Social Media Updates: Page 371

  • 20 Essentials to Power-Up Your Social Media Strategy.

    Starting off on something as small as a social media contest or a marketing plan supported by a content calendar across a period we take everything into consideration. This includes the deadlines, nature of creative's, TG specific messaging and all the other marketing jazz that you wish to includ...

    By • April 23, 2012

  • Why Local Businesses Should Stop Focusing On Their Facebook Page

    All too often we see local businesses spend way too much time crafting their Facebook pages and trying to force engagement. Even if it does happen, it's not the best way to spend their social media time. They have an advantage over big brands: touching the people.When Omahama Bob first started us...

    By • April 22, 2012

  • When Crowdsourcing the News Goes Bad

    Two disconcerting stories took hold in the college sports world on Thursday. The first one was a firestorm of criticism for University of Wisconsin men's basketball coach Bo Ryan. It started Wednesday morning with a tweet from influential sports broadcaster and outspoken NCAA critic Jay Bilas. A ...

    By • April 20, 2012

  • Picture Tour of the New Google Plus Interface

    These days, don't get too used to a particular interface. We've seen major changes time and time again, Twitter with #newtwitter, Facebook with Timelines... Google Plus hasn't been around that long, but already they're making significant changes to their interface. If you haven't logged in to see...

    By • April 18, 2012

  • Why It's No Longer Safe to Click On Pinterest Images

    Do you trust the BBC in the UK? I bet you do. It's one of the most trusted brands in media. So if someone has pinned an image from the BBC site, you would feel that it was safe to click on that image to go to the page where it was originally published. Well, not anymore. Spammers have made clicki...

    By • April 18, 2012

  • Step-By-Step Guide to Moderating Comments on Facebook Timeline

    By Lisa Barnett and Tia Fisher If you're the administrator of a Facebook Page, you've had a while now to get used to the changes imposed by Facebook with the introduction of the timeline. How have you got on? The first time you were presented with the new admin panel, you may have been completel...

    By • April 18, 2012

  • Who's Afraid Of The Big Other? The Interpassivity Of Social Media

    A recent study by researchers at Boston University discovered that people were, not surprisingly, using Facebook for two reasons: (1) the need to belong and (2) the need for self presentation.We now check Facebook and personal emails at work and look at work emails at home. Our private and work l...

    By • April 17, 2012

  • How Facebook Deleted My Facebook Page TWICE! [Interview]

    Award winning financial adviser and Managing Director at Merideon Wealth Strategies, Mark Rattigan tells how he had his Facebook page deleted TWICE for not adhering to Facebook's Competition and Promotion Guidelines. We hear people going on and on about Facebook's rules but you rarely come ac...

    By • April 17, 2012

  • Is Google+ Something More than a Social Networking Site?

    I just finished reading an article over at Forbes which, while actually a bit muddled, makes the claim that Google+ is more than a social networking site, but a whole new way of using the internet. The author of the blog is claiming that Google+," sets out to achieve this not by trying to become ...

    By • April 16, 2012

  • Will Facebook Always Be Free? Probably Not For Everyone!

    Recently, I've been spending a lot of time looking at the Terms of Use pages created by various social media platforms. After the recent controversy surrounding the Pinterest Terms of Use, I thought it might be a good idea to dig deeper into some of these mind-numbingly boring legal documents to see what other nuggets might be hiding amongst the legalese.

    By • April 16, 2012

  • Will Facebook Destroy Instagram?

    I've talked before about why I love Instagram.Instagram is a photo sharing application that makes it easy and fun to manipulate a photo with various filters and turn it into instant art. Then with a few clicks, you can share your photo with a caption via Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks.

    By • April 15, 2012

  • Is Your Content Worthy of a Like, Share, Pin, Retweet, Google +1?

    How many hours have you spent adding buttons, gadgets and widgets to your new blog or website? You research the right tools, share buttons, share bars, analytic tracking tools and more. You install them with a hope and a prayer that someone somewhere is going to use them. However, unfortunately many business leaders find they don't get used. The share buttons sit on their site with the lonely zero or default +1. Chances are your pocket book or wallet might be feeling a little lonely too.

