Archive for the ‘Social’ Category

Using Twitter When Your Customers Don’t

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Many small business owners, and even some large ones, are asking why they should join Twitter. Well, if you live in a sparsely populated area like North Dakota, that’s a very good question. There are many reasons beyond the doing-it-because-everyone-else-is factor, but in this presentation I will give you four solid reasons why your business, [...]

North Dakota Twitter Users… or lack thereof.

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As I prepared to give another presentation to the monthly NDTweetup meeting in Bismarck last Thursday, I did some research on the state of Twitter in North Dakota. The NDTweetup meeting is a collection of marketers, business people, journalists and other folks with an interest in social media and networking. Currently the “club” is only [...]

RedWild Show on URL Radio

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Today was a big day.  I’m not usually a media hound, but it seemed like I was everywhere today. First, @KateSchell from KXMB News in Bismarck came to our monthly #NDTweetup meeting and conducted an interview with Scott Wild and myself.  She then hung around for my presentation on Why You Should Be On Twitter [...]

How to be Good in Social Media

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I read a fair amount of blogs and have many lists of certain people I follow in my Twitter stream to stay informed on a variety of subjects. But one of the people I pay attention to more than others is Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.com. Today, Darren posted a blog and video regarding a simplistic [...]

The Social Network – Teaser

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Sony released the second teaser trailer for The Social Network, a movie directed by David Fincher and starring Andrew Garfield (the new Spider-Man!)  as Eduardo Saverin and Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, both co-founders of Facebook. The movie is scheduled for an October 1, 2010 release.  Check out the teaser below. (the video is getting hammered right [...]

Influencer Project 60-in-60

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Yesterday, the Influencer Project hosted a unique webinar where 60 speakers that are influential in different areas online got to speak for 60 seconds. Each speaker really only had a chance to give one tip on extending influence online. Speakers include :  

Happy Social Media Day!

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Someone had to take the lead, and Mashable has deemed June 30th as National Social Media Day. Finally a holiday I can get behind! While it doesn’t look like our US government, which has used Twitter, Facebook and other platforms to engage its constituants has caught on, British Columbia in our neighbor to the north [...]

Google Me Social Network A Reality?

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Yesterday (June 28, 2010) I posted a story about a rumored social network under construction over at Google called Google Me. No one had any hard proof about the system other than a tweet by Kevin Rose and some industry speculation. But today, FastCompany has an article providing some more details, even confirming that Google [...]

Google Me to Take On Facebook?

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Maybe sensing some weakness at Facebook due to some huge security and public relations issues, tech giant Google may be setting up to attack Facebook with a rumored new service called Google Me. Fanning the rumor flames was a tweet from Kevin Rose indicating he heard from a credible source Google Me is on the [...]

10 Reasons Twitter is NOT Bound to Fail

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This morning I read an interesting blog post by Ben Land on Ben-Lang.com that made the argument that Twitter is Bound to Fail. While I respect the opinion and know people who share his views on this matter, I do not agree.  So rather than post a comment on his blog, I thought it would [...]

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