Social Media Updates: Page 354

  • Are You Aware What Your Employees Are Saying On Social Media?

    The year 2013 is the year that companies will take social media seriously. Facebook opened 2013 with news of its Search Graph wherein intuitive searches can be made, with a strong focus on connectivity and people's interests. Pinterest's fast growth has also caught the eye of many marketers, who ...

    By • Jan. 27, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Facebook closes off data to competitors: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/24/my-precious-social-graph/Lessons in social media from a food truck: http://mashable.com/2013/01/24/social-media-lessons-food-truck/Pinterest raises another $30mm: http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/24/sv-angel-pinterest/Twitter...

    By • Jan. 25, 2013

  • 5 SEO Tricks for Pinterest

    Pinterest, without a doubt has been one of the fastest and every growing social media platform for brands with over 11 million users. I have always maintained that it is one medium every B2C brands should explore. Pinterest also has a great potential for brands to increase their reach unlike the ...

    By • Jan. 24, 2013
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    Four Improvements Twitter Should Make in 2013

    It wasn't just you - on Monday, Twitter was suffering from some "service disruption" largely due to the fact that it was Inauguration Day 2013 for President Barack Obama and the tweeting traffic was heavy. And while the outage didn't affect all Twitter account users, so long as you could tweet fr...

    By • Jan. 23, 2013

  • Attn: Job Seekers! Do You Have a Social Resume? [Infographic]

    Ever pondered how you could use social media to land your next job? Check out this infographic from OnlineColleges.com that illustrates the modern job seeker's best friend, the social resume.

    By • Jan. 23, 2013

  • Facebook - a New Destination for Social Commerce Site Development

    When you hear the word Facebook, what are the instant things that come to your mind? Well, it has to be 'how many Likes', 'how many friend requests', ' the comments on your photos and 'what are the new updates in the home page'. Indeed this social media site is taking the entire world by storm. B...

    By • Jan. 23, 2013

  • What Comes After Graph Search?

    There have been plenty of articles covering the immediate implications of Facebook's Graph Search on marketers, but it's important (and fun) to keep an eye on what it means in the long-term and what other developments we may see from Facebook in the future. Some obvious extensions include the ava...

    By • Jan. 23, 2013

  • Facebook Status Updates More Memorable Than Books

    A recent study published in the academic journal Memory and Cognition has found that users are more likely to remember a Facebook status update than lines from a book. Last year, researchers stumbled across the idea when investigating the effects of emotion on memory.University of California cogn...

    By • Jan. 22, 2013

  • Stop Posts to Your Google+ Communities From Appearing on Your Profile

    I'm starting to find Google+ communities that I really want to join now - but, as predicted, it's getting a bit cluttered in there. Google have just helped improve the situation a little though.As well as being able to adjust the volume on your circles , you can now choose whether or not to have ...

    By • Jan. 22, 2013

  • Instagram: Surfing 40-foot Waves at the Maverick's

    instagram.com/p/UkQzgNrf68/#gopro instagram.com/p/UkTg1VKZ1M/#surfline instagram.com/p/R09hq8DfHC/#surftechsurfinstagram:Surfing 40-foot Waves at the Maverick's Big Wave CompetitionSaturday, the world's top surfers descended on Half Moon Bay, California, to compete in the Maverick's Invitational...

    By Marco Malandrino • Jan. 22, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Facebook restricts access to some competing apps: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/18/facebook-data-voxer/Kim Dotcom's Mega signs up 1mm users on its first day: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414529,00.aspCrowdsourcing success in 2012: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/19/12-big-brands-an...

    By • Jan. 21, 2013

  • The Future of Facebook Graph Search (and Google)

    If you do not think Facebook Graph Search is a big deal, you have not been paying attention to the way data, particularly social data, is changing the world. And if you believe Facebook's move is a threat to Google, you may have no idea how true that is, not in terms of today's search advertising...

    By • Jan. 20, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Instagram clears 90mm active users per month: http://instagram.com/press/Facebook quietly disabled opting out of search results back in December: http://qz.com/44261/ahead-of-graph-search-launch-facebook-removed-the-ability-to-opt-out-of-search-results/But 1.4mm don't care: http://mashable.com/20...

