It is all connected. The summer before my sophomore year of high school, a few weeks before I was to begin at a new school, I made my very first Instagram account. I went out to my backyard, found a pretty dandelion, and excitedly snapped a picture. I poured over the filters for an eternity […]
via Social Media, Suicide, and Everyone’s Obsession With Clout — Sabriyya
Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re thinking. Blogging IS social media. Well, you’re right. But you also need to take advantage of other social media platforms, if you want to find readers. Yes, that’s how it usually goes: you find readers, not the other way around. So, here are four fantastic tips if you’re a […]
via Four Incredibly Easy Social Media Tips for Bloggers — The Art of Blogging
Many will be aware of my keen following of David Meerman Scott – below is an excerpt from his blog relating to business social media – something that many people keep asking me… the distance between the US and Asia Pacific is only based on hours in flying time – yet even whilst many companies are checking out social media in Asia Pacific the steps are small.
Social business beyond just the marketing department – by DM Scott
It seems there are three phases of development as an organization matures its social business:
1 Fear and distrust of social networking and a culture of saying “no” to tools like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. I’d say this is where 25% of companies are right now.
2 Putting a few people in the marketing department “in charge of that social stuff.”This is where more than half of companies are today.
3 Developing a social culture throughout the organization, including social business in each department. Less than 25% of companies have matured to this stage. IBM is there. The U.S. Department of Defense is too. Many others have written on this theme.
Just this weekend, I found these posts: Jeff Bullas asks: Who Is Winning At Social Media Marketing: Ford or General Motors? Jeff talks about how Christopher Barger at GM and Scott Monty at Ford are leading the way in social media. I’ve travelled to Detroit to meet with both and have video interviews with Christopher and Scott. I can say with certainty that both of GM and Ford are pushing social business down into the organization.Also writing on this theme is Peter Kane who asks: Why You Don’t Need Your Communications Team? Peter asks who’s important on the communication front? Customer service representatives? Sales departments? The $10 per hour worker on my floors? Peter answers his own question by stating the obvious: All are. All are new marketers.
Read nore : Web Ink Now: Social business beyond just the marketing department.
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APLINK says – This is good news for foursquare users and businesses implementing foursquare strategies as currently image uploads are not available.
First launched back in April 2009, TweetPhoto has been steadily building out its service with multiple useful features, including Foursquare integration and a partnership with Kodak. Today, the site is getting a huge overhaul with more social features and a new iPhone app.TweetPhoto has now added the ability to sign in with Twitter OAuth, Facebook Connect, MySpace OAuth and Foursquare OAuth so that a user of any one of these social networks can use TweetPhoto as a stand alone photo sharing service. The site will also be rolling out LinkedIn support in the next few weeks. In addition to login capabilities across all four of these services, TweetPhoto users can also link these social networking accounts together. Once you link your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace , or Foursquare accounts on the site, your photos uploaded to TweetPhoto can be simultaneously broadcast to all of the networks.
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As more marketers use Social Media channels for engaging their customers and prospects, it is becoming obvious that they will have to take on additional responsibility for not only creation of content, but also facilitate sharing or distribution of content through Social Media channels such as YouTube. Some notable examples of this approach are:
* Johnson & Johnson (J&J) – Baby Center.com
* Procter & Gamble (P&G) – Home Made Simple
* Walmart’s Money Saving Tips on YouTube
* American Express Small Business Blog Network
* Geek Squad YouTube channel
* Charmin Enjoy the Go
This raises an important question: Should Marketers behave like Media companies when it comes to Social Media? If yes, what additional skills will be required by those in the marketing department for this new task. And what is the role of an “agency” in this new “set-up”?
read more via Social Media turning Marketers into Media Companies? by Dr. Harish Kotadia | Dr. Harish Kotadia.
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SINGAPORE : Social media has become a big part of life in Singapore, especially among the younger set.
