Posts about Social Media as of August 14, 2009

The Digital Sanctuary is the personal blog of Cynthia Ware , a Foursquare minister with over 2o years of pastoral minstry and a Master’s Degree in New Media. At The Digital Sanctuary Cynthia “encourages Christian leaders to explore, embrace and employ participatory media technologies to serve the Kingdom of God.” You can find countless articles and “how do I (insert your online need here)” posts on her blog, as well as what is happening with online media.

August 14, 2009 | By Calvin McCarthy In Online Business | by Freddie BurchUndeniably, Web 2.0 is an honored progress in the arena of web design. I am feeling massive excitement to introduce you people with this modernism of website design. Web 2.0 templates have comfort of numerous designing facilities like as innermost layout, effortlessness, content versatility, intelligibility as well as appealing color contrasts.Your wish to do a website design with some astounding effects which makes your site more appealing.

With Facebook nearing 150 million users, and Twitter boasting the title of fastest growing social networking site ever developed, there is no doubt that social networking has gained popularity at lightning speed. For better or worse, many businesses have joined social networking communities in search of boosting their revenues in the down economy. But how useful are these sites in creating revenue? From a purely marketing standpoint, I give it an A+ for reaching my target audience, but a C+ overall because we still have work to do on our strategy, including measuring the true ROI.

by Arielle Young Wasn’t Facebook here first? Yes, a whole two years before Twitter hit the virtual scene (over the internet, that’s decades.) But ever since the uprising of the ever-popular “tweeting”, Facebook appears… nearly inefficient. Why click three times to get to what you’re looking for when you can stick a hashtag on a compound word and be done with it? Facebook’s product seems strangely like an attempt at competition for the social networking consumers flocking over to Twitter.

Lifestyle L3AK online update reports Facebook purchase social media giant Friendfeed – TechComboFacebook have shocked the world by acquiring feed aggregators Friendfeed and also hiring the social networking sites four founders to important positions inside the newly purchased company.The four founders of Friendfeed were ex-google staff Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh, Jim Norris and Bret Taylor.

From A Small Change… Reasons Your Organization Should Blog This article from A Small Change asks the questions Does your nonprofit use blogging to advance your mission? Why not? What’s holding you back? It goes on to list a few advantages that blogging can bring to what you do. From Kivi’s Nonprofit Communication Blog… Nonprofit Blogs: 5 Reasons You Do & Don’t Need One In sort of an alternate post to the last one we read from A Small Change, this article from Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications Blog gives you 5 reasons your organization needs a blog…AND 5 reasons you DON”T.

Arlene Torres last encountered social networking sites like Facebook at a legal education seminar. She and other lawyers delved into the legal issues of social networking, including privacy and lawyer-client confidentiality. They did not learn how to use the Web sites. Now Ms. Torres, who is unemployed, is learning to use sites like LinkedIn to connect with employers and apply for jobs.

Easy AdSense by UnrealWhen you are a computer guy, you know when the Internet is out somewhere. Calls come in all at once.Last night, I was mini-golfing with my kids and my cell phone buzzed. It was a friend informing me that their Bresnan Internet and phone service wasn’t working. I had them do the usual modem and router reset. That didn’t fix the problem, so I blamed Bresnan and told them to wait it out. As I was hanging up, my call waiting went off – it was someone 20 miles away from the previous caller with exactly the same problem.

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What does it say about corporate public relations when I cannot learn from my cable company why my cable Internet service isn’t working? What does it say about corporate public relations when I can instead learn about the outage from Twitter? The story: Bresnan Internet service went out at my house at about 8 p.m. last night. I reset the cable modem, the wi-fi routers, all the stuff Bresnan techs ask you to do when you call them. Nothing. It was becoming clear that the problem was on Bresnan’s end.