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Free Twitter Report: Public Media 2.0

CarolineCummings — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:41:18 +0000

If you don’t subscribe to the Center for Social Media (American University) site you should. They offer some great resources (mostly free) about the power of social media. Their latest report is called “Public Media 2.0 Field Report.”

[Briefing from their report] “The report traces how a committed group of volunteers harnesses the micro-bloggin tool Twitter to create innovation public meida 2.0 experiements – first to actively engage users to report on their voting experiences in the 2008 U.S. election, and then to document their experiences of the 2009 presidential inauguration.”

Click here to download the report for free.

Bit.ly surpasses TinyUrl on Twitter

CarolineCummings — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:02:59 +0000

The landscape of competition in the social media world is intriguing to me. There’s new tools popping up just about every day – and it’s a race to see who gets the most usage, who can leverage existing social medai tools and the biggie of all biggies – WHO CAN MONETIZE IT!

The jury is still out on the monetization of social media – and I’m in conversations with a few different start-ups working to crack this nut. Here’s an example of a “URL shortener” company – Bit.ly – who has surpassed TinyUrl – well, on Twitter anyway Bit.ly allows you to shorten, share and track your links.

Click here to read the full article from the NYTimes “Bits Blog.”