Social Marketing Forum

Social media: hype or revolution?

Well, this morning (my time) I posted one of Erik Qualman’s YouTube videos. I don’t know if it got you shaking or not. If you missed it, here it is (on social media ROI).

Here is another one from Erik, I always loved (again, because it’s not only valuable but also because it’s simply engaging).

You might have seen this one too. If it’s not the case: watch Erik’s famous ‘Socialnomics: is social media a fad?’ video. This time featuring music by Fatboy Slim. It’s also on the Social Marketing Forum, join and embed your own YouTube favs, if possible related to (social media) marketing 🙂

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Digital Identity – we create our selves!

Jonas Klit Nielsen In a recent post, I wrote that two of the most essential aspects of social media for me, are closely related: human beings or people on one hand and identity on the other. They might even be the same.

The post was about the human aspect, this one is about identity!

The homepage at mindjumpers.com, shows a huge monkey with a board in his hands. On the board, something is written.
 
Why a monkey? It’s not that important for this post, it depicts where we think social media are on ‘their’ evolution scale right now.  What’s important for this post, is the writing on the board. It says: “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating Yourself!”.

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