A recent study by The Nielsen Company, found that 52 per cent of the Singapore population are participating in at least one social networking website, with the most popular being Facebook — at 42 per cent.
Trailing behind as the second—most accessed community or social networking website is YouTube at 35 per cent, while Friendster takes a distant third spot with one in 10 locals using it.
The company’s recent study involved 1,000 Singaporeans aged 15 and above.
Nielsen’s findings reveal that 95 per cent of the 15—19 age group are using some form of social networking media, while 89 per cent of those in their 20s form the next biggest users.
via Social media part of life in S’pore, especially among the young: Nielsen – Yahoo! Singapore News.
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Judging by the size of Yellow Pages they are still able to offer ROI – if not how do they sell – APLINK tends to think that like alot of activity I undertake in Social Media – some may look at the Yellow Pages as a meer Signpost to their door – that they choose to pay for, to some it is even irrelevant whether the ad results in any sales at all.
I (APLINK) sometimes forget that even though myself and people I know are very internet SAVVY – there remains a HUGE part of the global population that are not. I believe for the short to medium term this community needs to have traditional methods of living. In Australia some years ago BANKS tried to force everyone to use Internet Banking – was that realistic – no it was not then and is still not today.
But this post by UnMarketing is a worthy read – excerpt below
1. You’re aiming at the bottom of the barrel: No, I’m not saying people who use them are the lowest of the low, it’s that they’ve gone through every other resource that influences them to potentially buy before pulling out the directory. Have a look:
This is the Hierarchy of Buying I came up with 5 years ago after surveying a thousand or so people on how they hired a service provider. So your potential customer doesn’t already have a provider, doesn’t know anyone who could perform the service, doesn’t know anyone who knows anyone and hasn’t even heard of anyone in the field. So no relationships, no word-of-mouth. Nothing. (I should really make a new one, since Google would rank above Yellow Pages.)
2. Paper spam: Email spam works on the premise that if you blast it to a million people, a fraction of a fraction may be in the market for the product and a fraction of that may even click. Phone directories work on this same premise. 1.6 billion pounds of paper per year are used to produce the 500 million directories that go out in the United States every year in the hopes that you may be in the market for one of the 2,000 categories of businesses that are listed. It’s spam at its finest. You didn’t opt-in, the majority of people don’t use it, many not even taking it out of the plastic. Instead it ends up in landfill, might get recycled or thrown at random phone company trucks that drop them off. Sadly I don’t see them ever going opt-in, since like most things in the print industry, they charge due to bloated “circulation” numbers and I estimate the number of people who would actually ask for it at 14, give or take 12. Makes you want to go out and hug a tree and then go here to opt-out of them!
Read more via UnMarketing » Blog Archive » Aiming Your Company at the Bottom of the Barrel.
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Red Sphere Art (an Art Hub for art galleries, artists & like-minded art lovers) will enable galleries and artists to establish their own virtual galleries and creative spaces on-line and promote and sell their work with the in-built e-commerce functions and tap into almost limitless social and business networking opportunities.
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For more details visit: http://redsphereart.com/en/
I was recently invited to attend the exhibition as I am well known for my interest in virtual technologies and that also there maybe an application for the Tattoo Industry to showcase fine Tattoo Artistry.
To Visit the 2D or 3D La Grasse Matinée Exhibition visit: http://redsphereart.com/en/e25.0-exhibition-la-grasse-matinee.html
La Grasse Matinée – Exhibition of Photography and mixed media – artists exhibition details below.
The 12 works entitled La Grasse Matinée depict an image of a young woman lost to the world in slumber, cherishing her eiderdown illuminated only faintly by the dawn one languid, carefree morning. A soft light plays on her figure, elsewhere only emptiness and faint shadow. She is utterly innocent and passive in her surrender to sleep and dreaming. In this silence, she hears nothing except the beating of her heart. Morning light plays amongst the trees. Through half closed eyes in the irregular intervals of light, she sees music; then hears Debussy playing Claire de Lune, she stirs. She can no longer sleep and slowly recalls a poem by Verlaine from a book read many years ago which begins to appear in her minds-eye.
