Twilk & Twitdemic

I just joined Twilk to get background images like this from Twitter. While I did it I found a new service in alpha phase called Twitdemic. I applied for the service and am now waiting if they accept me. The service promises:

Show your Followers some Love - Feature your most active and engaged followers on your background

“I am relatively sure that Twitdemic is my most majestic creation. It just edged out Bacon, and I could not be more proud.”

The Almighty
Founder & CEO
Known Universe & Humankind

Rock a Leaderboard
Show off your best followers, Updated daily, even post your leaderboard on your blog or site!

Measure what Matters
Our magical algorithm automatically monitors keywords, phrases, hashtags, usernames, RTs, and more to determine follower rank

Fantastic Way to Engage
This is more than a leaderboard. It finds and identifies your most loyal followers. A great platform for contests, increasing RT rates, increasing Follower count, building your community, and general online presence. Get creative with it!

I am waiting to see what happens...

What the F8 Facebook Changes Mean for Marketers

Found this through @Rautasilta, thank you :).

The changes in Facebook are big and it is harder to get into fans´ stream than it use to be. It seems that Facebook hates automated content, e.g. via Twitterfeed. I don´t like it as I want to get all the content I have "ordered" by liking a page or by friending a person. Why can Facebook decide what they will show me? This is why I like Twitter more - I still see the content (e.g. news) I have ordered, not only content Twitter has been paid for. :P

What the F8 Facebook Changes Mean for Marketers

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Digital presence in social media by @saurau

Well done Linda, I like your style so much :).

Digital presence in social media

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Rethinking education

I need fruit for a thought for education professionals and remembered I had posted this video earlier. Two years ago that is. A long time in Internet. So I needed to find a newer and neater video and checked the channel where I found this: . If you know better videos about the subject, shoot me with a link will you? :)

Referral Key: Are you taking on new clients?

Today I got an email asking me:

Are you taking on new clients?

Well, hell yea I am!

Hi Johanna,

If you're taking on new clients, I'd like to include you in my private referral network to send you business leads through Referral Key.

Please accept my invitation below. Thanks!

Best,
NN
Company Name
City
+358...

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"The new, fast growing networking website is using the power of communication to help small businesses build powerful referral networks online." - Boston Business Journal

If you do not wish to receive this type of email from Referral Key, please click Unsubscribe.

This looked so much about a spam message I almost skipped it. But as there was a name of a person I appreciate I looked further and did a Google search about Referral Key.

Some social media specialists join every new SM service but I am not one of them. I like to sit back and wait to see if the service will survive after the first hype period.

So I learnt to know that in this service I can get leads if I pay for them and I can get paid if I help others get leads. Not sure if I want to do it - at least via a service like this. I rather help a friend (in Finland we have this thing called Friendtrepreneurs) give a favor from a favor. If someone I don´t know well enough offers me 10$ for a lead I do not bother.

I think these lead contracts work best when they are agreed between two partners. So if you´d like me to give you leads for your social media platform or service, contact me and introduce your product for me. If I like it I start recommending it to my customers and everytime you get a new customer through me I´ll get a fair reward. And the other way around, whenever you recommend me for a training, a workshop or a content creation project in social media, you will get a reward from me. None of us would do this only for money as there´s our own reputation on the table - we only recommend things we believe in.

So for now I stay away from Referral Key and trust my contacts to recommend me even without a dedicated service like this. And we still have LinkedIn for recommendations...

Again @Facebook changes - for worse that is

I hate when Facebook keeps changing, it seems that it is always for worse. During the past few days I noticed 2 changes:

1. I had sent a friend request (by accident, I did not know her) to someone. Now I see in my stream that she has got new friends. I am not accepting all friends and I truly hate if those people I am not accepting will get notifications that I am friending X and Y but not them. I am not sharing my friends in public, why should I share it to people I do not want to friend?

2. I used to see what my friends are writing to walls of Facebook pages I like too. Now I see what they write to other pages too which is irritating me. I am not interested of them! If I would, I would like the same pages they are! And there´s no way to unfollow those notifications!

Blah. Would be really surprised if someone from Facebook would answer me or even better, remove these features.

Bloglovin

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Introduction to Google+

Maybe it is the summer time, maybe it is Google Wave and Google Buzz but I did not get so excited about this new service. Looks nice but still: how to get people hooked from the services they are already using? I am kind of tired of Facebook already and would like to get a new service where to discuss with different groups of my life. Diaspora seemed promising but it did not get the users.

So good luck Google+, I wont be one of your first users but if you get even 30% of my contacts in, I'll be there too. :)

Social Media Revolution 2011 by @equalman

Thank you again Erik Qualman for the video, nice that you updated it :)

Why social by @stuartmcintyre

Good ideas about social collaboration, me2.0, serendipity, collaboration tools...

Why social?

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