Awakened Voice

Griot’s Roll Film Production hosts occasional networking events in New York City. Social media is the main topic of discussion for their next event. I will be talk for about thirty minutes on how businesses can utilize the social web to enhance connections with their customers and spread the word to potential new customers.
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It’s interesting to me how creative people are utilizing the new various media tools to build an audience and earn money from their art.
Take Terra Naomi for example. Terra’s YouTube Channel is the number one subscribed musician channel on the site. Her latest video posted just two days ago already has over 7000 views. Some of her videos [...]

MSN Spaces is now Windows Live Spaces. Live Spaces is the next generation of Microsoft’s web based social community effort.
According to the ‘about’ page on the Live Spaces website, “Windows Live Spaces is a free online software service where you can blog, share pictures and connect with the people you care aboutor the world at [...]

The latest entrant in the podcast directory / social podcast community space launched this week. PodShow comes to the table with generous funding and the strong pedigree of podcasting pioneer Adam Curry.
Their offering is a very strong hybrid of a podcast directory and MySpace-like social networking site. Unregistered users to the site can browse through [...]

I’ve been tooling around the 30Boxes application for a few hours now and I’m already hooked. There are a number of ways to categorize 30 Boxes. On the one hand, it’s a web based calendar and on the other hand it’s a social networking tool. Then again, it’s a personal information aggregator. It’s also a [...]

Here’s a quick idea for businesses that want to get the most out of social media technology. Instead of looking to advertise on sites where people are gathering, like MySpace or Del.icio.us for example, you could join the community. As an active member of the community you’ll probably get a lot more bang for your [...]