Browsing all posts in Social Media.
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
FaceBook is growing and becoming the online location for Business Networking. We all know that networking is important for any business. Michigan need to do a better job and growing through Social Media. ManoByte is here to help in this regard. Here are some interesting statistic regarding FaceBook and Michigan Usage.
Number of Michigan Users of [...]
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Towards the end of June 2008, Visa unleashed a Power FaceBook page. Visa understands Social Media and they are reaching out to Small Businesses through FaceBook. This bold move on the part of Visa is very significant. Unlike American Express, who missed out on the opportunity to buy PayPal before it became an eBay company, [...]
Friday, July 25th, 2008
My West Michigan Cohort in Social Media Laura Bergell has once again amazed me with her insights. He latest post will have you twitter-pated. Next month Laura and I will be teaching a class that is designed to help West Michigan Businesses understand the value of Social Media.
The Ten Behavioral and Emotional Stages of [...]
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
OK, It has been a while since I last posted anything. But I have been extremely busy and now a days I have been using twitter to comment on interesting tidbits that I find around the web regarding Social Media and Online Marketing. Feel free to follow me on Twitter
There are some incredible uses for [...]
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Rohit Bhargave the Author of Personality Not Included Began creating the rules for Social Media Optimization. He started with 5 Rules and others have added to them and now there are 16 rules that are key.
Rohit Bhagave
1. Increase your linkability
2. Make tagging and bookmarking easy
3. Reward inbound links
4. Help your content travel
5. Encourage the mashup
www.web-strategist.com
6. [...]
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Laura Bergells is the West Michigan Business Blogging authority. She understand the power of Social Media Marketing. In my humble opinion every PR firm in West Michigan should watch out for her. Well, Laura has done it again, she has written a brilliant post on how to fall in love with Social Media. You must [...]
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I sat down with an “Ad Man” and his first question to me was what is Social Media. Then the next week I was in a meeting with some incredible business people here in Grand Rapids and they did not know what Social Media was either. As a matter of [...]
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Last week’s cover story in Business Week was entitled “Beyond Blogs”. It was a follow up article to a story that they wrote in 2005 entitled “Blogs will change your business”. This was a great article! So what is beyond blogs? Social Media Marketing. Here in Grand Rapids, Michigan a great deal of businesses are [...]
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
I have been working on a project creating to help create a Social Networking organization for Alzheimer’s caregivers. Social networking is perfect for health care providing organization and communities such as Alzthere. I selected KickApps to create their community and it will soon be ready to launch.
For anyone evaluating creating a Social Media Networking site [...]