Social Media Updates: Page 334

  • The Weakest Link: How You Can Prevent Access to Your Accounts

    Hardly a week goes by where we don't hear about some form of cyber crime in the news, and the high-profile hacking schemes that make the business press often cause millions in damage. The problem is even more severe at the small and medium-sized business level, where websites, email accounts, and...

    By • March 6, 2014

  • Enhancing Your LinkedIn Profile (Part 2): 7 More Tasks and 23+ Tips

    Building on an earlier post, this piece offers additional guidance to help professionals upgrade their LinkedIn profiles. It describes seven tasks that can be tackled in one sitting or over several sessions. These tasks include adding digital links, creating a summary and adding specialties, sele...

    By • March 6, 2014

  • Who Owns Your Content Online?

    Myspace got into hot water last year for deleting years of users' blog posts before its re-launch. There was uproar from users, and in response Myspace created an export tool to allow them to download their old posts from the site.Were users right to get upset? Did Myspace have to hand over old p...

    By • March 6, 2014

  • #Oscars2014: The Twitter Story [INFOGRAPHIC]

    From red carpet fashion mishaps to emotional acceptance speeches, surprise winners (and losers) to backstage and after party shenanigans, the annual Oscars ceremony never fails to cause a stir in Hollywood and beyond. Thanks to Twitter becoming a highly integrated part of televised events these d...

    By • March 5, 2014

  • 15 Years of Tech Acquisitions by Major Tech Companies [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Recent news of the highly buzzed about WhatsApp acquisition had us all amazed by the pricetag of such a business deal. It also made us highly curious about what Facebook has planned for the future. While we can't accurately predict what this means for the future plans of Facebook, we can examine and compare the acquisition strategies of other huge tech companies and make a few guesses. This infographic by Simply Business visualizes the acquisition strategies of 5 major tech companies, including Facebook.

    By • March 3, 2014

  • Pinterest Traffic: 3 Fast Tricks You Can Use Today

    Want some Pinterest traffic? Some of my clients still don't believe that they can get useful traffic from Pinterest. While it's true that Pinterest won't send you masses of traffic when your account is new, the traffic you do get pays off. It's engaged, and responsive - conversion rates for Pinte...

    By • Feb. 27, 2014

  • LinkedIn's New Feature to Increase Brand Eminence

    Wouldn't it be great if by simply adding a photo to your business LinkedIn profile, your profile would be 10 times more likely to be viewed and attract potential opportunities? Well, there's a good new for all of you. Today, LinkedIn revamped its 'who viewed your profile' page with a few interest...

    By • Feb. 27, 2014

  • LinkedIn Open Publishing and the Rise of the Borrowed Platform

    Last week LinkedIn dropped a bomb on the content marketing world, announcing that its publishing platform would soon become open to all users. Previously, it was exclusive to 500 hand-picked executives and industry thought-leaders whose content was distributed and promoted through LinkedIn Today ...

    By • Feb. 27, 2014

  • Do Journalists Prefer Contact Through Social Media or Email?

    One of the most interesting uses of social media, to date, is how it was used during the Boston Bombing manhunt.Not only could you get updates on Facebook and Twitter - and follow certain hashtags to get the kind of information you wanted - you could listen to the police scanner and learn what wa...

    By • Feb. 26, 2014

  • Why (and How) I Forced 912 People to Unfollow Me on Twitter

    This screenshot, courtesy of TwitterCounter, shows a 3-month tally of my Twitter followers. Notable milestones include 4,419 on December 23; 4,721 on January 14; and 4,887 on February 2.Do you see the downward slope on the far right? Notable numbers there include 4,832 on February 18; 4,503 on Fe...

    By • Feb. 26, 2014

  • 5 Signs You've Lost Touch With Your Social Communities

    What's up with our social? Whether someone is asking you that question, or you're asking yourself, here are a couple things to consider before you start making excuses or assumptions about why your community is to blame and not you.1. You're content is weak.If you've been posting about the same t...

    By • Feb. 25, 2014

  • LinkedIn Uses Big Data to Increase Profile Visibility and Enhance Professional Brands

    Who wouldn't like more LinkedIn profile page views? Thanks to the newly updated "Who's Viewed Your Profile" section, users can now take advantage of personalized tips aimed at boosting page views.One of the main features that has distinguished LinkedIn from the other major social media platforms,...

