2009 March

Good article on managing the “Facebook Generation” things are definately going to change for managers:
From: http://blogs.wsj.com/management/2009/03/24/the-facebook-generation-vs-the-fortune-500/
By Gary Hamel
The experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace expectations of “Generation F” – the Facebook Generation. At a minimum, they’ll expect the social environment of work to reflect the social context of the Web, rather [...]

Every once and awhile I see someone tweet on Twitter on how to create a great Squidoo page. If you go over to freelancing sites like Elance, there are pages of people looking to hire someone who knows how to create a good Squidoo lense. Once upon a time there was great benefit by writing [...]

Great whitepaper article, also has a video. Check it out.

See Full Article Here: http://www.whitepapersource.com/socialmediamarketing/report/

Social Media Marketing Industry Report
By Michael Stelzner

Click to retweet this reportSocial media is seen by many marketers as the next gold rush.

See full article: www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/03/23/daily24.html?jst=b_ln_hl

FULL ARTICLE: www.podcastingnews.com/2009/03/24/advertisers-switching-to-social-media/

Full Article: kpgraphicarts.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/facebook-pages-local-search-engine-optimization/

From Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/03/23/social-media-marketing-budgets/
Recently, we looked at media usage trends, which showed the rising numbers of media consumers that are using social networking sites, reading blogs, and viewing Internet video, among other forms of digital content. Not surprisingly, as these new forms of media consumption grow, so too grows the number of marketing dollars being [...]

This is an article I was recently interviewed for:
From: http://medillmoneymavens.com/2009/03/05/social-media-marketing-businesss-new-bff/
BY HOLLIS TEMPLETON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
While everyone—and I mean everyone—is wired to social networking sites, marketers are tapping into mainstream use of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
It’s called social media marketing and it allows companies to manage brand reputations, get closer to their customers [...]

Great article over at www.web20portals.com on finding more followers and people to follow:
http://www.web20portals.com/web-20-news/14-twitter-directories-to-find-new-friends
14 Twitter directories to find new friends
Digg.com founder Kevin Rose is at it again with a Twitter directory called WeFollow. And although it’s capturing much of the limelight right now, it’s not the only service of its kind. In fact, there are [...]

When you look at a high-profile YouTube page like Barack Obama’s the first thought is they must of had some sort of partnership with youtube and an expensive design firm to layout the page. In truth, it’s just a little background manuplation. In regards to the design there’s not much you can edit in Youtube [...]