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Social Media

I don’t know yet myself… I may even attend one myself sooner or later… Or I may even get a chance to speak on the stage myself… But this question just pops up my head when I wonder why people are paying money to attend social media course…
First of all, do you really need to [...]

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I wonder if any of you are still using Twitter after you have decided to use Google Buzz.  I am still trying out both, and trying to make the best use of both.
Many of my twitter friends are not going to focus on Google Buzz at all.  I think there is a potential, and there [...]

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Here’s a case study (from my perspective knowing through the social media only) of how a social media website manages a potential social media crisis themselves.
I was watching Cranky Geeks a couple of weeks ago when I got to know the presence of this TechCrunch intern named “Daniel Brusilovsky”. And not long after, TechCrunch posted [...]

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I think there are some resistance out there to use Google Buzz.  It has brought to my attention that a lot of twitter folks seem to be feeling that they have spent a lot of time on twitter, establishing themselves over there when there is a new upcoming social media (Google Buzz) for them to work [...]

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Congratulations to Aardvark!

by Charles on 13 February 2010

I have been using Aardvark for quite a while now. It’s really amazing to see how a community can answer your burning questions that you have! It can be answered in an instant! And the people who are answering your questionsToday, i’ve just received news that Google has just acquired Aardvark! This innovative instant answering [...]

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Quick review of Google Buzz

by Charles on 12 February 2010

Thanks Google for the invitation of Google Buzz when I log into my Gmail account.  It is a phenomenon thing that Google has done!  It is going to be the next social media that everybody will look into… And very soon, I have a feeling that Facebook is going to be out of business… It [...]

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Using Viral Video To Boost Sales

by Charles on 8 February 2010

I heard that Common Craft is being mentioned in Inc magazine.  Hence, I went ahead and read the Inc magazine article that companies like Smule and Kiva Systems creating clever Web videos to explain their technology to customers and produce sales leads.
I agree with Lee LeFever of his following three points when creating a viral video:

It’s not about [...]

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Though it has been around for almost two years, I have just got to know about this that Starbucks is also jumping into the social media wagon where they allow people to share their ideas online.  They called it “My Starbucks Idea“.  It sounds like what Dell has done with their IdeaStorm website where they [...]

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Well, I think this is a common topic for many MNC companies.  A lot of employees working in big companies are facing the same issue of being restricted to accessing the social media websites in their respective offices.
Companies’ dilemma to social media websites
A recent article from Harvard Business Review discussed about majority of firms with over [...]

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It’s my birthday today!  Thanks for all the birthday wishes on my Facebook.  Really appreciated it a lot… All the wishes came from my colleagues, friends i know of, and also friends of the social media…

Photo credit: Builders Studio
Other than from Facebook, I also received birthday wishes through my emails and my mobile phone.  One [...]

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