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Social Media

Are these social AdWords ads?

February 15, 2010
Google Social AdWords Ads?

I was doing some searches today to see if anything was new and exciting with how Google was handling Social Search results and saw something in the Sponsored Links results that’s new to me.  I searched for Terralever (the online marketing company I work at) and one of the AdSense results was for another local [...]

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Bank of America: A tale of two social presences

February 10, 2010
Bank of America on Facebook and Twitter

Bank of America has a presence on both Facebook and Twitter.  The brand perception that one walks away from after visiting each one couldn’t be more different.  In a presentation I recently did I used the contrast between the two as a way to illustrate success, and failure, during the strategic planning process. A Few [...]

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Google Buzz Poll: Force or Flop?

February 9, 2010
Google Buzz Poll

Following several clunky forays into social media, today Google has unveiled Google Buzz. From the Official Google Blog: Our belief is that organizing the social information on the web — finding relevance in the noise — has become a large-scale challenge, one that Google’s experience in organizing information can help solve. We’ve recently launched innovations [...]

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Google puts some more social in its search

February 1, 2010
Google Social Search Example

Last week I did an internal presentation at Terralever talking about how search engines like Google and social networking sites alike were likely both attacking the idea of extending their understanding of both information and the social graph. Today I tripped over an example of Google Social Search and recollected on the presentation. In broad [...]

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Facebook’s money for nothing

September 22, 2009
Facebook Virtual Gifting

When words alone can’t express one’s feelings, a virtual cupcake, puppy, roll of toilet paper, bff charm or shot of tequila are just a click away.

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Bozeman fired up over officer’s Facebook posts

September 15, 2009
Facebook, Bozeman, MT, Police and Resignation

A Bozeman, MT Police Officer resigns from duty following legal accusations that leverage postings on his Facebook profile to assert his views toward his duty.

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Social Big Brother in Big Sky Country

June 19, 2009
Boseman Big Brother

The City of Bozeman, Montana is blazing a path to 1984 by taking a curious if not troubling stance on what’s personal and what’s private.

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5 Reliable (social media) sources

June 17, 2009
Social Media marketing professionals

Separating the wheat from the chaff is pretty challenging when you’re trying to learn about the topic you’re exploring. If you’re looking for some reliable social media sources, here’s a few.

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Three Twitter business directories

May 20, 2009
Thumbnail image for Three Twitter business directories

If you’re a business and you’re leveraging Twitter, or, if you’re looking for businesses that are using Twitter here’s three twitter directories to check out.

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Checkout WeFollow, a Twitter directory

March 14, 2009
wefollow.com - a twitter directory

If you thought finding people on Twitter was clunky, Kevin Rose has a site for you. WeFollow, is a “user-powered Twitter directory” that makes finding people (and getting found) easy.

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