In what I can only describe as an informal poll of sorts, it appears that the United States is no longer a leader when it comes to Top Tweets on Twitter that are being ReTweeted. Take a look at the last seven days of data from Tweetmeme and you will see that the majority of all of the retweets on Twitter are not Tweets that originated from the United States or English-speaking Twitter accounts. [Read more…]

Anyone working with online marketing will tell you that its important to track your data. You need to know which videos are pulling in visitors, and which ones are being ignored. Tracking the stickiness of blog posts is important as well. Even though tracking your results can be confusing at times, the information and revelations that are revealed can be paramount to your online success. You need a social media dashboard. Unilyzer, a social media dashboard, seems to be a great fit for social media and search engine marketers like myself. [Read more…]

Max Media Group has launched a real time social media search application called “The Babel”. [Read more…]

A company that sells guitar-lesson DVDs online has settled with the Federal Trade Commission for a whopping $250,000 over charges that the company “deceptively advertised its products through online affiliate marketers who falsely posed as ordinary consumers or independent reviewers”. The company supposedly schemed to have fake positive reviews posted online. [Read more…]

There is a new report out from 30 Hour Famine that shows that women are more likely to use social media web sites to support causes they believe in than men. According to the results of this study, girls are more likely than boys to friend, like, or follow charities they believe in. Women support charities using social media 41 percent of the time, and men support charities using social sites only 27 percent of the time. [Read more…]

There is a new report from ForeSee Results that details research that they performed showing that social media is responsible for only three percent of web site visits to retail web sites. Certainly if this is the case, and social media web sites like Twitter and Facebook are only bringing 3 percent overall traffic to a web site, then clearly web sites owners need to take a look again at their overall ROI from there web site’s referring traffic. [Read more…]

Finding reviews of different places can be very helpful for people in general. Especially when its something new that they are trying out for the first time, such as a restaurant, or a mechanic. You can easily search Google to find reviews for different places, but the results are not always useful for your situation. [Read more…]

When I’m traveling around town, sometimes I like to stop in a coffee shop, and get something to drink, or stop over at a local restaurant for a bite to eat. I don’t mind eating alone, but it would be great to meet up with some friends from time to time. That’s easier said than done. Here is why you should check in on Foursquare. [Read more…]

Recently, I have had an influx of Quora friend requests in my inbox. Honestly, I have not seen so many social media experts flock to a social media web site since all of my social media and search engine marketing buddies flocked to Twitter. So, I started my quest to find out exactly if Quora.com is the next social media web site to go mainstream. [Read more…]

Gleanster is a new breed of IT market research. Gleanster benchmarks best practices based on the experiences of thousands of top-performing companies. Gleanster attempts to find out what they are doing right, not only in terms of technologies but also in terms of organizational resources, business processes, and performance metrics. The “Gleansight” benchmark reports include an analysis of all the related technology solution providers. [Read more…]