Category Archives: Social Media

Chinese version of Facebook – RenRen is and isn’t for everyone

Posted on May 6, 2011 by markkolier

One of the benefits to my studying Mandarin is recognizing some Chinese words and phrases. This week RenRen http://www.RenRen.com – a Chinese company raised $ 740 million in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. RenRen in Chinese means … Continue reading →

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Trending on Twitter – do you ever actually look at the list?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by markkolier

When I view the home page on Twitter I always take a peek at what topics are ‘trending’. It’s often the quickest way to find out what people are talking about. Of course what people talk about can be amazingly … Continue reading →

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Tracking people down using social media

Posted on March 18, 2011 by markkolier

Last week I posted that I thought Facebook was heading toward being the new telephone. Social media is now the ‘party line’ platform where people are congregating both personally and professionally. In the last few weeks I have received many … Continue reading →

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The golden days of group couponing are almost over

Posted on March 16, 2011 by markkolier

Groupon http://www.groupon.com and Living Social http://www.livingsocial.com are red hot as the two of the most successful online social couponing sites with IPO’s in the offing for both companies. I’ve been getting the daily emails from both sites for quite some … Continue reading →

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Is Charlie Sheen a marketing genius?

Posted on March 9, 2011 by markkolier

With a dizzying total of more than 2,200,000Twitter followers in a little over a week Charlie (aka Tiger Blood) Sheen has reset the bar for attracting attention and gaining social media status. Now terming himself “Born small…Winning…Now Huge…Bring It!…unemployed winner…”, … Continue reading →

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Is Facebook the new telephone?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by markkolier

Since I am of a certain age (I was born when Ike was President of the U.S.), I have friends that refuse to engage on Facebook. While that is of course their right I cannot understand or even accept their … Continue reading →

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Do you have Klout or are you a Twitalyzer?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by markkolier

If you’ve been paying rapt attention to the social media space, then perhaps you are aware of http://www.Klout.com and/or http://www.Twitalyzer.com (I was aware of the former but not the latter). The sites offer you a measure of your social ‘influence’. … Continue reading →

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AOL shows Huffington Post the money

Posted on February 7, 2011 by markkolier

You cannot blame Arianna Huffington for taking the $ 315 million ($ 300 million in cash) for Huffington Post from AOL and Tim Armstrong. Greg Coleman who is the CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) at Huffington Post actually came over from … Continue reading →

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A LinkedIn IPO – this one could be a big winner

Posted on January 28, 2011 by markkolier

Yesterday in Kara Swisher’s allthingsd.com blog http://bit.ly/e5QFen it came out the LinkedIn.com will likely file an S-1 for an IPO. This was confirmed late Thursday – http://nyti.ms/hZTvLp . Some interesting stats from the article were that LinkedIn has more than … Continue reading →

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MySpace – is it going no place?

Posted on January 26, 2011 by markkolier

One report had MySpace with 66 million users as of June 2010. Another had MySpace with 110 million people that are monthly active users on MySpace.com including 1 in 4 Americans. While those numbers pale in comparison to Facebook’s nearly … Continue reading →

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