Posts Tagged ‘social networking’

Welcoming The Age of UGC and Participatory Media

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Marketing, Media, Social Media, Videos | Sep 15, 2009 | Tags: braodcast, braodcast marketing, internet, interruption marketing, Media, media landscape, newspaper, participatory media, permission marketing, radio, social media platform, social networking, tv, tweet, twitter, ugc, user generated content, vcr, Videos, wassup, wassup video, you tube | View Comments

We have definitely hit the age of participatory media. Old mass media is very sick and broadcast methods of interruption marketing have gone from annoying to impotent, but I don’t agree with the idea that mass media will die. It will be re-engineered like all industries must in this time of change. According to the ...Read more.

The Trouble With Articles Against Social Media

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Media, Social Media, Spin | Aug 21, 2009 | Tags: facebook, london telegraph, myspace, opinions, social networking, twitter, twitter articles | View Comments

I just read a London Telegraph article mistitled “The Social Media Revolution is Going Nowhere.” It included statements like No wonder the company has yet to make any money, while Facebook, too, has yet to deliver on its financial potential. None of this is to say, of course, that the internet hasn’t had a profound ...Read more.

Social Media is Bigger Than Online Porn; the Biggest Shift Since the Industrial Revolution

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Advertising, Beliefs, Books, Consumerism, Influence, Marketing, Media, Politics, Social Media, Spin, Videos | Aug 17, 2009 | Tags: bebo, facebook, industrial revolution, myspace, orkut, Social Media, social networking, socialnomics, technology, twitter, youtube | View Comments

Socialnomics has put together a video driving home the reality of how social media is fundamentally shifting how we communicate, connect and consume culture in the 21st century. Share it with anyone who tells you that social media is a fad, technology is isolating people rather than facilitating face-to-face meetings, or that Twitter is stupid. ...Read more.

Befriending VS. Broadcasting

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Consumerism, Marketing, Social Media | Jul 15, 2009 | Tags: comcast, dell, facebook, hr, ivolunteer, job search, snapimpact, social networking, twitter, youtube, zappos | View Comments

On most Tuesday nights I volunteer with SnapImpact on making an iPhone app called iVolunteer (see the app on the lower right corner of this blog) to help you find local volunteer opportunities. More than 50 people have contributed in some way to this project. One thing I love is that our ages range from ...Read more.

Personal Branding: What’s in a Name?

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Consumerism, Influence, Social Media, Spin | Mar 24, 2009 | Tags: blog, branding, employment, job, job interview, job market, linked in, name, name change, new media, personal branding, resume, social networking, twitter | Comments Off

Ironically as I help companies and professionals to build and manage their brands I’m undergoing a personal re-branding. Later in the post I’ll go into why you need to pay attention to your personal branding. Now I’ll fill you in on how this post came to be. A few days ago I began the process ...Read more.

Unexpected Uses Drive Twitter’s Spectacular Growth

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Social Media, Videos | Mar 9, 2009 | Tags: evan willimas, new media, social networking, ted talk, twitter | View Comments

In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Twitter co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves. As of today Twitter has jumped to 8 million users – a 33% ...Read more.