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7 Cool Twitter Tools for Multiple User & Group Tweeting

Mani Karthik — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:21:56 +0000

Clearly, Twitter is undoubtedly the topper when it comes to Social Media Marketing tools. Out of all the tools we use today for social media marketing, Twitter tools are the most versatile and obviously most sought after. One of the good feature about Twitter is that more than one person can use it at the same time. Multiple account tweeting is a reality today with big corporations or just about anyone with a peer team manages one single Twitter account collaboratively.

Who does group tweeting and why ?

Collaborative tweeting or group tweeting are done mainly when there is a team managing a single twitter account. Many people use Twitter for Customer Service, and there is often a team that works in shifts to manage a Twitter account 24/7. Social Media management requires 24/7 monitoring, therefore managing between multiple users becomes a necessity.

Here are some group tweeting/ collaborative shared Tweeting tools that should help you.

1. Media Funnel

A professional group tweeting tool that lets you manage your tweets among colleagues and peer team. Analytics and event tracking for tweets are possible with this tool making it the best among the lot.

2. Objective Marketer

Really impressive tool that lets you schedule tweets, run campaigns and even measure them right inside the tool. Very promising tool, but costs a bit on the higher side.

3. Hootsuite

Probably the most popular among all Hootsuite is the most reliable tool when it comes to scheduling tweets and multiple user management. Easy to manage, Hootsuite is undoubtedly the best tool out there.

4. People Browser

This tool is more like a social media monitoring tool in itself, with excellent reports on social media mentions and sentiment reports. To add to it you can run campaigns with multiple users involved. Very impressive tool.

5. Split Tweet

This is a multi user twitter management tool and an analytics tool combined together with no other distractions. You can use it for campaigns on brands and specifically target a social media channel. however, comparing it with other tools, you’ll miss some advanced features here.

6. Co Tweet

An amazing social media dashboard tool created specifically for Twitter, it lets you do lot of advanced things like multiple user management, specific keyword monitoring etc. The best thing is that it has a very simple interface even with all the complexities.

If you know more such tools, do let me know in the comments.

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Google Instant is fast but doesn’t improve search quality

Mani Karthik — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:43:57 +0000

Before we jump into conclusions, take a look at the search result. A simple search for “Google Instant” would not show up anything about Google Instant at all.

Google Instant is super fast and it takes the search experience to another level, and I agree to what Marissa Meyer said – Google Instant is a “New shift in Search”.

But I sincerely wish if they did something similar to the search results in improving them.

The reality is that while Google team worked on improving the search user experience, there is no improvement on the index part. So SEOwise there is no change at all in the way Google works.

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Is this the latest Google Update ?

Mani Karthik — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:36:52 +0000

Google is planning something cool for sure, or that’s what we’re able to learn from all the doodle stories. With Google’s birthday round the corner, techies expect a nice surprise, (especially with that never before changing color doodle thing).

TNW has published this new Google tool that is ridiculously fast and probably gives a peep into what’s going to come up. Check it here.

Its a tool that displays search lightening fast as you type in to the text space. The search modifies based on Google suggestions as and when you type/edit. Very impressive.

I have an intuition (from the Google doodle’s and everything) that this update if at all, is going to be about speed and improving the search experience altogether. Let’s wait and watch.

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Latest Internet Memes doing the rounds – Round Up

Mani Karthik — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:07:34 +0000

The interesting thing about memes are that they hit a huge spike on the popularity charts and before even realizing what they were, they vanish. But that’s the fun part of it. The sad part is that not all the time can you find where it all started.

The latest memes and viral concepts on the internet this week are here.

1. Leonardo Di Caprio Happy Strut

This meme involves a picture of Leonardo Di Caprio, walking in a happy mood, with something disastrous happening in the background. There are several images around the internet that shows Leo’s Happy strut with something disastrous in the background. Le’s face expression is obviously funny and the combination of something sad in the background and the “I don’t give a f***” attitude on Leo’s face is the whole idea about. Apparently the funny picture was taken during the shooting days of “Inception” . Here are some examples.

Leonardo – Mac v/s PC Ad

2. "Sometimes I Just Want To Copy Someone Else’s Status, Word For Word, And See If They Notice."

There was this bizzare viral thing happening where the same status update got copy-pasted over and over profiles for some strange reason. It all started with Twitter user Tim Waters (@tim_waters), a "freelance geo fella" per his Twitter bio of Leeds, U.K. , who tweeted the sentence at 10:42 a.m. EST. From then many copy-pasted the status for its self-referencing nature and it went viral, as confirmed on Tech Crunch.

3. Prancing Cera

This is a Photoshop meme based on a photograph taken by film director Edgar Wright of actor Cera, while in Norway. The image shows him jumping mid air among docks in a funny way. The image got photoshopped into many instances, where he’s seen jumping around things. Very similar to the Leo Strut meme. Here are some examples.

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An SEO course for business owners by Jason Lavin

Mani Karthik — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:07:26 +0000

On the internet, there is plenty of information floating around. Anything under the sun is on the internet. Webmaster and SEO related stuff is probably the most written about, talked and discussed topics among other on the internet.

However, when you’re searching for information related to your context, things get a bit too generic. Information on the internet is way too generic to meet specific niche demands. Jason Lavin, figured this out already, and put up a program in place for business owners who want to have a better grasp of their webmaster/seo skills – The Master your Webmaster program.

