Sunday, August 16, 2009

Splendid Sundays Volume 6

A handful of splendid finds and interesting tidbits from around the world wide web:

*As highlighted in this video below, 1 out of 8 couples who married in the United States last year met via social media (stat source: Socialnomics).  Is the majority of your wedding marketing still focused offline?



*Registration for Engage!09 The Encore officially opened on Friday. Once again, Rebecca and Kathryn have raised the bar and made it better than ever. You can learn more about this wedding business intensive and register here.

*While targeted at librarians, this list of 100 Useful Twitter Tools has useful information for anyone using Twitter.  Special thanks to Suzane for including one of my ebooks in the list as number 86.

*Design Glut - a site that focuses on the inspiring stories of creative entrepreneurs - recently featured this interview with Jim Coudal. The entire piece is interesting, but the most fascinating part, and the the part I related to the most, was the last section, particularly this line: "When you think to yourself, “In 18 months I’m going to start my . . . company,” the problem with that sentence is the 18 months. What you’re really saying is, “I’m afraid.” Do it now."

Do you have any splendid finds to share?

4 comments:

Alina Mihaela Lita said...

Great video!

Jess said...

Great video & the content should be a wakeup call to anyone afraid of using social media to promote their business. Regardless of how I feel personally (I think its the biggest data mining effort since, well, ever) I sure can't ignore it!

Amber Events said...

well, sh*t, I guess I HAVE to Twitter now. I've been putting it of for a while, but this video clinched it. I'm sending it to my dad who is a marketing professor and am demanding that he show it to his students.

Desiree Patterson said...

Awesome video! People need to pay attention to this shift.