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Category: Social Media
4 Ways To Answer Your Shopping Questions via Social Media
[The guest post is by Jessy Troy, a blogger collecting DIY Gadgets and health writer.]
People make purchases via the Internet, through catalogs and in stores, but if there’s one way of buying that brings us all together its the way we ask advice. Chances are, if you have a question or need a recommendation about a potential purchase, you’ll ask your friends and family. It makes perfect sense; they’re not trying to sell you anything, and won’t hold back on details that might affect you in the future too.
Luckily for our generation, the Internet is available to answer many of our retail questions by aggregating and collecting the opinions and experiences of buyers all over the world. There are four ways to utilize this information, and four places online to find it…
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How LinkedIn Does Email Marketing
Despite it appears that Facebook may be beating LinkedIn at the job seeking game, you can learn about how LinkedIn creates effective email calls to action.
During these tough economic times, as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that as of July 2010, the number of unemployed persons stands at 14.6 million and the unemployment rate, at 9.5%; LinkedIn created an effective (and well-timed!) email titled “Get hired faster: 1 month free Job Seeker Premium Account”.
Here’s how LinkedIn does it and what you can learn from it.
The Quest for More Twitter Followers
In an earlier guest post by Stacey Cavenagh, she pointed out:
Twitter has proven itself a massively successful social media tool both for recreational and professional networking use. Equally as popular these days with businesses as celebs, the site has exploded into unprecedented popularity over the last 18 months.
But it’s not quite as simple as just logging on, typing up a short message about what breakfast cereal you’re having and then finding instant micro-blogging success. Nope! Gathering followers takes patience and a little imagination with those ‘Tweets’.
Stacey highlights how hard and time-consuming it can be to get more Twitter followers. There are several methods for increasing your follower count, both manual and automatic.
On the automatic side, there are several Twitter apps out there that, when used appropriately, could help you increase your follower count.
Keeping Up with the Community
[This is a guest post from Amy G. Howard, Founder of Raleigh Special Tonight. Follow her at @amgenove.]Running a hyper-local website about daily specials can be quite grueling. In order to keep readers, you need to update at least once a day, or people will stop visiting your site. Raleigh Specials Tonight averages about 600-800 hits per week and 50% of that traffic is returning. I have very loyal readers and I am grateful for that, but I know I need to keep coming with the content if I want it to stay that way.
Where do I find daily content for my site every day? When I first started the site about a year ago, it was tough. I had to seek the information myself by going to individual restaurant websites. I still do that occasionally, but here are some tools I use to keep up with my community so I always have fresh content:
Predicting the World Cup 2010 Winner
Of the 32 countries lining up for the 2010 edition of the World Cup, happening this June 11 to July 11, only 2 will play the final match on July 11th.
However, just like in ‘Highlander’: there can only be one!
Who will be the winner of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa?
That’s the question on everybody’s mind, including Mr. Beckham here on the left, who does not look to happy when the U.S. tied with England on June 12.
The answer to this question is not only relevant to football fans around the world trying to hit the jackpot both on online and offline gambling places, but also relevant to online marketers who are doing extensive SEO and SEM work throughout this month to catch a piece of the World Cup search engine pie (for more details refer to this article on the implications of the World Cup 2010 to online marketers).
Here are some specific probabilities that will help both football fans and online marketers predict who will win the World Cup 2010.
Help idaconcpts Climb the List of Top 50 Blogs in Innovation
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There is Now a Better Way to Feed the Twitter Addiction
More and more people are feeding on the frenzy of social networking sites just like Twitter. It’s an enjoyable way to keep up on the latest buzz straight from the source. This social networking phenomenon is responsible for bettering communication, clearing up rumors, and giving social media fans a whole new world of informational possibilities.
While some choose to simply use this technology a little here or a little there, others have developed an absolute addiction to the thrill of keeping up with the daily Tweets. What better news could come to those who love to indulge on their Twitter addiction? Perhaps the best news would be that there is now a better way to get the feed through Twitter.
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Coachella 2010 Using Bing Twitter Maps
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, Funnyordie and Coachella 2010 worked together the weekend of April 16-18, 2010 to engage with music fans from all over the world using geolocation technology.
Everybody knows Coachella is one of the biggest live music events in North America, but there are also millions of fans following the festival online through initiatives such as Bing Twitter Maps.
What is Bing Twitter Maps?
Bing Maps has a a Silverlight interface, its own version of Google Map’s Street View (called Street Side), Photosynth and Twitter integration–it even has an app store. Bing Maps Twitter’s geolocation API to map out tweets that deal with topics relating to your neighborhood. Bing Twitter Maps places each tweet on the map, along with the Twitterer’s username and avatar. You can drill down based on topics or locations as well.
Here’s a sample screenshot: