What Matters Online--Social Media Trends

Links for 2009-10-27 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The salary czar, the cookie jar and Wall Street
The problem with appointing a Daddy (sorry, czar) to tell Wall Street what it can pay execs isn't just whether it's appropriate, or fair, or targets the right execs. No, as I see it, the real issue is whether it's going to make a durned bit of difference. Sure, it might for the short term, but for the long term, collaboration and dialog on what to accomplish work much better than picking a few metrics and imposing a few rules.

Links for 2009-10-06 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Securities Trading Post
Covers news of vital interest to the securities industry.
RestonWebGuy -- your friendly local Web designer
This site offers detailed tips on how to build small biz Web sites, as well as good prices on Web services.

Links for 2009-09-15 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Is this the breakout year for 10 Gig Ethernet?
10GigE vendors are offering sub-microsecond port-to-port latencies in their switches, a whole new level of throughput which could possibly change trading practices.
London exchange readies 1m message/second trading network
The London Stock Exchange sick of having slower networks than the Yanks--and now it's building a blazing fast one which will cream the competition. The LSE has picked up a Sri Lankan tech firm called Millenium IT whose technology will boost its trading capacity from 20,000 messages per second to 1 million per second.

Links for 2009-07-13 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The nextHospital Manifesto: Hospital 2.0 from the ground up
Increasingly, hospitals are being drawn into new relationships fostered by social media tools, mobile phones, YouTube, provider rating sites and more. And it’s time that they use those channels to expand their role. Future hospitals will need to serve the world, not just their back yard.

Links for 2008-12-10 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

Antiques, Art and Collectibles - What's it Worth? | WorthPoint
Send free vintage holiday postcards to your friends and family (dozens to choose from! but I like cozy village scenes)

Links for 2008-10-30 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Creating a Twitter explosion, or the FlyLady effect
When FlyLady jumped onto Twitter, it was a case of spontaneous combustion--and 2,000 followers within 12 hours. What will she try next?

Links for 2008-09-19 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Ad agencies join to measure social media ads
A group of ad agencies and their social media buddies announced that they’d form a trade group focused on defining metrics for measuring social media advertising. They're hoping to define a unit of "engagement" in a way that allows marketers to compare different social media channels.

Great idea for connecting with your Twitter followers

azieger — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:59:55 +0000

Now here's an idea that makes sense not only for Twitter, but also for other forms of social media (including blogs, social networks and bookmarking sites). I love it -- not only does it provide...

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Measuring social media value — more how-to ideas

azieger — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:22:04 +0000

As many of you know, a few days ago I posted an entry listing ways to begin measuring the impact of social media. Since then, I asked the same question--"How would you measure social media...

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Ad agencies join to measure social media ads

azieger — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:25:34 +0000

A group of ad agencies and their social media buddies have formed a trade group focused on defining metrics for measuring social media advertising. Oddly enough, only one social media site has gotten...

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Creating a Twitter explosion, or the FlyLady effect

azieger — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:44:25 +0000

If you keep track of the trending topics on Twitter, you might have thought that the #flylady channel came out of nowhere yesterday afternoon. But the truth is, what really happened is that a major...

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Will your brand be Twit-jacked?

azieger — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:16:52 +0000

Beware: a painful phenomenon from the Web 1.0 world is creeping into Twitter and other social media platforms. Opportunists of the same stripe that reserved Coke.com for themselves in the cowboy...

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Twitter broadcasts track season’s e-commerce woes

azieger — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:07:11 +0000

Now here's a neat idea putting new-fangled Twitter to old-fashioned use. Our friends at smart insider retail IT publication StorefrontBacktalk.com will be launching a Twitter feed tracking major...

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Fandango’s smart Facebook trick sells more movie tickets

azieger — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:20:47 +0000

Being that it’s Friday night, my thoughts have turned to movies (and since I’m too lazy to stick my nose out of the door, I’m writing about them instead. <grin>) Movies and...

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Facebook video: Can it compete with YouTube?

azieger — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:11:07 +0000

Given its rather sketchy support for its PPC and pay per impression ad programs, Facebook may not look like a candidate for video ad competition. But still, it's way too early to write Facebook off...

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Who’s using Twitter? (And why?)

azieger — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:14:07 +0000

A quick commercial interruption tonight to find out how you specifically make Twitter work for you. (And a bit more…in a moment.) What’s your take on Twitter use? Why are people addicted...

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Twitter execs: PLEASE start accepting ads

azieger — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:19:57 +0000

In case any of you hadn't noticed, there's been something of a civil war on Twitter over the issue of whether advertising should exist there. That's why I'm begging Twitter's founders to begin...

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