Social Media Now 10.31.08

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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Social Media Now 8.11.08

Social Media Now 9-11-08

Here’s a bit of what’s going on in social media of late. Feel free to add your own links in the comments section, or send us you suggestions for the next issue of Social Media Now.

Chris Brogan shares his best advice about social media.

The Dontgo movement showed that the Republicans can get social media and they used social media channels to help build their “revolution”. Then they showed they didn’t get social media when they started banning posts from the Twitter feed as “inappropriate”. After some fast thinking they now offer a feed in “filtered” and “unfiltered” versions.

We found some interesting stats on the most popular social bookmarking services on Digital Inspiration.

Jeremiah Owyang posted his thoughts on the tracking of the propane explosions in Toronto as news spread from Twitter to the print press.

Another  take on social media as a buzzbuilder, “Applying Circuit Breakers to a Social Media Mob Mentality” is  about how we can fan the flames of a personal interaction until it quickly becomes the shot heard round the world.

Benedikt Koehler posted an interesting cloud/map of who’s investing in Web 2.0 companies.

Bright Shiny Objects

Missing your Facebook pokes because you don’t have a smart phone? Sarah Perez from ReadWriteWeb posted an article on a free mobile push app called BlueWhaleMail that can push your Facebook posts, pokes and messages to your mobile phone, even if it’s not a smart phone. (Available for selected Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones)

Speaking of Facebook, Guy Kawasaki set up a Facebook group for Alltop for viewers and owners of the sites and blogs Alltop aggregates. Sign up here:

Crunchgear turned 2 on August 11, and they’re giving away goodies for the next 10 days.

Posty is the latest Adobe Air app. to surface. It posts your updates to Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr Frinedfeed and Identi.ca.

AllofMe launched their public Alpa. It’s a timeline builder, allowing you to scan event or project timelines visually, or create a personal timeline of important events.

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