Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Technologies include: blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowdsourcing (crowd outsourcing), and voice over IP, to name a few. Examples of social media applications are Google Groups (reference, social networking), Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), Facebook (social… Read More
Archive for August, 2010
“Own your own platform – don’t rely on Facebook being in business in a year.” I recently watched a webinar hosted by Maddock Douglas on social media strategy, and the above quote in the presentation made me think about the place that social media has within overall business strategy. I’m relatively new to social media… Read More
PM and Social Media: Project Management Institute, (PMI.org), one of worlds’ leading organizations for project management professionals, describes Communications as one of the Knowledge Area for the project management; while identifying this as one of the critical link in the project management process, it describes the importance of ensuring proper communications management process in the… Read More
Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Tags: Management, Media, Project, Social
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It is imperative that website owners recognize the value of owning a site that is highly ranked and visible for search engine results. In the mid- 1990′s, webmasters and content providers began optimizing websites for search engines. This is currently referred to as search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is simply the process of improving the… Read More
Monday, August 16th, 2010 Tags: engine, Explained, Importance, optimization, search
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The live chats at the Vocus webinar a few weeks ago were fantastically lively and informative, with participants answering as well as asking questions that were posed to the scheduled speakers, Deidre Breakenridge, David Meerman Scott, Beth Harte, Lee Odden and Brian Solis. As time was tight, not all the questions were answered, so we thought we’d… Read More
