JC Hart Facebook Photo Contest

Facebook Manners And You

My friend Linda Broadfoot  (of the amazing Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc.) posted this video to her Facebook page and I wanted to share it as well.

"Do you have good Facebook manners? Timmy and Alice don't. Watch their bad behavior to learn the dos and don'ts of Facebook breakups."

Facebook Survival Guide For Awkward Adults

What you need to know to avoid embarrassing your kids (and yourself)...

MSNBC has created a clever orientation guide for the fastest growing segment on Facebook - the 35 to 54-year-olds (a.k.a. "grown ups")

Check out the Facebook Survival Guide For Awkward Adults.

Video SEO Basics

I spoke about Optimizing Your Videos For Search at the Hoosier PRSA's Social Media Bootcamp this past Saturday at IUPUI. Here is the slide deck from my presentation for those unable to attend:

View more presentations from Chad Richards.

Coming Soon To A Computer Screen Near You: Married on Myspace

Myspace is jumping into the reality TV arena with a Web-based series of its own called Married on Myspace. The series will chronicle one couple as they make their way towards their wedding day. Myspace members can get involved by helping to make decisions regarding the planning of the event. I don't know about you, but I would not want Myspace members planning my Big Day. Have you seen the way they decorate their pages??? Below is the show's trailer:

Twouble with Twitters

A young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away...

Turning To YouTube in Times of Trouble

A lot of people are turning to YouTube during this Great Recession. They're creatively and candidly asking for assistance and jobs after being laid off. Here's touching video from a Florida teen trying to help his father who was recently let go from his position as vice president of marketing for the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team:

Ingrid Michaelson's Little Twitter Ditty

Listen to Ingrid Michaelson's Twitter Song she's posted to her blog.

Top 25 Twitter Cartoons

I had a little time on my hands this evening...

From CNN: Mom Reunites With Son on Myspace

4 Ways To Celebrate MLK Day With Social Media

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is Monday, January 19th. Below are four ways you can honor Dr. King and celebrate his legacy with social media.

Flickr
There's a great Flickr group photo pool called MLK BLVD that contains images of Martin Luther King, Jr Boulvevards from around the country. It makes for an interesting tribute.

YouTube
Chances are you will hear sound bites from his famous "I Have A Dream" speech on television news, but on YouTube you can watch it in its entirety among other speeches he made.


Facebook
Become one of his 300,000 fans on Facebook. His fan page contains a number of tribute photos and videos.

Twitter
Follow @MLKDay on Twitter or use the hashtag #MLKDAY to discuss news and events surrounding the 2009 Nationwide MLK Day of Service.

Social Media Marketing Madness Cartoon

Dharmesh Shah posted a great cartoon on the HubSpot blog today:

U.S. Congress Now Accessible Via YouTube

Today, YouTube, in collaboration with Congress, unveiled two new channels - one for the House and one for the Senate - where every lawmaker will be able to upload videos. The pages include a map of the United States that allow users to easily find the videos of their elected officials.

U.S. House of Representatives: www.youtube.com/househub
U.S. Senate: www.youtube.com/senatehub

Myspace To Make TV Even Trashier

This week at the Consumer Electronics Show, Myspace announced, in conjunction with Toshiba, the launch of the Myspace Widget for Web-connected televisions in an effort to make TV viewing more social. Users will be able to message with friends, send and receive status updates, and view profiles and photos.

News Corp, who owns Myspace, predicts that the widget will be particularly appealing to viewers of live events - facilitating trash talk among sports fans and helping fans campaign for their favorite contestants on American Idol.

Facebook And CNN Partner For Obama Inauguration

CNN and Facebook are teaming up to turn Inauguration Day into a real-time social networking event via CNN.com Live, the news channel's online live video service.

People who use CNN.com Live to watch Barack Obama get sworn on January 20th can update their Facebook status right from the CNN.com Live player, where they will also be able to see status updates from their friends and other Facebook users.

On Facebook, you'll see News Feed items from friends who are using the CNN tool that are tagged “via CNN.com Live.” Your friends can click the tag to join in themselves.

Go to www.facebook.com/cnn to RSVP.

Delete Your Facebook Friends For A Whopper

Burger King is so clever. They've launched a new social media marketing campaign called Whopper Sacrifice that requires interested customers to install a Facebook App and then delete 10 of their friends in return for a free Whopper voucher. At the time of this writing, nearly 11,500 friends have been sacrificed.

Now which 10 friends of mine are getting the ax?

Twitter Spoof Site Shows Tweets of Historical Figures

Historical Tweets features tweets of famous people at key moments of history in an effort to make the past more palatable to a modern generation used the getting their information in tiny clips and sound bites. 

The website states, "Books have been ruining history. So many unnecessary words. Now, with Historical Tweets, history’s most amazing men and women can be fully understood, a mere 140 characters at a time."

Funny stuff.

Apple Embraces Facebook and Flickr

During yesterday's keynote at MacWorld, Apple introduced the new iLife '09 suite which includes social networking site sharing tools for the first time. iPhoto now contains simple one-click-to-share buttons for publishing to Facebook and Flickr. The new iWeb offers a publishing feature that will automatically add posts to your Facebook profile.

It's nice to see that Apple understands that people want to share their photos easily on the web - without the need to download additional plugins or purchase MobileMe.

Online Video Viewing Jumps 34 Percent

Internet users in the U.S. watched 12.7 billion online videos in November - an increase of 34% versus a year ago - according to numbers released Monday by ComScore. Google-owned YouTube retained the crown as the top U.S. video property with nearly 5.1 billion videos viewed--or about 40 percent of all videos viewed online. 

The data also showed that 77 percent of all U.S. Internet users had viewed online videos in 2008, and that the average online video viewer watched 273 minutes of video.

Myspace Filled with Teen Sex, Drugs and Violence

The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescents released a study today involving teenagers and social networking sites. "Display of Health Risk Behaviors on MySpace by Adolescents" showed that 24% of the self-described 18-year-olds with public MySpace profiles referenced sex, 41.1% referenced substance use, and 14.4% referenced violence. 

Honestly, I find these percentages to be low. As someone who has spent a great deal of time on Myspace on behalf of clients, I would have assumed that these numbers would be much larger.