As Jason puts it, Master Your Webmaster is not a technical course on how to become a SEO or SEM expert. It is, however, an excellent business course that is aimed at business owners and marketing professionals that need to get the most out of their technical resources.

The course consists of two DVD’s and an accompanying workbook and consists of several tutorial lessons on SEO and SEM, in business context.

Jason Lavin has been presenting at various conferences all over the country and have done more than 20 presentations a year on the same subject since 1997.

Jason’s course is intended to business owners and anyone with a website online trying to get the pillars right for SEO and Online marketing. Its very promising and effective for those who’re trying to learn how to do it yourself. Try it out here.

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How to: Send email to Facebook users based on location ?

Mani Karthik — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:00:07 +0000

So you have a fan page for your website/product and there are several people who “like” it. And you have this event to which you want to invite them to. Assuming your “supporters” are from around the world, it might be irrelevant to send an email to everyone in the list. Because all of them are not in one location.

So how do you send an email to everyone in your Facebook page ?

This is fairly simple.

1 – Go to your facebook fan page, click on Edit button right below your avatar.

2 – Click on “Send an Update”

I wonder why its not called “Message everyone”, anyways…

Type your message and send to all.

Now, if you’d like to send the message/update to selected users from particular locations, then facebook lets you do it, the following way.

3. Select “Target this update”

Now, an array of options pop up, with options such as – Location, Sex, and Age limit.

So if you want to send a message to all the guys in NY, who’re your fans, and between the age limit of 20-25, you could easily do that.

This is one of the things I love about Facebook fan pages. Now, you make use of it.

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Google Instream Videos generate Nevada Tourism $110 million in revenue

Mani Karthik — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:30:05 +0000

What are Google Instream Video Ads ?

InVideo advertising is a distribution method for any ad format where the ad is shown within the physical screen space of a video stream: in the video. A video stream is a media content object embedded into a webpage that plays a content provider’s video.

InVideo ads may appear in multiple formats, but all of them appear before, during, or after a live streaming video within the same screen space as the video stream itself. These ads are not the major content object on the page where they appear, but they are tied to a major content object: the streaming video with which they appear. InVideo ads are therefore relevant to the page where they appear and relevant to the content of the actual video stream.

The Doubts

When Instream video ads were out, many, including me looked at them with skeptic eyes for a simple reason. Video ads were mainly distractions. When you watch a video, all your attention is on the content, and anything that comes in between you and the video is primarily distraction. Remember those text ads that appear in videos ? The CTR ratio for them are extremely low. But there is a clause.

The contextual nature of the content. According to Google, the in-stream video ads campaign focusing on Nevada winter sports resulted in over 8 million views from its target demographic. Furthermore, the in-stream ads resulted in a 33 percent increase in consideration of Nevada as a vacation destination among its target audience in its 7 selected markets.

Now, that’s an great achievement. Keep in mind that this campaign ran for an year through Google Instream Video Ads.

How to create Instream Video Ads ?

Google Instream Video Ads have proven their effectiveness with this campaign. What we got to figure out are the specific metrics that resulted in this success. The travel industry is a gold mine when it comes to opportunities in Advertising. But clearly, one success story does not declare that everyone else can repeat the same.

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Another social networking site fail – VOX kills itself

Mani Karthik — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:27:26 +0000

This is probably a clear signal that there is no more space for another “social networking” site on the internet unless you do it the niche way. Another Web 2.0 league social networking/blogging platform VOX from Six Apart is no more after Sep 15th. While the reasons are not explained, its obvious that they probably realized its a failed product.

In an email send to users, VOX said –

Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010.

Vox is no longer accepting new user registrations.
If you have an existing Vox account you can continue to sign in to manage your account and view posts from your neighborhood.
On Wednesday September 15th, you will no longer be able to create new posts on Vox or upload new photos or videos.
You will still be able to sign in to view your blog and manage your account.
On Thursday September 30th, your blog will no longer be available at Vox.com, and you will no longer be able to sign in to Vox.

VOX was an interesting blogging platform, definitely had more juice in it, and not a bad service but probably they couldn’t take it any longer. RIP Vox !

Would be interesting to see if more failed social networks would follow VOX.

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CPA Revenue Model Search Engine Patent up for sale

Mani Karthik — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:04:30 +0000

A U.S. patent detailing a cost per action (CPA) revenue model for search engines goes on the auction block in November. For those who can’t wait, AnchorFree Founder David Gorodyansky has put a $2 million ‘buy it now’ price tag on the deal.

The patent describes a pricing model that charges search advertisers based on a CPA model rather than cost-per-click (CPC). It also covers giving ad fees back to the person searching on an engine. These descriptions appear in the claims section.

This however will not affect the major search engines like Google. in my opinion. Because this patent now has to go live with a relatively smaller search engine, where the search volume is lower. Had it been on Google, then this idea would have been revolutionary, but I doubt if Google will plunge in.

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Apple iPhone 4 Ad Spoofs hit the Internet (And they’re damn funny)

Mani Karthik — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:28:33 +0000

Remember those cute iPhone 4 Ads ? Well, someone’s just come up with their spoofs. Need I say more ? Check them out.

1. Baby 2. Smile 3. Sugar Daddy You can watch the series here with Manacus TV

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