Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event that features major speakers and small group workshops, begins in 22 days. If you’re looking to register for the early bird rate, your last day to receive this special opportunity is September 8. Interested in learning more about one of the speakers? Meet Robert Scoble.
As more and more social TV apps pop up, it has become apparent that the future of TV is social. Hulu is jumping on the social bandwagon with a big announcement this morning—they are making the Hulu experience even more social with Facebook integration.
From the looks of it, the new social shopping company is truly social. Quopons and merchants create unbeatable deals that consumers really want. “We only send out one email per day featuring one deal to our subscribers,” says Stan Eyler, CEO of Quopons. “They can buy the deal but in order for the deal to reach the ‘tipping point’ and ‘activate,’ a minimum number must buy the deal or it is ‘No Deal,’ which encourages buyers to contact friends about the deal through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.”
Need a clear sign of where Evernote, and perhaps every other Web-based tool, is headed? Check out the note-taking service’s latest Windows update.
Tapjoy, a company that provides monetization and distribution services, released today that they have a new way for independent developers to evolve their games into profitable and popular titles. According to the company, they plan to invest their resources and capital into pre-launch games that have the potential to become successful. If a game is chosen, it will receive monthly marketing credits to acquire new users through Tapjoy’s network of over 100 million social gamers and 200 million mobile consumers.
Ravenwood Fair, reported as last week’s top weekly gainer, is at the top of this week’s list with a weekly growth of 1.1 million active users. As of now, Ravenwood Fair is about 500,000 active users ahead of It Girl, a Crowdstar creation.
Social Media has already proven itself to be a viable platform for traditional advertising. Now, a number of companies are attempting to track and successfully manipulate the elusive viral world – and there’s no shortage of prospective clients.
Back in April, Neil Vidyarthi let our readers in on a cool service called Miso that brings a fun social aspect to television viewing. Six months later Miso, which lets users check-in to television shows as they watch, share what they are watching with their friends, earn badges and keep track of their own viewing habits, has grown by leaps and bounds.
I want to suggest a few questions to ask (and a few things to check) to determine whether a social media expert or his company is credible to give you advice/consult you on social media. What’s the expert’s definition of social media? How will he measure the success of your campaign? Do they have an experience in working with companies of same size? More of these questions (and explanations of what they mean) below. Read more
According to a post this week by Network Solutions if you want to target wealthy consumers you need to get social. A recent poll concluded that high net worth individuals use social media more than the average American, but less frequently?
