Social Media Updates: Page 348

  • Google+ Time on Site Improves, But So Does Facebook's with Home App

    Back in the beginning of May, I wrote about Google+'s dramatic growth, which saw a 33 percent increase in users since June of last year. However, one of Google+'s problems has always been the amount of time people spend on the social media platform, especially when compared to Facebook. Recent ne...

    By • May 12, 2013

  • Best Times to Post on Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Social media is 24/7. Someone is always tweeting, posting on Facebook, or uploading a new picture to instagram. However, for social media managers and businesses alike, this can be quite of a challenge. We obviously can't be online all day, even for those of us who are social media managers or st...

    By • May 11, 2013

  • How to Get More Shares on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Inspiring people to share content on Facebook is both an art and a science. For the science, blogger Dan Zarella examined more than 1.3 million Facebook posts and studied the characteristics that correlated with Likes, Comments and Shares on Facebook. He found that posts with photos tend to inspire the most Likes/Comments/Shares while posts that where either very short or very long tended to get lots of Likes but were not shared very much.

    By • May 8, 2013

  • 15 Benefits of Having a Fan Page Over a Personal Page on Facebook

    There isn't anything worse than checking a website and clicking their Facebook link to find that they've redirected you to a personal page. Not only do you have to hope they accept you as a "friend," you're taken through one more step to see their content and find their real Fan Page. I hate this...

    By • May 8, 2013

  • How to Learn and "Win" on a Twitterchat

    Where can you learn a lot about social media quickly? On a Twitter chat of course. It is surprising how many have yet to discover this collaborative learning technique which, of course, can be about any topic. A Twitter chat is a great way to learnA Twitter chat is a way for people on Twitter to ...

    By • May 8, 2013

  • 4 Times Smart Tech People Said Stupid Things

    We guess Scott Adams put it best when he said "It's a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change or accidentally killing innocent bystanders in the process." You see, just the other day, we were ranting about our mobile pho...

    By • May 8, 2013

  • What Would You Think is the Platform of Choice for the Official Twitter Blog?

    Twitter is one big social network! With over 500 million users, 200 million that active monthly - it definitely has lots of eyeballs looking at it. For most of us that are into social networking and love tweeting most likely also viewed the official Twitter's blog from time to time. It is a grea...

    By • May 8, 2013

  • The Psychology of Tweeting

    Twitter has become a social network that most of us have heard of and many of us even participate in. If you are a news junkie or just love information it is one amazing real-time resource.If though you are using it for business purposes, your goals need to revolve around sharing and engagement...

    By • May 7, 2013

  • YouTube Changing Its Model: Some Will Get Paid Subscriptions

    Google's YouTube is a vital part of the company's business and ability to reach consumers. The platform has a great deal of capability in terms of marketing, education, entertainment, and much more. In recent years, Google hasn't made very many drastic changes to YouTube; for the most part, Googl...

    By • May 7, 2013

  • 77% of All Jobs are Posted on LinkedIn [INFOGRAPHIC]

    I just had dinner with a job-seeking friend lamenting the number of jobs listed in the local paper. It seems someone may be missing out on three-quarters of all available jobs: LinkedIn. (He confirmed he's on LinkedIn, in case anyone is concerned.) Nonetheless, some great statistics substantiatin...

    By • May 6, 2013

  • How I Use Social Networks

    There are many different social networks out there, and if you're like me, you have accounts on a lot of them. Maybe you created a profile on Facebook to connect with friends and family, or maybe you got on Twitter because you were told it would be good for your business. Either way, statisticall...

    By • May 6, 2013

  • 4 Tips For Leading a LinkedIn Group

    Colorful Wooden Blocks Children's Museum Macro April 17th, 20114 by stevendepolo (NA)Recently I discussed the business value of creating a LinkedIn group. In short, hosting such a group allows you to showcase your thought leadership, gain high quality leads, and communicate effectively with prosp...

