Author jquig99

All the Twitter Tools You’ll Ever Need!

“The Twitter Toolset: 50+ Guides, Hacks, and Scripts” I’m a Twitterholic. I’ve written about this service many times and have continued to be an advocate of this service. This is a comprehensive list of Twitter applications divided by category (Mobile, Desktop, Browser Plug-ins, etc.). One of the services not on this list is Snitter and [...]

Facebook gets “Poked” Back

“Poking Facebook” I’m reading this article and it makes me crazy. Can I see the resemblance between ConnectU and Facebook? Yes. But there was no NDAs, No payment for work (maybe some discussion, but no payment). It a case of inexperience and best intentions vs business reality. In the face of last month’s gOpenSocial, FB’s [...]

Social Media Inside the Firewall : [chrisbrogan.com]

Social Media Inside the Firewall : [chrisbrogan.com] This week I’m starting an experiment. It might last 3 days or longer, depending on how it impacts my workflow. I’m not going to respond to email conventionally – but by alternate methods of communication including social networking messaging, video and audio messages and texts. I This was [...]

Christopher Penn on OpenSocial

There’s going to be a lot of news about this today as Google scoops Facebook’s spotlight (until next week when FB’s up at bat with their “SocialAds” announcement). I’ll be looking at all the news, but I’m interested in viewpoints. Who’s thinking what. One of the great people I saw and met at PodCampBoston this [...]

Mashable: A Vision of The New Facebook Ad Network

What the Facebook Ad Network Might Look Like This is an interesting view of the Facebook/Microsoft partnership and what might be announced on November 5th. While Microsoft partnership in Facebook gives MS a giant step forward in social networking, it also gives Facebook access to Microsoft’s ad network. Only a week to wait! (Via Mashable.)

It’s All About the Media Snackers!

I was tagged last friday by Geoff Livingston (who did a great video for his response). This meme was started by Jeremiah Owyang and has included amazing viewpoints from Connie Reece, Connie Benson, Chris Brogan, among others. Jeremiah has also coined the term “micromedia” which is the perfect description of this social media subset. Micromedia [...]

Ad Age – Facebook will Introduce “SocialAds”

Facebook Set to Introduce Major Ad Play – Advertising Age – Digital So – November 6th. “Social Ads”? Sounds interesting. Very semantic web. (Via Advertising Age.)

How One Amazing Woman (and Twitter) are Sending a Girl to College

Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Chris Brogan and 52 other people send Cambodian girl to college! Yesterday, thanks to Chris Brogan, I had a chance to be part of something great. Beth Kanter raised over $1000 in less than 24 hours to send a Cambodian girl to college by using [...]

The Thing About Digg

I’ve never really used Digg in a big way – always thought it wasn’t my place, my demographic, whatever. But after the first day of Danny Sullivan’s SMX Social Media conference I realize that it needs to be a channel that I evaluate for any social media strategy. The first day of the conference was [...]

October Events I’m Attending

There are a couple of events I’ll be attending in the next couple weeks: October 16th – 17th: SMX Social Media in New York Agenda Highlights: From the website SMX Social Media will explore current opportunities and future developments, offering both fundamental and advanced panels on topics including: – Social Media Marketing Essentials – Linkbait [...]