Businesses Are Using Social Media – What is Your Social Media Strategy?

We are in the B2B Social Media Era, Either Board the Social Media Train or Get Left at the Station

social media train If you are in business today you need a social media strategy. You know like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter…

What is social about social media?

This is a guest post from social media strategist Taylor Ellwood

Most of what’s discussed about social media is business and how social media can be used to help businesses engage in social media activities. But there’s more to social media than just business and how it can be used to promote business.

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Social Influence and Customer Service

Does Social Influence have any Effect on Customer Service?

This is a guest blog post from social media strategist Taylor Ellwood

The Webvisions Workshops Focus on the iPhone and Social Media

The Webvisions event is being held May 19th thru the 21st

WebVisions Portland Oregon

This year WebVisions has a fantastic lineup of workshops scheduled.

Workshops at this time are being scheduled all day on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010.

Why I Video Blog

Guest video blog post by social media strategist Taylor Ellwood

In the video below I discuss why I video blog, and why I think video is an underused resource. Video should be incorporated into your social media presence. The advantage of doing so, is that it allows you to show people you and what you are doing, as opposed to just telling them.

How Social Bookmarking can raise your visibility

This is a guest post by social media strategist Taylor Ellwood.

What is Social bookmarking?

Social bookmarking allows you to bookmark a website or blog on the web, instead of on your browser. This is useful, because if you lose your computer or it dies, you also lose all the bookmarked websites on your browser. By having them on the web, you can always retrieve the websites that interest you.

Search Engine Rankings New Signals Indicate Google is Using…

As Jake Blues said “Do You See The Light?” The Signs are There if We Just Listen to Google

Jake Blues - Do You See The Light? In my last post I quoted Eric Enge’s article as I discussed page load times. Now I am going to discuss the rest of his article “Four New Signals in Search“.

Internet Marketing Conference – Live from the Floor

Internet Marketing Conference at Portland State University – The Phases of Social Media Integration & Adoption

I will be blogging almost live from the floor of the Internet Marketing Conference at Portland State University. The pre-keynote from Bryan Rhoads of Intel is about to begin.

How to use Twitter Lists to monitor topics of interest

Twitter lists is twitter’s version of groups

It’s similar to a group you might create on Tweetdeck or Seesmic, but there are several advantages to creating a list on twitter. The list feature allows you to organize the people you’re following on Twitter, or find new people to follow. When you look at the list you can get an overview of what those people are up to. So far that sounds like what Tweetdeck and Seesmic offer with their group feature, BUT the lists feature also allows you to add someone to your list that you aren’t following. So, for example, if you know someone who tweets a bit too often for your taste, but you’d still like to keep an eye on them, you can add them to a twitter list and then check up on them, without having to actually follow them.

How to Use Video Effectively on Your Website

The Ins and Outs of Using Video Effectively on Your Website by Taylor Ellwood

Something I’ve noticed a lot when I’ve visited different business websites is how they do or don’t incorporate video into their website, and if they do incorporate, whether they do it in a way that is respectful of the visitor, or ends up coming off as potentially invasive.

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