10 Reasons in 2 minutes on why you need to be there.

For any business owners who still think Twitter and Facebook are frivolous ventures, this video will make you think twice. Reason #6 on the video is what mobiEnthusiast readers have suspected for some time:

“Reason #6: Because the next 3 Billion people will access the internet from a mobile device.”

Social Media is mobile, and that’s why you’ll be reading a lot more about it on mobiEnthusiast. This is a YouTube video (also a Social Media site) that explains Social Media in 2 minutes.

My apologies to those on unsupported phones that can’t see it. There are two versions of the YouTube video below, and hopefully one will work for you.

If you still can’t see the video, here’s a link to it on YouTube.

Thank you to Mari Smith for the heads up on the video.

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If you are interested at all in making websites, social media, analytics, trends, Wordpress, or just interesting tech reading in general, then do yourself a favor and become a regular reader of Mark Fulton’s work.

Mark runs Dotsauce Magazine, an industry website for people who invest in domain names. That’s a good website. However, the real value Mark brings to the table for people who are interested in the more mainstream aspects of internet and business marketing come from his @dotsauce Twitter posts (he has over 13.5K followers) and his Facebook account, where he has over 726 friends.

Mark is one of the most generous people on the internet today, sharing all the resources he finds along the way. This post is my way of saying “thank you” to him, and share this most valuable resource with readers of this blog.

Go friend or follow him now. You’ll be glad you did.

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Microblogging has matured to the point where CNN recently announced it prefers to take story ideas only via Twitter. But the phenomenon of microblogging goes far beyond Twitter, according to Microblogging.com, a site that catalogs microblogging and other social media services.

For example, Status.net (formerly Laconi.ca) now makes it easy for people to start their own microblogging network and offers free and paid versions. Shoutem.com is mobile compliant from the start and offers free microblogging networks that integrate with Twitter or stand alone. These might be helpful for a closed network, or for people who feel like they are lost on Twitter. In the wake of Ning closing out its free communities, these might be good starting points for online community managers who need a new home.

mobiEnthusiast.mobi will also be getting into the spirit of microblogging by posting tidbits from around the web in addition to fully written blog posts. It’s my way of keeping you informed when I only have time to microblog when time is too short to blog. Addionally, you can receive notifications and bite sized info with mobiEnthusiast.mobi updates on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/mobiEnthusiast.

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If you haven’t already flown to San Francisco for the Chirp Twitter Developer Conference, you can still watch the live streaming version on Justin.tv. Justin.tv is a haven for techie videos and livestreams. Here’s what they have to say about the conference simulcast:

During the two-day event, viewers can tune in to learn from the experts that keep Twitter’s heart beating. Chirp will be showcasing the very best and most successful Twitter Developers in the world throughout the conference. Put your developer hat on for a peek inside the biggest micro-blogging site in the world!

This is the first officially-sponsored developer conference by Twitter. Since Twitter acquired the iPhone app Tweetie, third-party twitter developers have become nervous about their stake in the microblogging social media giant. Perhaps this conference will answer some of those questions.

Justin.tv is also available as a free iPhone App (link opens iTunes).

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You may have noticed an ad over on the sidebar for SDCA.mobi. You may also notice that the site is a bit of a mess right now. That’s actually my site, and it’s a mess because I am taking my own advice and creating new, relevant information that people in San Diego might want to find on a mobile site. This latest version is being updated in response to the overwhelming popularity of a local Social Media contest that took over the San Diego Twitter community this month.

The contest is called “Champions of Social Media,” and thanks to you wonderful readers and a heck of a lot campaigning by my friends, I am in the finals for the contest in the “Blogger of the Year” category. You can learn more about this great community-building contest at InfluenceSD.com or by searching Twitter for the now-ubiquitous hashtag #InfluenceSD.

So, what does one have to do with the other? Simple. This contest has raised awareness of the sheer number of people involved with Twitter in San Diego. It’s pretty difficult to keep track of how many of us there really are. So, being the mobile web development proponant that I am, I’ve started tinkering with an already useful site, and have begun a beta test (well, it’s more like alpha just yet) to invite these newfound celebrities and friends to help each other find one another.

Are you in San Diego? Do you use Twitter? Do you live somewhere else and want to watch the progress of a mobile directory before your very eyes? If so, have a look at the site and join the brand-spanking-new SDCA Facebook Fan Page to find out more and to suggest some categories. Of course, you’re also welcome to suggest categories in the comments as well.

