Granada America Launches Blog Contest for Bloggers

“I’m a Blogger… Get Me Out of Here!” Pits Bloggers Against Each Other for a Grand Prize Trip Behind the Scenes of NBC’s “I’m a Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here!”
Embracing the social media sphere Granada America launched a blogger contest today to help generate buzz and excitement about “I’m a Celebrity.. Get Me [...]

Sarah Palin: Social Media Star?

In a remarkable example of reality gone topsy-turvy, the current political star of social media is not Barack Obama, whose social media savvy and online fundraising have been so widely covered to this point.  No, it’s the book-banning, small-town mayor turned nascent governor from Alaska, a woman who was not even widely known among five-time [...]

Social Media Blog Carnival #002

Welcome to the March 17, 2008 edition of social media blog carnival. Thank you so much for everyone who participated! There’s some great posts this edition.
General Web 2.0

Christine presents Traditional Website vs Blog Format posted at Me, My Kid and Life. This is a great, in-depth analysis of a personal website vs. [...]

Does the Target Snub Make You Less Likely to Shop There?

After the buzz over Target snubbing a blogger hit the blogosphere, it made it all the way up to the New York Times. But will the news hit bloggers and their readers harshly? Would you be less likely to shop there (if you already were)? I’m curious of the real dollar impact that this will [...]

Bloggers Bite Back over Social Media PR Spamming

With blogger outreach campaigns barely a few years old, and no training/certification programs to provide standards and guidelines, PR and marketing folks have a slippery job of keeping tabs on the ever-growing blogosphere and the evolving “best practices” in using social media for their clients’ marketing initiatives.
Some of today’s “alpha bloggers” have been complaining and [...]

Social Media & Action

After the third twitter about social media and activism, I decided to write about it.
Today is Blog Action Day, the idea that bloggers will all post about a certain topic (this one is the environment). To participate either by devoting the day to posting about the topic or by donating the money you make from [...]

The power of viral marketing (and books)

A great post from Buy a Friend a Book about the power of bloggers suggesting books.
I know myself that if a Twitter friend suggests a show, book or music artist – I usually will check them out. My Twitter/podcast friend Mur Lafferty has been the person I follow the most. She hasn’t recommended something yet [...]

Can I has a traffic?

I am a big fan of the I Can Has Cheezburger site. It’s basically a site where people add captions to photos of cats. According to an article on Bloggers Blog, the blog “now gets 500,000 pageviews daily and runs ads that cost between $500 and $4,000 a week.”
Insane!
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CES media coverage ruled by blogs

Last year (2006) may have been the first time that bloggers arrived in substantial numbers, but this year (2007) was the first year they completely took control of the media coverage, making the old media seem oh so irrelevant. Nearly every major story was blogged about before the show doors [...]

New York Times Standard Time

The New York Times tends to digest technology for what seems like eons until it “breaks” a story – take today’s article on Technorati. For those of us in the social media world, it’s hard to remember a time before Technorati, much like it’s hard to imagine a pre-google universe. To the Times, who runs [...]

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