    By • April 15, 2012

  • When Elected Officials 'Do' Social Media Right

    Ever since Obama 2008, made it clear that his voters turn to twitter for updates and information, many elected officials (or those hoping to become elected!) have used social media in their campaigns to engage with voters and constituents. The problem is, many of them are having PR or Communicati...

    By • April 13, 2012

  • ViDEO: Don't Be 'That Guy' on LinkedIn -- From SalesChaosTV

    Dan Waldschmidt and Todd Schnick, the SalesChaosTV anchors, rarely mince words. If it's possible, they are even more strident when it comes to those on LinkedIn who fall into the category of what they call "Bad Behavior."You know the type, the ones that connect with you and shortly thereafter sen...

    By • April 12, 2012
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    Fill Your "Texts From Hillary" Void by Following These 5 Tumblr Blogs

    You know you have a good blog going when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to submit a photo of herself with the caption "ROFL @ ur tumblr! G2g -scrunchie time. ttyl?..." to it. And she's completely serious too.The blog in question is not so serious. Inspired by a photo taken last year of ...

    By • April 12, 2012

  • Google+ Cover Photo Size and More

    Google is really serious about making Google+ a success. [Yesterday] they made some drastic changes to profiles and pages.Features are essentially the same but the UI and navigation is all moved around. It looks like this will be for the better and easier to use.One of the first things you'll wa...

    By • April 12, 2012

  • Pinterest Uninterest

    You have to hand it to Pinterest: They've won near-immediate Verb status. "Pin it" is social action! just a few years in, thanks in part to $37.5 million in Venture funding, even while use remains invitation-only. It took a killer algorithm and several years for google to attain verbhood (as a st...

    By • April 11, 2012

  • Facebook just spent A Billion Dollars on trying to be cool again.

    I just don't get it! I'm an android user and have always been one, so when last week Instagram finally made the trip over, I was kind of excited, I wanted to see what this great app that all my iPhone wielding friends have been telling me about can do. Frankly, I was less than impressed.At first ...

    By • April 11, 2012

  • The Social Media Alphabet

    There was a time when the phonetic alphabet (Cfr. Wikipedia) was used to spell out letters. Remember the "T for Tango" or "C for Charlie".But today we live and work in a world with a whole new generational language and fairly soon there will likely be classes on, "how to speak Social Media". But...

    By • April 11, 2012

  • SchoolTube: YouTube for Students & Teachers - Private Video Communities

    Sharing video content is an essential component of social media and more than often a key factor in assembling an award winning content strategy.

    By • April 10, 2012

  • Facebook Alone Will Not Drive Your Recruiting Program

    No one can argue that Facebook is the most popular website in the US. As of February 2012, Facebook had over 845 million global members, 100 billion connections, and owned one out of every five page views on the internet. As a social recruiting consultant, I have worked with three health care o...

    By • April 10, 2012

  • Did Facebook Buy Instagram to Compete with Pinterest?

    Different forces may be converging to drive a major strategic move by Facebook. Just hours ago, Facebook announced that it will pay $1 billion dollars to acquire Instagram. Instagram is the app that allows you to take photos, apply various filters, and post them to your social streams. The inher...

    By • April 10, 2012

  • How to Tweet Your Way into the Customer Experience Social Media Summit

    Customer experience. In seven words. Now there's a challenge!It's actually a contest we are participating in with Customer Management IQ. Just describe your company's customer experience in seven words for a chance to win tickets to the "Customer Experience Social Media Summit' in San Francisco a...

    By • April 9, 2012

  • Pinterest Outpacing LinkedIn - Is Social Media Going Exclusively Visual?

    The war of visuals over actual networking is always running wild ravaging social media, but for those who enjoy engaging with visuals and sharing content rather than networking with each other, you're not alone. In fact the open-networkers are joining you as Pinterest members have just surpassed ...

    By • April 9, 2012

  • Pinterest Experiment: Can It Really Drive Leads For SMBs?

    Lately I've been getting into the newest social network on the block: Pinterest I've been hearing all the hype and the buzz, but I had one question in my mind: How can this be used for small businesses?Not many people know, but in a previous life, way before running the popular Social Media Marke...

    By • April 9, 2012