    By • May 6, 2013

  • Add Your Own: Best May the 4th Ad - from Motorola

    I've loved Star Trek since the first time Captain James T Kirk sucked in his gut when he jumped into the transponder. This

    By • May 4, 2013

  • Tag, You're It! Instagram Adds People Tagging

    In an update to their mobile apps today, Instagram has added Facebook-like tagging to uploaded images. In an official blog post, Instagram explains that the new feature is called Photos Of You. Here's how it works.When you upload an image to Instagram, you can now associate that image with people...

    By • May 3, 2013

  • Legal Concerns: Your Facebook Account as Evidence in a Lawsuit

    Social media as court evidence - in divorces, employment disputes, and intellectual property battles - is not a particularly new concept. However, a recent ruling makes it clear that social media evidence is exactly like all other evidence in a lawsuit, and you have a legal duty to preserve it.At...

    By • May 2, 2013

  • Google+ Resources to Help You Create a Strategy for Success

    A successful SEO campaign includes a Google+ strategy, yet many companies are still not thinking about Google+ as such a crucial aspect for SEO. Your typical social media benefits are obvious-on-site engagement, targeted messages, connections and referrals, etc.-but the benefits in terms of ranki...

    By • May 2, 2013

  • Facebook EdgeRank [INFOGRAPHICS]

    For a presentation, I gathered some Facebook EdgeRank infographics and thought I should post them here as well. Looking at this first moontoast.com infographic, I find their tiering of the fanbase interesting. How difficult is it to segment and target fans who have actually purchased from you? If...

    By • May 2, 2013

  • Facebook Releases Q1 2013 Results

    After the market closed today, Facebook released key figures from the first quarter of 2013. Facebook revenues were down $130mm from Q4 2012 from $1.86 bn to $1.46 bn, though that repeats similar results from Q4 2011 to Q1 2012 when revenues were down $73mm. Overall they've added another 54 mm mo...

    By • May 2, 2013

  • 3 Useful Twitter Chat Tools plus Bonus Resources

    Twitter chats are becoming incredibly popular. They are a unique platform that allows you to come together with other users to discuss topics, held together by a hashtag. It is all public, and since the live update algorithm works with that chat posts, it is also a way to get noticed by discussio...

    By • May 2, 2013

  • Taking Out the Twitter Trash: The How and Why of Unfollowing

    How many people are you following on Twitter? If it's more than a hundred, I bet your Home stream is crazy like mine. I don't even look at my Home stream anymore. I have no choice but to use Lists to segregate the people I'm interested in listening to and tweeting with, and if you're not in one o...

    By • May 1, 2013

  • How Do Americans Get Their News in 2013? [INFOGRAPHIC]

    It's no secret that the rise of digital content has changed the traditional media publishing landscape as we know it. But what exactly does the new landscape look like? To what extent are newspapers and radio being replaced by digital devices? Uberflip's latest infographic explores the latest trends in news consumption and what this means for traditional media.

    By • May 1, 2013

  • The Twitter Black Hole

    I was recently putting together a presentation on Employer Branding when I ran across what I would like to call the Twitter "Black Hole." Many companies are using Twitter for posting jobs as part of their employer branding strategy which makes perfect sense. However, Employer Branding is about ...

    By • May 1, 2013

  • Are You Addicted to Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Los­ing sleep due to late-night Face­book logins? Feel­ing anx­ious when you can't access Twit­ter? Chances are you're addicted to social media! Check out our lat­est Info­graphic to see if you suf­fer from Social Media Addic­tion Disorder.

    By • April 30, 2013

  • Has Social Media Changed the College Experience for the Better?

    I stumbled across a blog post a few weeks ago about how social media was ruining the traditional college experience. To me this seemed like a bold statement and more a matter of opinion. A large percentage of millennials are in college or heading to college this fall - it is interesting to think ...

    By • April 30, 2013

  • Hashtags Gone Wrong: 6 Examples of Unfortunate Hashtag Choices

    Welcome to Twitter, a world all its own. It is a place where you can get mini updates from celebrities every fourteen seconds, right beside your mom's attempts to figure out this whole "social thing". It is a magical, bizarre and often surreal place filled with strangers who somehow feel that it ...

    By • April 28, 2013