Social Media Updates: Page 346

  • Facebook's PTAT: What Is It?

    Marketers are known for their expansive list of acronyms and dropping trendy buzzwords (think ROI, PPC, KPI, growth hacker, thought leader - feel free to add yours to the list!). In the world of Facebook metrics, "People Talking About This" or PTAT is a measure that is very dear to a marketer's ...

    By • June 12, 2013

  • Social Media Lessons from @HillaryClinton

    Hillary Clinton added a new accomplishment to her long list of achievements on Monday when she made her debut on Twitter. Within hours of setting up her account, she had followed four, sent out her first (and thus far only) Tweet, and picked up over 180,000 followers. In the process, she also bro...

    By • June 12, 2013

  • LinkedIn: The Ultimate Vanity Connection Engine?

    Ping. One new item in my inbox. My inbox doesn't actually ping, but just run with it. 'Mike, lets connect on LinkedIn' reads the subject line. Could this be the next big connection in my life? The start of an incredible business relationship? The lead from heaven? I better not delay... I jump fro...

    By • June 11, 2013

  • Reddit Re-Introduces Multireddits to Provide Front Pages to All Users

    According to Reddit, last month they had more than here 71 million unique visitors. Yesterday, alone, there were 5,487 active subreddits. With all that activity, comes the need for more and better organization. That's why they're re-introducing multireddits that let you create your own public red...

    By • June 10, 2013

  • Build a Highly Targeted Prospect List Using LinkedIn

    Stuart Armstrong faced a big challenge. He needed to get his company into as many decisions as humanly possible -- and he was starting from scratch. Below you'll read how he used LinkedIn to jumpstart his prospecting initiative.But first, a datapoint from Cracking the LinkedIn Sales Code, which h...

    By • June 10, 2013

  • What Your Online Profile Photo Says About You [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Puckered lips, a sweet-like-sugar couple, a cropped-out group, a 10-year-old scrapbook - whichever type of profile photo you upload on a social network or online account, it has a meaning, at least according to a website with more than 60 million members.

    By • June 10, 2013

  • How to Add a Live Twitter Feed to Your PowerPoint Presentation

    Last week I felt like I climbed Mount Everest, in a super nerdy way. While preparing for an upcoming conference presentation, I figured out how to embed a live Twitter feed into my PowerPoint (yes, PPT. Sorry Keynote users, I'm not at your level).Instructions to do this used to be easy to find in...

    By • June 7, 2013

  • Starved for Attention, We Turn to Social Media to Fill Up

    I wrote a post about the recent Taco Bell social media fiasco that basically addressed how ridiculous it is that people still make decisions like the kid in that photo. More specifically, they make those decisions for a quick laugh or surge of attention, and it ends up with them losing their job ...

    By • June 6, 2013

  • Why Invest in Facebook Marketing

    ShortStack CEO Jim Belosic shares the following things you can do to persuade your boss or client to invest in Facebook marketing. 1. Identify your goalsFirst of all, businesses should know what they want to achieve using Facebook as a marketing tool. Using Facebook is not a necessity for all bus...

    By • June 6, 2013

  • Say Goodbye to TweetChat, It's Being Absorbed Into SmartStream

    Yup, the rumors are true. TweetChat will be soon be rolling up its platform and closing shop as a result of the Internet Media Labs acquisition announced this morning.IML's SmartStream has officially gobbled up the TweetChat worm and the only thing left is to drink the tequila.Chat moderators hav...

    By • June 6, 2013

  • Friend, Unfriend or Defriend [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Two recent studies from the Pew Research Center and the New York Times indicate the typical American has 245 Facebook friends and knows 600 people both on and off the social network. In other words, if you're a typical American, 355 of your peeps don't use Facebook.I have a lot of friends who ch...

    By • June 6, 2013

  • The Most Thorough Social Media Dimensions Cheat Sheet Ever [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Did you know that if you want your display picture on Facebook to show up exactly as you see it as a file on your computer, you have to upload a 180 pixel by 180 pixel copy of it to Facebook?The cover photo, on the other hand, displays at 851 pixels by 315 pixels.Or did you know that the border s...

