Facebook Takes on Twitter with Mobile Messaging

April 25th, 2009
by Lorrie Thomas

Let the social media mobile marketing games begin!   Facebook is getting in the texting ring!
Ding!
Facebook announced Friday that they created a new feature to allow mobile message updates, similar to Twitter.  There is a lot of buzz about it on AllFacebook – we want to know your thoughts!

Posted in Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Technologies, Tools

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Social Media Marketing Boosts Business and “Cool Factor” for These WMT Positive Role Models

April 16th, 2009
by treatmentspecialist

Photograph your love.
This is more than just a tagline for Gabe Cano and Glen Hodges of Specialty Color Services in Santa Barbara, California.
When Glen and Gabe came to speak at our Social Media Marketing class at UCSB, they shared their experiences – both hits and misses – using Facebook to promote their business.
But most of …

Posted in Blog, Positive Role Models, Small Business, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Viral Phenomenon

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FriendFeed – need, friend indeed? ….or in need of friends?

April 7th, 2009
by Lorrie Thomas

Earlier today, I was ready to leave Twitter to embrace the new, coolio nano-blogging on Flutter (the link is a dose of web marketing comic relief)
and for a “flutter” of a second, I felt hip to a web buzz…until I read Wired’s
FriendFeed – A Mashup of Twitter/Facebook/GChat
Chris Snyder of Wired writes, “Social aggregator FriendFeed unveiled …

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Rx for Recession Depression: New Social Media Marketing Class Offered in Santa Barbara, California

March 26th, 2009
by treatmentspecialist

Have your sales gone to the dogs? Did you know:

You can use social media as a low-cost marketing tool to engage new customers and retain current one?
You can use popular social media platforms like blogs and facebook to gain a competitive edge in this tough economy?

And WMT’s Lorrie Thomas and Emilia Doerr can show you …

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So- What Do YOU Think of the New Facebook Layout?

March 24th, 2009
by Amy Dunn

For the past few weeks, I have heard a great deal of complaining about the new Facebook layout.  In fact I have been invited on several occassions to join groups in Facebook demanding they bring back the old.  I have to admit- I was among the first to complain and moan about having to figure …

Posted in Social Media

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