Remember back in 1996 when everyone gathered around the office water cooler to talk about that dancing baby on the latest episode of Ally McBeal? Yeah, me neither. Today’s TV fanatics are more likely to discuss noteworthy happenings on that social water cooler known as Twitter.
Recently I was fortunate to attend the second day of Search Exchange, a three day internet marketing conference held in Charlotte, NC featuring the top professionals in the Internet industry. The topic was geared towards Social Media Marketers: learning how to engage an audience correctly with the use of social media – Facebook and Twitter. Below is a short summary on how and why to install social media buttons on your site alongside interesting statistics from the presentations that support the use of buttons.
A graph of the number of tweets per day. Pretty much every web usage stat looks like this.
Today we continue our series on future trends in web development and usage by focusing on how we organize, search, and share information online.
One trend is clear: we are putting information on the web at an increasingly faster rate:
Want more numbers? Check out 2009 and 2010 stats from Pingdom’s “Internet in Numbers” series. Read More
Well, it’s that time of year again! Time for the Internet to be bombarded with posts about predictions of what is to come. It happens every year. Some predictions come true while others still remain to be seen (Second life? We are still waiting to see that take off…) At Alter Imaging, we just couldn’t resist the temptation to hop into our Delorian and go check it out for ourselves.
List time! We had such a positive respond from our last twitter list 400+ Web designers and developers worth follow on twitter , that we decided to scour through the people we think are “in the know” when it comes to digital marketing.
The fast paced landscape, that is digital marketing, is hard to keep up with! Thus, we try and subscribe to the best blogs and follow people on twitter who we think “get it”. Below is that list of people we follow on twitter to keep up with whats important and fresh.
Enjoy! And please comment below if you think we have left anyone out! We would love to hear who you follow to get your digital marketing insights.
Here is the button to follow them all in one fell swoop!
(In no particular order)
chrisbrogan – Chris Brogan – President, New Marketing Labs. Co-Author of Trust Agents.
Pistachio – Laura Fitton – Much excitement and geekiness about where this all leads. www.oneforty.com.
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Here is another panel from the Social Media Business Forum on Social Media SEO
Using Social media is not only important for engaging with your customer but also for rankings in search engines. Considering the Social media aspect of search engine optimization is mostly overlooked by companies when jumping into the social media game. Eric Miltsch and Dan London discuss how they have used social media in their respective companies search marketing strategies.
Last Friday, we packed up our suitcases and headed over to Durham, NC for the 2009 Social Media Business Forum.
It was a fantastic conference that brought together some of the brightest minds in the social media scene including Laura Fitton (author of Twitter for dummies), Jason Falls (Principal over at Social Media Explorer), John Andrews (Founder and Managing Partner at Collective Bias), and Lucretia Pruitt (Director of Social Media at Collective Bias.)
They spoke on the keynote panel addressing “the future of business on the social web” You can watch the video below.
Never before in history have your customers had such an influential voice on your brand. With the power of the Internet at their sides, they have access to reach literally millions of people with an opinion of your company. This is a scary notion, but even scarier if you are not listening in and monitoring what they are talking about.
But don’t fret. The truth of the matter is that, while social media is a fairly new way of thinking about your communication strategy, it’s not that difficult to monitor what is being said about your company or brand.
So with any new technology comes a bunch of new and shiny tools to help you shift through this massive amount of data overload!
Alter Imaging wants to give you a nudge in the right direction. So here are some tools to help you monitor your brand…. and they are all free!
Do you know what is being said about your company? Let’s find out…
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So you’ve heard about Twitter but you don’t know how or why you should use it. This post provides a quick primer to get you on your way to Tweeting like a pro!
TwitterSpeak
Commonly used words/acronyms that every Twitterer (if confused, see below) should know:
Twitterer -A group of people whom have Twitter accounts
Tweets – A post on twitter
Twoosh - A tweet that is exactly 140 characters (it’s tricky tweeting a true twoosh)
Tweeps -Twitter + peeps (friends)
Tweetup – A gathering of folks based on a twitter conversation (often impromptu)
Tweetin - When a twitter agrees to tweetup
Mistweet - A tweet in which one later regrets (usually occurring after copious amounts of tequila: see “Dweet” below)
Twarf- A single word tweet
Dweet – A tweet while under the influence of alcohol
RT – Shorthand for retweet. Used when reposting another person’s tweet.
Want more? Visit an online dictionary for Twitter at Twittonary
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