Thanks to the good folks over at the St. Louis Bloggers Guild for putting on a great event today. It was basically a last minute decision to spend my Saturday going to seminars and panel discussions, but it was a good decision. Topics included how to use social bookmarking (and which ones to use), online design, how to use social media to find (or keep) jobs, intellectual property and integrating video and audio into websites and blogs. All of the subjects were handled well and the combination of the panelists + the audience made for a great discussion, one hour at a time.
Key take aways for me were the tools that are available to aggregate and simplify social media; tweetdeck and cotweet. Also the analytics tools are quite abundant; twitalizer, twitteranalyzer, click tale to name a few.
In the end I walked away understanding how to better utilize social media to learn from you (the reader) not only for my voiceover work, but also for my not-for-profit and my day job at Energizer. The one note I will leave you with is this. Be sure to always be personable online. With my voiceover work, the service is me, so that sounds easy, you will always hear from me, the person, not me the company.
If you want to hear more of the conversation from this great event, look for #SLIF on twitter on Oct 17. Also, you can follow me on twitter @Serge_Voiceover.
Until next time.
Serge
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Social Online Shopping
Came across a great new site today, plurchase.com. This site allows people to shop online and make comments about what they see in the online stores to friends of theirs who they have told that they are shopping.
I am not much of a shopper myself, but I do know that so much of "shopping" is the social aspect of two girls getting together and not just buying stuff on sale, but also commenting on the stuff they see. Now this can be achieved online. A text message box shows up on the right side and you and your friends can chat away.
What a great way to make this activity in real time.
So far it is only working on Zappos and Amazon, but it should take off quick.
Serge
I am not much of a shopper myself, but I do know that so much of "shopping" is the social aspect of two girls getting together and not just buying stuff on sale, but also commenting on the stuff they see. Now this can be achieved online. A text message box shows up on the right side and you and your friends can chat away.
What a great way to make this activity in real time.
So far it is only working on Zappos and Amazon, but it should take off quick.
Serge
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