Posting this link to Influential Marketing Blog: http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/
Bhargava, head of Interactive Marketing at Oglivy PR and former LB/Sydney executive producer, provides an informed, opinionated and wide-ranging survey of digital marketing tools, trends and ideas: with great posts on what works, what doesn’t, what he likes, and what he hates.
- md
Categories: Brand Sites · Social Networking
This site has free software for you to create your book and they will print it.
http://www.blurb.com/home/1/
You can take a peek at other people’s books for ideas or buy the whole book.
I have been playing around with the software and it offers several different book and page layouts, but if you want to do anything truly unique seems like you will need to build out the page in Photoshop, etc. Still very flexible though!
-Mandy Cornwell
Categories: Customization · Social Networking
Matt Haughey put together this sweet list on how to run a successful community.
1. Take emotion out of decisions
2. Talk like a human, not a robot
3. Give people something they can be proud of
4. Bring users in during community decisions
5. Moderation is a full-time job
6. Metrics spread the work out
7. Guidelines not rules
Read all the details in his blog!
Categories: Social Networking
Although still in Beta, plazes seems to be one of the more interesting location based social networking sites out there. It currently uses software applications on your desktop and mobile phone to establish the identity of the network router as a signal for the Plaze.
-See other members on maps worldwide
- See location descriptions others have provided
- Find me, in the Leo Burnett building in Chicago….
Check it out here:
http://beta.plazes.com/
Categories: Social Networking