Social Media Updates: Page 341

  • Facebook Is Testing a "Trending" Feature in the News Feed

    Following on from the introduction of hashtags to the site in June, Facebook is experimenting with a new feature, similar to Twitter's 'what's trending', which lists, alongside the News Feed, popular topics being discussed on the site in real-time.The Wall Street Journal was the first publication...

    By • Sept. 3, 2013

  • How to Use LinkedIn for Reputation Management

    Did you know you can use LinkedIn as a reputation management tool? LinkedIn has several features that make it a great tool for managing your reputation online. Here are 6 ways you can manage your reputation using LinkedIn.Search engine optimization - Let's start with the obvious. Your LinkedIn pr...

    By • Aug. 30, 2013

  • Why You Should Read "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead"

    Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead is the much-discussed book by Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of the social network Facebook. She steps beyond her role at Facebook to make a brave and educated contribution to the gender equality movement.Personally, I find it extremely encouraging that the di...

    By • Aug. 30, 2013

  • Facebook: Most Popular Social Media Site for All Ages [INFOGRAPHIC]

    This is an infographic based upon a recent Pew survey of teenage social media usage. The insight that received most attention from that study was that teens are increasingly disillusioned by Facebook. This infographic points out what I found to be the most illuminating statistic from the study: F...

    By • Aug. 29, 2013

  • Why Hasn't Twitter Replaced Email in Politics?

    Charles Ellison asked me a good question yesterday: hasn't Twitter (and by implication, other social channels like Facebook) replaced old-school email as a communications tool for political campaigns? My one-word answer: no. But why?Charles and I were sitting in a Sirius/XM radio studio just nort...

    By • Aug. 29, 2013

  • Facebook Introduces Shared Albums

    Facebook has introduced a new feature called "shared albums". Now, you can invite up to 50 contributors to your photo albums and each member can upload up to 200 photos each. As the album owner, you'll get to choose what kind of permissions to give to your contributors and whether they can invite...

    By • Aug. 29, 2013

  • Shutterstock Deal Provides Companies With Free Facebook Pictures

    Facebook has struck a deal will photo library site Shutterstock to provide businesses with millions of images to use in their adverts. Businesses often have a tough time finding the right photo to fit their advertising campaign but, thanks to the new deal with Shutterstock, companies will be able...

    By • Aug. 28, 2013

  • 10 Simple Ways To Improve Your LinkedIn Profile

    LinkedIn is a network that you should visit daily for professional development - whatever your employment status may be.Is your LinkedIn profile ready to be seen by others? Here are ten suggestions to give you instant LinkedIn cred.1. Upload a decent photoYour LinkedIn profile photo sets the tone...

    By • Aug. 28, 2013

  • LinkedIn Lowers Age to 13: Is This Making Children Grow Up Too Fast?

    What were you doing in your spare time when you were 13? Practicing dance moves for when you would be the next pop sensation? Playing out in the street with your friends? At a summer camp?Well, according to LinkedIn, you were doing childhood all wrong!The world's largest "professional" network wi...

    By • Aug. 27, 2013

  • LinkedIn Now Tracks You Across the Web (and Flaunts It) [VIDEO]

    We know companies track us across the web, but most companies don't make the tracking obvious.LinkedIn, in quite a departure, is showing right on the homepage the company websites you have visited.The video below is a short screen capture showing how Eloqua and Demandbase were added to the recent...

    By • Aug. 27, 2013

  • Pinning Your Brand: 6 Tips for Choosing Pinterest Board Names

    Pinterest is a viral community - users re-pin avidly and it's a great site for connecting with new followers and showing off a lighter, more creative side to your brand. But choosing the right names for your boards is very important. If you want people to follow your boards and share your pins, h...

    By • Aug. 26, 2013

  • 7 Benefits of Monitoring Social Engagement on Google Plus

    One of the lesser known but major benefits of Google Plus is that you can track the social engagement with any web article, whether it is your own blog post or a competitor's article. Big deal, you may say, as you can typically see on how many times an article has been tweeted or how many plus on...

    By • Aug. 26, 2013

  • The Social Caped Crusade Against Ben Affleck

    This past Thursday night, it was announced that Ben Affleck would be starring as Bruce Wayne. Even though 2015 is still quite some time away, it didn't stop the masses from responding in a multitude of fashions. While one might find a few superhero fans that couldn't care less, the vocal majority...

