If you’re looking to expand your small business through social media marketing, don’t overlook YouTube as a valuable tool to connect with consumers and promote your brand. Sure, you have a Facebook page and a Twitter feed, but why stop there? Create a YouTube account for your business, and you will diversify your marketing options [...]
With the advance of the Internet, the introduction of citizen journalism, and the march of civil rights and bids for freedoms there is a seemingly constant debate over how free the Internet really is. Does it offer complete freedom of speech? Does the government censor or monitor online activities? The honest answer is that many [...]
Image by webtreats via Flickr Innovation doesn’t wait for anybody. It’s a constant, vital force, thriving on new ideas, new interpretations of old ideas, and a deep desire to understand the next important step. This generation has been defined by its technological advances, and the creation of a global society on the Web. This society [...]
Way back in 2006, Google purchased YouTube.com for an alleged reported figure of 1.65 million dollars. And, like with everything Google does, they’ve added their own special “Google Touches” over the last several years, turning it into one of the most popular video destination websites online today. Need proof? According to Comscore.com’s December 2009 “Videos [...]
Just took notice of the post below at the incredible “SocialNomics” blog by Erik Qualman, author of the engaging book of the same name. Clearly when social media experts like @Equalman don’t see social media on the US Census site – it’s mostly because the web designer decided that the navigation tab pointing to the [...]
Image via Wikipedia There is no question that the U.S. Government is getting more social media savvy. If you visit the new interactive Google Map for the 2010 census, there is a top navigation link labeled “Take Part” which leads to a Census social media page displaying links to the 2010 Census Blog, Census FaceBook [...]
WebSite101 started sharing some basic internet statistics in 1998, but the web evolves so quickly that it’s necessary to stay up-to-date constantly. There are dozens of sources for individual internet stats and it’s tough to track them down, so we’d like to begin gathering some for our visitors so they are easy to understand and [...]
Since the middle of the last century, mass media has been largely defined by video content. Television supplanted radio and newspapers as the dominant form of mass communication, and the main reason the Internet began as a text-based medium was the limitations of processing and connection technology. Thanks to broadband and high-powered video cards and [...]
Within one year of its launch, YouTube became the fourth most popular website in the world, and is currently a multi-million dollar enterprise. This fact alone should explain the utter relevance and power of video content to the modern Web. Widespread broadband internet access, increasingly capable video recording hardware and editing software, and high-capacity data [...]
Social Media Marketing – Don’t Make These 3 Mistakes Copyright © 2009 Enzo F. Cesario BrandSplat http://www.Brandsplat.com/ The Cluetrain Manifesto asserts that “Markets are Conversations.” The Manifesto is a document published in 1999 and 10 years later is still considered to be an outstanding treatise on the Internet phenomenon – in regards to the impact [...]
