Archive for August, 2008

It’s 3log Day! My 3log Day Links.

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in Blogday, Smaller Indiana, Social Media Community, Uncategorized, blogging, friendfeed, social media | 10 Comments »

Well. This is my first year participating in Blog Day. I have been pushing through my google reader and making a detailed list of the top blogs I have read in the past couple of months. It was extremely hard ...

The Beautifully Disturbing Aspect of FriendFeed and Social Media

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Posted in Social Strategy, blogging, friendfeed, social media | 10 Comments »

I have been reading recently about the psychological aspects of social media and the online medium of communication (I will be posting in the next couple of days my thoughts and research). As many of us can attest to, we ...

Social Media: Ideal for Branding and Not Sales?

Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in Corporate Strategy, Social Media Community, Social Strategy, social media, social networking | 2 Comments »

An interesting post flowed through my Google Alerts email this morning from Digital Response Media. The post was entitled: Social media 'ideal for branding.' The point of the post was to explain how the digital marketing manager of British Airways, ...

The Paradigm Shift of Social Media and Time Management

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Social Media Community, Social Strategy, social media, social networking | 5 Comments »

It has been a pretty busy week around here at Brandswag. Projects have been piling up and there never seems to be enough time... for anything. The past 48 hours have been pretty efficient in terms of business and extremely ...

Why am I Neglecting FriendFeed? The Rebirth.

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in friendfeed, social media, social networking | 3 Comments »

Recently I wrote about my neglect of FriendFeed. I had been having issues with using the platform and spending time on the site. When I first joined I hit a firestorm of posts and comments only to explode into a ...

Through the Doors and Beyond the Lobby…Welcome to the New Company

Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Micro-Blogging, Social Media Community, blogging, social media, social networking | 8 Comments »

Recently, Vincent Hunt of SurfaceBurn wrote an absolutely brilliant post explaining Social Media entitled There is Nobody in the Lobby…Intro to Social Media. When I say brilliant, I mean absolutely, positively without a doubt brilliant. He explains social media with ...

The Beauty of Viral and FriendFeed

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Viral Marketing, blogging, social media, social networking, twitter | 8 Comments »

I am a frequent follower of Mike Fruchter's Shares on Google Reader via his FriendFeed stream. I am inaudated hourly with Mike's recent blog favorites. He shared a blog post today called: There is a Down Side To Viral Marketing ...

2 Important Things to Remember When Blogging

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 Posted in Micro-Blogging, Smaller Indiana, Social Media Community, Social Strategy, blogging, social media | 15 Comments »

I am a new believer of Gary Vaynerchek. Gary is a self-made millionaire and web 2.0 genius! I stumbled across his site the past week and fell in love with his daily video blogs (vlogs anyone?). The energy Gary instills ...

Politicians Do Not Understand Social Media!

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Smaller Indiana, blogging, politics, social media | No Comments »

I say this with some exception. There are a few political hopefuls browsing around the Smaller Indiana site. I give them respect for keeping with it and igniting conversation. Now, on to the people who do not understand. We had a ...

Is Generation X the Blog Generation?

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Micro-Blogging, blogging, social media | 7 Comments »

Most of us have a close group of friends in which we share time and energy. Being of the millennial generation (24 years old) most of my close friends are under the age of 30. I attended a going ...