SMC Question of the Week: Popularity Contest or Relationship? With celebrities and ‘average joes’ alike racing to build their number of followers and friends on Twitter, the divide between the various approaches to social media has become increasingly deep. A popularity contest for some, a broadcast medium to others and a valuable tool for relational [...]
Archive for April, 2009
15 Apr
Meet Matthew Ipsan, Vice President of Interactive Media with The State
Social Media Club · Columbia Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. The State Matthew is a graduate of the University of Iowa, with a degree in Broadcast Communications. He is a frequent guest speaker on new media journalism and marketing at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Volunteer activities include Second Harvest Food [...]
9 Apr
Keeping the Community in the Social Site
SMC Question of the Week: What makes a community real? The sheer number of community sites online is both inspiring and staggering. It’s easy to sign up for a social site that seems like a good & relevant place to go at the time, but then falls into the category of once-visited site. With an ever [...]
7 Apr
How to Build Your Personal Brand on Facebook
By Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Know your audience Decide on your branding strategy Set your privacy settings Fill out your profile completely Import contacts and grow your network Update your status [...]
1 Apr
Social Media Club Post Meeting Wrap-up
We wanted a group dialogue and we got it! We had an amazing turnout last night! Thanks to everyone who made it out! For those who didn’t, to steal a line from our new friend, Blake Amick: “the main discussion was all a-twitter.” Several important questions were tackled such as “What the heck is twitter?” and [...]
1 Apr
Finding local Twitter users
The following post is courtesy of Black Amick, Mandi Engram and Mich Sineath People have asked: How do I find other local Twitter users? The quickest way to do this without downloading a 3rd-party application is to use the “near:” query in twitter search. Here’s how: (1) Go to http://search.twitter.com (2) In the search box, type [...]
