Social Media Updates: Page 335

  • 7 News Events That Appeared on Social Media First

    Social media users are becoming the new journalists, with more than half of us learning about breaking new stories via Facebook, Twitter, and other sites rather than traditional news outlets. In fact, when it came to reporting some of the world's biggest recent news stories, social media had the ...

    By • Jan. 31, 2014

  • Facebook Trends for Businesses in 2014 [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Last week, social media was buzzing about the "demise of Facebook" survey recently published by Princeton University. The survey claimed that Facebook will lose "80% of its peak user base between 2015 and 2017." The study was widely shared around the internet and, since then, many industry experts and publications have weighed in.Much of the response has been critical.

    By • Jan. 29, 2014

  • How to Maximize Your YouTube Views and Subscribers [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Did you know that after search giant Google and social king Facebook, YouTube is the third most visited website on the internet today? Every 60 seconds there are 6000 minutes of video uploaded, and 200 million hours of videos are watched every day on YouTube. Nearly 33 million people visit YouTub...

    By • Jan. 29, 2014

  • Twitter Misconceptions: 4 Factors Hindering Adoption

    In spite of its ubiquity, Twitter seems to be one of the more misunderstand social media platforms out there. Even though I'm not a typical Twitter advocate, I'm a big believer in its value - particularly in terms of its use for professional purposes. I think everyone should have a Twitter accoun...

    By • Jan. 28, 2014

  • G+ Wiz B.L. Ochman's Tips for Creating a Great Google+ Profile [VIDEO]

    Here's how to get started so you won't make the newbie mistake that almost everyone does.1- Before you can join Google+, you have to create a gmail account2- You'll be prompted to create Google+ accountTIP: Make it a personal profile rather than a company page when you start. You can add your bus...

    By • Jan. 27, 2014

  • Social Media Fast Facts: Central and Eastern Europe

    Welcome to part two of my 'Fast facts' series, where I look at social networks, local influencers and popular brands around the world. In part one, I looked at social media in Western Europe; part two covers Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia.Social networks: what's popular in Eastern E...

    By • Jan. 24, 2014

  • Facebook News Feed Now Gives Text Updates Less Reach

    Facebook recently noticed an interesting pattern in how people post text updates. They noticed that people write more text updates when they see more text updates from their friends.But this isn't true for pages.Text updates from Pages don't influence how many text updates people publish (file th...

    By • Jan. 23, 2014

  • 6 Misconceptions About Facebook Advertising

    Facebook advertising is more important than ever in 2014. If you want your business to succeed on Facebook this year, you're going to have to start taking advertising seriously. However, there are still some big misconceptions around Facebook advertising that need addressing. We've taken on 6 ...

    By • Jan. 23, 2014

  • Facebook Testing Ads in Mobile Apps

    Facebook is testing mobile ads that appear on apps other than its own, the company said.Facebook says: "As mobile continues to move to more app-based experiences, advertisers want to reach people spending their time in apps and developers need new ways to make money. To improve the relevancy of t...

    By • Jan. 23, 2014

  • 8 Ways to Stand Out on Instagram

    The social media landscape is crowded. While this presents benefits like the ability to get in front of the masses, it presents a somewhat larger obstacle: how to make your profile and presence pop in a sea of people.I shared my tips for standing out on Twitter and on LinkedIn. To continue this s...

    By • Jan. 21, 2014

  • 5 Tips on How to Use Twitter for Recruiting

    For her article "How Does Twitter Use Twitter to Recruit?", Erin Osterhaus went straight to the source: Anitra Collins,Twitter's Recruiting Programs Officer.Thanks to Holly Aker for authorizing me to quote from the SoftwareAdvice article.Before sharing what Twitter's Ms. Collins had to say, here ...

    By • Jan. 18, 2014

  • Facebook Launches Trending Topics

    I fear the day when it will become difficult for us to differ one social networking site from another. After adopting hashtags, Facebook will soon be rolling out the Trending Topics feature.As shared by Chris Struhar on Facebook Newsroom, the feature is "designed to surface interesting and releva...

    By • Jan. 17, 2014

  • These Five Brands Are Nailing It on Pinterest

    When it comes to Pinterest, many brands aren't quite sure how to turn boards and pins into followers and potential customers. However, now more than ever it is important not to overlook this image sharing social network.Pinterest users have proven that they trust their Pinterest networks to endor...

