‘Twitter’ posts

Hip to be Square

Posted by John Eckman on 27 Sep 2010

Photo by Chris Harrison – http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdharrison/4992493250/ Got an email in late August that Square, the iPhone mobile card reader / payment acceptance application founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, had begun shipping readers again. Mine came this week – 2 of them actually. I’m pretty certain I only ordered one, so I’m not sure where [...]

Advertisers paying for commercial Tweets?

Posted by Jim Munz on 14 Dec 2009

According to AdAge the Huffington Post has started offering marketers the ability to inject their own paid comments among reader comments and place paid Tweets among the live Twitter feeds the site assembles around news subjects and events. So while this is a content marketing strategy I must say it’s most likely going to backfire | View post »

Twitter 101: These Are Not The Cavaliers You’re Looking For

Posted by John Eckman on 30 Jul 2009

I don’t normally blog much about twitter: it seems like an already over-covered by other voices. Lately, though, I’ve been seeing an increase in twittering of dubious value. For example, automatically following (or stalking, as Ari Herzog put it) folks who mention a given term, and overly friendly twitter accounts purporting to be young women [...]

Ecommerce Blogroll: Weekly Report July 15

Posted by Noreen Vincent on 15 Jul 2009

This week I wanted to see if I could find a blog that focused on social shopping and was pleased to stumble across the post from Evan Schuman in the Storefrontbacktalk blog.  I hope this article, along with other posts I suggest you read below, offer some new insight for you this week.  Feel free | View post »

Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange

Posted by John Eckman on 30 Jun 2009

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring community into contact with content. One of the sites he mentioned was the Business Exchange, a new community (really a set of communities) | View post »

Sociable Ads: The Future or Advertising, or Just Another Banner?

Posted by John Eckman on 14 Apr 2009

Given the number of users who deploy ad-blocking software in their browsers, and the complete blindness to banner ads exhibited by most website users who haven’t bothered to deploy ad blockers, it isn’t surprising that the industry continues to seek a replacement (or at least a supplement) for the standard banner ad. Sociable Ads, a | View post »

Tracking Keywords in Twitter

Posted by John Eckman on 04 Apr 2009

Tracking the occurrence of keywords in twitter through one of the automated tools is a quick way to add value to your experience. Brands often use this approach to track mentions of their products and companies, developers can use it to track mentions of their favorite languages, frameworks, and open source projects, and anyone can [...]

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

Corporate Microblogging: Who Speaks for @optaros?

Posted by John Eckman on 25 Jan 2009

Twitter and Identica are  great places for individuals to express themselves, engage in conversation, build their personal brand, or just have fun. But what’s a corporate brand to do? What does it mean for someone to tweet as @optaros (or post notices on identi.ca as @optaros)? I’ve been pondering this question recently not just from | View post »

Social Media Mixtape, 2007

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Dec 2007

The folks at Mashable have created a wonderful holiday gift: Most of the tunes includes videos. Here's a shortlist – visit mashable's post for inline videos and songs: The Twitter Song, by stephen e. streight Gotta Digg, by Kina Grannis Facebook Song, by Straight no Chaser The Myspace Song by Grant Cook Facebook Admirer by | View post »

Close

Contact Us