Social Media Updates: Page 368

  • Citizen Tweeter Takes @Sweden for a Wild Ride

    Holy meatballs! Have you been following what's happening over in Sweden?Quoting blogger Stephanie Haberman, "The Swedish government has been handing over the @sweden Twitter account to a different citizen each week, and this week's owner is steering the car right off a social media cliff."You can...

    By • June 13, 2012

  • An open letter to Facebook

    Today, like many of you, I logged into my Facebook, and it asked me to take a suvey.At the end of the survey, it asked me for additional feedback. What follows is my response. Facebook, you have done a wonderful job of fixing what was never broken, and have not given enough credit or focus to t...

    By • June 12, 2012

  • This Week on FORA.tv: Where Does Facebook Go From Here?

    Find out what's ahead this week on FORA.tv.Facebook's highly anticipated IPO opened last month with a fizzle rather bang, and has limped along ever since with several large investors considering options on how to recoup their losses. On another front, Facebook has had to defend the effectiveness ...

    By • June 11, 2012

  • Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Hogpile on Google

    For months now, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft have been laying the groundwork for a relationship of convenience whose primary goal is to check the Google juggernaut. The Facebook-Microsoft-Apple triple entente is reminiscent of many a four-player Risk board game enjoyed in my youth. In Risk, th...

    By • June 11, 2012

  • A Common Sense, Non-Reactionary Approach to EdgeRank and Facebook Business Pages

    I really didn't want to write this post. I was hoping to avoid a post about EdgeRank, Promoted Posts, and all the the other things people are currently complaining about in all the blogs in terms of Facebook.But, I've recently been seeing a number of blog posts being shared by a lot of friends o...

    By • June 11, 2012

  • Sales People: Use LinkedIn or Get Canned

    This post is written by Josh Moore of Marketing Nutz. This is my inaugural blog post, and while I certainly wont impress you with the prolific ability to output great content at a steady pace like Pam Marketing Nut, my goal is to get out at least one post per month. It may be more if I get riled...

    By • June 9, 2012

  • LinkedIn Password Hack and Your Terrible Passwords

    On Wednesday, June 6th, a Russian hacker claimed to have stolen over 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords. Some of the passwords (without their associated usernames) were posted online. Mashable and other news outlets have already covered the topic in great detail, so I thought I'd approach it from a d...

    By • June 8, 2012

  • Facebook's IPO - Why You're Wrong

    I have read quite a few articles that are laughable at best, on the "failure" of Facebook's much anticpated IPO. One article refers to an analysis saying that Facebook's stock should be worth pennies per share. Go back and read articles and predictions from when Google's IPO first came out, it's ...

    By • June 8, 2012

  • LinkedIn Hacked: Security Precautions for Social Media

    Whether it has affected you or not, a headline reading "LinkedIn Hacked: 6.5 Million Passwords Leaked to the Web" gets people thinking. Social media security has always been a constant discussion since the networks began to grow in popularity, yet as with many things security, businesses are stil...

    By • June 8, 2012

  • 80 million Google+ Local pages Automatically Created - Got one?

    Google Places Listings converted to Google+ Local pages, affecting an estimated 80 million business listings worldwide, according to Google's Marissa Mayer. The Google Businesses Plus Page described the release in a recent post as, "a new way to discover local information across Google." The Go...

    By • June 8, 2012

  • Social Media, Email and Top Online Activities of Baby Boomers and Beyond

    More older consumers are going online every day - and more marketers are chasing them with social media campaigns. Ever wonder if you're spending your money in the right place? Do you wish you knew where and baby boomers and seniors spend their time online?Creating Results, LLC, a leader in marke...

    By • June 6, 2012

  • Flash! Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's Airtime Will Fail Quickly

    Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning Airtime Ad ParodyI discovered today that Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning have founded a new startup called Airtime which ironically is a social video service similiar to that of ChatRoulette only sans private parts and exclusive to those who have a Facebook account. Bu...

