These are my links for June 16th through October 22nd:
- Being Peter Kim: A List of Social Media Marketing Examples – applying game mechanics to understand participation, thinking about users vs. customers, and deconstructing ego traps in PR campaigns. This analysis makes me wonder if social media marketing matters and if so, does it scale.
- Social Media / Business Marketing Links | The Global Social Media Network – Social Media Marketing – business marketing and social media marketing links
- Tweetmeme – 15:20 PM, October 9th, 2008 GB – less structured way to keep track of what links are buzzing on twitter categories links in to blog, image, video and audio posts
- Twitscoop – Search twitter, see what’s hot right now – What’s hot on twitter right now
- Twitturly – Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter – top trends on twitter, use this to stay ahead of the curve and tracks links
- Twubble – suggests new twitter friends based on your current twitter friends
- Tweet Scan – Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter and identi.ca. Tweet Scan indexes all public messages on both services so you can find the conversations, people, and tweets/dents you want. You can search by keyword or author with results available via email(Twitter only for now), RSS, and Twhirl.
- GroupTweet – GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.
- Rogue Amoeba – Nicecast: Broadcast any audio on Mac OS X – Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Broadcast to the world, or just across your house. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow you to listen to your iTunes Music Library from anywhere in the world!
- 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – some excellent wordpress themes
- Irssi – Community Ubuntu Documentation – Irssi is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It is a text-based client as it lacks a graphical user interface (gui) such as XChat, Chatzilla and others.
- Fitbit – Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep – Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.
- Gnip API v1.3 – The Gnip API provides notification of activities (events) occurring in a variety of services and, whenever possible, a guid that identifies the activity itself vis a vis the service it was created on. Activity examples include a user “tweet” (twitter), a user “dugg” (digg), a user creating a blog post, etc.
- CrunchBase, The Free Tech Company Database – CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.
- ONLINE BUSINESS TOOLBOX: 230+ Tools for Running a Business Online – A great roundup of business tools for running a business, all web based. I found some good stuff here.
- Eventbrite – TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up – TechCrunch is heading South for a Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures (http://www.austinventures.com/). We are landing in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits (http://www.aclfestival.com/default.aspx) music festival. We do have a handful of three day ACL passes to give away to sponsors and attendees, and will be announcing details of music festival give aways in the coming weeks.
- Rudder – The New Free Online Money Management, Budget Planning And Personal Finance Software – product that looks forward and determines how much you can spend today and still pay all your bills
- Gustav Information Center – good social network resource along with http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gustav for tracking Gustav news and resources
- Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets » TweetLater.com – Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system. Send automated thank you notes to new followers, automatically follow new followers,
if you choose to do so. - (6) near:”Austin, Texas” within:50mi – Twitter Search – realtime search results for twitter tweets near Austin, Texas. Twitters official advanced search.
- SocialGO – Social Network Maker – Create your own Social Network for FREE
- Mashable Summermash Austin interview with Will Pate – spring.net – Spring.net interviewed Will Pate. Will cohosts CommandN a very popular video podcast with Amber Macarthur out of Toronto, Canada. He founded Raincity Studios which recently bought Bryte. Will ?can?t talk? about some upcoming ventures, but he does talk broadly about his future direction.
Spring.net did over 30 interviews at the Summermash Party in Austin at Buffalo Billiards on the night of July 30, 2008 and also videod the entire daytime Socialmedia Camp at the Thistle Cafe on West Sixth Street in Austin. The evening party featured an open bar, food, and a packed second floor. Brian Massey said ?It took a bunch of people from San Franciso to round up some of Austin?s best bloggers and developers in one place.?
We?ll be releasing the full 5 hour session of the Mashable Social Media Camp on one hour installments and we?ll also be releasing all of the 30 plus interviews over the next 2-3 weeks.
- chrisbrogan.com – one of the best social media and marketing sites on the web. It’s a must daily read if you’re a social network addict, like me.
- Social media camp at the Thistle Cafe 300 W 6th street in Austin – social media camp at the Thistle Cafe on 6th street the same day as the Mashable event.
