Posterous — the e-mail-to-blog-to-everywhere platform — has just introduced a new feature that will let users schedule posts to be published in the future via e-mail, web or bookmarklet. The appeal of Posterous is that every blogging behavior can be completed via e-mail with little to no thinking involved; this feature is no different. To schedule posts, users simply need to add “delay” or “...
This is a guest post by Itamar Kestenbaum . Follow him on Twitter . .
Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. But the response doesn’t vary enough. The response is usually something along the lines of “Wow! So you tweet and facebook for a living! Kewlz!” or “So do you blog on the interwebs all day, or sumthin?” Another favorite is “What’s that?” That last ...
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En la actualidad los adolescentes representan un 17,5% de la población mundial y gastan más de 750.000 millones de euros anuales en el mundo , 8.000 millones de euros en España.
El estudio “Teens 2010: Cómo son los adolescentes de hoy y cómo evolucionarán en sus hábitos de consumo” , llevado a cabo por Creafutur , profundiza en la definición de este adolescente del año 2010 y obtiene una pe...
Classmates.com has agreed to refund nearly $10 million to users who were told that long-lost school chums were looking at their profiles, only to find, once they’d ponied up a subscription fee, that no one they knew was looking for them at all.
The proposed settlement would end a lawsuit filed in November 2008 on behalf of Classmates.com user Anthony Michaels who sued after he spent $15 to upgr...
David A. Yovanno is the CEO of Gigya, Inc. , a leading social optimization platform for online business. He can be found on Twitter at @daveyovanno or e-mail dave(at)gigya(dot)com. Now that most social networks are supporting functionality on third party sites — via Facebook Connect , Sign in with Twitter , Yahoo! Open Strategy, MySpaceID, and other similar technologies — entertainment com...
A few hours ago, Twitter CEO Evan Williams keynoted SXSW in an on-stage interview with Umair Haque of Havs Media Lab. During it, Mr. Williams announced the @Anywhere platform and answered Mr. Haque’s questions. While Mr. Haque did ask a lot of questions, some thought that he did not ask enough tough questions about the future of Twitter. Perhaps that’s why Twitter’s CEO decided to answer m...
Social networking has finally become something valuable for brick-and-mortar businesses. Smartphones and location-based social networks allow users to interact, share, meet up, and recommend places based on their physical coordinates. This real-world connection to social media can mean more foot traffic and profits for business owners. So-called “lo-so” networks like Foursquare , Loopt , and G...
I’ve been thinking about time spent using social media. Especially how that might affect photographers. Last Monday, I wrote about how one might choose to split their time and resources between various services such as Twitter, their blog, and Facebook. Today I offer a few thoughts about time commitment in general.
Question: How much time is the right amount of time to spend on social ...
What follows is the complete version of my recent post on Mashable, “ Why Brands are Becoming Media. “
One of the greatest challenges I encounter today is not the willingness of a brand to engage , but its ability to create . When blueprinting social architecture and the engineering that connects people to other people strategically, enthusiasm and support typically derail when examining ...
Sharing, friending, commenting, checking in, retweeting…the level of participation social media platforms have ushered into the business world have delivered opportunity as well as issues. Consider the average marketing planning cycle. Many marketers organize around an annual plan with campaign strategies that have specific start and end dates. But you can’t flip Twitter and Facebook on the day a...
There seems to be a theme running through my new media discussions this week: Where do you start? That’s a big question and I don’t know that it’s easily answered. I started a blog and just kind of stumbled around, then got a new media job and learned by osmosis, then…well I don’t really know that my personal route was the best way to go. But it worked.
You’re going to need to find your own pa...
Greg Rollett runs a music marketing company from his laptop in Orlando, FL. He is an advocate of the New Music Economy and very hopeful that artists can still live the rock star lifestyle in the digital age. Connect with Greg on Twitter, @g_ro. Today’s musicians, both mainstream and indie, are using social media to connect with fans, build anticipation, and generate revenue in new and unique...
No matter what we do online, we can’t do it all ourselves, one of the most important aspects to all this lark is marketing, promotion, getting noticed.
On twitter the popular #FF or #followfriday hashtag has always been a great way to give some of your followers some extra exposure, hopefully helping them gain more followers, this was a trend that users started, not twitter.
The trend picked u...
Chris Allison is a social media strategist at NeboWeb , where he helps clients make the most of the social web. You can follow him on Twitter as the voice behind @Neboweb . As social media marketing becomes more widely practiced, the questions of the day are less frequently focused on the benefits of social media and more often focused on its implementation. Justifying social media to superio...
Google’s new social network, Google Buzz , is getting some additional refinement, based on user feedback. Today’s news: The search giant is testing new features that will give you control over the flood of Buzz e-mail notifications. Google Buzz has the benefit of being integrated directly into Gmail. Not only does it have a prominent tab in millions of inboxes, but it also sends e-mail notific...