Social Media Updates: Page 345

  • The Ultimate Guide to Pinterest Metrics for Every Brand [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Pinterest has stricken our visual fancy like no other network before it. Pinterest's meteoric rise in only a few years shows the site is more than just a pretty community for people interested in fashion and lifestyle: marketers are all over Pinterest's lead-generation aspects as online hits on p...

    By • Aug. 12, 2013

  • Losing the Hacker Way Is Killing Facebook

    As a data-led individual, I was encouraged to read about Facebook's reasons for slowing the 'hacker way' on Wired earlier in the week. It is definitely a sign of maturity in the company that rollouts are carefully monitored, results poured over and analysed in order to iterate and ensure the bes...

    By • Aug. 9, 2013

  • Let's Party: How to #Twitterview

    "A Twitterv- a Twitter what? What the hell is that?"Yes, my friends, that was the one and only Chris Horton's response to a friendly invite for a #Twitterview from Juliane Pettorossi on behalf of Silverback Social last week. I assured him it was not a sinister plot to trap him in and inescapable ...

    By • Aug. 9, 2013

  • Facebook Thumbs up to Scam Ads

    I'm fed up of seeing endless adverts in my Facebook feed telling me I can 'melt away belly fat' or 'learn the secret to losing 2 stone in 4 weeks' - as a woman I am bombarded with such rubbish every time I login to Facebook and frankly, I've had enough.Bear in mind i'm an adult, I understand that...

    By • Aug. 9, 2013

  • Twitter Hashtags and Consulting Firms: Send A Telegram, Not A Smoke Signal

    Have you ever felt like you're just creating "smoke signals" on Twitter to a distant and vague target - and that you'd rather be sending something as direct as a telegram? One feature of Twitter that many people and brands don't understand are hashtags (#). They're everywhere, and their use is re...

    By • Aug. 8, 2013

  • Google vs. Facebook: The Internships [INFOGRAPHIC]

    It's widely known that Google and Facebook have some of the most coveted internships in the tech industry.

    By • Aug. 8, 2013

  • The Second Largest Search Engine [INFOGRAPHIC]

    All the milestones YouTube achieved in less than a decade has made it the world's second largest search engine, and a key platform for online video marketing and advertising. The online video sharing service, developed by a trio of former PayPal employees in February 2005, now allows users to upl...

    By • Aug. 7, 2013

  • 15 Essential Tips for Compelling LinkedIn Company Page Updates

    LinkedIn Company Updates are a powerful way to reach and engage professionals with relevant content across multiple devices. But are your updates optimized? There are specific tactics that marketers should keep in mind when creating and posting their company page updates that can dramatically inc...

    By • Aug. 6, 2013

  • A Facebook Post's Lifetime Is Even Shorter Than You Thought

    Data Science blog post seriesAt Wisemetrics, we have been gathering a huge amount of social media data for over a year and thought it was time to share some insights we are getting from it. This post is part of a Data Science short blog posts series we hope you will find interesting.We know it's ...

    By • Aug. 6, 2013

  • Facebook Hires Its First Chief Marketing Officer Gary Briggs

    The social giant has appointed its first Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Gary Briggs, reports Ad Age. Briggs had switched from his role as VP of consumer marketing at Google to CMO at Motorola and will replace Facebook's VP of product marketing Eric Antonow.Briggs worked with Motorola as CMO until...

    By • Aug. 6, 2013

  • The 9 Types of Facebook Users [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Facebook, home to more than 1.11 billion registered users, is the haven of more than 750 million active social network users who have different types of profile pages. These profiles intend to show the personality of the owner of the account. However, your habit and social activity on the platfor...

    By • Aug. 6, 2013

  • How to "Force" Facebook to Show the RIGHT People Consistently in Your Feed

    Facebook... Stop Hiding the Best Stuff! Lifehacking is the process of using "hacks" (tricks) to make your life more efficient. So today we're going to do a little Facebook "hacking" to make the news feed be a little better behaved! Recently, during a rather serious time, a regular reader of mine ...