    By • June 6, 2013

  • Vine Is Now Mainstream: App Arrives for Android

    When Twitter released Vine a few months ago for the iPhone, myself and many others were initially impressed. But it was hard to tell whether Vine would catch on or remain something a minority of users would enjoy. Since its release however, Vine has performed well. News breaking yesterday and bei...

    By • June 5, 2013

  • Can You Predict How Many Times a Tweet Will be Retweeted?

    A year ago some researchers at MIT believed they had stumbled across the secret behind why tweets get shared. They narrowed it down to a list of ten things that go a long way to ensuring your tweets get shared, including things such as using less than 70 characters and revealing the inner you.M...

    By • June 5, 2013

  • How to Set Up Multiple Twitter Accounts on Your iPhone

    Twitter released an update to their mobile app that finally brings easy support for multiple Twitter accounts. For many Twitter users, this is likely not a big deal. If you're like me though, you may have a personal Twitter account and a business Twitter account, and managing both from your iPhon...

    By • June 4, 2013

  • Twitter Improves Profile Editing [VIDEO]

    Twitter has made profile editing easier, allowing users to drag photos from their desktop and drop them directly in the header image or profile image slot. Twitter engineer Patrick Ewing announced the update with a tweet, in which he embedded the explanatory video above. The video suggests that ...

    By • June 4, 2013

  • Your Guide To Getting The Most Out Of LinkedIn [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Develop a strategic and effective presence on LinkedIn with this guide to take you from LinkedIn zero to LinkedIn hero from my favorite social media experts Jennifer McClure and Laurie Ruettimann.

    By • June 3, 2013

  • Which Social Network is the Most Illiterate? [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Technology has been the driving factor in how we communicate in todays society... although some may argue for the worse. It's now the norm to communicate within 140 characters, memes and an angry cat which have all transformed how we talk online.To understand how we talk online Brandwatch have co...

    By • June 3, 2013

  • Why Google Authorship Is More Important Than Your Website

    In yesterday's post I mentioned Google Authorship, and the importance of having the same photo on your email signature as you have on your authorship.But today I want to go a step further with a big bold statement: Authorship is more important than your website because Google is now grading and r...

    By • June 3, 2013

  • Do Linkedin Endorsements Really Matter to Hiring Managers?

    Do LinkedIn Endorsements Really Matter to Hiring Managers?Check out the LinkedIn profile of Jeff Ogden here, as his profile was featured in the book, Get Back to Work Faster. Take a look at this image. You can see Jeff Ogden has been endorsed 79 times for Lead Generation (updated) and 25 times fo...

    By • June 1, 2013

  • Twitter Updates Apps and Increases List Maximum Size

    Twitter has updated its iPhone and Android apps, making tweeting an "easier and more seamless experience", according to the announcement post on Twitter's blog. Twitter has also increased the maximum number of lists a user can have from 20 to 1,000.It is now easier to add photos to tweets thanks ...

    By • May 31, 2013

  • 1 in 10 Young People Rejected For a Job Because of Their Social Profile

    What's considered "young?" Anyone who falls in the age range of 16 to 34. <wipes brow> New research from ondevice showed that one in 10 people surveyed have been rejected for a job because of their social media presence. And, the majority (two-thirds) are not concerned that their use may h...

    By • May 31, 2013

  • What Can Yahoo Learn From Google?

    Earlier this year I noticed an exodus of marketers, techies and PR types flocking towards Google+. Along with their experience and interests they brought conversations, content and insight to the table which helped Google+ reach new heights of activity. Google+ also received a lot of flak for its...

    By • May 30, 2013

  • Changes on Twitter: B2B Social Media Lead Generation

    Very interesting development came out of Twitter HQ last week. In a blog post, Twitter Product Manager Mitali Pattnaik introduced the Lead Generation Card as one solution amongst the Twitter Cards suite.With the Lead Generation Card introduction, it marks one of Twitter's initial forays into soci...

    By • May 29, 2013

  • Where is Twitter Growing Fastest?

    Twitter is the fastest growing social networking site in the world, according to the latest figures from Emarketer. While Facebook is seeing a slowdown in monthly growth (especially in the USA and western Europe), Twitter continues to rapidly gain active users.The number of users soared by 42 p...

    By • May 29, 2013