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The latest episode of The Beyond Social Media Show coveredtopics including:
– Martha Stewart’s BIG blogger blunder;
– a great use of Vine by Tide;
– arguably the worst PR pitch of the year;
– the world’s most absurd new product: a solutions to SWOOBS;
– plus apps you need and stats you can use.

A video of the live Hangout on Air is below. David Erickson and I co-hosted. Our colleague, Albert Maruggi was traveling and will be back next week.

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Beyond Social Media Show Live Hangout on Air Oct 22, 2013 Episode 21 with B.L. Ochman of What’s Next Blog and David Erickson of e-StrategyBlog.com. Our colleague, Albert Maruggi, is traveling and will be back next week.

WHAT WENT WRONG

[1:02] B.L. Ochman: Martha Stewart’s BIG Blogger Blunder. Really Martha! How dare you.
[3:36] B.L. Ochman: Worst PR pitch of the year? SWOOBS, a cure for sweaty boobs. Really? No! Just NO!
[5:57] David Erickson: Rant on Twitter Spam. Why is Twitter letting anyone DM anyone?
[7:19] B.L. Ochman: PR #FAIL – a 1,263-word press release arrived in email 4 times in one hour & I still don’t care.

WHAT WENT RIGHT

[9:17] David Erickson: Tide’s Scary Vines “Stains better be scared” by this spoof remake of Carrie.
[10:40] B.L. Ochman: News! David Pogue is leaving the NY Times after 13 years to head up a new Yahoo! tech channel.
[13:18] David Erickson: Twitter & Comcast team up for next generation social TV
[16:30] David Erickson: Google buys Flutter . A talent play for Google Glass?
[17:24] B.L. Ochman: Norton’s Enjoy Your Privacy interactive campaign demonstrates the fragility of mobile security and let’s you “break into” several unsuspecting people’s lives

SHINY NEW OBJECTS

[20:00] B.L. Ochman Sonar.Bottlenose – a fantastic free app for searching concepts and related ideas on Twitter, along with keywords and hashtags.
[22:55] David Erickson: @MagicRecs makes Twitter recommendations based on the actions of your network and who/what they follow
[23:52] B.L. Ochman: Visual.ly app makes infographics of your Google Analytics data and delivers them in weekly reports.
[24:40] David Erickson: InfoScout.co delivers big data from people who bought from up to 5 brands. Users get cash back for sharing their information and giving up their data.
[26:41] David Erickson: DoNotLink.com – outraged by something you read but don’t want to give it Google juice when you share it? Here’s the app to keep the link secret.
[27:50] B.L. Ochman: ShoutOut to +Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound for pointing out Martha Stewart’s foibles.
[28:00] David Erickson: Daily Numbers – Mobile share of organic search traffic stats.

BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA HOSTS

B.L. OCHMAN
Twitter
What’s Next Blog
YouTube
Google+

DAVID ERICKSON
Twitter
e-Strategy Blog
e-Strategy Trends
YouTube

ALBERT MARUGGI
Twitter
ProvidentPartners
Social Media For Hospitality
YouTube