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Social Media and Mobile News Round-up 1/6/09

January 6, 2009 by Lisa Whelan | Mobile, Social Media
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For those of you that disconnected during Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year, etc…  Welcome back. Here’s a summary of the most interesting social media and mobile news I read in the last few weeks:

Honda Nails Viral Advertising in the UK with Live Skydiving Spectacular (Well, Sort Of)

May 30, 2008 by Lisa Whelan | Advertising, Social Media
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Last night, Honda was the first to air a live ad on Channel 4 in the UK.  The ad was nothing short of spectacular – a skydiving feat that no doubt left most of Britain and some of the rest of us talking: [...]

Social Platform Enterprise 1.2: A Review

December 21, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Enterprise, Social Media
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With all my talk in earlier blogs about the benefit of companies employing a social media strategy, I thought that it would be a good idea to review a product that enables companies to build their own social media empire.  Yesterday, I had the opportunity to see a demo of a great new product from [...]

BlogRovr, BlogRover Send My Favorite Bloggers Right Over!

March 27, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Social Media
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The folks at Activeweave (makers of Stickis, which I’ve written about before), have just introduced a great new website and plug-in called BlogRovr.  BlogRovr is a great little tool aimed at blog enthusiasts.  It allows you to see whatever your favorite bloggers have written about anywhere on-line. Here’s how it works: Visit Blogrovr.com and sign-up for an [...]

ShoZu Furthers LBS by Offering Mobile Geotagging for Flicker, YouTube & Other Sites

February 14, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Mobile, Social Media
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Today at 3GSM in Barcelona, ShoZu Inc., an emerging leader in the mobile social networking space, announced the addition of some great new LBS feature enhancements for GPS-enabled mobile phonw.  According to the press release: Share-It one-click image uploading service now offers location tagging for photos and video clips sent from GPS-enabled phones to Flickr and [...]

Blurb: Making Self-Publishing Books and Promotion Easy

February 13, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Social Media
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Web 2.0 is changing the way that people publish, access, and spread news.  Newspaper subscriptions are down, and the number of bloggers is up.  Blurb is changing that. Blurb is capitalizing on the rising interest in on-line self-publishing (e.g. blogs) and the continuing popularity of books.  In their beta release, they’ve made it simple [...]

Barack Obama Latest to Jump on Social Networking Bandwagon

February 12, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Social Media
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Barack Obama just launched a social media/ social networking website to further his presidential campaign in 2008: my.barackobama.com. While I haven’t made any decisions about who I will support in the 2008 presidential election, I signed up for a “test account” on My.Barackobama.com to test the social media functionality of Obama’s website.  The features/functionality of [...]

Technorati, Blog Rankings, & Top Bloggers on “Communities”

February 8, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Social Media
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As many fellow VOXers know, there is no way to tell how many hits your blog gets (or how many people read or talk about it)… Six Apart doesn’t provide a counting utility to bloggers. (If they did, the bloggers generating the most traffic on VOX might be tempted to leave to start revenue generating [...]

Mashable Paying Users to Write “Top 10″ Reviews

January 22, 2007 by Lisa Whelan | Consulting, Social Media
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If you’re a blogger, aspiring journalist, or market researcher listen up.  Mashable is paying its users to write “Top 10″ review posts between 600 and 1300 words, talking about web-based products in a particular category. Click here to learn how it works.  This seems like an interesting (and inexpensive) way for Mashable to generate new [...]

Impact of the ‘Washingtonienne’ case on Social Media.

December 26, 2006 by Lisa Whelan | Social Media
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It’s been a slow news week in the world of social media and social networking – what, with the holidays, people are spending time with real life friends and family, rather than at work or with their on-line network.  But, there is one social media/ social networking story that is still making headlines and drawing [...]