Episode 8

This week we respond to a listener email! She asks which social media tools we use, why, and how do we decide which ones to use?

Also:
Mike goes to an Iron Maiden show in the rain.
Using My Space & Facebook to connect to people “outside.”
Social networks in gaming.
Plurk “karma.”
Christine likes to text.

Friendfeed
Twitter
Last.fm
My Space
Facebook
Plurk
Utterz
Upcoming
Seesmic
Phreadz (Phreadz is still in closed beta.)
Brightkite
Chatterous

Let us know which social networks you use and why in the comments! We’d love to discuss other topics suggested by our listeners, so let us know what you want to hear.

Push My Follow on Twitter
Push My Follow on FaceBook
Push My Follow on Plurk!

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Episode 4

Topics and links:

TwittEarth
What’s the definition of social media?
Distributed Twitter
Twitter hashtags
Convention addiction?
Self branding
Christine has dreams of Michael Arrington
Charlie the Unicorn (1 and 2)
Social media saturation?
Meeting people in real life
Social networks in videogames
Twitter spam bots
Google Reader sharing and trends
Rescue Time

(special thanks to Mike Gaines for the extra editing this one took- it was worth it!)

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Episode 3

Topics & links:

Babuki
Alert Thingie
“Don’t call me a blogger.”
Shyftr
Teens & social networking, digital natives
@andrewbaron puts his Twitter account on ebay
@gapingvoid deletes his Twitter account
Twitter divas
Video on flickr
Twitter Local
Old journalism vs. live streaming/social media reporting (citizen journalism)
LobbyCon

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Episode 1 is up

Hi everyone. The first episode of Push My Follow is up and ready. It took a little longer than normal to edit it, I had some audio issues to deal with, but be sure that all episodes after this one will get better.

We’re very excited about this show. We’re all very passionate about social media and where it’s going. Hopefully you’ll all enjoy listening to it as much as we did making it.

Topics are:

Introductions
Domain squatters
Twitter
Friendfeed and Socialthing
Wordpress 2.5
Oddfollow
Last.fm

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Thanks for listening and enjoy!

Mike