Social Media: Revolutionizing the World as We Know It
Published August 15, 2009 | 
Team Altman Social Media Technology News and Awesome Video:
Unless they have been completely cut off, most people by now have heard something about the term “Social Media,” even though they might still classify it as a “foreign sounding term,” with very little understanding of what it is, and an extremely high level of curiosity and wonderment about why they should be interested in it, and the importance Social Media might play in the future of their personal lives, as well as their businesses and organizations they belong too.
Is Social Media quickly becoming the biggest shift in the way people live and conduct their personal, business and organizational lives, since the Industrial Revolution? Many studies indicate a revolution quickly in the making, as organizations and people adapt the available 
Social Media tools (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, etc.), starting with individuals connecting through social networking (250 Million Facebook members) and quickly moving to the business world.
It is important to note, that it is not the applications creating the Social Media Revolution, but people using innovative ideas to collectively determine best uses for the Social Media platforms and tools rapid evolution, to meet the growing demand for the communication connectivity their innate human nature drives them to continue to seek on many levels.
As always enjoy, share and welcome to the Revolution:
Yahoo! Know What Your Twitter Social Mojo Is!
Published August 14, 2009 | 
Team Altman Interesting Twitter News:
Let’s face it, we all carry a certain amount of curiosity with us 24 hours a day, some more than others, and some a lot more than others, like the proverbial curious cat, and anyone who is an active member of Twitter Nation wants to know how their Twitter page is rated, or ranked according to measurements that are available.
Yahoo just released a tool that measures your Twitter pages “True Social Mojo,” so go ahead, check it out and see what kind of “Social Mojo” you possess.
Another site you might want to check out while you’re at it, is Twitter Grader, to see how you measure up and rank against other Twitter pages, so you might as well check out your “Twitter Ranking” at the same time.
Breaking Twitter Announcement! PROJECT RETWEET
Published August 14, 2009 | 
Team Altman Interesting Twitter News:
It seems as though each new day brings new developments in the social media technology world, and today is no different, as Twitter has just announced the “Retweet” process created and used extensively by Twitter Nation globally, will become a function of Twitter that not only will streamline processes for Twitter Nation, but help users to find new people to follow through the function. The function should be released soon, after third party apps have a chance to perform adaptability and compatibility changes and adjustments to their applications.
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.
Facebook Lite, Okay….So Just What is It?
Published August 13, 2009 | 
Team Altman Interesting Social Media Technology News:
It seems that there was a mistake sort of made, and information leaked that Facebook is going to release a “Facebook Lite” (smaller faster) version of Facebook, and as it turns out, it is a basic system intended for markets where broadband is in short supply or non-existent and excessive load times can make it impractical to offer the regular Facebook version, which of course requires more and more resources to run on even the best of systems. So markets like India, where testing has been recently performed, and more remote parts of Russia and China, as well as other markets where the Lite version of Facebook makes perfect sense for introduction of the social network. This is just more evidence that Facebook continues to move actively on many developmental fronts, and is positioning itself through acquisition growth (FriendFeed) as well, for a run at potential market domination in many areas for years to come.