Awakened Voice

I’ve been wanting to sprinkle in a few posts this week on Boomarks and Tagging as very easy ways for businesses to get involved in Social Media. After having a look at a recent article on Social Media and the Enterprise by tech writer Jon Udell I decided to get the converation started.
In Jon’s article [...]

USA Today is running a story on how marketers are using the fast growing social video site YouTube as a direct channel to a worldwide audience.
According to the story, Nike, Dimension Films and others are uploading their own short video clips to the service. Evidently those clips are getting a lot views with the trailer [...]

The Wall Street Journal is certainly one of the most widely respected publications in the world of business. They’ve recently adopted podcasting as a method for distributing information.
I was recently discussing businesses using podcasts with the owner of a travel related concern. Within a few minutes the person on the other side of the table [...]

I’m having a very busy week and this is making it difficult to get a lot of my thoughts out on Social Media via this blog. Nevertheless I would like to impart some very basic thoughts that you can surely take to the bank.
You don’t have to be on the publishing side of Social Media [...]

The 2006 pro baseball season has kicked off here in the U.S. and it’s important to note that Major League Baseball (MLB) has a growing social media strategy.
First off they are distributing news for each team via RSS feeds. Secondly, they have a program called MLBlogs.
MLBlogs allows fans to create their own blog about a [...]

One great use of Wiki technology is for product support documentation. Instead of a collection of word documents or .pdf files you can create a searchable online support base that can grow and change as your products do. The LibSyn Support Wiki is a great repository of information for users of their service. It’s searchable [...]

If you’re looking to jump into the world of blogging without having to spend a ton of time coming up with a concept and actually launching a blog, there is another way. In fact, it would behoove your business to do some detailed research on blogging anyway prior to starting your own blog.
One way that [...]

Just about every business on the planet wants to find more effective ways to provide continuing education for their people. In the past if your business was small this wasn’t much of an issue. You could get people together in a room once a week and exchange knowledge. Now more than ever, it’s likely that [...]

I recently found a new photo sharing service called Slide. Slide allows you to share photo slides shows that you create from images of your choosing or RSS feeds on the web. Once you’ve identified the media you want to capture, Slide gives you the option of embedding a flash player in a website or [...]