So What the Hell Are We Supposed to Put on Google+?

I must agree with this article.  Not much going on just yet, but I also like the video hangout area.

Google+ is great for semi-sharing. You use it to have private discussions with adjustable groups of people. For business meetings and family gatherings and planning your weekend or vacation or career change with a [...]

Official Declaration of War – Facebook blocks Google+ ad – Yahoo! News

The war has officially started.  I guess the claim that you can’t patent a chair is becoming a reality.  Oh well, these social sites come a go, AOL, MySpace, Facebook and now maybe Google+ .  GMail is a big monster in the room along with search.  If Google can get people moving over like [...]

An Interview With Mark Cuban on Social Media and Entrepreneurship – Yahoo! News

This article is really good but I love this question and answer.  Its all about Uniqueness.  Earlier in the article Mark talks about sweat equity and and I am sure this relates to the last sentence about not being just a financial investor.

You get thousands of pitches from entrepreneurs looking for you to [...]

Google +1, the new Like Button

The much talked about Google +1 button is coming very soon to a web site near you, says Google at a recent technology conference.  Google’s +1 button is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Like button.  Some lucky users have seen the button on Google search results for a few months as they test out Plus [...]

Twitter – I finally get Tweeting

Twitter for may years was a hit and miss for me.  I kept trying to Tweet to a few of my friends thinking it would be a similar experience to Facebook.  Not!

From 2008, I made several unsuccessful attempts to become a tweet master until last July 2010, I finally grabbed a book about [...]

Twitter to more Leads

from SES email

I’ve been beating up Twitter to all my friends and now maybe I should stop.  According to a new study by Hubspot, “The State of Inbound Lead Generation” March 2010, small to medium sized businesses doubled their leads by using Twitter.  I guess I will start Tweating like a new [...]

Facebook’s Social Network Big Bang

So most of us have heard of the Big Bang theory that the universe keeps expanding, well I think Facebook just created a Big Bang and will expand social networking throughout the web universe not just on Facebook.  With Facebook’s announcement of  social plug-ins for 3rd party sites, the power of 400 million connected [...]

Tactics for Social Marketing

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I just read an article from Click Z, What’s wrong with Social Marketing, by Heidi Cohen.  You can find it here http://www.clickz.com/3640096 Heidi outlines 12 tactics to integrate your overall marketing efforts into your social marketing efforts.  In summary, one should view social marketing channels as just another marketing channel [...]

BlueFly – Social eCommerce

I’ve always loved BlueFly.com.  I have bought several dresses for my wife at BlueFly and she looks great in them.  The one in the pic is from BlueFly.  It was her Easter dress several years ago.  Anyway, they have come up with a very cool social networking site, Closet Confessions.  I love the [...]

Retailers Using Twitter – Social Networking

Ok, so I keep talking about Twitter use to my colleagues. I recently cam across this site, Retailer Twitter Aggregation, that aggregates some of the larger retailers’ tweets.  This looks interesting.

I keep wondering how Twitter is making money and how it will survive beyond a Google [...]