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Soooo, apparently, some of you superfans saw my jibba jabba this morning. Sorry about that!
For those of you who didn’t recognize what it was, it’s an embed code for social networking site Empire Avenue, which I have finally signed up for. Because I am always on the cutting edge. The cutting edge of people who pick up things like 4 years after everyone else.
Anyway, this was the embed code I had to include, in order to get credit for my contributions here at the edmontonian (because I’m really only in it for the glory).
If you’re not yet on EA, today is the day that they’ve finally opened their doors to everybody, so you no longer need an invite! Sign up and buy stock in me – SALLY – (I promise I’ll return the favour once I figure it all out.)
Buy! Sell! People!
What’s a tweet worth?
Well, sometimes it’s not much. But other times it could involve some valuable information.
Here's a shot of the screen used to demonstrate Empire Avenue.
And sometimes you’ve got a great Facebook profile or page, perhaps a sweet Flickr account, neat podcast, an amazing blog, and so on and so on in the social media world.
Now, Empire Avenue is trying to monetize your online value.
Hey, why not?
If the traditional media is suffering at all due to people turning to bloggers or other online sources of information, especially locally, then there has to be some value in what these online “influencers” are saying.
Certainly there are photographers who’ve landed jobs from Flickr postings, bloggers who have written for newspapers and magazines, as that online presence carries into traditional media realms. And if you notice a cute little dog to the upper right of these very words you can see there’s an advertising value in online media.
Empire Avenue wants to help you, yes you, squeeze some value out of your tweets, your Facebook, Flickr and YouTube accounts, your blog, by having other people investing in you, as if you were a stock on the open market.
Right now the people’s market is in beta, being tested by lucky nerds like me. Soon they’ll open things up to a larger audience. Then, they’ll open things up to the money.
Basically here’s what it could do, using this website as an example. (more…)
