If you’re wondering why Yoza isn’t playing anywhere, it’s because she’s visiting family and friends in Honduras. She drops by FaceBook now and again with updates and pictures, but besides that, she enjoying the quality time AND inspiration for her upcoming debut album. She will be hitting the studio when she gets back AND as events are set in stone, you will see them posted here and on her other social media sites…
Enjoy the holidays with family and please continue to drop by!
–TEAM YOZA.
There are more similarities than there are differences.
Marketing is marketing, and whether you do it in the traditional manner or you use social media, the objectives are the same. You are trying to increase your audience’s awareness of your product and you are trying to increase your business.
Social media has advantages. It emphasizes social interaction. Not only are you doing the marketing thing, but you are personalizing your message to the individual by the possible interactions with them. You are establishing a relationship with members of your audience before doing business with with. This brings a humanizing element into marketing.
Social media tools that are currently being actively used with good results include (in no particular order) Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp, and blogs. If you are currently not using these, then you need to do so.
My theme for using social media for referrals: If you ask, you shall receive!
I am continually amazed at the ease of passing referrals using social media. Recently a co-worker of mine was looking for a realtor in the Washington Township area in Indianapolis. She is looking into purchasing a new home and needed a starting point. I offered to post this request on Facebook to see if my network of friends could help. It took just seconds to post my request online for all of my friends to see in my status update. Within 30-40 minutes I had a list over 10 realtors to give to my friend! But these weren’t just any realtors. These were all realtors that came highly recommended. And they were not just highly recommended by anyone, they were highly recommended by my friends and people I know. I was able to confidently pass along these names knowing that my friend will have a solid list of realtors from which to pick.
These requests are taking place every single day on social media networks. Keep your eyes open and take advantage of the opportunities!
Facebook is apparently planning ANOTHER UPDATE (cuz you know, the last ones have been so well received, only pissing off about 90% of users). One of the most annoying new things is the suggestions it makes. In the old days it just used to be “hey, you may know this person” based on, sometimes absolutely nothing. Ok, occasionally you would have friends in common with them, but occasionally you just get “hey, you live in England, maybe you might know this person, they live in Zanzibar, a country which also has the letter A in it”. Also, it really wouldn’t get a hint “look, I’ve rejected this suggestion about 15 times THIS WEEK, what else do I have to do to get it through to you that I really do not wish to speak to this person, just because we have a few mutual friends doesn’t mean I don’t wish to slit this persons throat and fuck the gash in their neck” and then you feel ashamed for thinking of such violently sexual images. Well done Facebook; you made me feel like an arsehole, I hope you’re happy now.
Anyway, I kind of forget where I was going with this. Oh yeah, the suggestions. Now, the suggestions are just kind of retarded “hey, you never speak to this person on Facebook, do it”. No, I speak to this person almost every day at work, fuck off. Or “he only has x friends, help him” or in English “this person is a loner and/or non existent. Make their life better, because without Facebook, people are worthless”. Surely they realise that sometimes I don’t want to speak to somebody, I just can’t be bothered to go through the hassle of deleting them. Quite possibly the most annoying thing about Facebook is when you get in touch with someone you haven’t seen in years, you get all happy and look forward to talking to them again, and then you find out that they are now a racist wanker. That sucks. Especially since I don’t like deleting people, so now I facebook friends with douchebags.
If Facebook really wants to evolve and change, it just needs to do the following things;
All that’s certain is that if it doesn’t change something soon, facebook will end up as dead and desolate as bebo.
also; check out www.lamebook.com for more facebook silliness
Labor trouble portrayed as Ethnic conflict.Human Right Watchers and US! Where are You?
Story:
A court in China’s Xinjiang region has sentenced five people to death for murder and other crimes over deadly ethnic riots in July, state media said.
Two other people were sentenced to life imprisonment, Xinhua news agency said.
Nine people were executed last month over the riots in which nearly 200 people were killed.
Chinese officials have said most of the victims were members of China’s majority Han ethnic group who were attacked by ethnic Uighurs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8392460.stm
I was just discussing Facebook’s latest security features with a friend. One thing you now have the option of doing is posting a status that can be viewable to either all friends or just some friends.
It reminded me of how, when Peter sent a friend request to my friend Annie, upon accepting, she noticed she was blocked from viewing most of his profile. When I him if he was keeping certain things hidden from certain people (possibly photo’s of us, relationship status, etc.), he said no; it must have been a glitch. Immediately following our conversation, however, the glitch corrected itself 
I began thinking about how low my opinion is of this man. And how I can easily see him taking full advantage of these new and improved ’security’ features. I have a new nickname for him; Sneaky Pete. I can imagine him posting one of his ‘…loves Cari’ statuses, only with the new features, I would be the only one able to see it. I would be the only one able to comment on it. His college buddies wouldn’t be able to view it. Or his family. Or his daughter. His little cyber gestures wouldn’t be real gestures at all. Just more scraps.
Then, I started thinking about his many cyber ‘buddies.’ The Jude’s, Angela’s and Elizabeth’s and thought, he could now post one for each of us, and none of us would be the wiser.
Ugh. I feel sick to my stomach.
I’ve had a year-long love/hate relationship with Twitter. I’ve finally decided to incorporate twitter into my daily “share” routine. I tend to share a lot of thinks via Email using (Email This!) to my friends and Family, and I do the same to my extended connections via Facebook. Now, with the advent of software like Socialite and Gruml I can do it all at once. I’ve decided to include twitter, because I have this crazy impusle so spread the wealth of random internet garbage to others =p
Anyway, follow me if you’re interested in web apps, browser extensions, software discount codes, international economics and funny pics/videos.
Follow me here (Lazyrussian on Twitter)