SLIDESHOW: What the F**k is Social Media NOW? • 07.23.10

I help entertainers and small businesses with social media and blogger outreach. The publicity they gather from a blog post is definitely greater than being featured in a newspaper or magazine because GUESS WHAT?-NO ONE IS REALLY READING PRINT MEDIA ANYMORE and by the time it is printed, your story is old, outdated and has probably being told somewhere else online. (See Stephen Colbert’s interview with the New York Times aka the gray old lady).

That doesn’t stop the skeptics though.

There are still some people and businesses who don’t see the benefit of social media which is basically the process of engaging and communicating directly with your target audience. Social media-like a relationship- takes time to develop and communication is crucial. Earlier this year, I shared a blog post of a slide show attempting to define and elaborate on the power of social media.

Here is an updated version with even more amazing statistics to dig deeper in explaining “What the F**k is Social Media NOW?”

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Where does your Facebook Fan Page Rank? • 12.01.09

From Mediabistro:

Ever since Facebook upgraded its fan pages so that brands, celebrities and organizations became equivalent to human beings in the social network — i.e. content from fan pages is displayed in one’s feed, just like with friends — we’ve received a barrage of requests to fan just about anything you can imagine, including about 20 PR agencies.

One social media analytics company, Sysomos, took a look at nearly 600,000 Facebook fan pages and found only 297 — or 0.05% — have more than one million fans. Other interesting findings:

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