Get in the Conversation!

Ever heard about a party (a BIG one) that you weren’t invited to? Missed meeting people. Think about the conversations you missed out on. No fun, right?

Well, according to Nielsen, there’s a big – no make that HUGE – party going on online and it’s called Twitter. Twitter is growing at an amazing rate (1382% from Feb. 08 to Feb. 09). Here’s a couple facts on Twitter from a Nielsen article:

• “Twitter.com continues to grow in popularity and importance in both the consumer and corporate worlds. No longer just a platform for friends to stay connected in real time, it has evolved into an important component of brand marketing. Unique visitors to Twitter increased 1,382 percent year-over-year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009, making it the fastest growing site in the Member Communities category for the month.”
• Twitterers (a.k.a. Tweeters) are not primarily teens or college students as you might expect. In fact, in February the largest age group on Twitter was 35-49; with nearly 3 million unique visitors, comprising almost 42 percent of the site’s audience. We found that the majority of people visit Twitter.com while at work, with 62 percent of the combo unique audience accessing the site from work only versus 35 percent that accessed it from home only.
• It will be interesting to watch the evolution of Twitter as it continues to gain momentum. In an unstable economy, it might prove to be an economical and important part of an employer’s marketing strategy that helps to keep consumers aware of and connected to their brand.

Join the party! Follow Cincinnati Women Bloggers on Twitter – then follow some of who they follow (like some of us in Cincinnati Women Bloggers). Check out the listing of Cincinnati Twitter Friends compiled by Cincinnati Women Bloggers and Cincinnati Social Media. (And see the featured article on this list on SoapboxMedia!)

Get in the conversation! Meet great Cincinnati Twitterati! Join the Party! And you might meet some great new people, grow your business and find out things to make your life better – 140 characters at a time!

By Debba / Girlfriendology (on Twitter!)

Social Media & Sports?

Sure, why not?

Amybeth, aka: The Research Goddess, invites social media friends to participate in her annual tournament. She writes:

I’m hosting a March Madness Tournament Pool again this year for all the geeks out there who want to participate. Sadly, doesn’t look like my beloved Gators will last long this year, but at least they’re (most likely) invited to the Dance. I wanted to invite you to be part of the pool.

If you’d like to participate, you can sign up here .

The group ID is 30220 and the password for the group is twitterrules. The buy-in is only $10 and winnings will be distributed to the top 3 brackets: 50% to the 1st place bracket, 30% to 2nd, and 20% to 3rd. Please let me know when you’ve registered your bracket to pay for your buy-in. I will be accepting PayPal or personal check payments for this. Only thing with PayPal is that they charge a little fee for each transaction, which I will deduct from the total winnings pool once all payments are in. So – check is preferred 🙂

Let me know if you want in, or you can just go sign up. The final official picks are being made this coming weekend and then we can all do our brackets. Final day to join the group and create a bracket will be March 17th. This is just for fun – we don’t take it too seriously, but in previous years there’s been a little smack talk 🙂
Hope to see you in my group!

Join this Cincinnati Women Blogger for some social media sporting – and talk smack with her on Twitter at Research Goddess.

Debba / Girlfriendology

Men vs. women in social networking

Men are the early adopters, right? They are the first on new technologies. Programmers are predominately men, as as well as investors in new techie sites. And males make up 63% of Twitterers, specifically males from California, whose residents account for more than 57% of Twitter’s visitors. (Aug. 2008 stats)

Women, however, are SOCIAL. We use an average of 20,000 words per day, where men are around 7,000. Women are conversational (not transactional like men) and we’re growing online. (2008 was marked at the year of the woman online.) And women make/influence 83% of consumer purchase decisions.

What are your thoughts on the differences between men and women online? Share examples of who’s marketing through social media to women or men WELL.

Your thoughts? Please share!

Thanks – Debba, Girlfriendology

Tis the Season…

VOTING HAS ENDED

THANKS TO ALL WHO VOICED THEIR OPINION. 

Results will be announced after the Thanksgiving Holiday!

 

Cincinnati Women Bloggers is very excited to announce:

Suggested Donation: $10 at the door

And everyone is invited. Tell your friends, your neighbors, random strangers you meet on the street – try not to scare them of course!

In other words you need not be a blogger or a woman or a Cincinnatian or a blogging woman or a blogging Cincinnatian or a blogging Cincinnatian woman or even know what a blog or a woman or a Cincinnatian is. You just need ten bucks and some holiday spirit.

All proceeds from the evening will go to worthy, local charity.

More details will be sent your way very soon, but in the meantime, we need your help.

First, we need your input on who the local charity should be.

VOTING HAS ENDED – THANKS TO ALL WHO VOICED THEIR OPINION.  Results will be announced after the Thanksgiving Holiday!

Hurry! Voting will end on Wednesday, November 26th at 11:59pm EST.

Trouble deciding? More information about each of these organizations can be found on their websites:

Women Helping Women

Interfaith Hospitality Network of Northern Kentucky

Freestore Foodbank of Greater Cincinnati

Second, we need everyone to help gather giveaways for the raffle and silent auction. Shake those trees people. It’s that time of the year and sometimes all people need to be their baddest giving selves is a simple request from YOU! So don’t let them down. No gift is too small and we will of course talk up the generosity of such wonderful people – you AND the givers!

You can leave a comment here with any questions or donation offerings.