Social Media Updates: Page 356

  • The Purpose of Twitter

    Jeffrey Levy commented on this blog in 2008 that his description of Twitter was a source of filtered, purified water out of a raging river.I instantly smiled at the metaphor and began attributing him in my digital marketing courses. I tell my students that I compare LinkedIn to the Chamber of Co...

    By • Dec. 29, 2012

  • 5 Ways to Create Value for a Facebook Like

    According to Hubspot, customers are51% more likely to make a purchase after LIKING a brand on Facebook!WOW! That makes a Facebook Like REALLY valuable, so you should do whatever you can to get as many Likes as possible, right?WRONG!Let's explore what a Facebook LIKE is really worth.Social Media S...

    By • Dec. 29, 2012

  • Top 10 Best Uses of Twitter in 2012

    Twitter is changing. Once a platform for quick and innocuous updates about people's day to day lives, it's become a resource for revolution, charity, politics and emergency relief. It's gone from a pithy distraction used by attention deficit adolescents to a practically mandatory space of worldwi...

    By • Dec. 28, 2012

  • Why 2012 Still Belongs To Instagram (INFOGRAPHIC)

    Instagram's December 17 announcement regarding its revised terms of service prompted what was undoubtedly the biggest app user revolt in social media history. Instagram addicts began uploading blank photos through the app, using boycott hashtags on Twitter- even deleting their IG accounts en mass...

    By • Dec. 27, 2012

  • Google+ Offering Christmas Gifts to Android and iOS Users this December

    Call it a Christmas Gift or a gift for the New Year 2013, Google+ gave every Android and iPhone user more than a single reason to smile. On 14th December , Google+ Vice President of Engineering, Dave Besbris revealed a gamut of features for social network's mobile users.The launch of new Android ...

    By • Dec. 22, 2012
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    4 Reasons Why Facebook Should be on the Naughty List

    It's that merry time of the year when children everywhere are on their best behavior in hopes of landing themselves on Santa's nice list. I have never personally met anyone who didn't make the nice list, however I DO know a certain social network that should miss out this year. For some strange r...

    By • Dec. 22, 2012

  • Facebook on the Way to Change Your Timeline Again

    Facebook is about to change your profile timeline again. Reports says that a new look has shown up for a limited number of users already. Its going to hit a larger crowd soon. According to ABC News, a producer's profile changed already to the new look. Facebook confirmed today that it's trying so...

    By Mohammed Anzil • Dec. 22, 2012

  • Is Google Pushing Google Plus Over Relevancy?

    Remember back in the day when anyone could write a solid piece of content on their blog and start getting traffic on it through search engines? After Google Authorship, Google's latest addition that links individual posts to the author's Google+ page, Google is closely tieing their social network...

    By • Dec. 21, 2012

  • Turn It Up! Adjust the Volume on Google+ Circles

    After Facebook's hidden-away option to 'get notifications' (see our blog post last month), comes Google+ and a great big loud ' Adjust the volume on Google+ circles ' message, which greeted me recently:Apparently it's been around since at least September, but I hadn't clocked it. I'm very glad I...

    By • Dec. 20, 2012

  • Twitter vs. Facebook: Membership Figures and Mobile Ad Revenue

    It will take a decade for Twitter to reach 1 billion users, studies show, by which point Facebook could have double, or even triple, that number.Twitter has just reached 200 million monthly active users, cementing its place as the second biggest social networking site after the 1 billion strong F...

    By • Dec. 19, 2012
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    5 Phrases to Avoid Using in Your Twitter Handle

    5 Phrases to Avoid Using in Your Twitter HandleCreating a Twitter handle today, whether it's for a professional or personal account, is becoming steadily more and more challenging to do. Much like with Facebook and its username feature that encourages users to pick one username wisely for their U...

    By • Dec. 19, 2012

  • What Instagram Really Changed in Their Terms of Service

    Here's a suggestion: Keep calm and Instagram on. Instagram's ToS aren't changing that much: they're mostly aligning to Facebook's by allowing Instagram to create ads that are as user-friendly as possible.On December 17, Instagram announced an update in their Terms of Service that will be effectiv...

    By • Dec. 18, 2012

  • Is It Time to Join a Social Media Support Group? [Infographic]

    I've never considered myself to have an addictive personality. I'm not a fiend for coffee. Despite the occasional Coke with lunch, I can go long, ungodly stretches without a soft drink. I don't smoke-much.So why is it that I can't-simply cannot-go five minutes in front of a computer without check...

