Entries in social media (9)
Is PR Dead?
Coming up for air from the PR world (after an exciting year spent at Capstrat, a PR firm in Raleigh), I now have the chance to pause and reflect on the role of social media in public relations.
Four word definition of social media
A few days ago, Stephen Nold on LinkedIn posed the question “Social media is ________? (fill in the blank)”. A word cloud of the 68 responses reflects the business orientation of most LinkedIn users. From the cloud of responses, social media looks to be “marketing communications that reach people as individuals.”
All for one and one for all: 5 tips to managing multiple social profiles
Do you Tweet? Have a Facebook profile? MySpace? LinkedIn? How about your own blog? Like many, you probably have at least two or three social profiles and, like many, are wondering how on earth you’ll find the time to manage them all.
Getting "buy" with a little help from your friends: 3 reasons uSocial is a bad idea
A recent AdAge article reports that the online ad firm uSocial is offering to boost the number of a company’s Facebook friends for 7.6 cents per friend ($654.30), or its Facebook “fans” for a mere 8.5 cents a fan.
Social media ecosystem mapped as a wiring diagram
Social media mapped as a wiring diagram
Hundreds of different social media platforms and applications make it practically impossible to understand how they relate to each other.
Experts have tried to map the social media ecosystem.





