Social Media Now 10.31.08

October 31, 2008 by Janet Fouts

I’ve been doing these social media round-up posts every couple of weeks but there was so much good stuff this week I couldn’t wait. Did I miss something? Email me or add it to the comments!

Jay Deragon wonders if social media ROI is really so important, read more posts on ROI from Jason Falls, Janet Fouts and Brad J. Ward, find some good tools and posts on the topic on Constructing Social.
With all the focus on Social Media ROI, Amber Naslund wonders if every social media initiative has to succeed to be valuable.
Pistachio gives her 2 cents on Magpie, a new scheme to monetise Twitter.
Brian Solis discusses brand management and the social web..
ReadWriteWeb added a jobs board to their site. In these times we all need a little extra info?
Marc Meyer suggests we all quit talking to each other so much and talk to the clients instead.
Beth Kanter writes about prioritizing your web marketing budget and social media’s slice of the pie.
In typical Chris Brogan (and Bryan Eisenberg) style, a way to trick or treat on Twitter and raise $$ for a good cause. Go do this.

Bright Shiny Objects

TweetGrid Create a Twitter search dashboard that updates in real time. It’s not sexy but if you’re a topic watcher it’s a wonder.
Tweetburner Get reporting on the links you shorten and post to Twitter and Friendfeed.
QikCom is another microsharing app for the enterprise.
Docstoc Let’s you email a document to it for storage and sharing with your friends.
What would Seth Godin do? is a new Wordpress plugin that helps you build your subscriber base.
Firefox for Web Marketing Ninjas lists some ways to make your web marketing easier.
Ever want to look fondly back on the early Twitter days? My First Tweet will show you the first Tweet of any user.

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6 Responses to “Social Media Now 10.31.08”

10 Social Media Resource Tweets on November 1st, 2008 6:30 am

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Mike Spataro on November 2nd, 2008 3:43 pm

Hi Janet,

Thanks for the informative post. I wanted to include my thoughts on the social media ROI discussion to your post:
http://www.visinsights.com/gauging-the-value-of-social-media-data/294/
Recession giver øget pres på digitale bureauer « Det Levende Ord on November 3rd, 2008 3:33 am

[...] vægt på bureauernes ROI (som jeg også har kommenteret her på The Constant Beta Blog og find flere indlæg om ROI på Social Media Marketing her), fordi ALLE parter har en interesse i at smukkesere på tallene, inden de når kunden. Men der [...]
Marc A. Meyer on November 4th, 2008 5:09 am

Just to let you know that I’m including Social Media Club in the BlogRovR business bundle. Thanks for the great content.
Marc Meyer
CEO, BlogRovR
Craig Oda on November 5th, 2008 12:11 pm

New social media analysis of Google’s marketing techniques for product launches. Sixty days after the launch of Google Chrome, there are 450,000 blog postings about the browser. It ranks near the top on MSN search, Google, YouTube, and blog searches. Learn how Google does online marketing by leveraging YouTube, Blogger, Google Groups, and their own knowledge of search engine ranking.

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Colin Browning on November 7th, 2008 3:04 pm

Great list Janet - I am honored that you put Constructing Social in such amazing company! Thanks!

-Colin