What is a Twestival? A Twestival or Twitter-Festival is a global series of events organized by volunteers around the world under short timescales via Twitter, which brings people offline for a great cause. The first Twestival Global happened on 12 February 2009 with 202 cities around the world hosting events and rallying fundraising efforts around [...]

Business use of social media: Consider putting your business goals on 43Things and even linking them back into your blog or website with the widget. Think of it as an extension of your mission and vision statements – “provide excellent customer service, etc. “

Dallas Marketing Services follows Twitter, one of the fastest growing social media sites on the internet. From Barack Obama to Southwest Airlines, Twitter is quickly becoming a communication channel of choice for savy marketers in Dallas and around the world.

One of the oldest and most effective methods of marketing is through word of mouth recommendations and the social media sites provide an online, global venue for this to occur. To assist with evaluating the numerous social media sites, Dallas Marketing Services will begin profiling social media sites, from large to niche, providing sites overviews and getting started tips.

Take a look around the table and you may notice a variety of skill levels. The Novice: A newcomer, they apprehensively sit down.  They probably have a cheat sheet with them and perhaps a drink that they nervously sip a bit too often.   Interactions are brief, requiring much concentration and great care not to commit [...]

So, another iPhone mania experience. We are standing in line at the Dallas Knox Apple store – been here since about 9:45AM and it is hot.   We seem to have about 75 more people to wait behind before we get our new iPhones. Quite a process – last year, we lined up about 4:00PM, doors [...]