These mixed media works on canvas create a fusion of impressionist imagery wrapped in semi-transparent musical scores from Debussy, combined with original French text from the poems of Verlaine; the subtle texture of this lucent blanket offers an intriguing misty depth to the images.
题为La Grasse Matinée 的这12张 作品描述一个少妇遗失在微睡的世界，在一个疲倦，无忧无虑与自在的早晨，紧握着她那黎明微微照耀的鸭绒被。轻柔的光芒照在她的身上，仅留下了空虚和微弱的 阴影，减少了作品内的空间层次感。作家以纯朴的手法有效地展现妇人休眠的主题。在无辜和被动下，她完全投入在她的睡梦中。在这沈默中，她只听见自己的心跳 声。早晨的轻声唤醒了树林。通过半闭的眼光，她仿佛看见了音乐，听见Debussy演奏Claire de Lune。她完全无法入眠，脑海里反复地回想起Verlaine，眼眶浮现他曾在书中写的一句诗。
这些帆布的媒体合画包含了Debussy的乐谱创造, 结合与Verlaine的法文原诗；透亮毯子的微妙纹理展露出富有深度的迷人图像。
Artworks by AJE +65 9447 9121
AJE
AJE’s process is a combination of photography and painting.
First creating the photograph then printing it onto a surface by use of either high quality digital printing and/or photographic emulsion. AJE spends the majority of his time working with oil and acrylic paints, silk screens and graphite to bring out the desired expression in his works. To experience the works in person enables one to appreciate the layers and subtlety created with the fusion of these different mediums. The final work is neither a photograph, nor is it a painting but something directly in between with the qualities of both.
AJE has lived, worked and exhibited his work in the UK, France and Australia and he now resides in Singapore.
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AETN International,a division of A&E Television Networks, has developed a unique integrated campaign to promote the cutting-edge, true crime series, Crime 360 via a web-based investigative game (http://citvasia.com/informer103.html). This week, the game launched in parts of South East Asia.
Developed as a guerilla marketing tool, the Crime 360 online game is non-branded and features Informer103, a fictitious character who challenges the gamer to help solve a crime through the call to action, “R u game?” A key element to the game play is alternate reality gaming (ARG), which incorporates everyday real world experiences, such as Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Informer103/151899522744), blogs, and a dedicated YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/informer103) into the investigation. The informer grabs the player’s attention through disruptive communication such as hi-jacking Crime 360 promotional materials, and through on-air and online viral spots. Spots are embedded with an “unauthorized use of logo” message, and print materials for the series are emblazoned with the game URL and the game tagline: Life Over. Game On. Through social media outreach, online communities including crime enthusiasts, gamers and fans of true-crime television, are called to join in the game. Players receive emails from the Informer with clues, links to videos, and series tune-in information. In order to solve the crime, gamers must watch episodes of Crime 360 for a password that unlocks a valuable clue. The Crime 360 online game was created to support the season two broadcast of the series outside the US. In each market, the game will be localized through languaging, character names, and locations. Crime 360 currently airs on A&E® inthe US, Canada and Latin America and on Crime & InvestigationNetwork™ in the UK and Ireland, South East Asia and Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, Sub-Sahara Africa, Greece and Turkey. The series will also air on Crime & Investigation Network HD in the UK and Ireland. Crime 360 takes viewers inside actual investigations as they unfold, using state-of-the-art 360-degree digital photography and incredible CGI (computer-generatedimagery) visualizations to bring the evidence, and the evolving theories about what happened, to life. Each one-hour episode begins the moment detectives are called to the scene and follows the case until it is solved. From the start, viewers are part of the investigation – experiencing the crime scene from every angle, and the evidence at the microscopic level. As the case develops, and the theories change, the graphics evolve, culminating in a full-blown visualization of what really happened.
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