    By • Aug. 25, 2013

  • The Internet: Then and Now [INFOGRAPHIC]

    The Internet is a vastly different beast today than it was 40 years ago. This fun visual takes a unique look at the transformation that brought the web from four computers to over 750 million households. In one single minute, it accommodates 700 videos, 28,000 Tumblr posts, 100,000 tweets and more than 34,000 Facebook likes--and that's just average.

    By • Aug. 23, 2013

  • LinkedIn to Lower Age of Consent to 13

    LinkedIn is evolving its terms and conditions to allow people as young as 13 to have LinkedIn profiles, so that they can start early in life to differentiate between their upcoming professional and personal interactions they often share on platforms like Facebook.The profiles will be treated diff...

    By • Aug. 23, 2013
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    3 Things Brands Should Steer Clear of Doing on Twitter

    In July 2013, Disruptive Communications put together an infographic illustrating what customers can't stand about brands as seen through their social media outlets. While the infographic was limited to polling about 1,003 U.K. based consumers, the reasons are seemingly universal when it comes to ...

    By • Aug. 23, 2013

  • Are You Networking in Your Pajamas?

    How's your LinkedIn?How much of your time do you spend networking for business each week?Hours can be spent away from the office, going to meetings, walking away with a handful of business cards and no real follow-up method in place.What if it could be simpler, done at your own convenience, and t...

    By • Aug. 22, 2013

  • Pinterest Cheat Sheet

    Pinterest is one of the easiest social networks to navigate, given its image-rich format. Pinterest is designed to easily allow you to organize and share photos online that link back to the original website or source. Once you upload or share an image on Pinterest, this image is referred to as a ...

    By • Aug. 22, 2013

  • Twitter's New "Related Headlines" Feature Gives Tweets Context

    Twitter announced the new 'related headlines' feature on the Twitter blog. Tweets which have been embedded into articles will now display this information on Twitter, so that users can discover more about the content of a tweet by clicking through to an article.Of course, only a few tweets - thos...

    By • Aug. 21, 2013

  • Has LinkedIn Replaced Cold Calling?

    It's 9 am. You've just finished your second cup of coffee, responded to pressing emails, and browsed through Sportscenter for the run down of the day's top stories. Now it's time to break out the prospect list that you built from Lexis Nexus and begin dialing for dollars, right? Well, only if yo...

    By • Aug. 21, 2013

  • 12 Engaging Facebook Posts to Consider

    If you are wondering what would help you grow your Facebook community organically, the answer is relevant interesting content and engaged community manager. But even the best community managers sometimes run out of creative ideas. Here are the 12 types of posts that in my experience consistently...

    By • Aug. 20, 2013

  • Feeling a Bit Fed Up? Why Facebook Might Be to Blame

    We've all been there. Feeling a little bit bored and with nothing to do, you log on to Facebook to see what your friends are up to in the hope their wild antics and funny stories might cheer you up - only sometimes it doesn't quite work out like that.Instead of embarrassing drunken photos from th...

    By • Aug. 19, 2013

  • Women Media Entrepreneurs Summit: Making New Ideas Happen

    Sept. 12, 2013, National Press Club Co-sponsored by J-Lab, the National Press Club Journalism Institute, and AU's MA in Media Entrepreneurship program. Funded by the Gannett Foundation and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism FoundationStorified by JLab · Tue, Sep 17 2013 13:07:47Some Top Quot...

    By • Aug. 18, 2013

  • Facebook Tests Mobile Payments Service - And a Whole New Data Opportunity

    Facebook reportedly plans to test a new mobile payment service that would allow shoppers to make purchases on mobile apps using their Facebook log-in details. The service will clearly be seen as a competitor for PayPal, but for Facebook it could be more than that - providing them with a new set o...

    By • Aug. 16, 2013

  • Why Handing Out LinkedIn Recommendations Like Candy Could Kill Your Reputation

    Think about the last time you agreed to give one of your favorite businesses, vendors, consultants, or colleagues a recommendation or testimonial.You probably knew that person or business pretty well, right? Maybe you'd worked with them in the past, purchased their product or service, or hired th...

    By • Aug. 16, 2013