Beyond My Space, Facebook and YouTube, this blog takes a look at social networks that you may not have looked at as of yet.  As the holidays are approaching, we decided to turn this into a festive mood by taking a look at BottleTalk.
BottleTalk was started by wine aficionados that wanted to share wine with […]

Each week (well most weeks), we look at a social network beyond My Space, Facebook and YouTube.  IMVU qualifies as our first look at a virtual world, but we have selfish reasons.  We are very excited to see the music companies line up to create a social music network within IMVU.
For years the music companies […]

Each week, we take a look beyond My Space, Facebook, and YouTube, at a social network that you may not have checked out yet.  Keeping with our scary week theme, we thought it fitting to introduce you to Sinister Space.
Sinister Space is a social network devoted to horror fans.  This genre is well represented and […]

I feel like Dr. Frankenstein today on scary week on the blog.  I’m happy to say that my monster - the Temporary Urban Space Project (TUSP) is alive.  There are pictures at the end of this post from Pulse, the initial music and art event for the project.
I am going to tease you a little […]

October 27th.  I don’t see a full moon, but apparently leading up to Halloween, we got some weird social media news.
The first came from a US Army report that terrorists could theoretically use Twitter.  There is some great alliteration in that sentence.  Search Marketing Gurus (SMG) report: According a a report by the Agence France-Presse […]

Each week, we take a trip beyond My Space, Facebook and YouTube to introduce you to a different social network.  As you probably know, we are a Pittsburgh based company, yet we have not featured any of the Pittsburgh based social networks.  We remedy this oversight this week with a look at Women Drivers.
Women Drivers […]

This is the week that was in social media…
The digital music space may become even more crowded.  Reports surfaced that Facebook is investigating some sort of music delivery service. Facebook does not want to tangle with the big record companies over licensing issues nor build a service from scratch.  As such, they are looking to […]

Each week we take a look beyond My Space, Facebook and YouTube to a social network that you may have not visited yet as well as uncover additional marketing opportunities.  Today we get ready for Christmas by looking at I Like Totally Love It a social network dedicated to shopping.

Reuters reported today that YouTube will look for more ways to monetize their network.  The site is in the process of building out an e-commerce module that will sell music, videos, games, books, concert tickets and other media related items.
The site has partnered with Amazon and Apple for delivery.  When you view a video you […]

Each week, we go beyond My Space, Facebook and YouTube to get to know another social network out there.  Normally, we say meet the network, but today’s feature is all about meeting up.
MeetUp is a social network that desires to actually get you off the computer.  Strange as that sounds, their purpose is to facilitate […]

Quick Friday post on the events of this week:
The week has of course been dominated by politics.  We don’t cover that topic in this space.  However, we have been watching the explosive rise in social networks directly related to political usage.  Just sign on to Twitter and the top of the page has popular political […]

Part 1:
A rough economy typically takes a toll on marketing.  Good marketers weather the storm by showing realistic ROI for their programs. They shift resources when necessary and use these opportunities to win market share.  Yes, it is easier to grow in good times, but I hold firm to the belief that you win market […]

Think social networking is just for the teens or the college students? Then you are only scratching the surface of social networking.  This week, as we go beyond MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube, we visit the boomers social network site - Eons.
Eons was designed to give Baby Boomers their own home in the social world.  Targeted […]

Each week (Though we missed last week), we introduce you to a social network beyond MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.  This week we turn to the entrepreneurial side and take a look at Advisor Garage.
Advisor Garage is an online directory of advisors with the mission to help entrepreneurs.  Areas of expertise include funding, getting customers, sales […]

Every week, we go beyond MySpace, Facebook and YouTube to introduce you to a social network.  Today our post goes to the dogs - literally.  We take a peek at MyDogSpace.com.
MyDogSpace describes itself as an interactive space for all dogs and dog lovers.  I am guessing that it is mainly the latter.  I tested the […]

It is the first day after a long weekend and the news wire was dominated by Google as well as some other social media news.  Here are some of the topics that made it into the UniversalWit research library today.

Busy day today for social media.  Many user accounts were suspended on Twitter because AMC threw up the red flag with users impersonating characters from the popular ‘Mad Men’ series.
Many users on Twitter are actually fake characters.  The Mad Men impersonators though were able to use sound in the character voices. AMC argued that this […]

Each week on this blog, we take a look at social networking opportunities beyond MySpace, Facebook or YouTube.  This week we share Multiply with you.
Multiply is a sharing network.  I was first introduced to it in my search for mash ups, songs mixed together by a talented DJ.  I was able to check out some […]

I have been sitting on this news for about a week, but I am really excited about this announcement and what it means for social networks in the future.
Matt Mullenweg of WordPress (Disclaimer: This site was built on a WordPress platform and I am a big fan) announced that WordPress Multi-User will have the ability […]

Each week on this blog, we take a look at social networking opportunities beyond MySpace, Facebook or YouTube.  This week we go from moms to motors as we feature Motortopia, a social network site for your car, bike, boat or plane.

Facebook has been all over the news this week. The site has taken over as the world’s leading social network site even if it is still behind MySpace here in the US. Facebook’s approach to using the local native language has fueled their march overseas.

This blog often covers AdverGaming topics.  Casual Gaming offers a lot of opportunities for AdverGaming.  Better yet, some lessons being learned by casual game providers are lessons that apply to most Web 2.0 marketing tools.  It is all about finding your audience and engaging them on their preferred level.

In our continuing look beyond MySpace, FaceBook and YouTube, today we look at a social network dedicated to moms.  I was watching the Olympics and I noticed the commercials featuring athletes talking about their moms, and it inspired me to write about CafeMom.

Beyond MySpace, FaceBook and YouTube:
In our continuing series of looking beyond the big social networks, we take a look at Decorati a focused social network for interior design.

I read an interesting post on Mashable today titled ‘Corporations are driving social media growth’.  It made some excellent points that as more corporations dip their toes in the water that social media is becoming less of a niche of early adopters and more of a full fledge marketing outlet.

UniversalWit would like to install a new recurring feature into this blog that takes a look at the many social network options that you have to promote your business.  Some will be business specific and some will be more general options.  We will try and give you a picture as to who are using the […]

Change is often feared, yet change is inevitable and all around us. New Media such as social networks, blogs, and other user generated content is big change to many marketing folks. It is often more comfortable to continue a marketing strategy because of its familiarity. After all, to make a change, […]

The Field of Dreams quote is so over used it’s a cliché now and I hate to use it again.  ‘If You Build It - They Will Come’ only works for baseball fields in Iowa.  It does not work on the web and it certainly does not work with Web 2.0 tools such as social […]

In the news for Monday July, 21, 2008 is the compromise from Yahoo and dissident shareholder Carl Icahn. Facebook also made an announcement today.