Published July 15, 2010
By using the wall of its Facebook page as a digital bulletin board for community and patient information, a doctor’s office in Irving, Texas, has successfully (more…)
Many banks have started using social websites to help them with everything from healing the financial industry (more…)
Southern Exposure Magazine’s Kathy Stone interviews Mark Bortz.
In this segment Kathy asks Mark about his recommendation for how often content should be introduced into your social media system…and why. (more…)
How do you get people really excited about a car that isnt even going to hit US shores for a year? We {Ford Motor Company} decided we’d ship over a few from Europe, give them to a handpicked group of social media butterflies, and make them fall in love with it. For six months, they put the Fiesta through its paces, and brought their friends and followers along for the ride. While they completed missions, recorded them and shared over 31,000 pieces of content across many popular social networks, the command center for this entire program was a micro site called fiestamovement.com.
Remember when your school yearbook came out and you finally got to see it. What was the first thing you did? You looked for YOURSELF! (more…)
Social Media Adoption By U.S. Small Businesses Doubles Since 2009
Herndon, VA – Feb 16, 2010 – American small businesses are pushing the limits on new ways to improve efficiency in the prolonged downturn, including a steady increase in social media adoption. (more…)
Social Media Traction is so many things, but what it mostly is… is a platform.
You see, the space shuttle can’t launch into space unless it’s mounted securely to a stable platform. (more…)
Malcolm Gladwell writes in his book ‘blink’ that “decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.” (more…)
www.MarksGuitarStuff.com donated a Fender guitar to Gary Chapman who autographed it and gave it away to his 3000th ‘friend’ on Facebook. Dustin Winter of Columbus, Indiana.
Here’s how a non-profit used Twitter to raise funds and attract donors.