    By • Jan. 18, 2013

  • Facebook Graph Beta Offers Multidimensional Social Search, New Networking Capabilities

    Facebook's Graph search introduces a new multi-dimensional tool for discovering people, places and things filtered by your personal friends and likes. The concept isn't entirely new - Bing has been integrating social data into its results for over a year now now, and the Google Hotpot experiment...

    By • Jan. 17, 2013

  • How Facebook Just Made Bing SEO More Valuable Than Ever

    Buried in yesterday's announcement of Facebook's new Graph Search feature was the mention of Bing web searches being included in some Graph Search results.OK, I am sure you are asking why this is a big deal. After all, Facebook has been returning Bing web search results as part of their search fe...

    By • Jan. 17, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    At least 250,000 social media users got the flu this season: http://mashable.com/2013/01/16/facebook-twitter-flu/King.com dethrones Zynga for Facebook's top game: http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/17/king-coms-candy-crush-saga-beats-zynga-with-top-facebook-game/Now we remember Facebook posts better ...

    By • Jan. 17, 2013

  • The Importance of Facebook's New Graph Search

    I've seen a lot of reaction to Facebook's new Graph Search which was announced yesterday, and most of it is negative. The people in my own personal graph on Facebook are skeptical. They say it's not what they want, and they raise a lot of the predictable questions about privacy, and the like. But...

    By • Jan. 17, 2013
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    Will Facebook's Paid Messaging Service Be the End of Networking with LinkedIn?

    While eyes turn once again to Facebook and its recent unveiling of a new 'Graph Search Function,' there is another story brewing in one of their other, newly revealed features - paid messaging. Essentially, you pay Facebook a dollar and, in return, they allow you to send a message directly to the...

    By • Jan. 17, 2013

  • Facebook Is Just Getting Started

    About the author: Ekaterina Walter is a social media innovator at Intel, a speaker, and an author of the book "Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg". Walter was named among 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2012. She sits on a Board of ...

    By • Jan. 16, 2013

  • Facebook's Big Announcement Improves Search Capabilities

    Facebook notified media around the world they had a big announcement to make yesterday. Like many others, I was on the edge of my seat waiting to hear what new feature was going to be introduced to boost Facebook's stock price and confidence on Wall Street. Speculation was rampant with thoughts o...

    By • Jan. 16, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Facebook's Graph Search not quite impressing investors: http://www.thestreet.com/story/11813858/1/facebook-unveils-graph-search-investors-groan.htmlUS Attorney Carmen Ortiz's husband, IBM exec Tom Dolan, makes social media gaffes while defending his wife against Aaron Swartz supporters, winds up ...

    By • Jan. 16, 2013

  • Facebook vs Big Tech: One Generalist to Rule them All?

    Still basking in the afterglow of Facebook's long overdue social, or "graph search" announcement, I couldn't help but reflect on an old saying of my high school guidance counselor: "generalists don't get anywhere in life. If you want to succeed, you have to specialize."In my youth, I took this ad...

    By • Jan. 16, 2013

  • Facebook's Announcement: Graph Search

    At their headquarters in Menlo Park, Mark Zuckerberg, Lars Rasmussen, and Tom Stocky announced a project they've been working on for the past year: Graph Search.

    By • Jan. 15, 2013

  • Facebook Announces "Graph Search" Launch

    During a highly-anticipated press conference in Menlo Park this morning, Facebook announced the launch of "graph search", Facebook's new social search engine. In beta right now, graph search will be different than a typical web search in that graph search is meant to take a search and return an ...

    By • Jan. 15, 2013
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    4 Lessons in Fan Engagement from Red Lobster's Facebook Page

    "Because at Red Lobster, we Sea Food differently." And with that little play on words, seafood chain restaurant Red Lobster officially cements itself as both a brand and a Facebook page that sees interacting with fans, regular customers, and new visitors alike differently than competing restauran...

    By • Jan. 15, 2013