M13Q3

Facebook recently made world history when the social media site crossed the 500,000,000 threshold of registered users. Along with other popular social media networks like YouTube, My Space, Twitter, and LinkedIn, to name a few, there exist today online networks of unprecedented proportions that represent a marketer's dream come true.

A privacy policy is a legal notice providing information about how a website visitor's personal information will be used. When your website gathers such information, a privacy policy is something your company should strongly consider. We have one at Katalyst Solutions.

M13 Q1

Has My Starbucks Idea been a winning innovation for Starbucks? Is it effective? On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at the annual shareholder meeting, Starbucks launched a customer-suggestion site called "My Starbucks Idea". This blog post is a discussion and review of mystarbucksidea.com since its inception.

Example of a company that used crowdsourcing to create a major snack food ad.

Provides 15 awesome companies that are really hitting it home with their crowdsourcing tactics

helpful for M12 Q4 when listing various platforms

A quick YouTube video that gives a simple overview of what crowdsourcing really is.

A quick, helpful video to better understand how to use social mention

Helpful for M11 Q1

For the LinkedIn question, I focused on listening as a major problem and this provides some good real-life case scenarios!

Helpful article about ineffective SMM, reaching the right audience, and top targeting strategies