In a time of personal need, many of my 47,000 followers on Twitter and my 4,800 friends on Facebook came to my emotional aid. This provides a good reminder as to why social media is not just strategy or tactic, it is also a meaningful culmination of people engaging with each other in sometimes very human and powerful — loving — ways.
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Twitter success demands both top influencers and everyone else
Many people are keeping their circles of influencers small, believing it is better to invest limited time and resources on the most influential. Find out why a wider and more open-minded audience has more positive effects than we can realize.
Build Twitter followers using the theory of everyone
Look to the Long Tail to recruit brand ambassadors Well, as regular readers of this blog know, I am a Cluetrainian. This means I put more trust in the value and impact of the online influencer long tail than I do in the impact of the couple of dozen top influencers that most social media […]
How to become a super-node in the attention era
Every search you make on Google returns results that are weighted heavily to favor people in your social networks. Getting people to like your brand on Facebook or follow your brand on Twitter has become an essential secret weapon for search engine ranking.
CMO guide to Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt & Brightkite
A Gowalla heat map of Austin, Texas, by Bramus on Flickr Evaluating the business potential of location-based social applications—is the tail wagging the dog? If you read any mainstream media or social media sites, you might have started to get the impression that a Foursquare, Gowalla or Loopt application is your only hope to make […]