Archive for June, 2009
Buzz 140-Twitter Unconference
This is what one of the participants had to say “Twitter is one of the finest and quickest places to obtain information”.
Twitter’s home page twitter.com displays this– Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?Whether Twitter is here to stay for long or is it just a temporary fad among users,one needs to wait and watch.
Social Media Marketing to improve sales
There is a myth that exists among several companies that SEO is meant for companies that exist in the IT field.But one company has proved this incorrect by utilizing the concept of search engine optimization in order to increase their sales figures.EmbroidMe,which is the largest embroidery franchise has succeeded in increasing their sales figures tremendously by incorporating a SEO campaign.
EmbroidMe utilized the feature of Social Media such as Twitter and Facebook to order to improve their visibility.As more and more people are actively using the search engines to obtain information in the internet,companies are turning towards SEO in order to improve traffic.EmbroidMe found that there was a tremendous improvement in branding in all of their 450 locations.
Digg removes its controversial tool: "Shout"
Shout made it easier for users to send a story they liked the most directly to other people who employed Digg.In certain circumstances,it was very useful and it helped in some of the stories to catch more attention.On the other hand,shouts was mostly utilized for spamming due to which some users decide to turn it off.Another major problem with this feature was that those links, stories that received shouts were better rated .Due to this, all the users started shouting most of their stories.
Digg in the beginning tried to reduce the value of Shouts tool,in order to eliminate the above problems,but finally removed it completely.Now Digg had added buttons to enable sharing of stories on Facebook or on Twitter.This big move has a possibility of driving more people to Digg,though it enables people to drive people to other sites.
Microsoft releases Beta version of Bing
Just go to the home page msn.com and type in any of the keywords and press search.You will be directed towards bing.com search result page.Well should we call this clever marketing?Anyhow,we need to wait and see if this search engine is going to be a google beater.
Experiment with the bing search engine at www.bing.com