Archive for March, 2008

Upcoming Social Media Event Schedule

March 20th, 2008

There are some great events coming up in the next 10 days that I am going to be attending, and one event that I am going to be hosting. Click on the links for more info.

Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:30 am

Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and friends) in San Francisco hosted by Social Media Club
Sears Fine Food, San Francisco, CA

Tuesday, March 25th 6-8 pm

Blogger Dinner 21st Amendment, 563 Second Street, San Francisco

An informal dinner with Josh Bernoff. Attendees include

  • Charlene Li
  • Josh Bernoff
  • Jermiah Owyan
  • Adam Metz
  • Chris Heur

and many others, should be a great event.

Ok, and now for the event that I am hosting :) I will make a separate post about this later, but for now here are the details. I am a creator of the Search Marketing Salon and we are having our launch event next Thursday March 27th at the Otis Lounge in San Francisco.

Please RSVP if you wish to attend and to get more info, it is going to be a fun time. I won’t mention the attendees for now, but a lot of great folks are attending, you’ll just have to stay tuned for my Search Marketing Salon blog post (in the next few days).

I look forward to meeting many of you at these events, or at least at mine :)

Must Have Social Media Tools (Digg and StumbleUpon)

March 19th, 2008

I am an avid user and experimenter of all things related to social media and social media marketing. Recently I have come across a few tools which I think are beneficial to any StumbleUpon or Digg user and I wanted to share them with you.

The first tool is a StumbleUpon Alerter from Adamant Solutions.

StumbleUpon Alerter tool

This tool allows you to track your discoveries via a simple application that you download to your desktop. When the application is open, you will receive information on your Stumbles. This tool lets you see who likes your discoveries and who doesn’t. You can also analyze your friend’s data as well to see what they are stumbling and how they are rating their stumbles. And just add the icing on the cake, you can also check which one of your domains are performing the best. Say for example you are submitting several stumbles from several of your own domains, you want to know which domain is performing the best so that you can continuously monitor and add quality stumble content right? Well now you can.

The next tool is the Digg Alerter Tool, also from Adamant Solutions

Digg Alerter Tool

This tool is very similar to the StumbleUpon alerter. It allows you to see who is digging your stories and what comments people are making on your stories. The new update that was release also allows you to look at buried data as well. This simple Digg tool can be left upon on your desktop (along with the StumbleUpon one) so that you can check your stats as they are updated. Simple to use and very effective.

Enjoy the tools and happy stumbling and digging!

Online Community Best Practices

March 18th, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang recently put up his findings for online community best practices. The presentation can be viewed below. Jeremiah outlines a 4-step approach to the “groundswell,” which is defined as the new trend of getting information through technology (such as twitter, blogs, etc) as opposed to getting information via traditional sources. | View | Upload [...]

What Google Doesn’t Want You To See, Google Quality Rater Guidelines!

March 15th, 2008

The Google Quality Rater Guideline have been leaked on the net, and here they are This document is a gold mine because now SEOs will be able to understand what Google considers relevant content or spam content. For a good explanation of why internal documents can be so valuable for SEOs and marketers read Aaron [...]

Alltop, a Valuable Resource

March 15th, 2008

Guy Kawasaki recently launched alltop.com, a valuable resource for anyone looking for…well pretty much anything. The site is divided up into categories; you click on a category and get a list of the most influential bloggers in that category. You can then roll over their section to read a snippet of the latest blog post. [...]

Companies Asking For Feedback on Their Advertising?

March 12th, 2008

Steve Rubel’s latest blog post provides a few examples of how companies are asking for feedback on their advertisements (this picture is from his blog). The examples Steve points out are AOL and CNET. When you come across an ad, you have the option to provide feedback based on the ads relevancy, marketing message, what [...]