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Planting, Growing and Evaluating Your Social Media Network. “Seed Selection and Planting”. Blogs “I’ve got something to say…”. WordPress www.wordpress.com Most flexible Blogger www.blogger.com Best for beginners TypePad www.typepad.com Many larger IT benefits.
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Planting, Growing and Evaluating Your Social Media Network “Seed Selection and Planting”
Blogs“I’ve got something to say…” WordPress www.wordpress.com • Most flexible Blogger www.blogger.com • Best for beginners TypePad www.typepad.com • Many larger IT benefits
Microblogs“A thought just occurred to me…” Twitter www.twitter.com • 26 million monthly users • 80 million estimated monthly visitors (EMV) • Other sources cite over 25 million “tweets” per day
Twitter Apps“How do you keep track of all these Twitter feeds?” Tweetdeck www.tweetdeck.com • Desktop • iPhone Seesmic www.seesmic.com • Desktop, • iPhone, BlackBerry Uber Twitter www.ubertwitter.com • iPhone, BlackBerry
“Old School” Social Networking“So what’s been goin’ on?” Facebook www.facebook.com • 3.1 billion EMV • 500 million active users, roughly half of whom log in daily • Personal profiles • “Professional” pages
But what about…? MySpace www.myspace.com • Lost over 10 million users since January 2010 Gather www.gather.com • Rallied briefly in 2010 • Never has been strong
ProfessionalFacebook for business people… sort of. Linked In www.linkedin.com • 62.7 million EMV • Free and Fee-based options • Many people under-estimate its potential
Social Bookmarking“You’ve really got to read this!” Digg www.digg.com • 45 million EMV Reddit www.reddit.com • 16.5 million EMV StumbleUpon www.stumbleupon.com • 16.5 million EMV del.icio.us www.delicious.com • 5.5 million EMV
Photo SharingHey, check out this picture I took!” Flicker www.flickr.com • 79 million EMV • Also has video sharing capabilities Photobucket www.photobucket.com • 55 million EMV Picasa www.picasa.google.com • Monthly visitors: ???
Video SharingBecause just about all digital cameras record video now as well. Youtube www.youtube.com • 175 million EMV Daily Motion www.dailymotion.com • 13.4 million EMV Metacafe www.metacafe.com • 11.7 million EMV
Location Based Networking“I’m here. Where are you?” Foursquare www.foursquare.com • Network + game • Great for marketing locations or large brands Schmap www.schmap.com • Network + tool • Geotweet app for iPhone
Places You Can Find Me From Under My Hat www.jriutta.com Facebook www.facebook.com/fromundermyhat Twitter www.twitter.com/fromundermyhat or in “twitterese:”@fromundermyhat The Well-read Naturalist www.wellreadnaturalist.com Facebook www.facebook.com/wellreadnaturalist Twitter www.twitter.com/wellreadnat or in “twitterese:”@wellreadnat Linked In www.linkedin.com/in/johnriutta Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/bornagainbirdwatcher
Place You Can Find Notes to this Presentation www.jriutta.com Category: Travel & Adventures GWA 2010