Archive for July, 2009

Posted on July 22, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

What I'm sharing on Google Reader for July 22nd

Today, while reading RSS feeds in Google Reader, I came across these interesting blog posts and wanted to share them with you. I hope you find some of them interesting. If one of them was useful to you or if you have a comment about one, let me know in the comments. For real-time results of what I’m sharing on Google Reader see my feeds on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/waynesutton
Thanks

Shared Having fun with chocolate at the July Triangle Social Media Club sweetup via msgreen

Posted on July 22, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Producing a live video show? It's better on your blog than Twitter & Facebook

There’s a live video streaming trend where you start your live video show, broadcast and tweet or you login to Facebook, start your live video show and post to your status that you’re live. It’s easy, fast and a great way to let your followers or friends know that you’re live streaming in “real-time”. New twitter live stream web apps such as Twitcam, camtweet and ustream.tv mashup with Facebook have launched recently providing these new instant web broadcasting sites giving non-technical Twitter and Facebook users an easy way to broadcast. But why not broadcast live from your own website/blog to maintain branding and vistor retention? It’s just as easy to send a tweet saying go to “YOURWEBSITE.COM” to watch me live vs saying I’m live now go to this camtweet.com/url or even go to ustream.tv/channel/YOURNAME.

For example take a look at Gregory NG Freezerburn live page at http://live.freezerburns.com . He has the Ustream.tv embeded video player and live chat window below the player. I’m sure that when he starts to broadcast that he’ll send out a tweet and a facebook messages as well on his fanpage and personal status update. But by hosting the live video on his site visitors have an opportunity to see some of his other post, links to resources and his brand stays in front of his visitors eyes. Also I’m somewhat surprised with the recent growth with music artist and athletes using ustream.tv that their marketing agency, agent or managers haven’t setup live video shows on their individual website versus having it go to a ustream.tv/channel/yourname url. They are loosing tons of website traffic opportunities.

There are special cases if you’re reporting breaking news or if you’re mobile and using live video services like Qik.com to send video to Twitter. But when you have an opportunity to send eyes to your website, my recommendation is to do so. I’m not saying never use CamTweet or even services like TinyChat that now offers live video conversations but depending on your website and branding goals host your live shows on your own website.

How are you live video streaming online?

Posted on July 21, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

3 ways to showcase your social media profiles: Card.ly, DandyiD & Google profiles

Yesterday TechCrunch posted about Card.ly a new website that allows anyone to create a simple clean website with an about area, profile picture, contact information and a list of their social media profiles. Card.ly does take a few minutes to setup but after adding your profiles you’ll have the option to select from a few clean designs and then you’re all set with a short url to share with friends and promote your social media presence. It also creates a VCard for others to download and add to their address book. You can see my Card.ly website here: http://card.ly/waynesutton

Card.ly has a good list of social networks to add to your profile but if you’re looking to create a url to show your complete social media presence take a look at DandyiD. “DandyID lets you easily collect all of your online profiles in one convenient place and allows people to discover the real verified you across the web.” Example, see my DandyiD profile: http://www.dandyid.org/id/waynesutton

Also don’t forget about your Google profile. Google automatically adds social networking profiles to you account. Your Google profile is easy to mange so you can have the sites you want people to friend you on. You can also have your Google profile verified, see: http://www.google.com/profiles/waynesutton

I recommend you setup if not all three but at least your Google profile because the last thing you want in this day in time is go apply for a social media job and no one can find you on the web or they find profiles or content you wish to keep hidden.

Also see: FriendsCall.Me and namechk.com if you’re just getting started building your social networking profiles to make sure your username is available.

The main point is you want manage your social media presence, your content and search results when someone “Google” your name.

Posted on July 20, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

What I'm sharing on Google Reader for July 20th

Today, while reading RSS feeds in Google Reader, I came across these interesting blog posts and wanted to share them with you. I hope you find some of them interesting. If one of them was useful to you or if you have a comment about one, let me know in the comments. For real-time results of what I’m sharing on Google Reader see my feeds on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/waynesutton
Thanks

	Shared How Inbound Marketing Changes the Way Your Entire Company Operates
	Shared How To Increase Traffic
	Shared Using Twitter for Business: 137 Twitter Tips
	Shared Show & Tell: How Community Managers Use Twitter

Posted on July 18, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

What I'm sharing on Google Reader for July 18th

Today, while reading RSS feeds in Google Reader, I came across these interesting blog posts and wanted to share them with you. I hope you find some of them interesting. If one of them was useful to you or if you have a comment about one, let me know in the comments. For real-time results of what I’m sharing on Google Reader see my feeds on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/waynesutton
Thanks

	Shared FriendFeed Is Getting Ripped Off
	Shared The Web Startup Success Guide (Part 3): Startup Incubators
	Shared Social Networking a Vital Tool For Online Business
	Shared Will Google Voice deem mobile phone carriers as simply data pipes?
	Shared Michael Arrington has real power and influence
	Shared Intuit’s Social Media Case Study: How We’re Winning With Social Media And The "New Normal"
	Shared Bad living conditions under NCSU bridge
	Shared Is there a trend back to blogging? How will it impact Twitter?
	Shared Dude! You’re Getting a Dell vs. Apple War
	Shared Twitter Tips from a True Twitter Expert
	Shared Google’s secret to taking over the world
	Shared Tweetmeme Gets Your Blog on Twitter
	Shared The emergence of ‘Braided Journalism’