Social Media Marketing 2010 comes to SF
At Social Media Marketing London on June 17, 2010.
Anew social marketing conference makes its U.S. debut next week in San Francisco, and Socialmedia.biz readers get a 10 percent price discount by registering with the code Socialmediajd.
Called Social Media Marketing 2010, the gathering will bring together social media experts such as Brian Solis, Chris Heuer and Sarah Austin to discuss the latest campaigns, techniques and theories for achieving successful campaigns. Join in and follow the conversation on twitter at #smmsf
“Social Media Marketing is an essential event for anyone who’s serious about social media in San Francisco. You can either spend months learning by trial and error, or you can attend this event and learn it all in a day,” said conference organizer Murray Newlands, a UK [...]
Wed Jun 30, 2010 15:05 pm
How Google Rates Links from Facebook and Twitter
The first Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Google video of the year has been posted, and in it Matt addresses links from Twitter and Facebook, after talking about his shaved head again. Specifically, the submitted question he answers is:
Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like Twitter, FB to a website?
Essentially, Matt says Google treats links the same whether they are from Facebook or Twitter, as they would if they were from any other site. It's just an extension of the pagerank formula, where its not the amount of links, but how reputable those links are (the company uses a similar strategy for ranking Tweets themselves in real-time search).
While Facebook and Twitter links may be treated like any other links, they do still come with things to keep in mind. For one, with Facebook, you have to keep in mind that a lot of profiles are not public. When a profile is not public, Google can't crawl it, and it can't assign pagerank on the outgoing links if it can't fetch the page to see what the outgoing links are. If the page is public, it might be able t/> [...]
Fri Jan 15, 2010 04:40 am
10 Ways MySpace Can Avoid Oblivion-An Open Letter to MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta
Dear Owen,
Since you moved over from COO of Facebook to become CEO of MySpace, you’ve certainly made a lot of changes to the company. You've let one-third of the staff go. Your entire executive team is new.
Reports are that you're removing walls between cubicles and hanging white boards.
That's all well and good, but the problem with your network is with your network. It's not the sales person, or the cubicle walls. We need to see physical changes to the way your network works. As a marketer that represents large brands who use social networks (and often pay handsomely to do so), here are my ten suggestions for reinventing MySpace--before it's too late.
Last week Digg launched its iPhone app, along with an iPad contest. Now, Digg has launched its Android App.
"The Digg Android app has been designed for an ideal mobile Digg browsing experience on an Android phone," says Digg's Brian Wong. "You can browse and digg stories and comments, and the app supports landscape mode for browsing story titles and pages that load in the in-app browser."
The app can be downloaded by searching Digg in the Android Market, scanning the QR code Digg provides here, or going to this link from an Android device.
Digg also mentioned in the announcement that it is looking to hire more people as it expands its mobile efforts.
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