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Welcome to the Hive Mind: Learn How to Search Twitter

A few days back, for no particular reason, I started thinking more about how to search for useful information on Twitter. Then Twitter announced they were integrating search.twitter.com with the main platform, so the time to learn has never been better. Not only am I interested, but it seems the hive mind has deemed it [...]

[ More ] April 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Step Your Game Up: Use YouTube Insight To Learn About Your Fans

Who are all those people watching your videos?
Why do they seem to love one video and not another?
 

YouTube Insight launched a year ago offering useful analytics. Whether you want to know how old your audience is, how many times your most viewed video was rated last week, or which minute of your clip is most [...]

[ More ] April 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

How To Sharpen Your Twitter Following

After you’ve been on Twitter for a little while, you will find that you’re following people who you’re actually not all that interested in. You want to remove them, but it seems like such a pain that you never bother. Not only that, but some of these people followed you just so you would follow [...]

[ More ] April 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Guest Posts |

Fabolous Officially Launches MyFabolousLife.com

Fabolous x MyFabolousLife.com. Loso has been hyping up his new website MyFaboulousLife for the past couple of months now so we were expecting great things to come. (incase you didnt know so lol )Well now the site has officially launched and (Drum roll please)….it’s another Ning based social networking site. Gay…I mean yay!  Im mos [...]

[ More ] April 29th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

Where To Find Your Social Media Power Users

While having great content and an appropriate message are crucial for success on social media news sites, having a quality user help with promotion is essential to build momentum. Contacting and conversing with top users who share similar interests as you can be beneficial in helping to spark your content and get it noticed.
This is [...]

[ More ] April 29th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

25 Expert Social Media Marketing Tips For That Ass (If you don’t read this: Kill Yourself)

The benefit from a firm grasp of social media for companies is impossible to ignore. Whether you work in marketing, advertising, public relations or interactive, there are distinct competitive advantages for both individuals and businesses from a better understanding of the social web. Just apply the following tips to your record label.
This post provides [...]

[ More ] April 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

iPhone Apps More Popular than Music Downloads: 1 Billion DL’s in Just 9 months. What gives?

Based on what Wikipedia says I am estimating that iTunes has maybe sold a total of 6.8 Billion songs since April 28, 2003 - i.e. exactly 6 years ago. Now Apple just announced that over 1 Billion iPhone & iPod apps were downloaded around the world (a good list of the top 20 free & [...]

[ More ] April 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Diddy Bop Reveals Last Train To Paris Publicity Campaign: Leveraging Web & Mobile Presence

courtesy of Clyde Smith
As the Diddy Monster revs up for the launch of Last Train To Paris, due September 22nd, with the release of multiple officially unofficial web videos of the first single, Diddy Bop, it’s clear that this will be a monstrous campaign.
When Diddy dropped Press Play in October of 2006, which debuted at [...]

[ More ] April 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

Social Media Myths that Irk The Shit Outta Me

Maybe it’s the recession, or maybe it’s because we ran out of coffee cups this morning, but I feel like it’s the right time to talk about the misconceptions about social media that really fuckin bug me. I hear it from agencies and I hear it from experts. Frankly I think we’re all just making this [...]

[ More ] April 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |