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• Eight Ways to Ruin Your Social-Media Strategy

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Like it or not, loads of your customers are yakking away about your business on Twitter, Facebook and similar outlets. So don?t blow it. Mistake 1: Pretend you can do without it. You may have already run into the Graying...

  Tags: Facebook, Conversation, Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Context Optional, social media, Twitter, YouTube, viral advertising, social marketing., Catharine P. Taylor

• "Mad Men" Debut Ignites the Era of the Social Premiere

  BNET - 2009-08-16

  "Mad Men" may be launching its third season tonight on the big box, but it will also play out online. Though maybe not the first social premiere, it's indicative of a trend toward big TV events being shared with friends, virtually, in real-time. In this caseâ€" as CNN was with...

  Tags: Facebook, Premiere, Twitter, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Catharine P. Taylor

• As Facebook Makes Moves, Twitter Faces the Music

  BNET - 2009-08-11

  In terms of social media headlines, yesterday was one of those days when people deep into the industry got all, well, a-twitter, and the rest of the media world was probably left wondering what all of the excitement was about. But make no mistake, yesterday was a BIG day, perhaps...

  Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Twitter, Music, Friendfeed, Catharine P. Taylor

• Twitter "Attack" Leaks Over to Facebook, At Least for Some Users [Updated]

  BNET - 2009-08-06

  [UPDATE: As you may have read, Facebook was having its own problems today which were separate from Twitter's. As some of my Facebook friends seemed to be using Facebook just fine, and I couldn't, I wondered if it was because, for many of us, the two platforms have a bridge...

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Attack, Social Networking, E-mail, Construction, Manufacturing, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Catharine P. Taylor

• Your Tweets Sponsored, But Not By Me

  BNET - 2009-08-05

  The screen grab from sponsoredtweets.com, at right, is why Sponsored Tweets is scaring me. Maybe I spend too much time online, but I had to look up who Kendra Wilkinson was; apparently, she's a reality TV star. But, I, of course, digress. The reason she, um, graces...

  Tags: Twitter, Catharine P. Taylor

• Some NFL Teams Ban Players from Using Twitter! LOL!

  BNET - 2009-08-04

  The other day, my colleague, David Weir, pointed out the similarities between NFL brass and Iranian clerics. Well, the similarities are growing. The New York Times reports today that Green Bay Packers management and Miami Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano are among those trying to limit or ban Twitter usage by...

  Tags: Team, NFL, Social Media, Twitter, Catharine P. Taylor

• Twitter and Facebook Sort of Available Through Verizon FiOS

  BNET - 2009-07-20

  On the one hand, let's all applaud Verizon FiOS for integrating Twitter and Facebook into its television offering, as part of an app store that will also include things like an ESPN Fantasy Football widget. On the other hand, don't get too excited by the headlines you read about it...

  Tags: Facebook, Verizon Communications Inc., Twitter, Catharine P. Taylor

• The Rise of the Twitter Hangers-On: CoTweet Raises $1.1 Million

  BNET - 2009-07-09

  Whenever another company which is living off the host that is Twitter gets funding, my eyebrows raise just a bit. In pure business terms, this is about as meta as it gets: a company receives funding to propagate a business off of another company that makes no money â€" unless...

  Tags: Twitter, CoTweet, Venture Capital, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Catharine P. Taylor

• If We Value Social Networks, Why Won't We Pay for Them?

  BNET - 2009-06-18

  Like many of you, including my colleague, David Weir, I've been musing about what the business model for Twitter and other social networks is, particularly in light of Twitter's role in the Iranian election protests. I wrote about this yesterday for a social media column for Mediapost; now it's time...

  Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Catharine P. Taylor

• Google Doesn't Twitter, But It Will Search It

  BNET - 2009-06-15

  Doing what some say it does best, it looks like Google is going to start piggybacking on Twitter, and other micro-blogging services, by introducing real-time search, probably incorporated into the core service itself.  This news shouldn't exactly have any of us falling off our chairs; Google, along with the rest...

  Tags: Google Inc., Twitter, Search, Catharine P. Taylor