IntelBuilder Social Media Platform - Vesta Digital

Few car dealerships use social media as effectively as Earl Stewart Toyota. They understand that it’s more about making friends and building a community than it is about selling a product or a service.

It isn't easy to become a winner in today's tough high tech market. The competition is fierce. There are many great ideas that don't even get out of the starting gate. Here are two winners from last year who are doing very well so far in 2010.

We all know that social media marketing can be a powerful strategy. Many articles have been written about it. This article is not about convincing or converting you, it is about setting you up and getting you started.

The Pepsi Refresh Project debuted this week on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Thousands of people applied and 100 finalists were selected for February. Their ideas have been posted on the Pepsi Refresh website.

Almost every business today has a Twitter strategy or is planning one. Not all of them do it the same way. Some are tweeting, some are just listening and some are doing both.

Social media networks have the dubious distinction of being first on the scene at this terrible tragedy. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake stuck Port au Prince in Haiti on Tuesday afternoon at 5 PM. Seconds later people told the world about it on Twitter:

There were a lot of good social media marketing campaigns in 2009. There were a lot of bad ones, too. We will skip the bad ones - here are the five that we like the most. They are original, creative and they cut-through-the clutter with minimum expense and maximum ROI. You may disagree, you may like others and we probably missed a few. Please feel free to comment on these or any other social media campaigns you like.

Social media exploded in 2009. Twitter alone grew over 900% this year according to Nielsen Online. Meanwhile, Facebook continued to colonize the world - adding another 50 million users for a total of more than 350 million active users in 180 countries – and 50% of them log onto Facebook every day.

Twitter is a social media platform that lets the world know what you are up to. There are millions of Twitter-addicts now and the number of active users has increased by 900% in the past year.