Archive for October, 2009

Posted on October 15, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

BlogWorld Notes: Tweets from B2B Social Media Panel with @kbodnar32 at @blogworld #bwe09

This session offers entry and intermediate level participants an understanding of the impact of social media on B2B companies. Attendees will leave with a hands-on understanding of how to evaluate social media’s relevance for B2B industries, how to set up employee guidelines for social media participation, how B2B sales forces can leverage social media, and how to leverage social media for inbound sales leads.

B2B marketers around the world are slowly understanding that regardless of industry, their customer base is active online. In this session industry leaders in leveraging social media for B2B marketing provide detailed advice and examples for participants. Attendees will leave with the information they need to have an educated discussion with management about evaluating social media’s relevance for their organization.

Moderator: Kipp Bodnar

Panelists: David B. Thomas (SAS), Kyle Flaherty (Breaking Point Systems), Mica Veihman, (Monsanto Company)

The Tweets from Social Media B2B panel using hashtag: bweb2b

Posted on October 15, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

BlogWorld Notes: Keynote Laura @Pistachio Fitton – Be Awesome!

Notes:
Four pillars of awesomeness
ethical production
insanely great stuff
love
one more I missed

Photo: Rick Calvert aka @blogworld and Laura @Pistachio Fitton

Note: Laura @Pistachio Fitton will also be speaking in Durham, NC on October, 23 at the Social Media Business Forum http://www.socialmediabusinessforum.com/

Posted on October 14, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Make Money with Sponsored Tweets

This is a sponsored guest post written by Zac Johnson on behalf of Sponsored Tweets. Post powered by Sponzai

A couple weeks ago I signed up with Sponsored Tweets, a new program available through Izea. The concept of Sponsored Tweets is simply… get paid to send out tweets through Twitter. Since joining, I’ve had several opportunities come through, and have already made several hundreds of dollars. Here’s a bit more on the site and how you can make money too. View Sponsored Tweets

How does Sponsored Tweets work?
Everything about Sponsored Tweets is very simple and easy to setup. You create your account, and login with your same Twitter account info (through Twitter). Once your account is created, you just need to set how much you want to be paid per tweet, and then you wait for a new opportunity to come in. When you receive a new opportunity, you just need to approve or deny the tweet. Some advertisers write what they want you to say, but many leave that up to the tweeter. You submit the “tweet” for approved, and once approved, the money is deposit into your account.

Is this allowed by Twitter, and Ethical?
To answer the most important question, YES! This is allowed by Twitter! and Sponsored Tweets mentions this several times on their web site, as they have worked with Twitter through the process of making the site. As for being “ethical”, there is full disclosure. When a tweet is sent through Sponsored Tweets, it is seen on twitter as “sponsored by…“, “Ad“, or “brought to you by..“. It’s this full disclosure that keeps the tweeter, the advertiser and the reader all legit.

What does a “sponsored tweet” look like?
Depending on whether or not your advertisers provides an ad copy, your tweet can look like anything. Whatever you submit will be sent over to Sponsored Tweets for approval. Other than that, it will look like a regular tweet going out through your account. The only difference is that the url is through bit.ly and instead of being posted from “web” or “tweetdeck”, it says “from Sponsored Tweets“… as it should for full disclosure.

Is anyone making Money with Sponsored Tweets?
As mentioned, in just my first couple of weeks, I’ve made an extra few hundred bucks just for a few minutes of my time approving ads, and I have a fairly small twitter following. ShoeMoney also posted about how he has earned thousands from tweeting advertiser links independently and through Sponsored Tweets.

Who else is partnered with Sponsored Tweets?
There are actually a decent amount of big name tweeters already signed on with Sponsored Tweets. I haven’t seen a way to signup online (have to call) as an Advertiser to access a full list of tweeters available, but they do have the following “featured tweeters” listed in the login area. Some of these accounts (like Kim Kardashian) have over 2 million followers.

That’s a quick summary of what Sponsored Tweets is all about, and how it’s making money and driving leads through Twitter. It’s fairly new, and always great to get into a new revenue source on the bottom floor.

Posted on October 11, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Startups and Monkey Logos

Yesterday I went to see the movie Cloudy with a chance of meatballs and one of the key chacters is a monkey named Steve. (see Steve above). By the way, the movie is great. But back to Steve, the monkey reminds of a few web services that uses monkeys as logos such as.

Chatterbox:

MailChimp;

Brizzly: (really not sure what this is, but looks close to a monkey )

Paul Frank

Just a random thought, have you seen more monkey logos?

Posted on October 10, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Top 7 iPhone apps for editing photos on the go

Yesterday, Twitter, the blogs and iPhone users rejoiced and me personally was surprised by seeing Adobe release a Free Photoshop app for the iPhone.

The app is called Photoshop.com Mobile. I immediately downloaded the app but haven’t had a chance to really use it yet. I think it’s a good move by Adobe to release the app especially since the iPhone leads flickr as the #1 source of mobile uploads. Either way here are my top seven iPhone apps for editing photos.

1. Colorsplash

2. Sketches

3. SnapBox

4. Camerbag

5. Best Camera

6. Photogene

7. Photoshop.com Mobile

What app do you use to edit photos on your iPhone?

– Posted from my iPhone