Social Media, SEO, and Website Optimization
As budgets and fundraising levels for non-profits get smaller, more organizations are turning to using social networking online as an essential part of their overall marketing strategy. Non-profits see online social media as an inexpensive way to build relationships, increase involvement, and help out with publicity and education efforts.
According to the Nonprofit Social Network Survey [...]
I’ve seen recently that some advertisers are starting to use Twitter’s hashtags in their advertising. Land Rover used it in a recent campaign as mentioned on the Stuff That is Relevant Blog. Is this something that other advertisers will start to do as well? It reminds me of a time when advertisers only put their [...]
I was browsing popular hashtags a couple of weeks ago and found the tag #gno to be the most popular. Of course the first thing I wondered was what gno meant. After some researching I found that it stood for Girls Night Out and was created by founders Carissa Rogers and Jyl Johnson Pattee.
According [...]
“Today, we’re launching our first social widget for Facebook Connect, the Comments Box. The Comments Box is a great way for any website, blog or photo gallery to add social comments to their page in just a minute with a few lines of code. We want to help bring you social widgets that make it [...]
Webmasters looking to add social features to their websites can now do so with Google’s Friend Connect. Once it’s set up on your site, users can log in using their Google, AOL, Yahoo, or OpenID account…no need to create another username and password. Currently it only offers a few “gadgets” but I’m sure [...]
Butterball has gotten into the social media game this holiday season with its “turkey texts.” For those of you needing cooking advice you can sign up to receive tips on your cell phone.
Sign Up for Turkey Text Messages
Sign up to have text messages from Turkey Talk-Line experts sent straight to your phone. There are [...]
Over the last year Obama’s campaign was all over the internet. He was in people’s inboxes, on their Facebook pages, in Youtube videos, etc. The bottom line is Obama got it. He understood the power of the internet and the quote below proves it.
In February 2007, a friend called Marc Andreessen, a [...]
According to an article written by Marshall Kirkpatrick from ReadWriteWeb, professional social media consultants don’t make less than $150 an hour.
“No one we surveyed named an hourly consulting rate below $150 per hour. $300 per hour was the most common rate named. Some listed monthly rates of $2k to $4k per engagement, which we assume [...]
Tyler over at SMMGuru offered up the top 198 social media sites. We’d like to add a couple to the list: Macblips and HypeM
Sports Entertainment
Fighters
Ballhype
eFans
FanNation
Fanspot
ScoreGuru
SportsFlip
Sportsvite
SportsCast
Social Bookmarking
Blinkbits
Blinklist
Blogmarks
Chipmark
Connectedy
del.icio.us
De.lirio.us
Diigo
Foxmarks
Furl
Lycos iQ
Ma.gnolia
Mobilicio.us
Netvouz
OnlyWire
Shadows
Simpy
Socializer
Windows Live Favorites
Automotive
AutoSpies
Boompa
CarDomain
Motorpulse
Graduation Related
Classmates
ConnectU
Friends Reunited
Graduates
Meetup
Consumer Opinions
Cork’d
Chowhound
Epinions
Yelp
Food & Cooking
All Recipes
Barmano
FohBoh
Foods.tv
Kitchen Bug
Social Dating
Chemistry
Crush or Flush
Cupid’s Lab
Flirtomatic
SpeedDate
WooMe
Learning / Education / Reading
BookCrossing
Bookins
BookMooch
BookSwim
Carmun
Citeulike
Connect via Books
Good Reads
Hitflip
LibraryThing
Shelfari
Wordsy
Family
Babbiz
Eons
Family 2.0
Famiva
Geni
Genoom
GreatSchools
Kinzin
MomJunction
MothersClick
Moxie Moms
MyFamily.com
Parentography
Style & Fashion
Chictini
Stylehive
Threadless
Networking
AIM Pages
Bebo
Facebook
Faves
Friendster
Grono
Hi5
LiveJournal
NetFriendships
Netlog
Orkut
Passado
ProfileLush
Skyrock
Tagged
Windows Live Spaces
Yahoo! 360
Zaadz
Health [...]
Whether it be for a product or your business, in general, Facebook Pages can be essential in social marketing. With Pages you can display videos, pictures, and have “fans” of your page write reviews and discuss your product. You can also spice up the page with flash and can even use some html. [...]
Jacinta and Jesse are web marketers with expertise in social media and building brand equity. 