    By • June 6, 2012

  • Facebook to Marketers, It's Time for a Click to Action

    You Like me...you really Like me. Wait. Maybe you don't really Like me after all. According to our Facebook engagement metrics, only 1% of you actually react when we post. So, to keep the numbers up, our team posts more often, asks questions, runs polls, curates content, introduces more and more ...

    By • June 5, 2012

  • LinkedIn's Uncertain Future

    LinkedIn has experienced its share of success and setbacks, praise and criticism, with relatively unwavering support from its millions of users throughout its history. But with a recent $32 million round of funding for the budding professional network Viadeo and a $25 million round for the profes...

    By • June 5, 2012

  • SocialCam Bounces Back: DAU Increases by 2.3 Million in the Last 7 days

    After a drop of 4 million daily active users a week ago, nearly halving its daily engagement, SocialCam has made changes to bring its users back, proving they will not follow the dismal trend of the social reader apps before it.Earlier [in May] we saw apps like The Huffington Post and The Guardia...

    By • June 5, 2012

  • Dirty IP Secrets of Social Media

    They paid little attention to those boxes they checked which said "I agree to the Terms of Service." As a result many individuals and businesses, especially creative agencies which develop media, have signed away their intellectual property rights to some of the largest companies in the world wit...

    By • June 4, 2012

  • 3 Predictions for the Future of Scheduling Posts

    Facebook's newest additions to pages have community managers and social media professionals jumping up and down for joy! Finally, we now have the option to place controls around admins. With different levels of admins available, you will have more control over your Facebook community. The second...

    By • June 3, 2012

  • Tapping Into Other Markets with Social Media

    Social media is used by us for reach out and to communicate with our clients, co-workers, and even our competition. Social media can also be used to tap into other markets, thus expanding your clientele and brand recognition. Let's face it; you're in business to make money! Major companies such...

    By • June 2, 2012

  • Finally! New Facebook Page Administrator Roles!

    Two weeks after launching the terrible Facebook Page app for the iPhone, Facebook is launching another new feature which promises to be much better for companies utilzing Facebook pages for business development - five new different administrative roles for Facebook Pages. These roles include Man...

    By • June 1, 2012

  • The Empire Strikes Back: Google Doubles Down on Social

    Not to be outdone by Facebook's historic IPO, May has shaped up to be a momentous month for tech giant Google. There was plenty of sideshow entertainment, such as Google's team of lawyers finally smiting down Oracle's patent infringement claims, Larry Page on Charlie Rose whining about Facebook's...

    By • June 1, 2012

  • Facebook vs. Google

    The two internet giants, Google and Facebook, paired up side by side. This unique infographic helps visualize the revenue and visitors of both companies. With Facebook's new IPO, both of the websites are available on the stock market. What you learn within this infographic will probably surprise you; it definitely shocked us!

    By • May 31, 2012

  • A Guide to Facebook Page Post Analytics

    I am loving the new Post Analytics feature that Facebook rolled out for Facebook Pages this week. I'm sure Facebook added it so that more people will buy Promoted Posts, but it is very helpful for page owners in a lot of ways. And what's great is the Post Analytics display is close to real time, ...

    By • May 31, 2012

  • Facebook's New Timeline Movie Maker: Awesome or Unnerving?

    I remember the eerie unwelcome emotion I felt a few months back when I uploaded several pictures of my friends to a Facebook album only to discover Facebook had cleverly tagged each and every one of them for me. I watched a familiar square black box wrap around my friend's smiling face, completel...

    By • May 30, 2012

  • Social Media Pizza War: Domino's vs. Pizza Hut

    In the fight for market share, the top pizza brands have launched a social media blitz attempting to capture audience and deepen customer engagement. But, who will be king? Track Social has analyzed pizza brands across hundreds of social media metrics. We found two brands significantly dominate...

    By • May 30, 2012

  • Exciting New Changes to Facebook Timeline

    So, no sooner have we got used to timeline for pages coming in, then Facebook introduce some changes to Timeline...but some of these are pretty handy too!A Unified Global Local PageOne of the biggest challenges when managing a global Facebook Page is deciding how you are going to divide up conten...

    By • May 29, 2012