The Seventh Mass Media

The mobile phone as the seventh mass media, adding to the experience, upending and usurping but never destroying the medium that preceded it.

The mobile device can access the internet in most ways a computer can, yet adds interactive functionality in myriad ways. I can take pictures, record movies and even write this very post on my blackberry, and post them all to a network of websites and blogs as I take a train from New York City to Philadelphia.

This additional interactive experience is analogous the internet's improvement upon television, which in turn, was a vastly more gratifying and participatory experience than the cinema. Film appealed to a much broader and more comicated user experience, as movies did to radio, and broadcasts to print...

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NY Site Promises "No Brainer" | Property Portal Watch


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Joining Webby nominees nytimes.com/realestate and nakedaparments.com in the New York market is urbanedgeny.com, which just launched on 14 April. The website’s focus is on simplicity: “It shouldn’t take a genius to find your perfect home,” the homepage declares.

urbanedgeny.com is only allowing listings from landlords, bypassing brokers. It is not charging for these listings or for house hunter access. The new website explains that it makes money from “value-added” marketing services for property owners and managers.

“We syndicate owner listings around the web. We build websites, we create and install signage, create and place Internet ads, and a whole lot more,” urbanedgeny.com says, before emphasising that its users are not obliged to buy these services.

urbanedgeny.com is also making use of Twitter to promote its listings. Each day at 4pm, users receive a Twitter feed of all the day’s new listings matching their desired neighbourhood and home type.

“This site gives the power back to the consumer. It allows free flow of information for a more efficient marketplace, saving owners and consumers lots of money,” said Ilana Schwartz, vice president of new business development for urbanedgeny.com.

While urbanedgeny.com is entering a market that already includes a number of established players, it says “hundreds of major landlords” are already using it to list their properties.

via www1.propertyportalwatch.com

10 Social Media FAQs For Business | Penn Olson

10 Social Media FAQs

Oh yes, we understand the anxiety businesses go through when they are taking their first step in using social media. This anxiety results in plenty of questions. Top management always wants more information, and they actually have them! Google has indexed a vast number of case studies and resources. In fact, information overload seems like a bigger problem now.

Through Tania’s (@unfluff) experience as an Ogilvy Digital Strategist, she has listed and explained 10 of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) in the slides below.

These aren’t the typical slides that we normally see. The answers are all written in Twitter style – short and sweet, and understanding the slides will take no longer than 3 minutes.

Feel free to drop a comment if you have more questions, we’ll gladly answer them for you. Oh, and don’t forget to check out Tania’s interview here. It contains some very useful social media marketing tips.