Category Archives: Twitter

Tweetup Wrapup — December ’08

The Salt Lake City Tweetup Group con­verged again on Salt Lake Roast­ing Co. last night, and we spent an evening together talk­ing shop, mak­ing con­nec­tions and gen­er­ally hav­ing a good time. Cary Snow­den wrote a post on last night’s group enti­tled “What Is A Tweetup?” The Twee­t­ups have become a monthly sta­ple here in Salt Lake City, and we’ve

December Tweetup Salt Lake City

Time for the monthly Salt Lake City Tweetup again. All are wel­come to join for great con­ver­sa­tion and net­work­ing. Tweetup details: Date: Today Decem­ber 17, 2008 Place: THE SALT LAKE ROASTING CO. 320 E. 400 S. Salt Lake City Time: 6 PM till the last Twit­ter user goes home Why attend a Tweetup? Twee­t­ups are inti­mate groups

Twitter Tools for Business

Brian Solis from PR 2.0 has pub­lished a com­pre­hen­sive list of Twit­ter tools for com­mu­nity man­agers and com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­als. Busi­nesses imple­ment­ing a social media strat­egy will find a wealth of value from this list of tools, and by using them in a way that cre­ates trans­parency and authen­tic­ity. One rea­son I haven’t spent a lot of time on this blog writ­ing

Motrin — An Avoidable Social Media Disaster

No Social Media Mon­i­tor­ing Strat­egy Helped Kill Motrin Moms Ad Think about that for a minute. A tar­geted adver­tise­ment by one of the most respected phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies in the world was brought down in less than 48 hours by a rel­a­tively small num­ber of social net­work users. What’s more, these social net­work users were on Twit­ter — one of

Family Social Media Network Sites Love Baby Boomers

From the last seven years of polling, we’ve found that what older peo­ple like best about the Inter­net is being able to con­nect to fam­ily and friends,” — Susan­nah Fox — Pew Inter­net & Amer­i­can Life Project and the Kaiser Fam­ily Foun­da­tion New fam­ily social net­works are pop­ping up almost every day. The real draw

5 Tips to Measure Success in Social Media Marketing

Let’s say you’ve got­ten the approval to get your com­pany involved in social media mar­ket­ing and are ready to launch a cam­paign. How do you define whether your cam­paign will be a suc­cess or not? This is an impor­tant ques­tion, because a large num­ber of com­pa­nies have jumped into social media cam­paigns with­out any clear busi­ness and com­mu­ni­ca­tion strat­egy.

Supporting A Great Cause — SLC Tweetup

Salt Lake City’s Twit­ter com­mu­nity is com­ing together again tonight for our monthly Tweetup. This time we’re wel­com­ing Danny from Provo UT to our group. He’s a con­tes­tant in Wells Fargo’s Some­day Sto­ries con­test. The con­test encour­aged peo­ple to sub­mit a 250-​​​​word true and inspir­ing story about their “some­day” dreams and how Wells Fargo could help them achieve