Social Media Weekly Digest: 18 July 2008

Posted by: Krishna De | Posted on: July 19th, 2008 | 1 Comments | Posted in: Reputation, Social media, Social Media Digest, Social Media Ireland

Researching and writing about the intersection of brand engagement and social media, I come across a lot of interesting resources and tips that Ifind helpful and think you mightdo too.

Here is a quick summary of some of the things that have caught my attention this week.

• If you are the proud owner of an iPhone then you might want to take a look the WordPress for iPhone application

• Find out what Time magazine think are the top 11 applications for the iPhone

• Vodafone in the UK  provide free unlock codes for phones purchased from them so you can then use any SIM card with them

• Creating a Facebook application? Then make sure that you read this story about as a warning on how to ensure that you don’t ruin your reputation

• Read how Facebook and other social networks are being used by prosecutors, who have used photos of defendants they find on social networking sites during sentencing hearings to influence judgements.

• Allen Stern shares in a video blog the importance of disclosure on blogs, podcasts and video blogs. Bottom line – if you are being paid to write a post or review, if you have received free services or a product and you write or speak about it, disclose – it’s critical to be transparent for your reputation and personal brand online. Related articles to the video blog post are at Techcrunch, Pat Phelan’s blog and Sarah Austin’s blog.

• As you may already know, Biz Growth News is featured in the AdAge Power 150 of the worlds top media and marketing blogs.  Whilst most blogs are authored by US / Canadian bloggers, around 15% of them are European bloggers – you can find the list of European bloggers on the AdAge Power 150 here thanks to Nick Burcher.

Additional Podcasts From Krishna

This week we started a new podcast at PodCamp Ireland where each week we will feature an entrepreneur or business leaders from Ireland who is using social media in their business, perhaps to build their brand online, connect to new customers or even are developing social media tools and platforms for us all to use. this week we featured Johnny Beirne of DownloadMusic.ie