Archive for the 'Social Media' Category
President Uses Twitter for ‘Town Hall’ meeting
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Published by Michaela Carmichael July 6th, 2011 in Internet, Social networking, Social Media.
See the live stream of President Obama answering tweets. Someone is picking and choosing what he’s answering, but still pretty cool.
President Obama, twitter, USA politics
Facebook Milestones
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Published by Michaela Carmichael July 6th, 2011 in Internet, Social networking, Social Media.
Facebook users have surpassed 75 million! This is the estimated size of the world population in 1750 or the estimated rural population in China in 2006. Which ever way you compare it, it’s a huge number.
Facebook have also launched Skype Chat.
facebook, population, skype
Pandora IPO; 15th June 2011
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Published by Michaela Carmichael June 14th, 2011 in Internet, Social Media.
Bloomberg reports that Panodora, the Music Genome Project aka internet radio, is expected to being trading it’s 14.7 millions shares for $10 to $12 per share. The comany is not profitable but has 34 million active users. Advertising generates 90% of the company’s sales.
bloomerg, IPO, pandora
60 seconds on line
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Published by Michaela Carmichael June 13th, 2011 in Internet, Online Marketing, blog tools, Social networking, Social Media.
Enjoy this very attactive visual that illustrates just how much can be achieved on line in a mere sixty seconds at the most popular online destinations; facebook, twitter, firefox, word press, ask.com and many more. The visual was found here.
ask.com, facebook, fire fox, twitter, word press
Social Media is THE preferred tool for US presidential candidacy announcements
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Published by Michaela Carmichael May 10th, 2011 in Internet, Marketing, Social networking, Social Media.
The US 2012 presidential nomination campaign has started. The delivery of choice for annoucements is social media with Facebook, YouTube and Twitter all featuring heavily.
President Barack Obama’s team announced his candidacy intentions with a YouTube endorsement video, select text and emails. His team is supporting his reelection campaign with many digital and mobile […]
Surprises revealed in Social Media Reputation League Tables
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Published by Michaela Carmichael February 23rd, 2011 in Internet, Online Tools, Marketing, Social Media, Branding.
London social media agency Yomego caused a stir earlier this week with their new social media reputation tool’s league table’s revelation.
Their new benchmark rates brands’ social media reputation by evaluating (1) noise = reach, (2) popularity = satisfaction, (3) topicality = recent post, plus some good old fashioned (4) human analysis and come up with […]
Top tip for Social Media Use; Engage with your audience
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Published by Michaela Carmichael April 30th, 2010 in Internet, Social networking, Social Media.
There seems to be a constant theme appearing in all the top tips for successful social networking - engagement with the audience. Communication must be both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ - two way. Ask by all means, but give too.
Leah Betancourt of Mashable has an straightfoward five point plan for making your twitter profile […]
Facebook celebrates it’s 6th B’day with 400 million users and a redesign
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Published by Michaela Carmichael February 10th, 2010 in Internet, Social networking, Social Media.
Mark Zuckerberg bloged on 4th Feb that Facebook had reached 400 million users. Let’s put that in perspective by comparing it to country populations; US population is 308.6 million, Thailand’s population is 68 million, UK population is 61 million and Canada’s population is 34 million. Facebook is not yet India or China, but […]
Twitter tweets in excess of 1 billion in Dec 2010
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Published by Michaela Carmichael February 10th, 2010 in Internet, Social networking, Social Media.
All growth cycles are just that - they go up, up, up and then down - eventually. Twitter just keeps going up - for now. On the 12th of Jan 40 million tweets were made in 24 hours, helping the site reach it’s monumental announcement of 1.2 billion tweets this Jan. Did […]
The Twitter 12; top USA corps making the most of Twitter
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Published by Michaela Carmichael December 9th, 2009 in Internet, Online Marketing, Marketing, transparency, Social Media.
The Big Money’s Chad Matlin recently announced the Twitter 12 and explains his selection criteria for choosing 12 American corporations who are getting the most out of Twitter.
The process only considered US corporate Twitter profiles with over a million followers, their growth from September to November 09, the number and regularity of tweets and content […]
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