- Austin 3.0 – If one were to look at the slew of Tech events happening this week, you?d think we were gearing up for SXSWi. Instead, it?s 104 degrees outside, and it?s just another eventful week in Texas; it?s time for our mid-summer stretching exercise.
- AgencyTool Web Design Dashboard – best web design, development, marketing and website maintenance resource I’ve every seen. Excellent! Five Stars. *****
- Web 2.0 Mashup: Best of the Internet Today –
- Ad Revenue Sharing Communities & Forums | Social Web Tools – social communitys that share revenue with their users
- Leveraging Social Media by springnet – Connie Reece and Paul Terry Walhus present “Leveraging Social Media” at SEOforSMB in Austin Texas on July 17, 2008.
- Deanna Zandt randomdeanna / Linkwad – Short-n-sweet Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and the Hightower Lowdown, and hosts TechGrrl Tips on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. Interview at http://austincast.com/blog/
- | LivingSocial – recommended by MichelleMMM on del.icio.us
- 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing | chrisbrogan.com – 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing
- How to Be Interesting | Copyblogger – Be wrong: The world is full of people trying to do the right things. It?s become so common that many of us are bored by it. We long for someone that is willing to do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing, be the wrong thing
- Five Ways to Build Your SMB Via Social Media Marketing : Online Marketing for Marketers – 5 primary strategies for building small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) via social media marketing. This post is a summary of my presentation, for those that couldn?t make it to Austin.
- Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Services Portland Oregon | Anvil Media, Inc. – Search Engine Marketing for High Performance Companies Anvil Media, Inc. (Anvil) is a search engine marketing (SEM) agency specializing in search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) management, search engine marketing public relations (SEM PR)
- http://seesmic.com/#/video/iXR1hYyDEF/watch – boiling down the basics of SEO
- The Definition of Social Media Marketing: How to Find the Best Social Media Consultant » techipedia | tamar weinberg – The main characteristic [social media marketers] need to have is a genuine curiosity/interest in social media, particularly on how it influences human relationships and business practices.
- Search Engine Optimization for Small Business – SEO Blog: Search Engine Optimization and Search Marketing :: Get Page One – And the co-founder of our humble SEO company, Brian Rutledge, will be talking about search engine optimization for small business at the SEM for SMB conference in Austin, TX. More on that later!
- Video SEO for SMB?s: What Does Standing Out Online Really Mean? – consumers typically visit an average of nearly five Web sites (4.8 actually) before deciding which attorney to select. When lawyers added video to their respective Web sites, however, this number decreased fairly substantially, to 1.8.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – seo blog aggregation. Guy Kawasaki’s alltop seo page. SEOmoz, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, SEO Book, Search Engine Journal, Matt Cutts, SEO Noobs, Google News Inside, SEO Blackhat, SEO by the Sea, Search Engine Watch, Stepforth SEO, etc
- ContentRobot | Blogging & WordPress Experts – awesome wordpress site with plugins and themes
- FlyCamOne2 Micro Video Camera for RC Aircraft from Hobby Lobby! – FlyCamOne2 Micro Video Camera for RC Aircraft from Hobby Lobby!
- Josh Highland : Internet Superstar – classic social lifestream webpage, a guy who lives in Redlands, CA
- TweetDumpr – This is a hideous tool that can be used to export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file, readable by any spreadsheet application (Excel, Numbers, etc.). Exported data includes the tweet plus a timestamp of when it was sent.
- Technology Review: Social Networking Is Not a Business* – In less than two years it has created the underlying structure for more than 20,000 social-networking sites–“mini-Facebooks” with an aggregate of 300 million page views per month. You’ve probably never heard of it.
- bub.blicio.us – social networking blog, really smart content
- Summize Conversational Search – another killer app du jour for twitter, conversational search
- All I Ate Today – clever little food app somehow connected to twitter
- austinlifestyles’ bookmarks on del.icio.us –
- Derbyshire Writer?s Guild – – Crysty Shih is now heading this major fanfic site for jane Austen aficianados
- Social Media Club Austin – You’ll find a number of social media types hanging out at Cafe Caffeine as part of the Jelly! Austin co-working scene. Come join us.