by Pat Kitano on January 3, 2010 in Events, Webinars
Happy New Year! Tomorrow there is a Virtual Real Estate Bar Camp produced by our friends at Real Estate Tomato. It’s a series of webinars that run throughout the day, I’ll be on at 3:00pm CA time. Register here. I’ll be discussing innovative community engagement strategies: Innovative Community Engagement Strategies View more presentations from Pat [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 24, 2009 in Social Media
from: How Geeks do Holiday Cards Everybody has noticed how fewer Christmas cards arrive in the mail? and for the obvious reasons: eCards have captured 5-7% of traditional paper and ink trade. eCard makers are sophisticated in their approach to maintaining customer bases by providing galleries for the Christmas cards being sent out by their [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 13, 2009 in Advertising, Breaking News, Celebrity, Hyperlocal, Local advertising, Marketing, Mass Media, New business models, Social Media, Trends, Webinars
1) Community Engagement will become the Driver of Local Media Local news used to be the province of the local newspapers, radio stations and TV. It’s become clear consumers will digest local news online as newspapers shut down, and on the Internet, all media are equal – TV, radio and print websites compete for the [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 10, 2009 in Celebrity, Marketing, Mass Media, Social Media, Transparency
The chronicles of Tiger continue daily with the Mistress countdowns and porn star exposés that are contributing to the collapsing public opinion of a global sports icon. The financial impact hits whole industries – the PGA, Tiger’s sponsors, and the TV networks all relied on Tiger as the drawing card. This is a case of [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 9, 2009 in Advertising, Hyperlocal, Local advertising, New business models, Trends, Twitter, Web tools
We’ve often discussed how Twitter is positioned to become a hyperlocal advertising platform. 140-character sound bite based ad messages, particularly consumer friendly coupon and discount deals, can be targeted to a community and it’s free. Here are three new examples of Twitter based local advertising models: 1) Mashable introduced Postabon yesterday. Simplicity is the key to [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 1, 2009 in Social Media, Trends
Clay Shirky explains the impact of social media, societal change and where things are headed. He talks like his books (h/t David Cohn)
by Pat Kitano on November 20, 2009 in Breaking News, Hyperlocal, New business models, Slideshows, Social Media, Twitter
This slideshow is a more elegant follow up instructional guide to embedding Twitter List widgets into a Breaking News city site that I discussed in the previous article regarding building community news resource sites. You can see examples of Breaking News city sites for SF, LA, NYC, Seattle, London and many other cities listed on [...]
by Pat Kitano on November 15, 2009 in Social Media, Twitter
Tony, the obvious benefit of Twitter Lists is to organize your Twitter stream into groups so you can focus Twitter conversations categorically. However, I see Lists as a key component on what makes Twitter a good will engine. Here are ten ways to use Twitter to build your personal brand by spreading good will: Twitter [...]
by Pat Kitano on November 6, 2009 in Blogging, Domus Consulting Group, Enterprise, Events, Facebook, Marketing, New business models, Slideshows, Social Media, Social networking, Twitter
We have had success providing our social media training platform to a number of REALTOR Boards (an example in far flung Oklahoma City) and are extending the platform to any associations or enterprises who can use a social media training resource free. The free social media training platform View more presentations from Pat Kitano. We’re [...]
by Pat Kitano on October 20, 2009 in Hyperlocal, New business models, Social Media, Trends, Twitter
Twitter lists will change how people network themselves into groups and geographies. Although the first lists will develop around social media (top 100s, etc.), they will eventually develop around organizations / civic groups, enterprises and geographies / neighborhoods. Once this happens, Twitter will evolve into a hyperlocal communication network or, a better term, media. In [...]