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Please Check Out SXSW Videos At TalkSocialNews.com

I haven’t been blogging this week becasue I am at SXSW in Austin, TX. However, I have been doing a ton of great videos over at my podcast site TalkSocialNews.com with some brilliant people in the social media space. Please head over there and check them out.

The Next Best Thing To Being There: How To follow SXSW Online

This week marks the start of one of the years biggest interactive conferences: South By South West Interactive in Austin, TX. While this will be 5 days of none stop discussions on all things related to interactive communications, social media and the future of the web, not everyone can make it to Austin. In this difficult economic year many people will not have the time or the resources to make it. Because of this I have put together a list of the best ways to follow all of the SXSW action online.

Experiment: Do People Really know about QR Codes?

I have talked about QR Codes a few times in the past, mainly because I see them as a great opportunity to bridge the physical and digital worlds. For a quick refresher QR codes are two dimensional bar codes that can be printed on anything from a packing slip to a movie poster. These codes serve as a portal to some type of digital action: Web site, video, text message, and even a phone call.

First Look: Likaholix Makes Liking Mainstream

FriendFeed made “liking” things cool, but Likaholix is trying to make “liking” its own activity. Started by two ex Google employees Likaholix tries to apply the simple action of liking and commenting on everything into one place one place on the web. The site is in currently in private beta so you must request an invite to start using the service.

6 Reasons Facebook Is Not A Threat To Twitter

Today the interwebs are buzzing with the latest announcments from Facebook. With today’s announcements Facebook is taking direct aim at Twitter. It has been reported, that last year Facebook tried to by Twitter for $500 million and Twitter declined. Twitter is really hot right now and many celebrities and businesses are using Twitter to reach their fans. With these two groups goes a lot of money and potential for being profitable. That is why today Facebook rolled out changes to its service to make it more real-time, like twitter and removing friend caps and private pages to make it more celebrity friendly.

Examining Trends To Make You Sound Smarter

One of the best things about the social web and the Internet in general is the access it provides to people’s reactions. Services like Twitter search make monitoring for real-time reactions and trends free and easy. Understanding trends helps each of us to better comment and provide feedback on trending issues.

Godin Says Google Never Forgets… I Say Take Advantage Of It

Google is a factor in everything we do, regardless if we are happy about it or not. In a recent post marketing author and speaker Seth Godin writes about how Google never forgets, outlining how actions from the past can easily be uncovered in a quick Google search. He is correct potential employers as well as business partners are using Google to research anyone that is trying to come into their world.

CoTweet: Web-based Tool For Corporate Tweeting

Twitter is hot right now, I mean it is freakin on fire. I can’t turn on the TV without a TV news person asking me to tweet them.

Uncase Study: How AFLAC Should Assemble A Social Media Team To Build For Long-term Success

This week Forrester’s Jeremiah Owyang sent a message on Twitter about a posting on his job board by Aflac, who is looking for a new/social media marketing person. I think it is really interesting to see how large companies are going about creating social media teams and integrating them into the overall organization.

How To Use Twitter To Help Market Events

Yesterday we held our second meeting of Social Media Breakfast Raleigh. We had a great turnout and I would like to thank everyone who came out to participate. As part of the event I asked Jeff Cohen to speak for a few minutes talking about how the volunteers of Raleigh Twestival used Twitter to market [...]