The Raven Archive

Archive for the ‘ Social Networks ’ Category

Engage In the Conversation

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Social media is something we live and breathe here at Sitening, and I like to fancy myself as a conversational marketing nerd. The medium is still fairly new however, and most companies wonder as they evaluate the possibility of implementing a conversational marketing plan into their traditional one if they ...

What To Do During The Twitter Maintenance Hour

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I logged on to twitter this morning to discover that the site will be down today for one-hour for maintenance. “Tomorrow, Wednesday May 13 we will be continuing the database maintenance work we began last Friday. We will be taking all Twitter services offline for one hour beginining at noon ...

How Twitter Almost Sold Me A New Car

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

I’m in the market to buy a new car, so on a whim, I thought I’d try a little experiment. See, here’s the thing, if I’m going to spend $20k or more on one item, why should I be the one who does all of the work? Shouldn’t these dealers ...

Conversational Point/Counterpoint

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Yesterday I wrote “every brand should be participating in the conversation!” and today I read an article in Advertising Age about how it really doesn’t matter. Oh. Well ok then. But the article does raise some fair points. While we in the industry might be existing in a social media ...

Embrace the Conversation

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

If there’s one thing I covet more than anything these days, it is AT&T’s UVerse installed in my home. Who wouldn’t want all of that fiber bandwidth pumping into their house for unlimited HD options and awesome internet speed? I know it is close too. Neighbors are having it installed ...

The Status War

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

A trend happening in the social space a lot these days is the use of your latest post to Twitter to be used as your Facebook status, and nothing could be driving me crazier.  Why is this happening? Are people really that lazy? Not understanding the difference between the mediums? ...

Community Management, Forward March!

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Building a great website is really only the beginning of your company’s journey through the web, even if sometimes it feels like the be all end all. Then you tackle content production, search engine optimization, and social media optimization. Done right? Website activate! Well, not so much. Once everything is ...

Defending TweetStalk: A word on the word “stalk”

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Ever since we introduced TweetStalk, there has been a modest rumbling of outrage over what people think it stands for, or what it will ultimately do to Twitter. Meanwhile, on the other side of the geek spectrum, we’ve read a spatter of comments about how the feature set is not ...

Facebook’s “Social Ads” Mess With Your Head

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

So I kept seeing Rex Hammock’s picture associated with an ad in the right column of Facebook. I couldn’t make sense out of it until I finally stumbled upon Social Ads in my Facebook privacy settings. Going to Settings > Privacy Settings > News Feed and Wall > Social Ads ...

Protecting Yourself From FTDs

Friday, September 5th, 2008

You feel safe here right? Like this is a nice, happy place where you can come and not have to worry about being judged for who you are. I want to make sure that you do feel safe here before we really get down to the heart of the matter. ...