Great Social Media Video! Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)!
Published May 23, 2010 | 
Team Altman Awesome Social Media Revolution 2 Video!
The number of users on the web world and social media and social network users seem to continue to grow at an amazing exponential pace, and this Social Media Revolution 2 video has been updated with the latest statistics that are just as amazing as the first great SMR video, if you haven’t seen the first video check it out at Social Media: Revolutionizing the World as We Know It!
As always enjoy, and share the Social Media Revolution!
Social Media Networking Revolution: Facebook
Published August 19, 2009 | Team Altman Interesting Social Media and Facebook Video:
Here is an interesting video that gives a visual history of the evolution Facebook and its revolutionary effect on Social Media and Networking, and increases your awareness about the Facebook phenomena, and how Facebook can be a great platform to enhance Social Media Marketing strategies to reach your market.
As always enjoy, share and understand Facebook:
Flash Mob: Social Media and Networking Phenomena
Published August 16, 2009 | 
Team Altman Interesting “Flash Mob” Video:
To illustrate the power of Social Media and Social Networking, Check out this “Flash Mob” very recently (3 days ago) organized by BouncE Sweden, which shows the power of the Social Media Revolution in giving innovators the platforms to plan and create such events to seemingly occur spontaneously, and become part of the phenomenon made possible with Social Media Technology.
As always enjoy, share and create ideas for “Flash Mob” events:
Not Sure Yet if Social Networking is for You
Published August 14, 2009 | 
So you have been looking into LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Blogs to try and figure out what the importance of social networking is to economic development organizations, municipal organizations and businesses, and you are still trying to determine if you need to take that first step towards the development of social media technology for yourself and your organization.
Of course, there are many people that have embraced social media, find it a lot of fun, and have connected with hundreds of others that they would not have thought possible just a few months ago, and they represent the majority of users and members of all social media platforms, which leaves the remainder that are still trying to figure out if it will really help in growing their specific organization or business.
There are a few good reasons that indicate why all businesses and organizations should begin using social media platforms if they have not already:
- Social networking sites have become the easiest way that people can share information about your organization, as you can easily upload any of your presentations, pictures, documents, and videos that people will be more than willing to share with their friends and associates.
- A critically important reason is that social networking sites is a great way to increase your search engine optimization (SEO) and rankings of your organization’s website, since every link that points back to the organization’s website adds to the improvement
of the websites page rankings, and organizations should most definitely take advantage by including links to their website in other posts and any of their social networking pages. - As a source of gathering information, social networking can be used to both gather and share customer feedback, and in the future, links to social networking sites will become a standard piece of information along with phone and fax numbers as ways to communicate with any company or organization, and in addition to gathering customer feedback, social networking platforms can be used to share this information, because customers can quickly find and read recommendations from their friends, associates and peers.
Finally, one of the questions that most comes up, is how much time is required for social networking? It really all depends upon what you define as your social networking goals, at a minimum, you only need to check in a few times a week to add comments, pictures, 
videos or other documents and information, and to quantify the time it takes on a daily basis, for those who want to find new friends or generate leads, one or more hours per day will typically be they average time spent, and people that are most involved with social networking and add least 10 comments per day, will of course spend more time.
Now that you realize social networking is for your organization or business, rest assured that it is not too late to start taking advantage of the benefits social media technology offers and can bring to you in greater awareness and connectivity with your market, the first step to starting the social networking process is developing a well thought-out and focused strategic plan of the results you want and expect, and how you are going to accomplish them, so what are you waiting for, get started planning.
Building Customer Service and Brand Value through Social Media
Published August 4, 2009 | 
Some businesses “get it,” and are using social media tools and platforms like Twitter, Facebook, blogs and others to track customer experiences, emotions and growing positive or negative sentiment with a nearly real-time view of what’s taking place at any moment, as they have come to understand the platforms are an extension of the word-of-mouth market that has the potential of going instantly viral at any moment.
Businesses like Southwest Airlines, Dell, Comcast, most recently Best Buy and others have developed the correct approach to social media and how it can be used to be 
proactive in the customer service arena and turn what would normally be a negative customer experience into a positive one, and by doing so, increase the intrinsic value to the larger customer base and much larger market, which is so important to maintain positive business dynamics and organizational effectiveness needed to hold on to, and most importantly increase valuable market share.
It is a fact that social media has changed the market landscape forever, as it has boosted the potential for instant market awareness of any issues faced by the market and businesses, both negative and positive, as the market has become very focused on ever-increasing its ability to amplify the effect of as little as one message hitting the stream of conversations, like a rock dropped into a pond that sends out resulting ripples, 
with the right number of followers and friends in the social media networks, the affect of one message can be as waves produced by a massive bolder, rather than the small “pebble affect” in the time before social media networks and platforms.
The beauty of social media is the continuing adaptation of the markets to the technology, and the social media platforms adjusting according to market adaptations, like the well synchronized movements of dancers, and the resulting efficiencies of the market in getting any message out in scales never seen before. 
The Entrepreneurs and their businesses regardless of size, that learn how to innovatively design and shape the most effective strategies for social media in order to take part in the market conversation, and proactively gather and convert the valuable customer relationships needed for success in today’s global economic environment, will insure and strengthen their position in the market and many will destined to become the market leaders in the global economy.
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