Musings and analysis on marketing, buzz and communications.
by Marinel Mones
Twitter, the popular micro-blogging site, publishes online messages with a maximum of 140 characters. Currently, Twitter has an estimated 4.1 million visits to the site and climbing per month in the U.S. alone. It is considered to be the fastest growing social network, and is one of the most viral social media tools [...]
Lizzer – pronounced like lizard but without the “D”– is a bookmarklet created by Digital Sciences, LLC. The tool searches for blog posts, online documents, pictures and videos without leaving your blog editor or your email service site.
Lizzer offers seven services from an assortment of multimedia:
the Web – Delicious, Delicious Account, Google Web or Yahoo [...]
The Internet is a melting pot for new tools and trends, i.e. Social Media. For every new tool, new words or phrases are created. As more and more organizations struggle to embrace social media, we ended up cobbling together a quick glossary of terms for them. This is just a starter’s list based on things [...]
Have you ever wanted to learn a new language? Or tried Rosetta Stone and decided you need interaction with a native speaker of the language? Enter Busuu, an innovative online community for learning languages.
Busuu, the name derived from a language spoken in Cameroon that supposedly only eight people in the world speak fluently, combines social [...]
The beauty of social media is that the relationships you build in person can extend to online social networks, blogs, and other social media tools. Snitch.name, also known as “The Social White Pages”, allows you to find information about almost anyone on specific websites.
To find information about a person, input their first and last name [...]
Need a place to create and conduct surveys? Meet Survs, a collaborative tool that allows you to build, deploy and analyze online surveys. Currently in private beta, this web application provides an array of features, which include the customization of surveys (look at feel), creating survey questions and selecting from four types of response formats [...]
Share any kind of online content in one place with Noovo. This “social discovery engine” is a blogging, bookmarking, lifestreaming, content sharing application – not a social network. The Noovo Corporation is based in California and Slovenia, and the Noovo app recently launched out of private beta last week.
Noovo aggregates the most interesting stories, photos, [...]
Twitterers, there’s a new Twitter app in town: DestroyTwitter (DT). No, DestroyTwitter does not mean to literally destroy twitter. The creator, Jonnie Hallman, believes that with destruction comes creation – his version of carpe diem.
DestroyTwitter is a “robust but compact Twitter application built on the Adobe AIR platform” (a reported 11% of all Tweets [...]
The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect the natural ecosystems that plants and animals need to survive. With over a million members, The Nature Conservancy has protected more than 119 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide.
Evan C. Parker, the Manager of Digital Membership [...]
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