The best application or project you have experienced using social media.

Hey gang this is a shout out to my readers and visitors. Share some knowledge and improve social marketing for us all.

Think back and recall the best use of social media you have witnessed to date using social media likw twtitter, flickr, podcasting or other Web 2.0 solution you love.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about think about marketing in general. Try to remember a time or place when you received/downloaded an email, podcast, twitter, SMS or pop up that instantly made you change your behavior and act.

In Web 2.0 terms I am looking for a social media, a direct one-to-one dialogue or platform access point that allowed a marketer the opportunity to get in your ipod, face, in your mind or in your pocket and spit an idea in your ear and then like magic you jumped, clicked, visited and bought, read or voted simply because the idea moved you.

Here's one. Did your friend recently twitter you and let you know they were heading out for drinks or eats at a local hot spot. They mentioned the time and place and like clock work you and a handful of your faithful friends showed? That's one app of social media work, there has to be millions of others so let's get sharing and create the longest running dialogue concerning use of social media in marketing and relationship management.

Can you think of something??? If you can... Cool social media is among us. But if you have not been moved to action by a personal note, message, or prompting through a cool application like twitter, your phone or mobile device then perhaps we all need to be thinking of betters way to get in consumers pockets.

This is the reality of YouRelations as I call it. We get into people's lives and heads like never before. And we let others into our lives and heads like never before.

Happy sharing,

Kenneth "socialFIEND" Knapp
Found
socialFIEND.com & Eyeballs, Inc.

Do non-socialnetworking types Twitter???

I've often wondered... do non-socialmedia types Twitter?

If you have an example of a non-social media Web 2.0 advocate using twitter please post a comment to this blog.

Your feedback is critical if we are to discover if others are among us. Or are we simply a bunch of techno freaks playing with gadgets we dream up in our sleep?

Just wondering out loud.

KK

How's this for niche?

So I've been putting time, energy and thought into special events of late. Some professional time spent and creating launch events for my employer as well as personal time planning fundraisers for worthy causes in my local market.

I have found over many years in my career I have affinity for creating visions and taking action when a good idea is shared with me. I'm big on helping the greater good and focus attention on taking appropriate actions that support my desire to aid people in need and children especially. This is one of the reasons I donate my time to teach children Kung Fu San Soo. I love to teach and I want kids to be safe. Enough said.

I most recently created a social network and LinkedIn Group called SEVEJ - Special Events Junkies. It's a group created to help people develop large to small events together. The goal is to connect professionals who create, plan and develop special events for good causes or simply to support their local marketing/PR efforts. In the end all we do is alter opinions or change behavior in support of a goal why not share great ideas with like minded professionals? Thus SEVEJ was born.

I think SEVEJ is a perfect example of a well defined social network niche. Special events planning takes time, talent, passion and drive to pull off successfully. I am hopeful this niche SN will draw attention from worldwide professionals much like myself who have a passion for sales and marketing and have found they love to take action to create events around good ideas in support of larger goals.

This is an open invite to anyone who reads this post and wants to learn how or why marketing PR professionals use special events to support their causes. Join us!

http://sevejmembers.ning.com/ or http://www.sevej.com

Welcome!

Kenneth "socialFIEND" Knapp