    By • Jan. 17, 2014

  • Twitter Redesigns Desktop Homepage to Match Its Mobile Apps

    Twitter has redesigned its desktop homepage in a bid to match the look and feel of its mobile app versions. The new design and layout clearly resembles Twitter for iOS and Android, with the cover image now behind the profile pic at the top-left side of the screen, for a more visually appealing pa...

    By • Jan. 17, 2014

  • A Google Plus Marketing Strategy for Success: Interview with Jesse Wojdylo

    Is "Market your company on Google Plus" on your company's New Year's Resolutions list? If not, it should be!Gryffin Media hosted a Google Hangout with social media marketing expert Jesse Wojdylo, one of the individuals with the largest followings on Google Plus. It's not easy to have 1000 foll...

    By • Jan. 15, 2014

  • Killer, Exquisite, Seductive, Damn Good and Arresting Blog Post Essentials

    Oh the humanity! I don't care how obscure, famous or infamous you and/or your blog is, every blogger can relate to blogger anxiety - that feeling one gets before clicking the "Publish" button of, "Am I sure this post is the best it can be and how can I tweak it so I become famous like Jason Falls...

    By Mike Poynton • Jan. 15, 2014

  • Social Linguistics: The Contextual Evolution

    Words and meanings have been changing for centuries from cave paintings to petro glyphs to pictograms to ideograms to writing to the alphabet. And within each of those changes, there were historical and contextual changes that revolutionized the way humans interacted.Today is no different. We hav...

    By • Jan. 14, 2014

  • LinkedIn Invitations Don't Add Value

    Today I end what has become one of my living nightmares over the past year: invitations to be connected in LinkedIn.This has cost me months of procrastination and indecision. The disquiet resulting from not being able to answer each and every one of these invitations has been such that I've even ...

    By • Jan. 14, 2014

  • 22 Tips to Humanize Your Brand Using Twitter

    Congratulations! You have setup your business Twitter account. Maybe you have sent a few tweets or even a few hundred or thousands. Could be you are soaring through the Twitterverse and seeing much success. That is if there is such a thing as a "Twitterverse." For the purpose of this blog post we...

    By • Jan. 13, 2014

  • Google+ Works: An Open Apology for My First Impression

    Google+ works: An open apology for my first impressionAh, Google+. How wrong I was. I admit I was not a fan. At first. But you've turned my head.Six months ago, I wrote an article about the limited value of Google+, highlighting three points on why "Google+ isn't Google-worthy." While my first tw...

    By • Jan. 12, 2014

  • Ways to Create Vanity URLs for LinkedIn Company Pages

    A frequently asked question is:How can I create a vanity URL for my LinkedIn Company page? Here some options:If your company name is a single word, delete everything behind "company/" in the default URL and add your company name.Example:My LinkedIn company page default URL is: https://www.linkedi...

    By • Jan. 8, 2014

  • Do Small Business Employees Use Social Networks? [INFOGRAPHIC]

    The days are gone when email was considered as a killer application, social networking sites holds that distinction and now ruling the world. It began as a venue for teens but now people of all ages use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social sites for both personal and business use. Accordi...

    By • Dec. 31, 2013

  • Facebook Leads the Present and Happiness

    I'm noticing more and more people talking about their lives on Facebook. It's usually when you turn your head to a monitor or peek towards a smartphone or tablet that you realise that what you're looking at is the Facebook homepage. I see mums and dads, sons and daughters sitting at a table and l...

    By • Dec. 30, 2013

  • Which Brands Rule the Twitter-verse? [INFOGRAPHIC]

    More big brands are adopting Twitter for use in daily operations. This illustration takes a look at five categories that brand "giants" dominate in the Twitterverse.

    By • Dec. 20, 2013

  • The #1 Social Media Practice That Needs To Go Away in 2014

    With 2013 winding to a close, there are a lot of ideas for ways to improve social media campaigns and efforts generally in the coming year. There have been a lot of unique and creative campaigns over the past year that we can all look to for creative inspiration. Conversely, there is one social m...

    By • Dec. 18, 2013