Social Media Updates: Page 349

  • 6 Reasons Your Blog Content Won't Go Viral

    It's like Deja Vu.I've had this same conversation with representatives from a Fortune 500 financial services company, with a B2B industrial lighting distributor and several consumer-facing companies like wineries, restaurants, real estate agents and retailers.It goes like this.Them: We have a bl...

    By • May 24, 2013

  • How To Schedule Tweets To Boost Your Impact and Save Time

    To be effective on Twitter you need to setup a good workflow and learn how to schedule your Tweets to get the best impact with your audience. Scheduling your Tweets will save you time and help you be more productive with your social media. It is all too easy on social media to get distracted, los...

    By • May 23, 2013

  • Flickr Face Lift Reminiscent of Facebook and Takes a Run at Google

    Did anyone else notice that Flickr's redesign propelled it in the direction of looking exactly like Facebook would look if images were the only content type? I am not denying that Marissa Mayer has brought an incredible amount of fresh ideas and new strategies to reinvigorate Yahoo and at the ver...

    By • May 23, 2013

  • Google+ Design Change: What It Means to You

    Google+ is following its competition with a design change that has everyone up in arms. As usual, some like the changes made while more disapprove. The new design is going to take some getting used to, but the worlds biggest search engine had the best intentions in mind for both businesses and in...

    By • May 23, 2013

  • What's Being Watched on YouTube Right This Second?

    Intrigued by the viral video phenomenon? YouTube has released a new Trends Map that highlights the most popular videos at a moment in time across the United States (other countries coming soon). A visual representation of YouTube's Trends Dashboard, users can observe who's watching what videos an...

    By • May 23, 2013

  • HootSuite App Update Eases Influencer Monitoring

    Businesses that want to take advantage of online marketing need to do several things well: attract website traffic, generate leads, convert leads into sales, and then measure everything. One of the best tools for measuring the effectiveness of your social media activity just got a little better. ...

    By • May 22, 2013

  • "Creativity in 140 Characters" - Guy Yalif and Internet Week New York

    This week marks the beginning of Internet Week New York, a "week-long festival celebrating Internet business and culture and will attract more than 45,000 Internet professionals, working across all sectors, attending 250+ events produced by IWNY and 150+ citywide event partners." On Monday, Media...

    By • May 22, 2013

  • What Google+ is Really Offering

    Earlier today I read a great article by Robert Hof that tapped into the struggles Google has conveying to its users "why they should care about Google+." And to be honest, there isn't a clean cut answer to this. Google cannot even answer it directly. But, my question is, at least for now, is this...

    By • May 20, 2013

  • Shortcuts to Help Speed Up Your Social Media Browsing [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Do you want to speed up your daily social media browsing? Now you can! Check out the awesome infographic below, courtesy of Quintly. The infographic shows you keyboard shortcuts for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube. This will help you save time and less clicks of the mouse! Featured image c...

    By • May 19, 2013

  • Tweets with Exclamation Points Get More Retweets!

    Social marketing scientist Dan Zarella just released data that shows how including exclamation points in your tweets earn more syndication (Retweets) but less clicks.How to Use This DataEarning Retweets without click-throughs on links within the tweet is a rare combination that is useful in one p...

    By • May 17, 2013

  • Pinterest Now Lets Users Send Pins On-Site

    Pinners can now send individual pins to their friends on-site as long as they both follow each other - before, pins had to be sent via email. Pins can be sent on both desktop and mobile devices, to both desktop and mobile devices. To send a pin to a friend, follower or family member, users just ...

    By • May 17, 2013

  • New Google+ Features Hit the Web

    This week, developers and tech-geeks nationwide met at the annual Google I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco for three days of product plans, apps, and updates galore. Social media marketers and small businesses should pay special attention to their Google+ updates which went into effect ye...

    By • May 17, 2013

  • Are You Aware of LinkedIn's Skills and Expertise Search Function?

    LinkedIn's Skills & Expertise function can be used for more than just endorsements.In a recent post, we recommended LinkedIn users update the Skills & Expertise section in their profiles and fill in all available 50 spots for skills. Besides the ability to showcase your expertise and abil...

    By • May 16, 2013

  • Pinterest Adds Mobile Mentions and Notifications

    Pinterest has announced an improvement to its suite of mobile apps that includes notifications, mentions, easier search, sending pins and more.Pinterest NotificationsThe Pinterest apps now feature a complete set of notifications, including Push Notifications, for events like Comments and Mentions...

    By • May 15, 2013

  • New Facebook Timeline Sections Roll Out Worldwide

    Facebook has made sections available worldwide, enabling all users to express themselves and share their interests in app-specific boxes on the timeline. Many apps have already taken advantage of the new feature, integrating with sections to provide users with a new way to interact and engage wit...

    By • May 15, 2013

  • Twitter and Vine Used to Broadcast Live Surgery [VIDEO]

    Very recently in the UK, Spire Bushey Hospital in Watford used Twitter and Vine to tweet and video live surgery in the OR for educational purposes. Aresh Hashemi-Nejad, an orthopaedic surgeon at Spire Bushey, performed a Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO), a complex hip operation involving cutting th...

    By • May 15, 2013

  • Steps to Protect Your Social Media Account from Getting Hacked

    As you may have heard by now, The Onion recently became the latest in a string of large news organizations to be attacked and have their Twitter hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. They were able to regain control fairly quickly, but in a surprising twist, they also decided to publish a blog po...

    By • May 14, 2013

  • LinkedIn Invitations: Everything You Need to Know

    Most knowledgeable LinkedIn users would agree that best practice when sending an invitation to connect on LinkedIn should include a personal note introducing yourself and expressing why you want to connect.Although I personally don't think it's a crime to send a generic LinkedIn connection reques...

    By • May 14, 2013

  • Social Media and Myers Briggs [INFOGRAPHIC]

    While we're all unique in one way or another, Carl Jung developed the personality types that the Myers Briggs was later designed to accurately evaluate. People are classified as extraverts or introverts, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. CPP has taken it a step...

    By • May 13, 2013

  • How Quebec City Crowdsources Locals To Promote Its Destination

    The folks from the Quebec City Tourism Bureau (OTQ, in French, or Office du Tourisme de Quebec), together with their ad agency Cossette, recently unveiled its most recent campaign in order to generate some buzz about the destination. On a new microsite www.effetquebec.com, locals (and anyone who'...

    By • May 13, 2013

  • 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