Social Media Updates: Page 365

  • Combining Your Older Facebook Page With Your New Facebook Profile

    For many small businesses who are not already on Facebook, the thought of creating a personal profile on Facebook and then adding a business Page to their personal profile is concerning.The concern seems to be tied to 'mixing business with pleasure', sort of, or having no interest in being on the...

    By • Jan. 31, 2013

  • Social Actions Aren't Only the Future of SEO, They are Here and Now

    Ignore Social Actions at your perilSocial Actions and social signals have become an integral part of an SEO's strategy and not factoring in the relevance of these actions can be detrimental to your overall website's performance. A white paper produced by Searchmetrics in 2012 which looked at 10,0...

    By • Jan. 31, 2013

  • Introducing Vine: The Worst Thing Ever to Happen to Content Marketing?

    On January 24th, Twitter released Vine, its video sharing mobile app, to much fanfare. And though it's been plagued with unbefitting content, many marketers are gravitating towards the budding new service as a means of communicating to their audiences. But is Vine really a worthy addition to the ...

    By • Jan. 31, 2013

  • Pinterest: A Job Search Tool?

    I'm an avowed Pinsomniac. But while Pinterest is undoubtedly a lot of fun, and a great way to collect wardrobe, home improvement, and decorating ideas, it can definitely be used to advance your personal brand and enhance your job search. Here are six creative ways that you could be using Pinteres...

    By • Jan. 31, 2013

  • Can Social Media Affect Your Credit History?

    Whether you run a small business or have been hunting for a job or loan recently, you may come to find out that your credit past is still following you around.As many individuals discover over time, their credit history impacts their lives more than they may have ever realized. With a negative cr...

    By • Jan. 30, 2013

  • It's Time to Wash Your Face(book)!

    So what do you when your face gets dirty? Well, you wash it. And now you can wash your Facebook, too! Yes you heard me: you can make your Facebook profile dirt-free, and the best part? All it takes is a free app.While we are all busy working on our SocialGlamor, our posts can be funny at times bu...

    By • Jan. 29, 2013

  • Facebook Graph Search: A Foursquare-Killer?

    Okay, so unless you've been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you have probably heard of Facebook's big announcement last January 15th: Graph Search. More than a new "search tool," Facebook will now tap into its huge database of users interactions to power a search tool that will not si...

    By • Jan. 28, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    What you want in a community manager: http://mashable.com/2013/01/27/community-manager-qualities/Facebook may owe millions of people $10 http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/facebook-might-owe-you-10Today in Twitter:Twitter may be releasing its advertising API soon: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/...

    By • Jan. 28, 2013

  • 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
  • SMT Expert

    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