Category: Social Media

22 Jun

The Social Shopping Revolution Has Begun

Social Networking Syncs with Customer Purchases Blippy enables opted in users to share their online and offline purchases with followers by syncing their e-commerce accounts like iTunes, Netflix, Zappos, as well as, with your debit and credit card accounts. Mashable reported last month that Blippy’s user base has grown and “…users are sending data on [...]

16 Jun

What’s Next? Facebook Installing “Like” Buttons on our “Like” Buttons?

There’s a small feature on the way that’s about to make another big change to the way people use Facebook: the ability to “Like” comments. Much like you can currently “Like” status updates, wall posts and other items in the News Feed, Facebook has started rolling out a “Like” button for comments. The feature is [...]

15 Jun

Facebook “Like” Button Increases Referral Traffic to Blogs

Facebook “Like” Increases Referral Traffic to Blogs by 50% [REPORT] TypePad users who installed the Facebook “Like” widgets on their blog sidebars have experienced a 50% increase in referral traffic from Facebook collectively, TypePad revealed in a blog post. Facebook unveiled the “Like” feature at its F8 Developer Conference in late April. Readers can click [...]

25 May

Techcrunch Disrupt – live streaming video powered by Livestream

via livestream.com I’m at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York City which continues through tomorrow night. I encourage you all to tune into the Livestream of the conference because there are a lot of new technologies being introduced that will influence and assist in how we consume, create and engage in content. There are [...]

23 May

Omni Hotels ‘Gets It’ by using Twitter Outreach

Omni Hotels has a presence online but each individual location has a key individual who handles guests specifically at that hotel.  Kelly Burnett is the rockstar who manages the presence of Omni Orlando and I was lucky to grab an interview with her.  It was this tweet that caught my attention and got me asking, [...]

23 May

Papa John’s Recruits Facebook Fans to Create Next Pizza

In much the same way that Dunkin’ Donuts and Mountain Dew are tapping their online fans to create new products, Papa John’s is using Facebook to find their next speciality pizza. The Papa’s Specialty Pizza Challenge tasks Facebook fans with creating the winning recipe for the company’s next specialty pizza through June 14. Although the [...]

23 May

Foursquare Gets More Mainstream

Featured Story Foursquare Gets Mainstream Exposure on “The Today Show”       100Share Social Media Foursquare has scored itself another partnership, this time with NBC’s The Today Show. Foursquare users who head to 30 Rock this summer for the Toyota Concert Series on Today will be able to check in, earn badges and compete for [...]

20 May

Fast motion video of the entire weeks location based check in’s at SxSW Interactive

via mashable.com It seems Foursquare and Gowalla dominated the location based services used at SxSW in March. I know I used Foursquare as my primary communication tool because it was easier to see where your friends were at then have tweet, text, email or call them. How do you like the video? Do you use [...]

19 May

Join Us For A Little Southern Fried Social Change

We’re actively seeking volunteers and sponsors for this event.  It’s being held on Saturday, July 24th to Sunday, July 25th at CoLab Nashville.  We’re limiting the number of volunteers to no more than 40, to ensure we stay on task and provide the non-profit the best work.  The event will benefit Reconciliation, a 25 year [...]

19 May

My photo tour of Cheekwood Gardens and Museum

See the full gallery on Posterous I recently did a photowalk of Cheekwood Gardens on behalf of Social Media Club Nashville.  It was less than a week after the epic Nashville flood so I wasn’t surprised few showed up.  We’ll have to host a ‘do over,’ minus the floods, of course.   Enjoy a few [...]