Facebook & Twitter Change The Way Fans “Watch” World Series
There are over 12 million people that are either fans of the MLB FB page or one of it’s respective 30 team’s FB page. With the 2010 World Series just one day from beginning play, fans are gearing up and the smack talk between fans is beginning to surface at a rampant pace, all thanks to social media. Long gone are the days of calling into your local sports talk radio station after the game to discuss the nuances of the game or writing into your local newspaper’s sports editorial column. Enter Facebook and Twitter. Fans from all over the country use FB and Twitter to stay...
read moreTop 7 Social Media Services For Small Businesses
So you own a small business and you are ready to take the plunge into the interesting but ultimately confusing world of social media. Great! But hold on one second… there is much to learn before you do. Before you jump in head first, here are a few things to carefully think about: Devise a plan and a strategy; what are you doing this for? Who are you trying to reach? What is your message? What will the primary use of these social media platforms be? (marketing, customer service, brand visibility, all of the above?) What tools are you going to use to accomplish your goals? Once you...
read moreA Day In The Life of the Internet
Let say you own and manage a popular restaurant. The local newspaper decides to do a writeup and interview with you and title it, “A Day In The Life of a Restaurant Owner”. All you have to do is give them a run down of all the crazy amount of work that you must do on a daily basis. Just thinking about your daily routine makes you tired. Everyone who works probably feels the same way when thinking about their life. But how about if the Internet was a person. Imagine how crazy of a day that would be. Well thanks to OnlineEducation.net, we can now see what one day in the...
read moreDrown A Man In Skittles? Skittles UK FB Campaign
Engage & Interact. These are two of the most fundamental elements of a successful Facebook campaign. The good folks at Skittles (UK Division) launched a one day campaign yesterday that focused around literally burying a man in over 3.7 million skittles. Skittles encouraged fans to head over to their FB page and like their page and every fifteen minutes depending on the number of likes recorded, would dump thousands of skittles into a chamber that a man (named David Phoenix) was standing in. Campaigns like these represent the future of social media marketing and fan interaction. The idea...
read more140 Character Conference: Detroit Ustream
Not everyone has the opportunity to be at 140 Character Conference Detroit today… So here is the link for the live stream....
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