Who Is A Professional Social Media Expert?

Barbara Segal and Associates is a Social Networking, Internet Marketing, Public Relations and Blogger For Hire firm since 1994. With today's new economy, we are going to BLOW our horns and YELL wake up corporate! With Job loss at the high of all highs, how long an individual or firm has been in business has credibility, strength, and clout.

Companies that are Social Networking well are seeing dramatic consumer results. Here we list a few of our favorites:

Betty Crocker

Diane von Furstenberg

The New York Times

These Companies get Social Media and are the pioneers of Facebook applications, interactive media, and fan pages. If you think Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious are going away, THINK AGAIN.

Do You Want Michelle Obama Dress Now? A Marketing Dream

Barbara Segal, President of Barbara Segal and Associates passion is fashion. However it is also technology and the Internet, and wow how one can express anything immediately now is amazing. Fox.news had advertising from J.Crew within an hour of the inauguration ceremony. We now have immediate results and contact with friends, followers, and colleges with Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and more. Company's with website planned for immediate results and action of Internet Sales today, January 20, 2009.

With a sinking Fashion economy J. Crew's marketing team was brilliant with their insight into Inauguration Day 2009. Facebooking , Tweetering and Googling for photos of, The First Lady, Michelle Obama Inauguration Dress, photos quickly appeared and one from Fox.news
Get Michelle's First Lady Style for Less immediately caught Barbara Segal's journalist eye and mind.

Who would Design Michelle Obama Dress? Was the Fashion Press and Fashion Industry's Inspiration question this past week. What the First Lady would wear was the fuel for fashionista and ressionista all over the world. Today's technology gives Bloggers and Social Networkers immediate directions as to where, how and now! Barbara Segal, a seasoned Fashion Media and Marketing, expert found the match to the style of Michelle Obama's ensemble by Isabel Toledo with a yellow dress by J. Crew brilliant as a marketing move in the new economy. There was a yellow dress not particularly close to the style however the marketing was fast, making the consumer want it now and buying it for a bright sunny dress in every women's future in 2009.

On this day of the Inauguration of President, Barack Obama and his beautiful Family, all of America feels renewed, fueled, blessed, and inspired for HOPE!

What Are The Top Social Media Sites Of 2008?

This years Top Social Media Sites are a mix of social networks and blogging platforms. Facebook stands out as the social giant taking shares from not only other social networks but blogs and other social media as well.

Blogger (222 million)
Facebook (200 million)
MySpace (126 million)
Wordpress (114 million)
Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
Flickr (64 million)
hi5 (58 million)
Orkut (46 million)
Six Apart (46 million)
Baidu Space (40 million)
Friendster (31 million)
56.com (29 million)
Webs.com (24 million)
Bebo (24 million)
Scribd (23 million)
Lycos Tripod (23 million)
Tagged (22 million)
imeem (22 million)
Netlog (21 million)

In 2008 Brands have mostly failed in social media, because they have relied on the myth of viral distribution. Whether a Facebook application or a YouTube video, many brands have taken a blurred approach to encouraging users to spread their messages. In 2009 they need to make it worth their while. People are publishers of social content and Brands are learning that the only way to insert a brand into social media is to give some kind of benefit to people. In 2008 more and more marketers started to understand this.

Will Barack Obama starts doing a weekly YouTube video?

At last a Government that will be lead by a President who understands the advantages of technology. www.Change.gov is the Official Web Site of the The U.S. Presidential Transition. The 21st century allows people to filter up questions and with Government.change you can ask question to our newly elected Government and even ask a question that Barack Obama himself might answer. The president-elect Obama already has said he will have a five-day online comment period before signing any non-emergency legislation, so Americans can be part of the process.

Obama's integration of the Internet during his presidential campaign came as Americans increasingly turned to online sources to get election news. As a candidate Barack Obama had four times as many friends as his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, on MySpace.com. Obama had almost 3 million supporters on Facebook and put together a massive database of e-mail addresses -- some 10 million.

Techno savy Obama announced Sen. Joe Biden as his choice for vice president in a text message to supporters. He's also planning to employ a chief technology officer and has pledged to get true broadband to every community in the country.
At Barbara Segal & Associates, we are happy to learn of these employment opportunities in our new Government and are encouraged that jobs will be created by this new technology.