Social Network and Social Utility for Education

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Where can I find someone to interview about computer programs in business for school project?

Preferably the person interviewed needs to be in a position that oversees application processes or one who is not necessarily a user of a single application (excel, access, powerpoint, etc.)
The topics about the person and business that need to be included are:
• Collaboration Services
• Deployment and scalability of services
• Document storage and retrieval (searching)
• Technology challenges for net generation vs. baby boomer workers
• Communication; manage resources, projects, budgets, deadlines, sync services (mobile workers/technologies)
• Management perspective – technology improves/decreases processes, results gap
• Future technology planning
• Statistical support data
If it is easier, a person can just send me the information about these topics.

Your probably going to have to either email or call local technology / computer stores in your area and ask if anyone would be able to help you with your project.

Start by pulling out your phone book and making a list of places that might be able to help.

Even better – see your business teacher. They might have some really good ideas or even direct contacts.

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Infomercial ideas for research paper?

i’m doing a group research paper on social networking and we need an infomercial of it by this thursday.
we need to present it on a poster board, and i have no idea where to start.
i’m pro for social networking. help me out!

I think you need to ask this in appropriate section, otherwise you would not get much responses.

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As the communication landscape changes and new, cutting edge ways of consuming information emerge, PR agencies and corporate public relations teams around the world must re-think the way they format news and deliver it to their target audience. The social media press release has radically altered the way PR professionals approach broadcasts and announcements.

* What is a Social Media Press Release?

Inspired by Tom Foremski of the Silicon Valley Watcher, a social media press release is a next-generation press release optimized specifically for online distribution and publication, such as placement in blogs, social bookmarking sites, RSS, and other similar mediums.

The social media press release is designed to facilitate rapid and widespread sharing of news, information, images, audio, video, and other content. Unlike traditional press releases that are notoriously packed with hype and marketing-speak, the social media press release is far more functional, focusing on just the most relevant and pertinent facts, and relaying them in a simple, concise, hyperlinked format that will appeal to bloggers and other online journalists.

The typical social media press release includes a summary of key highlights, a few expert quotes, links to background information embedded throughout the text, and tags that identify related coverage and other similar topics of interest – all written in a style that reflects the way people speak about the subject at hand. As a result, it is much easier for bloggers to post the information, and for online journalists to conduct their research, and find the quotes, references, statistics, and other data they need to write thorough and accurate stories.

Many social media press releases also include images, video, and other visually-oriented content, tying together various multimedia elements in a way that makes them easily adaptable and re-usable.

* Fast and Wide Distribution

Social media press releases provide faster distribution and wider broadcast coverage than old-school public relations channels can. A recent Pew Research report shows that the public is more Web savvy than ever before, and that Internet use has become a part of the typical consumer’s daily routine.

In fact, more than 50 percent of consumers polled indicated that they create and share content online. With the social media press release, companies are empowered to take their message directly to these consumers via the most popular and preferred formats, making it readily available and instantly accessible not just to reporters, but to anyone who is interested.

Social media press releases can also act as direct marketing and search engine optimization vehicles. News headlines can be delivered via RSS ads, so they are dynamically pushed directly to those who subscribe to similar topics. And, the inclusion of popular key words and phrases (particularly those that potential customers are likely to utilize when searching for the company’s products or services), as well as commonly-used jargon and acronyms, title tags, ticker symbols, and links to other Web content such as blogs and related articles, can give a boost to a company’s ranking in Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines.

* Social Media is Here To Stay

Most of the major wire services have recognized the importance of social media in today’s PR strategies, and have begun to expand their offerings accordingly. PRWeb and Pheedo provide RSS ads, track-back functionality, and the ability to tag and send out press releases via del.icio.us.

Additionally, PR Newswire and Business Wire have launched new social media features such as RSS Feeds. These services also now allow bloggers to access capabilities and functions within their sites that were previously only available to credentialed journalists.

* Social Media Press Release Template

Several PR firms adjust their tactics to take full advantage of the Internet for PR. You’ll notice more social media press releases from a number of Internet savvy PR firms and companies. An online search for “social media press release template” will lead you to examples, templates and ongoing blog conversations on the pros and cons of this next generation of press releases.

You’ll find that by following a social media press release template you can easily create compelling, highly-effective press releases structure specifically for distribution to media outlets and for obtaining comprehensive coverage.

Use Social Networking for Market Research

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How to Be a Social Media Change Agent

It is all about the keywords right? Well not really. It is actually all about the demographics each keyword represents. When someone searches Google for “seattle real estate” you have to put yourself in the mindset of the searcher. Who searches for that phrase? It could be a prospect for a home, a real estate agent checking local properties, or a real estate broker looking for a new recruit. Assuming a keyword will generate a return on investment for the time and budget it takes to have an organic result in the search engine may be a monolithic mistake.

Rather than think entirely “in the box” of search terms and keywords, think demographics. Think target market.
Consider social media a chance to explore your target market. One keyword leads to another, leads to another. Within a few steps you may discover that your best prospect for your business may be two or three levels removed from where you have been trying to reach them.

