
How do social media deals happen? How do you manage them? What deals are coming?
EconSM – Social Media Meets Mobile Media
Session Description: "Social media is changing the most social of devices, the mobile phone, at a time when more and more mobile devices aren’t just phones anymore. Just as PCs replaced minicomputers and laptops displaced desktops, we are seeing the beginning of handheld devices doing much of what full-fledged computers used to do. Handheld devices are the key to the next generation of social media; we’ll explore the ramifications of this switch.
EconSM – Social Media Meets Marketing
(I’m at EconSM today.)
Social Networks Good For Your Career
Social networking is for more than just keeping in touch with family and friends. Business related social networking sites are useful for both employers and job seekers.
LinkedIn, a well-known career social network, reported 89 percent growth in members from 2005-2006. The site has seen strong growth since its first year, when they had 85,000 members and has grown to more than eight million members.