Do you want to make your tweets more personalized? Wouldn’t social media be more fun if you could actually talk to other people rather than just type? Now there are five programs that can allow you to integrate 

Do you want to make your tweets more personalized? Wouldn’t social media be more fun if you could actually talk to other people rather than just type? Now there are five programs that can allow you to integrate your own recorded audio into Twitter. You can use this new-found power to sing someone a song, tell them a joke or tell them how much you miss them – whatever you can dream up!

1. Twaud.io: this service allows you to both record and upload files – you just need to sign in and approve your computer’s mic. You are allowed up to thirty minutes of recording! You can record and listen to the playback all on the same program.

2. Chirbit: has categories such as  is “audiobook,” “joke,” “pickup line” designed to help the Chirbit community find content more easily, but if you are just using it as a social media tool you only need to pay attention to the default “Chirbit” category.

3. Chir.ps: offers the same recording and playback process, as the others, but just know that there’s a slight delay before the tweet will hit your stream. When the Chir.ps is in your stream it will have a shortened URL attached to it to allow people to clickthrough and listen. One nice feature of this program is a “listen count” so you can see how many people have hit play.

4. AudioBoo: with this program you only have 5 minutes of recording time, but then you can choose to share your audio to Facebook, tweet it or get an embed code. AudioBoo has good sound recording quality.

5. Shoutomatic: one cool feature of Shoutomatic is people are able to reply directly on your message page directly within the program. Also, for a fee you can have “celebrities” record a message for you.

You have the power – now go shout it out!

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Don’t rush into the social media scene before you’ve done your research. Take it slow, play it smart and find long-term success!

First step to social media success is to make sure your offering is relevant to your audience. 

Don’t rush into the social media scene before you’ve done your research. Take it slow, play it smart and find long-term success!

First step to social media success is to make sure your offering is relevant to your audience. To do this, listen to the conversations that are already taking place involving your brands.

Second step: before creating or distributing any social object, ask yourself a few important questions:

• “What value am I introducing into the mix?”
• “What makes this object worthy of attention?”
• “What action do I want to inspire?”
• “How does this contribute to our standing within each community?”
• “How can I make this shareable?”

Third Step: Keep it Significant and Shareable – the easier your brand is to recognize in the social media world, the more it will resonate with consumers and the more likely they will be to pass on your message to all their connections.

Takehome: Relevance + Resonance = Significance: Consistently demonstrating relevance over time and continually striving to earn resonance will increase your significance as a company in the long run. It is the culmination of reputation, trust, influence, accessibility and value within each social network.

(source: Harvard Business Review Blog “The Conversation” http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/07/social_medias_critical_path_re.html)

July 24!

Talk about a big day!

Life in a Day is a cinematic experiment that aims to document one day in your life. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a snapshot of your life on a 

July 24!

Talk about a big day!

Life in a Day is a cinematic experiment that aims to document one day in your life. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a snapshot of your life on a camera for others to see.

Kevin MacDonald, the Oscar-winning film director, will choose and edit the most compelling footage into a feature documentary film. It will be executive produced by famous director Ridley Scott.

Kevin gives some thoughts below on how to make a successful video.

The film will premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and if your footage makes it into the final cut, you’ll be credited as a co-director and may be one of 20 contributors selected to attend the premiere.

On July 24, capture your day on camera and then upload your footage to the “Life in a Day” channel before July 31 and you might just see yourself at Sundance!

Twitter co-founder explains a nice e-commerce app he is working on.

This will be a great little app that will help make processing credit cards remotely much easier.

The video quality is not great, but the concept of the  Genius!

Twitter co-founder explains a nice e-commerce app he is working on.

This will be a great little app that will help make processing credit cards remotely much easier.

The video quality is not great, but the concept of the app makes that immaterial.

If you have any problems viewing the presentation, please contact us.

Need more information? We are always available for personal consultations or to present to groups.

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It was good to meet with Rich and Steve from CEObuilder and the great group of CEOs that were able to attend.

We  Fluid Studio recently gave social media training to many Utah CEOs involved with CEObuilder.

It was good to meet with Rich and Steve from CEObuilder and the great group of CEOs that were able to attend.

We spent 4 hours talking about social media (like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn) and other resources that can help improve web traffic. Even though we were only able toskim the surface, I think attendees came away with some pointers that they can use to really help them improve their visibility on the web.

Below are some slides I shared during the presentation: