Erica Nichole, Founder of YFS Magazine (Young, Fabulous and Self-employed), provides a great argument for the many reasons that small businesses need to take advantage of Twitter as a tool to interact with customers and prospects. Her insights in the article will help you to make dollars and sense out of Twitter while seizing market [...]
Using contests to build excitement about your brand is a tried and true marketing strategy, and Twitter is an ideal platform for launch. Mashable.com provides a five step process for making your Twitter contest an all-around winner. 1. Lock in the Rules and Regulations. It is critical to determine eligibility, prizes, and how the winners [...]
In the ongoing quest to streamline the amount of information we process through social media, apps that combine feeds from several different sites are becoming indispensable. Yoono is one app that may be worthy of your time. It can sort updates from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Youtube–or you can view them all in one stream [...]
Facebook certainly established itself as the premier social networking site on the planet in 2010. The upcoming year will be interesting to watch, as the giant’s competitors examine new ways to reinvent themselves. MySpace President Mike Jones weighs in on a turbulent year, in socaltech.com’s year end interview with the top tech movers and shakers. [...]
A recent study by the Pew Research Center is shedding light on the demographics behind Twitter. The findings have interesting results, particularly if your business markets specifically to minorities and city dwellers. According to the survey, 8% of online adults use Twitter. Seventy-four percent of American adults are internet users, which means that 6% of [...]
via blackenterprise.com BET’s Arlice Nichole has assembled a nice summary of Ning networks that focus on African-American entrepreneurial interests. Noticeably, four of the ten networks cater specifically to black women though they are open to anyone and the information available is beneficial to most entrepreneurs. I would also mention an 11th Ning Network that is [...]
via blackweb20.com You can’t be a tech-loving geek and not be a fan of comic books. Black-owned web comics represent a niche that has been around for a while and is now making its way front and center via social media. Read this article by Black Web 2.0 where several of the best black comics [...]
Trend with Truth: The Brown Twitter Bird Movement « Black Web 2.0. Black Web 2.0 provides some commentary on the Slate article about how black folks impact Twitter trending topics and the brown twitter birds that are beginning to pop up all over the internet. I don’t know what it all means–I believe that non-black [...]
The mad rush for internet real estate has started all over again now that .co domains are available but some restrictions apply. Read all about it via this great summary article by Rahsheen at BlackWeb 2.0. With almost 200,00 registrations so far, it just got a little harder to pick a good, descriptive domain while [...]
Why Small Businesses Shouldn’t Take Social Media for Granted. There is a way to do social media right if you’re a small business owner. Most people spend a lot of time on Twitter, Facebook, and other sites keeping up with friends and sharing links and pictures from everyday things that happen in the course of [...]
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