    By • Dec. 18, 2012

  • Twitter Hashtag 101: Twitter Hashtag, Hash Brown Same Thing, Right?

    If only I had a free week long vacation for every time someone asked me what the difference is between a Twitter hashtag and a hash brown, I would be living permanently on a quiet, remote island and probably not writing this blog post!Explaining the difference between a hashtag and hash brown is ...

    By • Dec. 18, 2012

  • Twitter Improves Promoted Tweets with Negative Keyword Targeting and Trend Matching

    Twitter has updated their Promoted Tweets service for advertisers, adding the ability to target negative keywords and match trending stories.Businesses can also import keyword lists from other advertising platforms, or copy and paste them from documents, using the "import multiple keywords" tool....

    By • Dec. 15, 2012

  • Turn It Up! Adjust the Volume on Google+ Circles

    After Facebook's hidden-away option to 'get notifications' (see our blog post last month), comes Google+ and a great big loud ' Adjust the volume on Google+ circles ' message, which greeted me recently:Apparently it's been around since at least September, but I hadn't clocked it. I'm very glad I...

    By • Dec. 13, 2012

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Facebook's (and your personal) year in review: http://newsroom.fb.com/News/549/Facebook-Year-in-Review-2012Bing's social sidebar, redesigned: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2012/12/11/the-bing-social-sidebar-gets-a-new-look.aspxHis Holiness sends his first tweet, and it...

    By • Dec. 12, 2012

  • 7 Tips for Using Instagram for Business

    The image-based social network, available on iPhone and Android smartphones, boasts more than 100 million users. Many are brands: Starbucks, NASA, MTV, and NBC News are some of the most successful Instagrammers.Instagram, the rapidly-growing photo sharing community, can boost your business's expo...

    By • Dec. 12, 2012

  • Interview with Katie Sobel, Plum Organics on Social Engagement and Advocacy

    ReadyPulse Presents: Thought Leadership Series on Social Engagement and AdvocacyKatie Sobel, Director of Marketing Comms., Plum OrganicsKatie Sobel, Director of Marketing Communications, Plum Organics, spoke to Rachel Carson, Customer Success Manager, ReadyPulse, on November 16, 2012.Third party ...

    By • Dec. 12, 2012

  • Lead Nurturing Your LinkedIn Contacts

    We all know how easy it is to grow your network on LinkedIn. Find contacts that are within your network and send the connection request. Moving these connections down the sales funnel is generally much more difficult than getting the connection in the first place.Lead nurturing is a process of pr...

    By • Dec. 11, 2012

  • 75 Things I Learned on My Journey to 100,000 Twitter Followers

    It was early 2009, and I was still working in the walls of corporate America. I setup an account with the friendly little blue bird, named Twitter. It was from that moment I saw the power of the tweet and what it had in store for my life.I didn't think twice about the Twitter handle when I set i...

    By • Dec. 11, 2012

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Twitter's retrospective: http://2012.twitter.com/Facebook's democracy that never was is now over: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/facebook-vote-ends/But they at least launched a preferred marketer program: http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/10/facebook-announces-new-preferred-marketing-developer-cen...

    By • Dec. 11, 2012

  • 5 Tips for Effectively Managing a Facebook Page

    For some companies managing a Facebook page is always been difficult to handle, but it's not a rocket science as it seems, make sure you always need to be quick and responsive with lots of creativity. From our experience we have find out there are three major elements that improvise your posts.Ad...

    By • Dec. 11, 2012

  • Google+ Communities: The Great, the Bad, and Why You Need to Join

    In case you missed it, Google+ Communities launched about 48 hours ago.It's Google's answer to Facebook Groups. That new car smell jumps off the screen, but this is more than another shiny toy.I caught the post Thursday on the Google's Official Blog that Google+ Communities were being rolled ou...

    By • Dec. 10, 2012

  • Google+ Communities Yay or Wait and See?

    I don't know about you but I've gotten more than a dozen invitations to Google+ communities in the last couple of days. In case you're not aware of what that means, Google+ launched a new feature, Google+ Communities on Dec 6. As more and more people use Google+ we are finding a need to filter ...

    By • Dec. 10, 2012