Posts Tagged ‘the-social-web’

[audio] The Connection Itself

Why The Connection Itself Matters Most in Social Media: 30 minute talk about the things we don’t like to admit as human beings and why they are so important.

Mentioned:

JibberJobber.com
score.org’s 2009 Score Awards
@shashib on Twitter

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Free Excerpt from the Latest Traffic Collection for 24 Hours

gift27,000 visitors from StumbleUpon in one week is my personal high score for generating social media traffic. 40k is my overall best in one day.

But if you ever look at my SU profile, by all outward appearances, I’m a pretty average user.

I don’t have 1000 subscribers, like Andy Beard, who can rock my server with one stumble.

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[article plus video] How Will Oprah’s Audience Affect Twitter?

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I hardly ever watch TV live, and today was no exception. But Mashable has a portion of today’s Twitter appearance featuring @Oprah and @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher), who reached 1 million Twitter followers, beating @CNN, so I ended up seeing the Twitter-relevant part of the show in a fairly timely fashion after all.
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A Social Media Party Guide: Wallflower to Swinger in 6 Stages

partytime.jpgIt seems to me that if you can learn how to be the life of the party, you can learn how to work the social media scene. Let’s think of it as a party then, and do a run down of how it would work out.

Stage One: You Go to the Party

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If you’re smart, you’ll be invited, or better yet, throw the party. The party of course, meaning the place where you socially interact in the social media arena.

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