Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

Social media wasn’t new last year. It wasn’t new this year. And it won’t be new next year. In fact, it hasn’t been new for well over a decade. And yet it is wrongly declared new all the time – usually by those just starting to use the web for directed outcomes or are confused as to what social media is.

As someone interested in what we share and why, I’ve been aggregating images that go popular on the social web for the last 3 years. The methodology for how I put them together is simple. I’m a member of multiple social sharing communities and save the best images that go hot as-it-happens to later sort and aggregate for you here.

Just one of my responsibilities as Social Media Practice Director for LEWIS PR includes sharing best practices – with clients, internally and with the industry. With that in mind, a critical skill set for modern communications professionals is comprehension of web analytics.

Noah Brier recently published a fantastic presentation entitled everything is media – a must read (embedded at the end of this post for your convenience). I’ve stressed the idea of experimenting for awhile, and slide 59 really nails the rationale behind this:

As it’s nearly the end of the year, I thought I’d share a round-up of what you, the readers here, found most interesting. To give a little context: all posts on this blog were viewed in total more than 1,000,000 times this year. Following are the 10 most popular that were actually published in 2010.

Unless you slept through the 80′s and early 90′s you’ve heard of MacGyver – the resourceful agent for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles on the TV show of the same name. MacGyver was unlike secret agents in other television series and films because instead of relying on high-tech weapons and sophisticated tools, he relied on his brain and creative problem solving to outsmart enemies