Category: Social Media

  • Twitter drives $3m sales for Dell

    While many businesses are trying to work out how to make money from Twitter, computer maker Dell shows what they have done to validate Twitter as a credible business tool. Last December, Dell claimed $1 million in sales that the…

  • The News Release in the Social Media Era: Shel Holtz’s IABC presentation

    Content summary: Shel Holtz was part of the "All-Star" track at the annual world conference of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), presenting on the role of the news release in the social media era on June 9, 2009.…

  • Twitter as a public service

    What a great initiative announced yesterday by the city of San Francisco – enable citizens to use Twitter as one of the means through which they can use the city’s 311 online information and services network. […] you will be…

  • Business opinion of Twitter by the numbers

    A poll last month by business network LinkedIn reveals some useful and fascinating opinions by nearly 4,000 business people about Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Digg and the iPhone. In summary, the survey results show that a clear majority (30%) of those…

  • Audio sharing and growing pains

    The Guardian had a good story yesterday about Audioboo, the audio-sharing service (and social network) that I started using in March. Audioboo is primarily an iPhone app where you record up to five minutes of audio that the app uploads…