Lab 9

Heres the link to my twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/Joeypongallo

Rankings:
3rd: Janns Netcraft. They haven't tweeted since 2010. So this makes them the worst since they are not up to date on twitter. They really didn't talk about any of their products either.

2nd. Sage. They mention their products and how people are using them. They also post links to video's of their rods in action. No sales or prices are tweeted though.

1st. Orvis. Orvis talks about products to come and discusses how some of them are used in fishing in different locations. They provide links to pictures and videos and have a picture of the day with a fish and a rod or lure.

Effective use of twitter:

From what i have learned so far about twitter, i have came to a few conclusions about the effective use of it for SMM. A businesses should mention their products ;new, old, and upcoming, through tweets frequently. They shouldn't really tweet tweets that don't seem proffesional. I seen some while looking through tweets, and it made me not even want to follow or read any of their tweets anymore. Links to products and videos should be posted. But the biggest thing is sales and discounts. These are really attractive to see and yet not many businesses are posting them.

Is twitter for some organizations and not others?
I truelly think twitter can be used for all orginazitions, but only if it is done correctly. I think any organization can take advantage of twitters tweeting to get information and news out. It's just like facebook but without pictures, only text. If an organization has to get news out, then its perfect, and almost all organizations have news to get out: updates, sales, products, services, etc.

Other Social Media sites:

Deviant art is great for artist that want to share their art to the community and world. Artist from all over the world come to this social media site because they all share the same interest: art. I see marketing opportunities here for businesses expertising in art software or tools.

LiveJournal seems to be almost for blogging entries. It seems like an online journal for people that post to it like entries in a journal. There is alot of different subjects , but they all seem to be about something and not random, like there is on twitter and facebook. Marketers in the field of journal entries, magazines, and books might have a shot at marketing here. It's really hard to tell since it seems everyone is only on the site to post stories/ entries.

Tagged is a site for meeting people. Seems to be just like the online dating websites. I joined through my facebook to find out what it is and it seems to be filled with advertising for cell phones. So im guessing the best marketer here is cell phone companies and any other that has to do with digital communicitations.