Relevanza posts on "Be Relevant"
Announcing new social platform for the technologically challenged!
April 01, 2013
Called, Posse Riot, the new social media platform, will replace Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN, Instagram and all the others that confuse you. Instead, the new platform will surround you on a daily basis with a gaggle of experts who will tell you everything you need to know to make it through the day.
Your Portfolio: How to use Pinterest for Inbound Marketing of your Company's website.
November 02, 2012
MySpace wants to make a comeback...to 2003! (And more...)
September 26, 2012
Great News! MySpace wants to make a comeback!
This is great because just yesterday I received in the mail a disc from AOL with 50 free hours of dial-up access! Woohoo!!
Facebook impersonates You 4 Money
July 16, 2012
Commentary on Facebook's new way to display brand pages posts as friends' own postings in newsfeed/walls, as advertising model...
Facebook Cover: The Entrance to Your Brand's Facebook Space. Get Going!
July 08, 2012
On our journey through Facebook Brand Pages, we still encounter Facebook Brand Pages that have yet to add a cover photo. Since March, our graphic designers have created a few Facebook covers for our clients. The collection might inspire you with one or two ideas for your own.
Transform your blog to video with Wibbitz...
May 07, 2012
Take a look at this video. It’s astonishing. It reads the RSS feed of our blog and converts it to voice, uses the graphic that we used for illustration to create a visual collage accompanying the text.
The social media universe expands, contracts...
May 04, 2012
Curations sites are all the rage, these days. What with Wavii hitting the universe, Prismatic and others. Circa is not far behind.
In an effort to stay relevant, Storify announced earlier this week a new way to post entire Twitter conversations - at least for the "cool kids" crowd sipping the iPhone, iPad Kool-Aid, by teaming up with Tweetbot.
Sponsors of the Distinguished Entrepreneur of 2012 Award Banquet
May 02, 2012
These companies and the folks who run them care about creativity in business and a spirit of enterprise. That's why they're willing to give time, talent and treasure to support and promote the Distinguished Entrepreneur of 2012 project and banquet.
Four outstanding finalists for Distinguished Entrepreneur of 2012 Award
May 01, 2012
An artisan choclatier, a Harley-Davidson dealer, a major appliance servicer and a distributor of natural Stevia sweetner - the finalists for the inaugural Distinguished Entrepreneur of 2012 Award in Southwest Florida.
Google Drive + Goole Apps = Collaboration super powers
April 30, 2012
We find that GoogleApps provides a considerable amount of collaboration tools for corporations.
Social Media and Health Care: the new stethoscope.
April 27, 2012
Social media will help patients connect with information and, specifically, doctors and reduce the overall cost of health care.
Wander...around...looking for a new social platform.
April 24, 2012
At least, in its previews, Wander shows a little style, a good dose of clever and, yes, snark beginning with its utterly pointless leaderbord. And its home page and sign-up sheet promptly tells visitors it will be launched soon..."until then, get lost."
French tweets skirt election law...and...a GooglePlaces ebook
April 23, 2012
French Tweeters (Pepiers???) were actively skirting elections laws on Sunday, using code words to report vote tallies ahead of the prescribed 8 p.m. (Paris time) official release hour.
Relevanza co-founder Birgit Pauli-Haack has written a free ebook outlining in simple steps the best way to get registered on and actively use Google Places.
Social media is community, which means relevance, influence
April 20, 2012
Which brings us to the point: social media is, above all else, about community and building community and sharing within that community and listening to what the community is saying to you. It doesn't really matter how a person or company or organization defines, "community."
Social media: Rx for health care in the future.
April 17, 2012
Social media will play an extremely important role in the future of health care - and, specifically, in the role of accountable care organizations, because much of the interaction can and will take place on the Internet and through social media spaces. Much of that work is already being handled online for U.S. Veterans, through the VA's online health care tool, MyHealtheVet.
Image business with a social mindset...a report on 2012 trends from Deloitte
April 13, 2012
Deloitte Tech Trends 2012 tells us (among other insights):
"Even today, business leaders may dismiss the potential of social business, either relegating it to the realm of Internet marketing or ignoring the buzz as a passing fad. But that’s changing as boomers evolve into digital natives, millennials permeate the workforce and social media becomes a part of daily life. The doors are now open for social business.
Houzz...a niche social platform
April 11, 2012
Although perhaps not technically considered a social platform, the increasingly popular Houzz has the look and feel of a social platform. Launched in 2009, Houzz is a space by and for architects, builders, interior designers and anyone really who loves living spaces.
Cyborgs ain't got nuthin' on us! Google glasses...augmented reality
April 06, 2012
Google revealed earlier this week some serious tease material on its long-rumored augmented reality Google Glasses.
Deadline extended for nominations for Distinguished Entrepreneur 2012 Award
April 04, 2012
While nominations continue to pour in - nearly 30 so far - the nominations deadline has been pushed back to April 16th for the inaugural Distinguished Entrepreneur 2012 Award on May 23.
Spam on Pinterest? It was bound to happen...
April 03, 2012
So it's not surprising the fastest growing new kid on the social space block, Pinterest, has become fertile territory for spammers, according to the Daily Dot and replayed on Mashable.
Hunger Games marketing success: old stratey, new tools
April 02, 2012
Hunger Games owes much of its success to...you guessed it: social media as a platform for word-of-mouth-from-friends.
Relevanza invited to White House Summit in Orlando
March 28, 2012
In a follow-up to a session for Florida community leaders last summer at the White House, Relevanza co-founder Steve Hart will be participating March 30 in a White House Community Partnership Summit in Orlando.
The Orlando Summit will feature a keynote address by Hilda Solis, Secretary of the Department of Labor, as well as remarks by Dr. John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Jon Carson, Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
We support ThinkUp, innovation in social media
March 27, 2012
We support wholeheartedly the efforts of Gina Trapani & Anil Dash to apply for a Knight Foundation grant through the Knight News Challenge to continue working on the open-source project of ThinkUp software.
Attention Beginning Bloggers: It really doesn't have to be that hard.
March 26, 2012
We will soon publish here a more in-depth look at various blogging platforms but in the meantime, Relevanza co-founder Birgit Pauli-Haack led a class last week at the Naples (Florida) Free-Net for beginners using one of the most popular blogging platforms, WordPress.
Twitter turns 6
March 22, 2012
The Twitterverse now includes 500 million people and the 140-character mini-blog celebrated its 6th birthday, yesterday.
