Social Media: Simple, use your marketing brain and make a decision

There is a growing debate going on at the moment about Social Media and the validity / effectiveness it has from a marketing and business growth point of view. Mike, Andy and Marc have recently highlighted the issue which has resulted in much discussion.
I’ve commented on all the above posts but my main point is [...]

links for 2008-05-19

Get Famous Using Twitter to Market Your Company & Yourself
(tags: twitter, business, tips, marketing, socialmedia socialnetworking)

The Future of Mobile Social Networks: 4 Promising Services
(tags: Mobile, socialmedia socialnetworking trends)

9 Tips To Gain Exposure
(tags: websites marketing socialnetworking tips PR)

What is your Social Media Sweet Spot?
(tags: socialnetworking socialmedia marketing)

Millions working for good - the Cell C ‘book’ ad

If you’ve read my blog before you’ll know that I’m a passionate South African and an advertising and marketing enthusiast. I’ve always loved good advertising and from a young age I was always very aware of the brands around me and how they were packaged, marketed and displayed.
Once in a while an ad comes along [...]

Post update: Tinyurl’s are an essential online tool

Since writing this post I’ve given the issue a great deal of thought. Justin had a very valid comment on my previous post and I’ve had a relaxing weekend filled with newspapers and magazines. I’ve just read a Heat magazine feature on leading men (was rather enjoyable ) the mag quoted lots of very [...]

Tinyurl’s are an essential online tool (leave out the fineprint)

This post may be a bit of a personal gripe but I think I have a point and perhaps print journalists will adapt their thinking when it comes to quoting online points of reference.
With the advent of complicated site structures and navigation that takes one into the deep depths of a website the url (address) [...]

Communications professionals need to know how to ‘work the web’

If you’re a communications professionals who would like to employ social networking and WebPR tools to enhance your communication and marketing strategies then I’d suggest you chat to Gugu at the IAJ….The dates for the ‘Working the Web’ course at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) have changed to the 2 & 3 [...]

No moeRSSe problem it seems

Weird - as I published my RSS validation problem it seems to have been fixed.
Hooray, hold thumbs that my feed continues to validate.

I have a moeRSSe (huge) problem

I seem to have landed in RSS hell…..a while back everything was fine and my rankings were climbing on Amatomu. Around the time that WordPress upgraded their software platform my RSS Feedburner feed (and the normal one btw) stopped validating - the feed still delivers posts but does not validate. This means that my rankings [...]

links for 2008-05-13

Google Friend Connect
(tags: Google socialmedia web2.0)

Top 50 Innovations in Social Networking and Online Dating
(tags: socialnetworking trends research socialmedia)

The future of social networking: mobile phones
(tags: socialmedia trends mobile socialnetworking)

links for 2008-05-12

Social Media Press Releases: A Step Forward or Two Steps Back?
(tags: SMPR, SMR, socialmedia, WebPR, OnlinePR, PR 2.0)

The Evolution of the Press Release
(tags: SMPR, SMR, WebPR, OnlinePR, PR 2.0, keyword, socialmedia)