    By • Feb. 25, 2014

  • Sales Manager Chronicles: Coaching the Old-School Sales Pro

    My name is Barry Evolvowitz. I'm a sales manager in Anytown, USA. I love teaching my sales team how to generate leads, drive them through the sales funnel and close deals.I'm here to chronicle my journey as a Sales Manager so that others - like yourself - can learn from my experiences.Your team i...

    By Koka Sexton • Feb. 21, 2014

  • WhatsApp Is Just What Facebook Needed

    Let Wall Street doubt all they want. The critics will say that no company would pay for an acquisition with 2/3 stock if they thought their stock was undervalued. They'll also say that Facebook spent 1/3 of its available cash on hand to pay for this deal. None of that matters, at least not to the...

    By • Feb. 21, 2014

  • Facebook Buys WhatsApp for $19 Billion, But Why?

    I woke up yesterday to the news of Facebook setting plans in motion to buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19Bn USD. At that point, it hadn't been confirmed whether the deal had gone through, and a lot of outlets were reporting that this was something "in the works". My gut told me this would go through...

    By • Feb. 21, 2014

  • The Tao of Google: An Enlightened Approach to Search Success

    Just over half a year ago, I published an article titled "Zen And The Art Of Search Engine Optimization" that generated a lot of interest and discussion.In my own tongue-in-cheek way, I was trying to share my philosophy that search engine optimization is changing all around us, and at a rapid pac...

    By • Feb. 20, 2014

  • 3 Dedicated Social Networks That Prove Facebook, Twitter And LinkedIn Don't Own Social And Won't

    Ah, the big three. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are often spoken in the same breath as "social media." And, some may argue, rightly so - between them, they boast over 1.6 billion users and account for the vast majority of marketing and advertising dollars spent on social media.But they're not t...

    By • Feb. 19, 2014

  • Twitter Rolling Out Revamped Look Resembling Facebook

    Twitter may soon look like Facebook as users of the social networking giant report that they are seeing a new layout which observers note look like a mix of Facebook and other social networking stars.One of those users is the Twitter account used by Full Sail University's Electronic Dance Music O...

    By • Feb. 13, 2014

  • How Do I Turn Off the Trending Box in Facebook?

    In case you haven't noticed, Facebook recently launched an addition to the user-experience called their "Trending" box. The content in this widget providers users with a quick way to see what topics of conversation are trending across the entire Facebook community.While some see this as a great w...

    By • Feb. 10, 2014

  • How Twitter's User Engagement Problem Affects Brands

    In case you hadn't heard, Twitter has something of a user engagement problem. In its Q4 2013 earnings results, the social network reported that whilst user numbers had grown overall, both the total number of timeline views and the number of timeline views per active user had sharply decreased, as...

    By • Feb. 7, 2014

  • Beginner's Guide to Hashtags, Mentions, and Replies

    One of the fastest ways to increase your brand awareness on Twitter is through the use of hashtags, mentions, and replies. Using them wrong, however, can not only make your brand look foolish and amateurish, but it can also be detrimental to your overall goal. So here's a crash course in @'s and ...

    By • Feb. 6, 2014

  • 40+ Tips to Grow Your LinkedIn Connections [INFOGRAPHIC]

    LinkedIn may not seem as sexy as Facebook, Google+ or Twitter, but more than 225 million people are using it, making it the world's largest professional social network that you can't ignore. So, how can you get the most from it? Kudos to the Who Is Hosting This team, who put together an infograph...

    By • Feb. 6, 2014

  • I Culled Half My Facebook Contacts: Here's What Happened

    For the last 12 months, I've been conducting an experiment in social media marketing on Facebook - which culminated in culling half of my contacts last week.That might sound like a drastic move, particularly when social media engagement is supposed to be all about reaching the maximum number of p...

    By • Feb. 6, 2014

  • Social Media Saves Stranded Drivers in Atlanta

    As you may have heard, this week Atlanta was paralyzed by ice and snow (and an ill-prepared city/state government).Nearly 1,000 wrecks and impassable roads left hundreds of thousands of people stranded overnight in their cars, many without food and water (my brother and many friends among them). ...

    By • Feb. 2, 2014

  • Facebook Paper: Another Move Forward by the Social Media Monolith

    Social media has been one of the most outstanding things since the middle of the past decade if one is speaking about the online world. It has changed almost every aspect of life, both online as well as offline. It has been one of the most talked about topics during the last few years as well. Bi...

    By • Jan. 31, 2014