    By • Aug. 5, 2013

  • The Importance of #Tweeleading

    Have you ever attended a football game or any other sporting event where the game seemed to drag just a little? Either the game is a blow out where the competition just isn't there, or the plays are so awful you lose interest. So what keeps you there? What is that driving force to keep you there?...

    By • Aug. 3, 2013

  • Pride and Prejudice Author's Portrayal Fuels Twitter Abuse

    Will Jane Austen's picture on an English banknote cause individual Tweets to finally include a "report abuse" button? It seems so. Late last month, several female members of the successful campaign received rape and death threats after the announcement that the author will appear on the ten poun...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • Facebook Introduces Embedded Posts

    Yesterday, Facebook announced that users will soon be able to embed Facebook posts into their websites and blogs.Embedded posts contain all the information and interactivity that they have on Facebook: pictures, videos, and hashtags; share, like and comment buttons and totals; as well as the name...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • Hitting the Mark: Adding the Right Skills to Your LinkedIn Profile

    According to LinkedIn, users with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities than those with incomplete profiles. Taking the time to optimize your profile increases your ranking within the LinkedIn system, increasing your odds of being found in search results. Think of y...

    By • Aug. 1, 2013

  • Facebook Unveils Mobile Games Publishing Program

    Facebook has officially announced its new pilot program to share the mobile games of small- and medium-sized developers across the world. The social networking company will start to work with selected game developers and offer advertising support for their mobile games in ad placements across Fac...

    By • Aug. 1, 2013

  • Is Facebook Graph Search Successful Thus Far?

    The Facebook Graph Search has now been available to users for nearly seven months and we've seen some positive feedback and some not-so-great comments from social media expert s, small businesses, and average users. Where the Graph Search is working and where the Graph Search is not working is pa...

    By • Aug. 1, 2013

  • Why Google+ Isn't Google-worthy

    Google has a wide scope of products aside from its search engine: Gmail, YouTube, Google Fiber, Google Maps, and more. These aren't just average products, either. Each one is an innovative leader in its respective category. However, social media is an industry that's proven difficult for the digi...

    By • July 31, 2013

  • 5 Reasons Recruiters Don't Click Through Your LinkedIn Profile [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Probably one of the most prevalent reasons why people get a LinkedIn profile is to connect with job opportunities out there.However, even if one has the skills and the experience perfect for a certain job post, they will not get noticed by recruiters if recruiters do not click through the LinkedI...

    By • July 31, 2013

  • Does Your Facebook Page Need an Operation [INFOGRAPHIC]

    ShortStack thought using an "Operation" mentality - removing what doesn't work and fixing what's broken - would be a helpful way to give your Facebook Page a checkup. So what should you keep and what should you cut? Use this infographic to inspect the health of your business's Page. For the areas you discover are weak, use the tips provided to get your Page into tip-top shape. Here's a snippet of what's in the infographic:

    By • July 30, 2013

  • Twitter Will Be The Next TV, Says Study

    A new study on motivational analysis led by professors at Columbia Business School and the University of Pittsburgh projects Twitter to turn into something similar to TV.The research conducted by scholars from the two academic institutions studied the sustainability of Twitter, the microblogging ...

    By • July 30, 2013

  • How to Set Up Google Authorship

    The question of how to set up Google Authorship - and why it is so important right now - is one that is probably circulating in the mind of many online marketers and webmasters who have not yet done so.It's a process that can appear complicated at first, but actually consists of several fairly si...

    By • July 29, 2013

  • "There Are Enough Instagram Photos of the Beach": True or False?

    The Huffington Post published an article last week headlined, "Why You Shouldn't Bother Instagramming At The Beach."It revealed there were more than 19 million uses of the #beach hashtag on Instragram.Apparently this was "significant" for two reasons.One, "the beach is unanimously loved" (the con...

    By • July 29, 2013
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    5 Things to Think About When Creating a Social Media Content Strategy

    One of the most fun and frustrating things to do working in social media is coming up with content strategies. Developing a great strategy is the opportunity to present a brand in a way that is informative, entertaining and useful. Some people create and post content on the fly; however I highly ...

    By • July 28, 2013