Example: Real estate professionals always want to show up for “city state real estate” as a term. Yet often they need to reach a person much earlier in the process. A real estate transaction is a relationship based sales process taking one to twelve months. There are indicators online regarding what people do before buying a home. They get married. They find a new job. They get divorced. They have kids. They go to school.
Social Media generates an entirely new set of keywords to compare and look at in the “big picture”

demographics
hobbies and interests
family connections
friend networks

Taking the real estate example: You can look at schools, churches, major employers, lawyers, hospitals and create a niche for themselves in a strong and consistently producing category. For instance Boeing, Idearc, AT&T, Comcast, Amazon, Microsoft, etc are all heavily present in the Seattle area. More importantly, some of those companies have huge employee groups clustered around certain neighborhoods.

How do I find my niche? Think out of the Box

There are a variety of tools out there that will help you with keyword research and drawing some basic conclusions. There are different categories of tools that can be used together or individually, they will help you discover:

the popularity of your keyword
who is talking about your niche (and the people involved in the conversation)
keyword synonyms and related terms (One letter may make all the difference)
niche industry trends and traffic patterns

Keyword Research Tools

-Google AdWords Keyword Suggestions- Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. It works with providing keywords based on words or phrases and can also recommend based on site content.
-Google Traffic Estimator- a very simple to use traffic tool. You can dump in a list of hundreds of keywords or phrases and see what choices make sense for your next article.
-WordTracker – Wordtracker is the best non-google system, however it requires you to purchase a membership to get real usage out of the tool (and I am a fan of free/low cost)

Competitive Keyword Tools

-Compete.com Search Analytics – Identifies rival search marketing strategies to take your SEM and SEO efforts to the next level. Also defines traffic patterns on competitor sites.
-KeywordSpy – shows terms that competitors are buying or ranking for in the organic search results, including pay per click ad text.
-KeyCompete – shows pay per click words that competitors are buying.

Social Media Specific

-TweetVolume , TweetScan, Summize all give insight to Twitter. They can show you how much a keyword is being talked about and the associated terms that are drawn to it.
-del.icio.us tag page- StumbleUpon tags – - The most popular tags (keywords) can be seen in clusters of information.
-BlogCatalog Directory – MyBlogLog Directory – are both massive directories of sites that have been tagged by a member community. You can quickly search for a term, see associated terms on a site, and popular members on each site that may be influencers.
-IceRocket Trends – Technorati Tags – Useful for seeing keyword trends (Icerocket) and authority value (Technorati- the number of sites linking to another site)

Intro to Social Media webinar

Our first “official” article had to deal with and involve the market we are part of (since branoSEVEN is based in Miami); The Latino search marketplace. The Latin American and North American Hispanic search markets are the third largest markets on the web. This raises a lot of questions for online marketers, along with an infinite number of opportunities. This kick-off piece will introduce basic search engine strategies that can be used in the hispanic circus. Hopefully after reading this, you’ll be able to start organizing and laying out your Latino SEO strategy.
FTF: Find out where your Latino target audience is searching.
It’s very important to identify which search engines (buscadores/motores de busqueda) your audience is using to find content, and it varies broadly between the different Latino search communities. By doing some simple research you’ll be able to see how search engine, social media and information site popularity varies between Latin American search markets. This will help you come up with a list of sites that you’ll be optimizing for, since this greatly affects the SERPs. Make sure you exploit the right ones for each region.
Identify your Latino audience’s behavior and preferences.
The Latino search market, just like other search markets, is subdivided by different demographic factors; gender, religion, age, region, etc, are some elements that need to be considered when segmenting the hispanic search market and understanding how they search and consume on the internet.
Understanding how these different audiences search, is a key factor to plan an interactive marketing and search engine optimization campaign. With the Latino search market, search preferences are distinctively marked. Although we all speak the same language in Latin America, words and expressions have very different meanings between our countries. Doing research on this and understanding it, will give you an edge when you optimize your Latino search campaign. Which brings us to the next component.
Latino keyword adaptation
Researching the meaning of keywords and keyphrases for your Latino search campaign is very important. Sometimes these can turn out to be offensive if targeted to the wrong Latino search market. Find out if your list of keywords is appropriate for your target audience.
An easy way to do spanish keyword research is visiting Latino search portals. Identify the most popular ones for your Latino search market and run a few searches to test results. This will also guarantee that you’re using data from the right region. However, this is only going to serve merely as a general marker for your campaign. You should of coarse measure through web analytics. Otherwise, you won’t be able to manage its conversion rates.
Another effective way to validate your spanish keyword list is to filter them through a native spanish speaker from the region you’re targeting. Who better than someone from Caracas to tell you if “perico” refers to caf?att?s it does in Bogota.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much keyword data available yet for the Latin American search market. But it’s extremely important to jump ahead and start optimizing for them.
Most of the top search resources and directories available for the U.S. search market are also handy and convenient for the Latino search industry. Their usage varies from one country to another, but in general they all have spanish versions that are used by Latinos. This is also the case for the top social media and social search websites.

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