Archive for August, 2009

Posted on August 19, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Announcing the Social Media Business Forum, 10/23 Durham, NC

http://socialmediabusinessforum.com

The Social Media Business Forum will feature speakers from marketing companies, technology companies, and social networks discussing ways in which business communications have changed due to social media. We are planning sessions on internal and external communications methods for both B2B and B2C companies. There will be an estimated 200 people in attendance.

A few of the speakers announced are:

• Jason Falls, Principal, Social Media Explorer
• Geno Church, Word of Mouth Inspiration Officer, Brains on Fire
• Laurie Smithwick, Founder,Kirtsy.com
• Angela Benton, Publisher,BlackWeb20.com
• Jason Keath, Founder, Social Fresh
• Patrick O’Keefe, iFroggy Network
• Kipp Bodnar, Social Media Marketing Manager, Howard Merrell & Partners
• Eric Miltsch, IT/Internet Director, Auction Direct USA
• Andre Blackman, Public Health 2.0 enthusiast
• Jeff Tippett, Outreach Strategist for Calvert Holdings
• Ryan Boyles, Community Manager for IBM’s Project Zero
• Corvida Raven, Author, SheGeeks.net
• Jeff Cohen, Partner, OurHashtag
• Gregory Ng, VP Creative Director at Brooks Bell Interactive

More speakers to be announced soon. Registration starts today with limited early bird registration at $125.00. You can register here: http://socialmediabusinessforum.eventbrite.com

For updates you can follow the Social Media Business Forum on Twitter at @smbusinessforum using the hashtag #SMBF or on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Media-Business-Forum/118721852377

Contact information for the Social Media Business Forum is:

OurHashtag
8311 Brier Creek Pkwy Ste 105-432
Raleigh NC 27617
Phone: (980) 939-8956
Contact at socialmediabusinessforum dot com
Twitter: @smbusinessforum

Posted on August 18, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

What I'm sharing on Google Reader for August 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
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	Shared Ustream.tv Hits One Million Followers on Twitter
	Shared SXSW PanelPicker or PanelPimping?
	Shared Productivity and Time Wasters in Social Media
	Shared Sociable Ad Creator Launches: Promote Your Brand’s Social Media Profiles on Mashable
	Shared The Blogosphere in Your Pocket: Regator Comes to the iPhone
	Shared How To Add Twitter To Facebook
	Shared Here’s One Way to Temper Your Road Rage: iGun for iPhone [Viral Videos]
	Shared 6 Awesome Apps Begging to Be Developed
	Shared The iPhone camera is more than a horseless carriage
	Shared Another (fake/mock-up) Apple Tablet to whet your appetite…
	Shared The Five Ws of Social Media Listening
	Shared The F.A.C.E. of Social Media: Masks Off!
	Shared The New Gymnastics of Business: Part 1, the Balance Beam
	Shared Dell Confirms Developing Phones For China Mobile [Voices]
	Shared How to Use Facebook: 5 Tips For Better Social Networking
	Shared Rushing To Cloud Computing Can Be Bad
	Shared Apple’s NC data center pointing to cloud computing?
	Shared How to Target Users within Social Networks
	Shared Today’s 10 – Startup Updates for August 18
	Shared What is the Story of Your Brand?
	Shared RIM Named #1 Fastest Growing Company in the World
	Shared Ignite Raleigh: What would Jesus Tweet by Derek Brown

Posted on August 18, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

You want the Blogosphere in your pocket? There's an app for that too. It's called Regator

Available in the app store today is Regator’s new iPhone app  [iTunes link] with the goal to put the “blogosphere” in your pocket. “Regator is a website that gathers the world’s best blog posts and organizes them in a way that makes it easy to find the things you need—and fun to discover the things you never knew you wanted. It’s here to help you find, discuss, share, rate, and organize information on the topics you care about.”

With so much news being posted online in today’s fast past world, Regator’s iPhone is a great way to find and share information online with your iPhone. You can share articles from the app directly to Twitter, Facebook or via email and the app matches the existing branding of Regator.com, green, clean and with a gator. Something to make the bloggers happy,  Regator for iPhone provides a simple text version of blog post to read and provides other related post that you may be interested in.

Regator for iPhone features in more detail:

• Browse posts from over 500 topics as diverse as beekeeping, geology, indie music, pop culture, job hunting, or basketball.
• Search Regator’s extensive archive, returning results that users have described as being consistently more relevant and higher quality than those returned by Google Blog Search.
• View the most popular blog posts across the blogosphere or in your favorite topic.
• See trends to get an up-to-the-minute, spam-free look at exactly what bloggers in any niche are writing about right now.
• Keep up with the newest blog posts, updated every few seconds.
• Read the full text of posts on the original source blog.
• Share posts via email, Facebook, or Twitter.
• Find more information on a story with Regator’s related posts feature.

More fore information check out  http://regator.com/iphone and watch the promo video below.

Screenshots

Also Read: The Blogosphere in Your Pocket: Regator Comes to the iPhone

What app do you use to read blogs on your iPhone?

Posted on August 17, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

What I'm sharing on Google Reader for August 17th

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 TomTom for iPhone now available in US
	Shared Email Marketing Guide for Bloggers – How To Capture The Email Leads
	Shared Is Social Media A Fad? The Social Media Revolution
	Shared Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream?
	Shared Should I Build A Traditional Website or a Blog?
	Shared Huffington Post Adds “Social News”
	Shared How to Use Online News Releases to Reach Customers and Prospects
	Shared $1,000 Youtube Video Contest Could Pay Off BIG For iPhone App Developer Unique Apps
	Shared Sharing Images, Maps, Videos, and More with Google Reader
	Shared Surprise – Disrespecting Competitors Doesn’t Work!
	Shared The Future of IT Services: How to Prepare
	Shared MSNBC Grabs EveryBlock
	Shared Research finds iPhone hurting operators, Boy George unavailable for comment

Posted on August 17, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Please Stretch Me Thinner part 2: My upcoming speaking events & SXSW panel udpate

For the please stretch me thinner reference read part 1 here: Please Stretch Me Thinner: I’m Almost Saying Yes to Everything . Here’s an updated list of speaking events that I’ll be participating in the next few months.

August: Raleigh, NC – Triangle AMA’s August luncheon: ‘Building Your Personal Brand Through Social Media’
Event link

August 24: Charlotte, NC – SocialFresh – Moderator: Future of Social Media Technology Panel
http://socialfresh.com

September: Chapel Hill, NC – North Carolina Literary Festival, Twitter as new form of written communication and how it is being used.
http://www.ncliteraryfestival.org

Friday, October 16 at 5 PM in Room 288 – Blog World Expo:
I’ll be participating in the “Social Media: What’s Not to Like” panel, which also features Amber Naslund; Director of Community at Radian6 and blogger at Altitude Branding, Patrick O’Keefe; Author of Managing Online Forums and Robert Scoble; Managing Director at Building43.com at Rackspace and blogger at Scobleizer.

November 4-5: Raleigh, NC – Internet Summit
http://www.internetsummit.com

November 6: Real Estate BarCampRDU
http://www.rebarcamprdu.com

Also today starts the voting process for SXSW 2010 presentation. I submitted a talk on “Becoming a Real-Time Video Blogger in 2010“ You can vote on my topic here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4432 if you would like to see me and a selected group of individuals discuss this topic at SXSW next year. (I hope you do

Another SXSW panel to vote on that I’ll be participating with the Social Geeks is: Filtering and Controlling the Flow of Inbound Information, you can vote on the panel here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4942

If you attend one of these events, please be sure to find me and say hello.

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