Twelve ways to get retweeted

Social media wizard Dan Zarrella, author of The Social Media Marketing Book, has won rave reviews from industry players like Guy Kawasaki and Brian Solis. Zarrella was in Washington, D.C., recently for the Gov 2.0 conference and led a presentation on why certain pieces of content go viral. Ideas do not spread because they are “good,” he said. [...]

While you were banned…

The Lahore High Court in Pakistan lifted the country’s ban on Facebook a couple of days ago. That’s not such a surprise, as all initial news stories had reported the ban would last until May 31. Several interesting things happened during the 13 days the ban was in place: Resourceful folks in Pakistan continued to [...]

Insert Al Gore joke here

I stood four feet away from Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, after his keynote at Gov 2.0 today. He has a very cute British accent because he’s, well, British. He’s so British, in fact, he’s been knighted by the Queen. I was totally star-struck. I wanted to go up to him, [...]

Turning to Twitter for stock advice

Timm Sprenger of the Technical University of Munich is part of a team that studied more than 100,000 tweets mentioning German political parties to correctly predict the outcome of the last German election. Now he’s turning his attention to how Twitter can help investors predict the performance of the financial market. Sites like StockTwits and [...]