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Prestigious Startup Award

Hurry, the deadline is fast approaching for Mobile Premier Awards

Mobile Premier Awards – Calling All Mobile Startups for this year’s best in Mobile Innovation

There have already been more than 200 submissions for the Mobile Premier Awards. Participation is free and open to any startup with a mobile angle. To sign up entrants simply need to create their own company profile on dotopen.com and select the awards they want to compete in. Visit how to sign up for the mobile premier awards and how to create a good company profile. The deadline for entry is December 31st 2009.

Categories for Mobile Premier Awards include:

• Innovation – The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers
  in partnership with MobileMonday
• Marketing – The best startup in Mobile Marketing
  in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association
• Entertainment – The best startup in Mobile Entertainment
  in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum
• User Experience – The best startup in Mobile User Experience
  in partnership with MEX.
• Social Change – The best startup using mobile for social change
  in partnership with MobileActive.org
• Female Entrepreneurship – The best woman-lead mobile startup in partnership with Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association

Good luck to everyone who enters.

Thanks to Rudy De Waele , @mtrends on Twitter for spotting this one and Tweeting the link.

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Event to feature top media and business thought leaders

Note: the links in this story are not optimized for mobile

The Naked Media show from ScribeMedia.org is offering free web viewing of their live broadcast from the Economist Media Convergence Conference in New York City on Tuesday, October 20th @ 3:15pm Eastern Time. Register now

The Future of Media: Changing Times will explore the following topics:

• How the advent of new technologies such as e-book readers, smart phones and flexible screen technology will change the media model.
• How will newspapers, magazines, book publishers, TV stations and others dependent on existing models, adapt to this change?
• The potential impact of these new technologies over the next five years.

According to The Economist,

The surge of new technologies and social media innovations in today’s environment is significantly altering the future media landscape for marketers. Consumer behaviour is changing and the way marketers reach their audience must also change. Marketers are searching for new ways to not only reach their customers, but to understand them, to peer inside their minds. As the level of consumer understanding increases, so can the knowledge of how best to reach them. However the plethora of tools at a marketers disposal is not easy to navigate and real learning comes from a real understanding of the future of media convergence.

Media Convergence forum gathers a unique speaking faculty of thought leaders, marketing psychologists, technology experts, futurists, media and marketing professionals to look into the future to consider the ideas, technologies and tactics that tomorrow’s best organisations will adopt.

Featured Speakers

• Angela Courtin, SVP of Marketing Entertainment and Content, MySpace
• Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist
• Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures
• Terry Davenport, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and Brand Strategy, Starbucks
• Jack Dorsey, Chairman, Twitter
• Jeff Jarvis, Author, What Would Google Do?

If you are in New York for the live event, take $500 off the ticket price with the code NKMD on the registration page.

Sessions Include:

• Future of media: Changing times
• How the kids are doing it: Trendsetting
• The social media phenomenon: Branding success
• New media for marketers: Behind the hype
• Demonstration competition: The most exciting and game changing technologies will be showcased

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If you want the latest news from the top microblogging site, Twitter, just follow the hashtag #mobi. Hashtags are tags that begin with the # sign and are followed by a keyword. They are intentionally used by Twitter members to make it easy for people following that particular topic to find news about it.

For news directly from dotMobi (mTLD), follow @dotMobiOfficial. It’s an official account from their Public Relations Department. The editor of MobiForge, the developer forum, is on twitter as well as @rodono.

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US Election Results Sites – Mobile

Election Day is winding down in the United States with many of the states’ polls closed and others open for just a few more hours. Who will win? The whole world is watching, and so are we — from our mobile phones. The following is a small sampling of mobile website covering the election results. Please feel free to add your own in the comments section.

News Sites

Here are some .mobi sites with election headlines and stories:

• ThePresidency.mobi
• BusinessWeek.mobi
• MSN.mobi
• FoxNews.mobi
• Signon.mobi, San Diego Union-Tribune
• WichitaEagle.mobi Wichita, Kansas

Candidates’ Microblogs

If you’d like to read what the candidates have to say in real time, they are both microblogging on Twitter. Here’s the mobile version of their messages:

John McCain’s Twitter Timeline
Barack Obama’s Twitter Timeline

Election Video

Mippin has video in 3gp format for smartphones, including iphones.

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Mike Rowehl of Mowser fame announced via twitter and his blog computer link mobile link it is official and he has joined Skyfire. His official job title is “Scalable Architect” but his business cards say “Deliverator.”

Congratulations, Mike, and we’ll all be watching to see how you influence the mobile internet in your new post.

If you want to work with Mike over at Skyfire, they are hiring. computer link mobile link

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