Social Media Marketing “Hub and Sp...

Tweet I was at an Entrepreneurs of Knoxville meeting last week talking about the interplay between social media sites and main sites (however you define “main sites” blogs, main pages, or otherwise). It reminded me of this slide that I threw together for a client a few months ago: Interaction of Social Media Sites for Marketing Strategies It is certainly not a new idea to describe online assets in this way, but I think “hub and spoke” is fairly fitting for the current web environment....

Blog is Dead? Blog remains Dead?...

Tweet Paul Boutin’s recent Wired article, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004, suggests that the blogosphere is  too crowded for a lone blogger to make a difference, and it it time to fold up shop on blogging: Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the...

Twitter Most Popular Social Media Tool...

Tweet According to my recent poll, it looks like Twitter is the most popular social tool. Although the respondents were a fairly limited set (only 10 because I am lame and no one really wants to take my polls), here are the results: 50% Twitter 40% Facebook 10%...