List of Social Media Marketing Pioneers

List of the "pioneers" of social media and social media marketing. This list identifies the pioneers and where they are presently available for contact. Worth a Digg

100 Ways to Use Social Media for Personal Branding

Chris Brogan shares 100 was to brand yourself using social media platforms. A "must read" for marketers!

Major Announcement: Founding of the School of Social Marketing

Good morning folks! I'll be making a MAJOR announcement this weekend at our Baltimore Conference about the founding of the School of Social Marketing.

Center For Social Media at American Univeristy

The Center for Social Media at American University is a quality academic resource for students of Social Media and discussion of social media's role in today's world.

7 Sites to Monitor Social Buzz

Use these 7 sites to monitor social buzz and news. You can use them to uncover emerging trends and markets. David Berkowitz provided this useful information and I encourage you to use it to monitor social media and web 2.0 activities.

Tools to Life Social Site for Self-Improvement

Tools to Life provides a free social media platform and social networking support site for personal development and self-improvement. Perhaps support to keep on task.

Social Media Simplified Video

Thanks to Jeremiah Owyang, I encountered an excellent video from social media observer and participant, Lee Lefever.

Take a moment and grab yourself a hypothetical ice cream cone.

Zotfish.com as a Possible Social Media Platform

I'm testing the social indexability of Zotfish.com social media platform for asking questions of celebrities, entertainers, politicians, and other notable figures.

The platform allows for an extensive and customizable greeting header on your personal page and I want to determine its potential use as a traffic pointer.

It's really not just an effort at shameless self-promotion.

This is the greeting page for Dr. Ron Capps on Zotfish.com

Social Media: It's all about the visitor stupid!

Dave Morgan builds his argument for the needed shift in branding and customer conversation awareness. Social Media changes things. It makes it more critical than ever that you engage the customer in an authentic conversation that mirrors back your understanding of their communication and wants.

1 Billion Online Video Users in 2013

Nicole Fabris or API Research reports that they project 1 Billion online video viewers by 2013.

With the increased availability and broadband access, it is easy to understand the rapid explosion of video sharing sites online.

Far beyond the usual suspects of YouTube, Google Video, and other standards. There are now over 600 video sharing sites available online. These range from the narrowest niches to the broadest range of "adult" social video sites. One can only imagine where Hugh Hefner would be if these social media platforms had been available when he struggled to launch his "Playboy" empire in the early 1950's!

Microsoft To Launch Social Bookmarking Platform

Adam Ostrow of Mashable announces that Microsoft is launching their own Social Bookmarking Site later this week.

There doesn't appear to be anything revolutionary about the proposed social bookmarking technology that they will be using, however, Microsoft's size alone makes this effort one to monitor closely

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