The Caffeinated Blog

Open Web Awards - Blogger's Choice Winners

As a Blog Partner for this year's Open Web Awards, I was asked to choose my web 2.0/social media favorites out of all the categories.  Now, the winners for Open Web Awards Blogger's Choice have been announced; BUT this does NOT mean you should stop voting!

People's Choice voting ends this Sunday, November 14th - so never mind what the blog partners chose.  Make your voice heard and vote for YOUR favorites today!

Open Web Awards: Nominate Your Candidate Now!

Are you excited after voting in the election yesterday and ready to vote some more?  Perhaps your disappointed by the election results and want to cast a different kind of vote, or maybe you didn't get to vote at all.  Here's your chance...nominate now for the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards! 

The nomination round ends Nov. 16th at 11:59pm PST, so make your voice heard today!

Caffeinated Poll of the Week, September 17

The Caffeinated Poll has been on summer vacation for a few weeks, but I've brought it back.  Today, I want to know what form of social media or networking has worked best for your B2B company or organization. 

Depending on the business or organization model or how B2B marketers converse with customers and/or suppliers, different forms will yield different (and better) results. 

So, B2B marketers - what has worked for you?

Caffeinated Poll of the Week, August 14

My husband has just recently discoved the value of using LinkedIn.  He's looking for a new job opportunity at the moment, and I advised him to use LinkedIn in addition to his other efforts on job sites.  He wasn't easily convinced of this, but now he's on there every day now - joining groups, reconnecting with old colleagues, and just generally networking away.  Brothers and sisters of social networking - he's seen the light!  Hallelujah!

So, his new found job search resource is the inspiration for this week's poll.  Please choose the one main reason.  If it's not listed, feel free to choose Other and leave a comment about how you use LinkedIn.  You never know - you may be inspiring someone else!

Caffeinated Poll of the Week, August 7

As I was catching up on all the news that's fit to feed in my extensive collection of RSS subscriptions (a whopping 38 in total), I wondered if other people were subscribed to as many feeds as I am.  I mean, seriously - how do you keep up with so much news (I use that term loosely) and your job at the same time without going all ADD?

So, that's the inspiration for this week's poll:

Caffeinated Poll of the Week, July 31

Thanks to everyone who voted in last week's Caffeinated Poll, where I asked "How many social networks are you ACTIVE on?".  Here are the results:

1-3: 43%
4-6: 43%
7-10: 14%
More than 10: 0%
I've lost count: 0%

So it looks like most of you who voted like to keep your social network participation at a pretty manageable level.

Here's this week's poll:

Caffeinated Poll of the Week, July 22

Thanks to everyone who voted in last week's Caffeinated Poll!  I'm going to keep these polls open continuously, so you can continue to vote.  Here are the results:

What is the main reason you use social media and networking sites?

Business Networking: 0%
Marketing/Promotion: 0%
Personal/Pleasure: 8%
All of the above: 92%

BTW, I'd like to hear your ideas for future polls.  Do you have any questions pertaining to social media, content marketing, or online marketing in general that you'd like me to ask in an upcoming Caffeinated Poll?  Let me know!

Here's this week's poll:

Caffeinated Poll of the Week

They say curiosity killed the cat; but who cares?  I don't have a cat, so to quench my own insatiable curiosity, I'm launching a new weekly poll.  Each one will be ask a question pertaining to social media, search marketing, content, blogging, and other online marketing-related topics.

So, here's the first one.  If you have any comments about this survey, please feel free to add them.  Thanks for participating, and keep your eye out for more polls each week!