Why Foursquare Rocks

If you haven’t discovered the joys of Foursquare, you’re totally missing out!

This location-based app, dubbed “the next Twitter” by Mashable.com, is tons of fun. Basically, you use Foursquare to “Check In” at different locations, share insider tips, find out where your friends are, and earn distinctions in the form of badges, including “Newbie”, “Adventurer,”and “Mayor,” among others.

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JB Clients Rank Among Top 20 in “How Social Is Your DMO” Study

This week, DMMI (Destination Management and Marketing Institute) released their “How Social Is Your DMO” rankings for their annual conference, “The Total Experience.” All attending DMOs were ranked, and out of 72 attendees, two JB Inc. clients ranked among the top 20, including the Baton Rouge CVB at number 9 and the Panama City Beach CVB at number 16. Congrats to these cutting-edge destinations!

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Google’s New Social Search

I am sure everyone heard or read last week about Microsoft’s Bing search deals with Twitter and Facebook. Google fired back almost immediately with their own deal – I am sure there were no surprises here. Google also completed their deal with Twitter and, perhaps more importantly, Google announced a new feature: Social Search.
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Twitter Search Function Now Live on Bing

Yesterday, Bing announced that they had struck a deal with Twitter and Facebook to make status updates searchable by the popular new engine. And true to the speed of the internet, the Twitter search function is now live on Bing, and can be tested here.

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Facebook Defeats Twitter

As I mentioned last week Mashable had a web faceoff where they put Twitter and Facebook up against each other in a viral knock down competition and let readers decide which social media network they prefer. While it wasn’t quite as nose to nose as a previous web faceoff they did a few weeks ago, [...]

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Twitter Vs. Facebook

As I was browsing through Mashable today, I noticed a post that really grabbed my attention! Twitter vs. Facebook; a web faceoff! Interesting, I thought to myself.
Mashable explained that they have had several web faceoffs where they let two popular web apps battle it out via reader vote. To enter, but only one can win [...]

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Twitter Abuzz About NASA “Moon Bombing”

It’s official – the US has bombed the moon. Or that’s what the buzz on Twitter and Facebook would lead you to believe. Cue the Dr. Evil references and cheese jokes. Less dramatically, we crashed a probe into the moon in an attempt to determine whether water is present. But pop culture has its own take on the matter. Namely, that we’re at war with our universal neighbor.

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SEOmoz Releases Social Media Marketing Guide

SEOmoz, provider of terrific social media measurement tools, has released their Social Media Marketing Guide. Here at JB Inc., we’re always on the lookout for new tools and additional resources to help us extend our reach as effective marketers, and this is good stuff. This guide offers extensive explanations of each and every social media site throughout the web, and how they can best be utilized for marketers.

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Social Media Means Always Having Someone to Talk To

For many of us who were born in the 80s, Patrick Swayze was our heartthrob of choice. His death from cancer yesterday was heartbreaking news, a sad reminder of the fragility of life, and a reason to reminisce about our childhood. But, what struck me in particular about yesterday’s tragic news was the way in which I learned about it – through social media.

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The Epic Battle: Facebook vs. Twitter

With all this talk about Facebook’s new tagging feature using @ replies, many people are speculating that this could be the end of Twitter as we know it. But, I think that’s premature. While Facebook may be doing its best to hone in on Twitter’s market share, the reality is that some fundamental differences exist between the two mediums that are unlikely to change.

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