2 Comments Posted in productivity, small business, social media June 2, 2009

Uncovering Google Wave for Small Biz

There are so many technology oriented blogs in the world that it would be stupid of me to break down Google Wave on my own. The steps Google is taking with this new initiative is going to rock the world of marketing and social media. I thought I would give you a list of links to follow that do a great job of breaking down this new “thing” from Google.

Mashable : The Google Wave Guide

IT Blogwatch from Computerworld

Andy Wibbles : Google Wave Obliterates Everything

The Lifehacker Breakdown

SocialMediaToday: What the Internet’s Been Waiting For

I don’t know about you but I am pretty excited for this new tool. Bring it on!

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4 Comments Posted in small business, social networking, Social Strategy, Week With Whuffie June 1, 2009

A Week With Whuffie and Parallel Economies

Yesterday I picked up The Whuffie Factor by Tara Hunt and needless to say… it is a pretty good read! I have been turning page after page over the past couple of hours and thought to myself… SELF you need to write some posts about the book.

I want to officially dedicate this week: WWW (Week With Whuffie) I am going to be writing a post every day this week outlining and disseminating different parts/quotes from the book.

Monday Topic: The Two Parallel Economies

In the book Tara talks about the concepts of the gift economy and the market economy:

“In the gift economy the more you give away, the more… you gain, which is completely opposite from currency in the market economy, where when you give away money, it’s

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6 Comments Posted in Advertising, Corporate Strategy, Marketing, microblogging, social media, social media marketing, social networking, twitter June 1, 2009

Twitter More Important than LinkedIN for Business

I love polling. Sometimes you take it for what it’s worth… and sometimes it blows you away. I stumbled across a post by ReadWriteWeb about a polling completed on LinkedIN asking their members What is the most important new platform for brands to master?
 and the results?
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Talk about an interesting development? Facebook even beat out the famous business networking site for social media brand development! What is even more interesting is that small business owners made up 76% of the votes (out of a total of 3,600).

What does this mean for marketing and social media?

Business owners are starting to take notice of the growing trend in the social media world and the ability for businesses to use networks to drive revenue. The influence of the social Internet … Read more