A Memorable Social Media Carnival

Posted on May 25, 2009
Filed Under Internet Marketing, Social Media Marketing | 3 Comments

The Social Media blog carnival rolled into Phoenix, Arizona this week and its been a week of great entertainment. Who want’s to be in Phoenix at the start summer you might ask – but hey why not? It’s a dry heat . Plus it’s online – and it’s not like you had to endure the heat with me. There were lots of interesting submissions and I had a great time reviewing and getting to know a wide rang of bloggers. All I can say is blog on guys! Blog on.

Being Memorial Day in the USA, I thought I’d choose two that were particularly memorable for some of their insights on relevant topics within Social Media. In no particular order here they are:

Jay Deragon over at the Relationship Economy blog wrote a great summary of his thoughts based on the book “The Cluetrain Manifesto”. His post titled Social Media Transformation Cycles, discusses the value of social media relative to the cycle of social media transformation and how it is vetted through the marketplace. It’s a fascinating read and I certainly will make it a priority to read the books he references.

Steven Leung at IntegratedROI, shares three reasons on why companies should consider a blog as part of their Internet marketing strategy. The three reasons he mentions in his post “Using Your Blog to Broaden the Exposure for Your Business” are: larger search engine presence; fast and convenient way of publishing ad-hoc information and; equal footing with larger companies/larger budgets. All very legitimate for any company regardless of industry, size and scope.

Here are the other notable entries :

Twitterads presents Get Targeted Traffic To Blog With Twitter | How to Use Twitter and Get Money | Make People Follow You On Twitter
Srinivas Rao presents 7 Simple Traffic Tips for Beginning Bloggers
Angel Taylor presents Top 5 Twitter Do’s and Don’t for Internet Marketers
Jeremy Smith presents Best in Social Media – May 18, 2009
Blog SEO Expert presents 7 ways to implement internal linking of your posts for better SEO
Anna Farmery presents 3 Social Media Tools for Brand or Community Building
Anna Farmery presents Start Your Own Blog Community
Danny Brown presents Virtual Stalking – A Real World Problem for Social Media

Next week’s carnival will be hosted by Michelle DeRepentigny on June 1st . See you then.

photo credit: irene.

Comments

3 Responses to “A Memorable Social Media Carnival”

Lani Rosales (1 comments.) on May 26th, 2009 6:41 am

LOVE Deragon’s article, it’s a good one! I’m off to read the notables, thanks for judging, Shailesh!
Shailesh Ghimire (3 comments.) on May 26th, 2009 1:58 pm

No problem Lani. I enjoyed it. I’d be willing to do it again if you need someone.

Thanks!
Stop anxiety attack (1 comments.) on June 14th, 2009 6:37 am

Thanks for the glimpse to the social media carnival. SOunds like a great help for framing social media strategies.