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Archive for May 2008

May 20th, 2008

LinkedIn soars, Facebook drops, what is the message here?

While Colleen is covering Third Tuesday in Vancouver and live blogging it on MapleLeaf 2.0, I said I’d chip in and post here for her in trade …
The latest Nielsen net data are out today and everyone is buzzing about Facebook’s 10% decline over March and general lack of growth:

Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

May 19th, 2008

Xobni

I’ve finally been convinced that I need to try out Xobni. I was really really excited about it first, especially when I wasn’t granted early private beta access. (Ya always want whatcha can’t have)
Finally, the opened up their private beta, and are allowing users to download the program and try it out. After hearing […]

By Colleen -- 1 comment

May 18th, 2008

Signal vs Noise

This has become one of the catch phrases of the “web 2.0″ world. How much of the information that is being pushed at you is Signal (something you want to read/hear/know about) and how much of it is Noise (something you care absolutely nothing about, and yet, it occupies brain space because it’s being pushed […]

By Colleen -- 4 comments

May 17th, 2008

Ethical Blogger Contact Guidelines from WOMMA

WOMMA is the Word of Mouth Marketing Association. Matchstick Marketing, the company I spoke about in my last post, is one of the charter members of WOMMA and helped to develop these guidelines.
After checking them out, I thought that they were important enough that everyone should take a look at them.
For more information, visit www.womma.org/ethics.

I […]

By Colleen -- 1 comment

May 16th, 2008

Talking to Matchstick Marketing

After I posted about my friend, Rebecca from Miss604’s experience with Matchstick Marketing, I realized that I was basically doing exactly what I was trying to teach people not to do: I wasn’t getting a balanced view of the situation.  Made me no better than a mud-slinger. So, I reached out to them and asked […]

By Colleen -- 1 comment

May 14th, 2008

Citizen Journalism

 
Since I’ve been writing for b5Media, I’ve found myself thinking more about citizen journalism vs traditional journalism. I think that everyone has to face the fact that we’re entering a new world, one that is more focused on peer-to-peer communications than we are someone providing news to us. Just look at how many more blogs […]

By Colleen -- 4 comments

May 12th, 2008

Drama, Drama, Drama

Oh the drama and controversy swirling about the interwebs right now! (I refuse to use the term “blogosphere” (even though I just did) and also, I hate Weblog. STOPPIT. It’s just a blog now, ok? We’ve got that cleared up? Can we move on? Ok. Great.)
First, Chris Andersen published his vitriolic post about being pitched […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

May 10th, 2008

Managing the beast that is RSS

Now that I’ve got a several writing gigs, I need to read, a lot. A lot of news, a lot of opinions, a lot of sites.
Tris Hussey pointed me in the direction of AideRSS, which is a very slick little tool to help calm the savage RSS beast.
AideRSS uses a slick technology which […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

May 9th, 2008

Interviewed at BloggerTalks

Thord D. Hedengren recently interviewed me for both the Blog Herald and Blogger Talks.
The Blogger Talks interview is my take on PR and gettin’ famous.

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By Colleen -- 0 comments

May 9th, 2008

Word of Mouse

No, we’re not talking about Disney here.
I’m talking about sing the web to spread your message virally. David M. Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR has offered BuzzNetworker readers a free e-book download.
I’ll be speaking David in the coming weeks and I’m on his list for review copies of […]

By Colleen -- 1 comment