As I mentioned in my blog before, I am spending the weekend at Yum Brands headquarters in Dallas as part of this year’s NSHMBA National Chapter Board Leaders training. I do volunteer work and I am part of the board of the Denver chapter, so I’m here to listen. But, I was also invited to…
Category: Web 2.0
John Edwards on 24 Social Networking Sites!!
Yikes. That is a lot. It’s yet to be seen how effective that sort of effort will have. Check out the list. technorati tags:John, Edwards, politics, news, social, networking
Facebook and Younger Audiences
This is how you connect and get your message out to college students. There are more than 500 Obama groups on Facebook. One of the first,”Students for Barack Obama,” was created on July 7 by Meredith Segal, ajunior at Bowdoin College who first heard of Obama when he gave thekeynote speech at the Democratic National…
Online Video: “Experience†is key here
This is the power of video over the web. It gives you the ability to reach directly to your audience, leverage the power of viral marketing, and define how you or your business is perceived. “Experience†is key here, because you won’t get an understanding of his appeal from the print journalism caricature of telegenic…
More Tips for Winning in a Web World
These tips and ideas came from the AdFero Viral marketing workshop I attended in January. I thought it would be worth re-posting. A messaging tools must NOT turn into a spamming tool. Any messaging system has to be careful about not being to aggressive.The key is to find people of like-mind, and work to form…
Branded Custom Browser?
That’s exactly what MySpace got, but they didn’t even have to pay for it. Tech Crunch reports (New MySpace-Focused Browser Launched) BuddyWave is a new browser that’s completely focused on the tens of millions of MySpace users who generate 20 or so page views per day each on the site. The browser is downloadable on…
Why Use Existing Social Networking Sites
Ruby blogs about a technical benefit from using existing social networking sites as part of an advocacy (in this case a political) campaign on the post titled, Online community responds to candidates. One of the many reasons that it’s so smart for the Edwards campaign to utilize existing social networking web sites is that they…
TechPresident: John Edwards Unofficially Enters Second Life
OK. I know this is my second post from TechPresident, but I just found it, and there is a lot of good stuff in here. Joshua Levy has a post, and screen capture pictures of Edwards’ Second Life unofficial virtual campaign headquarters. John Edwards has become the first presidential candidate to — unofficially — tread…
MySpace as a Measure of Political Popularity?
What a great idea — why did I not think of it? …probably because I’m way to busy. TechPresident, a blog dedicated to tracking how the candidates are using the web, and how the web is using them, has a page showing a line chart with the amount of MySpace “Friends” each candidate has for…
Technorati Loses Key Developer to Google
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington is speculating whether a recent move by a Technorati developer to Google could be a sign of the times for Technorati? A key Technorati developer, Kevin Marks, has left the company and is now at Google, according to his blog. Just a month and a half ago Google took the lead as…
Web 2.0: The Machine is Using Us
Steve Poland at TechCrunch has a link to the video below on the nature of web 2.0. Real interesting stuff. I don’t go for all that “Artificial Intelligence, machines taking over the world” thing. There is more to human intelligence than “knowledge management.” The video is by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas…
Integrated Viral Marketing: Linking your Facebook profile with your business blog
My employer, Townhall.com is now in Facebook. To celebrate, I dusted off my old college Facebook profile, and started using it. If you have a Facebook account, make sure to click here and join the Townhall.com group! Did you know you can publish your business or personal blog posts on your Facebook notes? Here…