Social Media Updates: Page 366

  • SMT Expert

    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
  • SMT Expert

    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

  • 13 Ways Facebook Can Bring the Magic Back In 2013

    This morning Ellis Hamburger on The Verge asked Can Facebook bring the magic back? Below are 13 steps that can breath new inspiration to Facebook's ecosystem of users, developers and marketers while gaining investor trust.Smarter FilteringGoogle's Circles were a great idea, but took too much tim...

    By • Jan. 15, 2013

  • Two Killer Google+ Mistakes

    Last week WSJ ran an article entitled "There's No Avoiding Google+" on the front page. In short, it highlighted the drive by Google to make Google+ pervasive across other Google services.In one of the most telling quotes in the story, Bradley Horowitz, a VP at Google, says "The entry points to Go...

    By • Jan. 15, 2013

  • Helpful Instagram Analytics Tools and Other Marketing Stories of the Week

    Guess what. We're almost 2 weeks into the new year already. Can you believe it?Now that we're in the swing of things, it seems like companies everywhere are picking up some serious steam. You can tell they're planning for a long 12 months ahead to start their fiscal year out right and please thei...

    By • Jan. 14, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Social media bumped up at CES 2013: http://technorati.com/social-media/article/social-media-presence-increased-at-ces/What to do with social media this year: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2013/01/12/how-to-start-your-social-media-year-off-with-a-bang/Twitter's very busy 2012: http://thenextwe...

    By • Jan. 14, 2013

  • The Flu is Trending in More Ways Than One

    If your office is anything like Abstrakt's office lately, your staff probably hasn't been at one hundred percent in the past week or so. It seems every day a new person is down with the flu and just as one staff member makes it back, we lose two more to the nasty virus. It seems that now the flu ...

    By • Jan. 14, 2013

  • The Library Of Congress Archives Your Tweets

    The Library Of Congress Archives Your Tweets In 2010, the Library of Congress used its Facebook page to announce it was acquiring the entire Twitter archive - all public tweets - back to March 2006. And it has been archiving public tweets ever since. Think about that. In the few minutes it will t...

    By • Jan. 14, 2013

  • 15 Social Media Concepts to Make You a More Marketable Social Media Professional in 2013

    By • Jan. 13, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    $100 to write Mr Zuckerberg a letter: http://mashable.com/2013/01/11/facebook-message-mark-zuckerberg/Netflix gets Facebook sharing law passed http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/10/president-signs-vppa-into-law/Facebook's social login is slipping, Janrain coming up: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013...

    By • Jan. 11, 2013

  • Losing Twitter Followers? How to Gain and Keep More

    Have you noticed you've been losing Twitter followers and you don't know why? Did you work hard to gain your followers and find yourself struggling to keep them? Do you have numbers but a very small engagement ratio? If you're losing followers, then there is a good chance you need to adjust some Twitter techniques to stop this from happening.

    By • Jan. 11, 2013

  • 3 Facebook Post Styles to Test Engagement

    Facebook allows for many different types of posts that you can use to engage your community. In this post I'll show you 3 styles of Facebook posts that you can use. You'll also see different teaser copy or text in the post to get users to click on the link. Use teaser copy to play at your readers...

    By • Jan. 11, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Regional breakouts of Facebook fans suggest widespread fraud: http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/09/facebooks-new-regional-fan-breakdown-outs-brands-that-have-been-buying-likes/Social discovery and how big data can help: http://readwrite.com/2013/01/09/using-big-data-to-solve-social-discoverys-releva...

    By • Jan. 10, 2013

  • World Leaders Take to Twitter

    A new study has revealed that the number of world leaders who have taken to Twitter as a form of digital PR has increased dramatically over the last 12 months. In 2011, 69 world leaders were identified as actively tweeting, whereas at the end of 2012, 123 Presidents and Prime Ministers had chosen...

    By • Jan. 10, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    $319 million went to Kickstartered projects in 2012: http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/08/kickstarters-best-of-2012-2-2m-backers-319m-raised-18109-projects-funded/LinkedIn adds two new users every second: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/09/linkedin-hits-200-million-users-worldwide-adding-new-users-at-...

    By • Jan. 9, 2013

  • 10 Reasons Why You (May) Suck on Twitter

    Wow...I can't believe it. January 2013 marks FIVE years of tweeting for me. I've seen the good, the amazing...AND the horrific when it comes to Twitter.A large number of people I know, respect and admire, I have met through Twitter. People that have greatly shortening my learning curve over the y...

    By • Jan. 9, 2013

  • Facebook Nearby and How to Use it

    Like Google+ Local, and Qype and Foursquare before it; Facebook is getting into the local mobile search area with its new Facebook Nearby effort.The social media sites mobile phone apps on both IOS and Android have now incorporated Foursquare style functionality and allows users to find and rate ...

    By • Jan. 9, 2013

  • Social Media Morning Report

    Paper shopping catalogs outperformed social networks: http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/08/christmas-2012-shopping-paper-catalogs-whipped-facebook-twitter-and-pinterest-and-amazon-is-the-new-google/The benefits of LinkedIn endorsements: http://mashable.com/2013/01/08/linkedin-endorsements-are-good/S...

    By • Jan. 8, 2013

  • Are You Ready for Facebook Nearby?

    Recently Facebook upped the ante on local search with its release of an updated iOS and Android app with a beefed-up Facebook Nearby.Previously, Facebook's Nearby function let users see where their friends had checked in. With this most recent update, users can now search local businesses by name...

    By • Jan. 8, 2013