Comments on: Social Media Management Firm KnowEm Acquires FriendsCall.Me

By: Inmate Search

Inmate Search — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:52:32 +0000

I’ve noticed that more and more companies seem to be using .me domain names. I think this domain has a chance to really catch on through social media applications. I think people have really overpriced the .com domain. The next generation of internet users will grow up with a greater familiarity of other extensions besides .com and thus their prices should be falling. The people that are strongly defending .com are those who have a big stake in them. Google is now using ro.me, bit.ly is using news.me and many others are using .me for caddy.me, play.me, flirt.me.

By: kimmy

kimmy — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:27:25 +0000

KnowEm is expanding slowly bit after bit..i hope i can hear more good things about this company instead of being stuck up with the monsters like android and Apple..

By: Jon Thomas

Jon Thomas — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:12:40 +0000

We get out and talk to actual pple, as much as social networking. we’ve gotten half our friends by going to design conferences alone.

By: skip sanzeri

skip sanzeri — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:02:02 +0000

Hi Barry,

Thanks for posting information on KnowEm.

I spent most of my time deep into social media and the types of self monitoring systems you discuss seem to be at work here as well. You can watch blogs, chat rooms for owners and news sites… even YouTube videos, and see how users see your brand.

The only problem with social media on the web in reference to what you’re discussing here, is that in some cases there is anonymity which allows anybody to say anything. But maybe we can still track brand mentions.

I am concerned that we are in a little bit of the wild wild West here. So it will be interesting to see how things play out in social media as we move forward. It seems like these days we have two completely different social ecosystems. Of course we have the one that has been around forever which is human contact: whether the face-to-face, phone calls or other. But now with the advent of electronic communication, now we have an entire social ecosystem, which acts and behaves much differently than the human one.

Some numbers show that there are 400 million users on Facebook, spending an average of five hours per day. I really don’t believe that people spend five hours per day on Facebook in general, I just think they leave their browsers open in the background and check back in. However, this is still a significant use of time in the social area, and many of the behaviors you are talking about are surfacing in this new, immense use of time.

I think we’re just at the beginning of this whole thing, and who knows how this will all end up.

Maybe KnowEm can play a role to help corral this whole thing for company brands.

By: Utah Web Design by Sherwin

Utah Web Design by Sherwin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:53:12 +0000

Base on my experience Knowem is a great tool for Social Media Management. Keep it up!

By: Michael Acevedo

Michael Acevedo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:54:25 +0000

Nice Post.

I also began noticed godaddy.com shows what similar user-names are available on Twitter when you purchase a domain name.

By: Ashish Goel

Ashish Goel — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:33:22 +0000

Social media marketing brings enormous challenges if done correctly. Part of the problem lies in the fact that social media enables the perception of a closer connection between the marketing target (e.g. a consumer) and the marketing company (brand, celebrity, athlete etc.). The way this works is that when a company or a personal brand (celebrity) interacts with the consumer or fan, there is an opportunity for a much stronger connection since the consumer has the perception that she/he is dealing with the celebrity or the company on a one-to-one basis.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:45:46 +0000

Social media today is huge. It doesn’t say much really for societies method of communicating with each other though. Having 140 character conversations doesn’t really get one’s point across very well.

But to think that we all now should be (a) monitoring our names or brand names is scary and (b) to learn that there are now so many social media sites that need monitoring.

Personally, I like talking to my neighbours in my back yard or on the street or even at a formal social affair….they are interesting people.

By: Sasa A.

Sasa A. — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:22:26 +0000

It is nice service for internet marketers and webmasters. I also had often problems with choosing usernames on some social media networks. I know from my personal experience that choosing usernames can be really annoying.

By: Fairbanks movers

Fairbanks movers — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:27:42 +0000

Knowem sounds like a great service and it’s great to see the feature set expanding. Is it useful to both small and large businesses alike, or is it mostly for larger brand names?