Product Review: Social Talk by Syncapse

SocialTalk from Syncapse What is it: An enterprise level social media management tool that includes reporting around your social media efforts. What Sites Does It Manage: Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Movable Type (YouTube shortly) What I Like About the Product: The real selling point of this product is the workflow it creates within an organization. For example let’s say that you need to have managerial or legal approval for every piece …

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Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 11:45 am by Kevin

The Battle Rages On: iPhone vs. Android OS and App Market

The battle still rages on for the win in this seemingly endless competition between Apple and Google, AT&T and Verizon, and the iPhone and Android. Yet this is a great time for application developers and mobile advertisers to take advantage of the growing and dynamic mobile OS environments. The debate over which major features are superior for each phone is a hot topic today. PC World stated, “If you want …

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 10:10 am by Tim

It’s All About Location, Location, Location?

When it comes to location  I am really interested in the technology and where it is going as a guy that is into new shiny things. (Does that make me a technologist or a geek? Is there a difference?) Professionally for most of my clients I am encouraging them to experiment with these tools but not to dump a lot of time and resources into it because realistically for most …

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 10:04 am by Kevin

What's Behind a True Community?

The consumer/ordinary person in me always, or almost always, answers the questions raised by the marketer in me. One of these questions was why are there millions of posts written about community and brands in the past several months? Community has become the new buzzword: everyone talks about the power of the community and how every brand should build a community in order to be successful in its social media …

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Friday, April 16, 2010 @ 11:30 am by Tim

Twitter Analysis: Making Measurement Meaningful

Here’s another great guest post from our friend Mike Layton, Co-Founder of the hot social monitoring startup, Symscio, Inc.  It is important to remember that measurement programs will vary, but hopefully this post will assist you in asking the right questions towards setting up a meaningful measurement program. If you have any comments or questions, we’d love to hear from you. If you would like to learn more, Symscio can …

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 4:28 pm by Tim

Free Platforms: When More is Less

How Many Platforms Are Too Many Platforms? Conventional thinking says that you should avail yourself of every tool available to you in order to succeed.  Conventional thinking is wrong. The easiest way to fail with your online marketing strategies is to try to use every single platform and tool available to a digital marketer today.  Never before have businesses had so many options to spread their message and connect with potential …

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 10:10 am by Tim
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A List of Social Media Monitoring Tools

Yesterday I sat down and decided that I wanted to try out some different monitoring solutions beyond what I was using. (Thanks to everyone on Twitter that offered up some suggestions on what tools you are all using.) When I started to dive in and I encountered so many monitoring tools that I have never tried. I started compiling them and it got a tad out of hand. I decided …

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 12:24 am by Kevin