Tag: twitter
In search of a tagline, Oodles.com offers the Twittersphere a $1,000 prize
To coincide with today's relaunch of the oodles.com website, Sherlock and his team are inviting Twitter users to suggest a tagline for their online car rental platform. The author of the winning tweet tagline (twagline?) as chosen by Oodles staff will receive $1,000 cash.
Another small business social media FAIL. Do you agree?
Our bloggers have been critical of its longevity (Can social media sell anything but itself) and equally dazzled by its potential (How I used social media to put my CEO on the street). Of course, the following example (first published as a 'Discussion' on the Social Media Academy LinkedIn Group) had me from the get-go. Its author is Paul Rickett, Founder and Principal at VARKETING!.
Central Coast Small Business Network formed out of Twitter connection
A bunch of small business owners on the Central Coast recently formed a connection on Twitter, sharing experiences, advice and business tips. So they decided to meet (known in twitter circles as a "tweetup"). Since meeting, the group has grown into a fully-fledged organisation - the Central Coast Small Business Network, or CCBiz - and it is officially launching on 27 August. Great work, people.
Under the microscope: Print Advertising vs Social Media Marketing
Which advertising medium – print or social media – provides more reach and more bang for your buck. It’s a complicated equation. Luke Faccini takes a peek under the hood.
Anthill made me do it
If you receive our weekly Beer O'Clock (the Best and worst of Anthill TV for the week) email on Friday afternoons, you might have noticed that it went out a little early last Friday - about 3pm. The truth is, we were pretty much done for the week, so we hit send and took our own Beer O'Clock advice.
And it seems we weren't alone.
Twitter is suing me!
Under this intensified pressure, is Twitter - the poster child of everyone's-invited, it's-fun-to-share, revenue-will-come-later, progressive web culture - becoming tetchy and litigious?
Unleash chaos as a social media butterfly
To succeed in social media, you need to stop worrying and learn to love chaos, writes Annie Robinson.
Calling all Anthillians. We need your help!
This month, Anthill Online is being added to the Nielsen Online ratings system. In short, we're putting ourselves out there, dropping our digital knickers for all the marketing world to see. And we need your help.
Spacey coaches Letterman on ‘The Twitter’
We all know what an enormously useful mass-market medium Twitter can be, but celebrities know it better than anyone. However, it would appear that some, like David Letterman, just don't get it. Perhaps it's an age thing?
Spacey coaches Letterman on 'The Twitter'
We all know what an enormously useful mass-market medium Twitter can be, but celebrities know it better than anyone. However, it would appear that some, like David Letterman, just don't get it. Perhaps it's an age thing?
Can social media sell anything but itself?
Despite having an MBA majoring in marketing, I fully admit to having a rather simplistic view of marketing: present a product or service so people can see what it is. Then leave the selling to the sales department.
It’s social not commercial networking, for f— sake!
Just being a facilitator won’t satisfy or even make sense to many corporate marketers. I’m not suggesting that you put your head in the sand, but recognise social networks for what they are, and what they are not.
How I used Twitter to put a CEO on the street
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WAIT! I'm not here to evangelise Twitter or to pick news items out of it merely because it seems to be a slow...
It’s all about you – Making the most of socialising online
I was reading 'designing for the social web' by Joshua Porter for my UXbookclub Sydney meeting a couple of months ago. It opens with a quote...
Advertising is Dead. Long Live Advertising
Brand leadership through social media
Not so long ago, the relationship that brands had with their customers was a one-way street. The brand was the...
What is Follow Friday on Twitter?
Earlier today, I received a bunch of tweets, simply featuring the Twitter names of other users. For example...
nanachtorontoRT @ixplora: RT @jenbishopsydney: Follow friday @marissatree...
Taking tweets to the streets
How do the average mainstream tweets sound when spoken out loud on New York City streets?
FutureFeed – microblog updates on what your friends will be doing
With Twitter tripping the light fantastic, it's great to see people having some fun with the implications of its elevation to mainstream consciousness. First there was The Mime. Then, of course, there was the release of Flutter, the natural evolution of Twitter's truncated narcissism. Now comes FutureFeed, which "tells you what your friends are doing before they do it!"
Is Twitter the start of Web 3.0?
The people at the pointy end of the internet pecking order are already talking about and planning the Semantic Web - or Web 3.0 - which is meant to help us make sense of all of this data.
So what is Web 3.0 and what does it have to do with Twitter? To explain, let's start back a few years...
Tired of Twitter? Time to Flutter.
Twitter is all the rage at the moment, so it was only a matter of time until someone created the next evolutionary spoof. Presenting... Flutter.
