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09.03.10
You May Be Dangerously Sleep Deprived and Not Know It http://ow.ly/1gkgK
08.03.10
Twitter Grows nearly 1500% in 2008 http://ow.ly/1fsnS. Twitter also reported same 1500% growth for 2009 yesterday.
08.03.10
Nielsen report: time spent on social network, blogging sites growing more than 3X the rate of overall Internet growth. http://ow.ly/1fscH
05.03.10
Check this service out: Isolate pieces of web pages, remove backgrounds, print or save as PDF - Free! Works on Mac or PC. http://ow.ly/1eT0l
04.03.10
just joined a video chat at http://bit.ly/aPmygW #tinychat
04.03.10
Why No Business Should Be Involved In Online Social Networking http://ow.ly/1efvO (Make sure you read the entire article)
04.03.10
Social media privacy: Insurance companies want access to your #Facebook - http://ow.ly/1edXt. Moral of the story - think before you post!
04.03.10
Social network security: Where is the outrage? http://ow.ly/1edPo. Keep this in mind as you use services like #Facebook Connect.
01.03.10
The #Facebook imperative for enterprise software. ZDNet.com http://ow.ly/1cRgm. The paradigm shift to social computing is here.
28.02.10
Google Makes Facebook Pages a Higher Priority for Businesses - http://ow.ly/1cg2d. Your FB Fan Page is now more important than ever!
28.02.10
Local Tweets: 9 Ways to Find Twitter Users in Your Town http://ow.ly/1c644
28.02.10
Playing around on Google #Buzz. Definitely see some nice features, but some things that should be obvious R hard to find. Feels like beta.
27.02.10
Chile struck by one of strongest earthquakes ever http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=IDaAncyw
27.02.10
Carly Simon reveals 'You're So Vain' clue - http://ow.ly/1bTdK. Beautiful piece of social marketing by Carly to promote her new album.
26.02.10
I'm sitting @ Smitty's right now... pizza they're cooking 4 us smells fantastic. Hope ur coming to eat it w/me or I'm going to ruin my diet!
26.02.10
Can we make it? 100 members by the end of February - The Venue Online, (really) free business networking community. http://biz-venue.net.
26.02.10
Hey... the VOL #Olympia Meet & Greet is TODAY at noon! Business networking and authentic Chicago-style deep dish pizza. http://bit.ly/9xgeMy
26.02.10
Why and How to Use Disqus with Wordpress. http://ow.ly/1bvlN We build #Disqus commenting into #Joomla! and #Wordpress sites we develop.
26.02.10
@zacpalmer It was a day-long virtual conference on social media for business sponsored by the American Marketing Association.
25.02.10
Attending AMA virtual convention on Social Media. 222 Lee St. in Tumwater. Have room for a few more people if u want to participate.

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AMC SocialStream™...

  • Setup - Deciding which social media are appropriate for your business, creating the accounts, populating them, and configuring them to work together as one stream.

  • Management - Creating content and integrating it with your own, and deveoping social media campaigns.

  • Monitoring - Protecting your brand and reputation by tracking mentions of your products, services, and name.

  • Training - Teaching your staff how to participate in your social stream, and how to do so in a way that is appropriate for your business and corporate culture.

The social media are constantly and quickly evolving. Three years ago, almost nobody had even heard of Facebook, and MySpace was all the rage. Now, businesses are scrambling to figure out the best way to utilize Facebook Pages their customer base. Twitter, which has only been in existence since 2006, now handles over 27 million tweets per day!

Meanwhile, in December 2009, Google introduced a new service called SideWiki, which promises to totally change the way that people interact with web pages.  At the same time, increasing numbers of people are exploring up-and-coming social media services like Tumblr, FriendFeed and StumbleUpon (have you even heard of these yet?!).

How does the average business keep up with trends that change this quickly?

That's where Alternative Marketing Connections can help. We live, breathe, and eat social media. It is our job to stay on top of the trends, new services, and new techniques to maximize your exposure and effectiveness through the social media. We are constantly evolving with the social media, learning new and better techniques for establishing a professional and consistent presence.

Our Approach

For the social media to be effective for business use, it is essential to "keep it real."  That is why our philosophy for social media management is to keep our clients directly involved in their social media presence.

We see the combination of different social media and how they interact with your business as a "social stream." We will set up and configure this social stream for you, and then augment the content. In other words, your business still has access and can update your social stream -- we just make it better.

What We Are NOT...

Alternative Marketing Connections is not a graphic design firm or an ad agency. In fact, we love to work with your existing creative professionals. Our specialty is building your online presence through the social media ad through social media friendly websites. We are happy to work with your existing creative team whether it is outsourced or in-house.