Teens Don’t Tweet
Posted by Bill in MeshBlog, Social Networking on February 17, 2010
Teens and young adults are blogging less and using Facebook more, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project:
Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. In 2006, 28% of teens ages 12-17 and [...]
Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
There’s an art to tweeting. And most people just haven’t mastered it, writes Tamara Erickson at Harvard Business Review.
Ford Shows How Its Done
Posted by Bill in MeshBlog, Social Networking on January 11, 2010
While its rivals, GM and Chrysler, looked to Congress and the American taxpayer for a lifeline, Ford Motor Co. drove a different road, leverage social media to successfully launch itself back into the subcompact car market. Grant McCracken, writing in Harvard Business Review, explains How Ford Got Social Media Right by working with contemporary culture. [...]
Not As Easy As It Sounds
Posted by Bill in MeshBlog, Social Networking on November 28, 2009
The current edition of the Nashville Business Journal has a good story on small businesses using Twitter as a marketing tool. While the entrepreneurs in the story appear to have a good grasp of the medium and how to use it, the NBJ story makes the same mistake so many publications do when they cover [...]
Twitter Primary, Update
Posted by Bill in MeshBlog, Social Networking on November 28, 2009
In Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District Republican primary race, Robin Smith continues to lead in the Twitter Primary, while in second place, based on the number of people following him on Twitter, is Bradley County Sheriff Tim Gobble – whose lead over Chattanooga attorney Chuck Fleischmann is shrinking.
Another Republican candidate in the race is Cleveland, Tenn., businessman [...]
Peanut Butter & Chocolate
Posted by Bill in MeshBlog, Social Networking on November 11, 2009
Scott Monty, Ford Motor Company’s director of social media, has some useful thoughts about news that LinkedIn users can now update your LinkedIn status via Twitter, and Twitter users can update your Twitter status from LinkedIn: ”The fact that a site as grounded in the business world as LinkedIn would choose to align with Twitter is a [...]
Investor Relations in the Age of Social Media
The Cross Border Group, publisher of IR Magazine for corporate investor relations professionals, has posted an article looking at the issues and challenges that social media brings for corporate investor relations.
“The risk posed by social media for your company … exists whether you participate or not,’ observed Darrell Heaps, CEO of Q4 Web Systems, an [...]
Conservative Talking Points – On Your IPhone
There’s a new iPhone app geared for conservative political activists and conservatives who want to win arguments with liberals. The “Conservative Talking Points” iPhone app, $1.99, provides an extensive yet easily-accessed collection of sourced information, data, quotes and more on 50 different political topics. Its creators say it is “filled with 205 talking points backed [...]
Times that Try Men’s Souls: The FTC Moves to Regulate Blog Speech
The Federal Trade Commission has released new regulations will add a layer of difficulty for companies hoping to promote their products, services or point-of-view via blogs and other social media. As the New York Times reports, the FTC…
…said it would revise rules about endorsements and testimonials in advertising that had been in place since 1980. [...]
Winning the Twitter Primary
I took a look today at the number of Twitter followers for each of the top three candidates in Tennessee’s hotly contested race for the Republican nomination in the 3rd Congressional District. The numbers are interesting. Former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Robin Smith (@robints) had, as of this morning, 925 followers, giving her a more [...]
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