Author Archives: Marinel Mones

Buzz Meter: ammado

Now that the holidays are over, it doesn’t mean the spirit of giving is over. ammado is a global community platform of nonprofits, socially responsible companies and engaged individuals dedicated to bring about positive social change through the power of the internet.
ammado was founded as a mission-based, for-profit enterprise in Dublin in 2005. In 2007, [...]

Talking Digital Media with The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy seeks to improve the lives and future prospects of children and families. The organization strives to ensure that these children are born into stable homes and raised by two-parent families. The National Campaign’s goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate and unplanned pregnancy among young [...]

Connecting GlobalGiving to Online Media

GlobalGiving connects you to the causes and community-based projects you care about through their online marketplace. Joan Ochi, the Director of Marketing Communications and Robert Dubois, a Marketing Associate who provides support to the organizations online social media strategy, share how GlobalGiving uses direct marketing to encourage people to donate to the causes they support.
Both [...]

How FortiusOne Uses the Social Web to Maximize ROI

Disclosure: FortiusOne is a client of Livingston Communications.
FortiusOne’s CEO Sean Gorman, Ph.D. discusses how the company uses social media to share advanced geospatial technologies to the market. Sean is a recognized expert in geospatial analysis and virtualization and was honored this year with Bisnow’s Top 35 under 35. FortiusOne was also recognized as one [...]

SocialFishing on the Association Front

Direct marketing is a vital and affective way for companies to convene messages to their consumers without the intervention of media. Integrating tried and true best practices from direct marketing into social Web marketing – and vice versa – is becoming the calling card among the savviest marketing professionals.
During the next week, The Buzz Bin [...]

Buzz Meter: Connected By Distance

Online communities connect people all over the world. Through the Web, people engage in conversations and create, discuss and share stories. No matter the story, whether people fight to be a voice for those in need or if friends make a podcast together across the region, communities can affect us all.
The Connected by Distance project, [...]

Buzz Meter: BigTweet

BigTweet is a free service used to ‘surf the web and post to Twitter.’ Developed by Scott Carter, the owner of Social.com, this new Twitter application is a bookmarklet offering more than just quick updates to your Twitter account.

To use BigTweet, all you need is your Twitter account login and password. Go to the BigTweet [...]

Buzz Meter: Cerado Ventana

Cerado Ventana connects customers to brands in spaces such as their blogs, personal start pages and cells phones. Created by Cerado, a provider of mobile and web-based software services, Cerado Ventana offers a wide array of features designed and implemented by customer requests.
Features include:

News & Info: provides the latest information in real time.
Search: allows you [...]

Buzz Meter: OneRiot

Is it possible for one search engine to determine the “pulse of the web?” OneRiot, formerly known as Me.dium, is not your typical search engine. What differentiates OneRiot with other search engines is their method of presenting information. OneRiot prioritizes the current popular information, making their search results “relevant, fresh, friendly and pulsing with [...]

Buzz Meter: UserNameCheck

UserNameCheck is an online tool that checks the availability of usernames for various social networking sites. Think WHOIS, but for usernames.
An AJAX powered service, UserNameCheck lists over 60 social networking platforms all in one dashboard. To check where your username is registered, simply type in your username in the provided field and click on “check.” [...]