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2
Jun

7 Social Media Truths You Can Ignore and Still be Successful

Rich Brooks debunks some of the rules of social media ‘experts’:

There are a lot of social media experts out there—including the ones who claim there’s no such thing as a “social media expert”—and they’re telling us how social media works, how it doesn’t work, and how we all must behave in the social media arena.

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2
Jun
howto

6 Quick Tips to Search Twitter Like an Expert

6 Tips for Better Twitter Searching

1. Switch to Advanced Search – You may be familiar with standard Twitter Search, but if you want some deeper searching power, try using Advanced Twitter Search. With advanced search, users have an entire page of operators. For example, you can look for tweets containing a keyword that were sent by a particular

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1
Jun
townhall

New Campaign Technology from Microsoft

Microsoft is looking to wade into campaigns with the launch of its “Campaign Ready” program package. One program is entitled “TownHall,” which is a cloud computing based application that runs on Microsoft’s Azure platform. TownHall appears to be free – anyone can download the code from the Campaign Ready website.

27
May
politics

Labour MP directed voters Conservative’s way – niiiice

With strategy like this, they deserved to lose…

Former deputy Prime Minister and member of the U.K. Labour Party, John Prescott, is encouraging supporters to click on Google pay-per-click ads sponsored by the Conservative Party, in order to diminish the campaign budget of Labour’s major political rivals.

Prescott posted an update on Twitter today stating, “Click here http://bit.ly/RinseCashcroft then click

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27
May
howto

How to Build Your E-Mail List

Following on from the recommendation not to buy, sell or steal email lists is advice on how to build them yourself:

* Organic list growth. There is no cheaper and steadier way to build an email list than sending your existing list interesting, timely, action-oriented emails. Always give your supporters something simple and meaningful to do, and always remind

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