Social Media Updates: Page 371

  • 3 Reasons: Why Your Blog Needs Guest Bloggers

    As I type this, my Outlook inbox is currently swimming with inquiries from small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to get featured on the company blog that I manage. Last week, we put out the feeders that we were looking for and interested in featuring guest bloggers to contribute to our blog ...

    By • June 27, 2012

  • It's Unwise For Small Businesses To Fight Back Against Facebook's Paid Updates

    In wake of Facebook's controversial decision to charge businesses to reach more than a small percentage of their Fan base, I've noticed a strange, but not unexpected trend, from small businesses (and musicians) on Facebook. They're asking Fans and Followers to go to their page, and make it so tha...

    By • June 26, 2012

  • Questions That Empower Bloggers - 10 Essentials

    Bloggers make up a diverse community.Ashley Blume, a novice blogger, asks a question on my LinkedIn network this morning, and she embodies what I spent my weekend researching. "What are everyone's thoughts on blogging? Is it a waste of time? Or is it the new way to get noticed?" Joel D Canfield, ...

    By • June 26, 2012

  • Better Social Networking, Better Recruitment

    It was inevitable, really: companies rely more and more on social nNetworking for HR purposes.OK, LinkedIn was already heavily used by HR departments for the recruitment effort. But now it looks like everyone is becoming aware that LinkedIn is not the only tool that can help companies hire the r...

    By • June 25, 2012

  • 5 Killer Strategies for Brands Engagement on Pinterest and LinkedIn

    Wondering if LinkedIn or Pinterest are right for your brand? You are not alone - marketers have been focusing their efforts on the Big 3 (Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube) but increasingly are looking to LinkedIn and Pinterest to build a presence and connect with their constituents.As a follow-on ...

    By • June 25, 2012

  • 4 Steps for Promoting Posts in Facebook

    Facebook Promoted Posts are now available with all company's Facebook Pages. Promoted Posts are a marketing tool that can target more of your fan audience. Users that have liked your Facebook Page will not always see your status updates in their newsfeed. Facebook uses a scoring system, called Edge Rank, which evaluates the activity, time, and weight of each post. This score determines the percentage of your friends who are potentially exp

    By • June 25, 2012

  • How Facebook and Twitter Enable News Discovery

    Granted, the realm of online media used to be more predictable when there wasn't much innovation and all the big players could anticipate their collective lack of creativity. But it was just a matter of time before someone would come along and disrupt their quiescence.

    By • June 24, 2012

  • Top 10 Tweets About Yesterday's Twitter Outage

    Twitter went down for about 80 minutes hours today (more or less, depending on where you are), reminding many people how psychologically dependent on it they've become. Here are the top 10 tweets (once service was restored, of course).10. (factual) ?@RT_com #Twitter goes down worldwide http://on...

    By • June 21, 2012

  • The Best Social Q&A Websites

    Before the Internet, there were myriad problems in finding answers to questions. First, not all questions are socially acceptable to ask the general public. Next we couldn't garner many answers because we'd have to ask several friends or strangers with different backgrounds or knowledge bases, wh...

    By • June 21, 2012

  • Why Google+ Won't Succeed

    It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness. - Clifford SimakAccording to this report, last week Google+ had more visits th...

    By • June 20, 2012

  • Face.com and the Future of Social Media Marketing: Gettin' Oily

    Today Facebook announced it's latest in a string of acquisitions - the purchase of Face.com a facial recognition platform that allows apps to tag people in photos using facial recognition software.The acquisition makes sense because Face.com was going to market as a platform. They were allowing p...

    By • June 20, 2012

  • Crazy Idea - What Pinterest Could Be

    Pinterest has received much media attention since earlier this year. Within only a few months, its number of users exploded and Pinterest was suddenly an overnight sensation. The rate of Pinterest adopters has since slowed down, but Pinterest still remains one of the top five social networks on t...

    By • June 20, 2012

  • Instagram Tips for Social Media Marketers

    Instagram is a lot more powerful than I originally gave it credit for and it looks like it outweighs Pinterest in content syndication and marketability. Rather than plug useless content with affiliate links and hope users repin, Instagram allows you to share with selected audiences. More importan...

    By • June 19, 2012

  • The 5 Best Ways to Expand your LinkedIn Network

    It's no secret that the key to success on LinkedIn is building a network of professionals through strong connections and reputation. This is easier said than done. 500+ connections and a strong network of the professionals in your field helps anyone grow in the eyes of their peers and recruiters,...

    By • June 19, 2012

  • LinkedIn Rolls Out New Statistics for Company Pages

    As a social media marketer, if you have worked on LinkedIn, you often feel belittled by the lack of statistics offered for company pages especially when you compare it to Facebook brand pages. However, LinkedIn rolled out a surprise for company page admins this morning and now there are some real...

    By • June 19, 2012

  • A Very Pinterest-ing Infographic About Visitors

    A recent infographic put out by digital agency Modea reveals some very interesting, er make that, pinteresting facts about those of us who visit the very popular social media platform. Some highlights include the following look into the lives of Pinterest visitors:Verizon, by a 2-1 margin, is the...

    By • June 18, 2012

  • How to Improve the Effectiveness of Your Social Sharing

    This is a guestpost by Andrew K Kirk the Founder of Face The Buzz, more about him at the bottom of the post. The social web is awesome. And I'm not only talking about Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or even social networks in general. Social has become part of the fabric of almost every web applicati...

    By • June 16, 2012

  • Are You an Egghead on Twitter?

    Twitter is currently the 8th most visited website in the world.The site ranks roughly 896,000 slots higher than mine (< shameless backlink to Feldman Creative dot com). So, as crazy as it might be to ignore my site, it's positively bird-brained to neglect Twitter. In the past 12 months, the nu...

    By • June 15, 2012

  • ViDEO: What Happened the Facebook's IPO and Where Do We Go from Here?

    This morning at the Paley Center for Media, David Kirkpatrick, senior editor for Internet and technology at Fortune, and veteran venture capitalist Alan Patricof, dissected the Facebook IPO, and what an interesting dissection it was. To Kirkpatrick, the stock's plummet (at least by IPO standards)...

    By • June 15, 2012

  • Can "Social Shopping" save Facebook?

    So you are social network that has over 900 Million active users, including 156,830,620 people in the United states. Your stock has been crushed since the IPO because investors don't think that your strategy justifies the earnings multiple; specifically, there are concerns that you don't have a...

    By • June 14, 2012

  • WWDC Apple Updates and What They Mean for Social Media

    Yesterday, Apple dropped an atomic bomb of updates at WWDC, sending shockwaves throughout the tech world. The MacBook Pro line, OSX and iOS all received much anticipated (and at times surprising) upgrades. Those close to the blast radius are now undoubtedly waxing over apple.com's newly refreshed...

    By • June 14, 2012

  • 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