Archive for the 'Social Network' Category

How to Spread Your Blog Posts Over the Internet: Post Toaster

Post Toaster is a social bookmarking service tool which sends your blog posts to a myriad of social bookmarking sites, where someone is bound to bump into it.
Here’s how to use it:
Click on the lion logo above and drag and drop into your toolbar. This is your Post Toaster bookmarklet for easy posting. When entering […]

Spokeo Social Networking Search Engine: Now Your Friends Can’t Hide From You

Spokeo finds your friends on a number of social networking sites so you can keep track of them without visiting each individual network (which can be a pain in the sns). It’s a friend search engine and social networking feed reader. Your friends are the feeds
Just sign up with your AOL, […]

Blood Donor Facebook App: Social Networking for Social Good

Ah, those Facebook applications–Vampires. Zombies. Super Pokes. Drinks. Social networking there still has that party feel. Well, maybe it’s time to squeeze in a little “social good”? Enter Rich Hecker.
Rich has an idea for a Facebook application to sign up blood donors. We think it’s a good idea, so we’re giving […]

Online Marketing Community: Gooruze

Gooruze is a new online community aimed at the marketing crowd. It was launched on October 15th.
Join and post your advice, tips, news and blog posts for the community to tag, rate, comment and share. You can also form your own groups. Sound familiar?
While the number of online social networks and communities is ever […]

New Realtor Social Networking Site: Realtorclix

Realtorclix is a new social network for those in the real estate biz. It’s free to join. My blogging buddy Steven Spalding of How To Split An Atom (a blog with some kick) passed it on to me. I signed up to take it for a spin. I’m gonna chat […]

Word Of Mouth Is More Powerful Offline

Word of Mouth (WOM) is a powerful means of consumer communication. You might be surprised to learn that most consumers spread their love of a product or service offline, in face to face conversations. Online word of mouth accounts for only a small percentage, according to a recent study.

A new study […]

Seed Marketing : The Silent Invasion

They look like ordinary people but something is not quite right. No one can tell unless they know the secret. In the famous sci-fi movie above (can you name it?) pods (seeds) are planted from an unknown space invader to take over the bodies of humans.
Taking a cue from the film, marketeers are […]

Dizcrimination By Zestimation or The Law of Unintended Consequences

Despite what you may read on this blog, we like Zillow. But we like it for reasons other than its estimating hubris (Gregg let us borrow this word :), refusal to conspicuously post a disclaimer or let owners opt out.
Here’s a new spin on the Zillow merry-go-round. It’s a social commentary based on […]

The Madness of Crowds

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” (Charles Mackay)

The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki is often cited for the proposition “the large crowd is smarter than the expert few”. […]

Blogs vs. Forums vs. Social Networks vs. Print vs. Broadcast T.V.

Source: Blogbridge
When you want to find useful or entertaining information online about your favorite subject where do you go? When you want to interact with people online that like the same things that you do, where do you go? When you want to share your knowledge online about your favorite subject how do you do […]