Social Media Updates: Page 372

  • Social Good: An Inspiring Social Media Story on Easter

    What can a single Facebook status do? Let me rephrase that. What can a single Facebook status accomplish?

    By • April 8, 2012

  • Can You Name 3 Reasons I Should Give A Rip About Your Facebook Business Page?

    So have you had enough hype and complaining on the issues with the new Facebook timeline for business pages? The complaints have consumed the social waves. From people complaining about the lack of landing tabs, lost control, poor resolution of cover images to inability to send messages to people who have liked your page.

    By • April 7, 2012

  • Confessions of A Social Media Girl: Baby Boomers on Facebook, The Digital Generation's Albatross

    The day I helped my mother set up her Facebook page was an emotional day for me. Iwas proud that she was stepping into the 21st century, and even more excited that I wouldget to use the iPad I bought her for mother's day at my leisure. Note: You should alwaysbuy gifts for family members that you ...

    By • April 6, 2012

  • Twitter Suing Spammer - a Step Forward or Sidestep?

    It's no secret that most Twitter users don't tweet. Just the other day Ask Your Target Market (AYTM) released survey of 200 Twitter users in U.S. According to the survey, only 20% of Twitter users make at least one tweet a day, and vast majority of users either don't tweet at all (13.5%) or rar...

    By • April 6, 2012

  • The Business of Facebook Games

    You've been there. I've been there. We all have. It's okay. You go onto Facebook late one night, maybe after a long day at work, maybe after a stressful day at school. You happen to see that a friend of yours got a high score in a game that you've never really paid attention to. So you decide, "...

    By • April 5, 2012

  • Social Marketing Minutiae: How to Compose a Retweet

    Retweets are a powerful type of tweet, but ones that succeed best when written with great care. Here are tips for retweeting like a pro.

    By • April 5, 2012

  • Finding Your Customers on Twitter

    Though face-to-face networking remains crucial to the success of your business, taking advantage on online tools can be a great supplement to all your other efforts to find prospects. Personally, I'm not always comfortable at networking events. Trolling for customers online is very comfortable a...

    By • April 4, 2012

  • A Tool for Social Networking in the Enterprise

    Given that most people have become more than familiar with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and that they use these to communicate with business associates, friends and family, it is important for enterprises to invest in a product that helps employees communicate with each other and in groups for...

    By • April 4, 2012

  • 19 Tools for Pinterest Pros

    By Bliss Hanlin, Community Manager at eModeration (and Pinner extraordinaire) As Pinterest growth skyrockets, so follows the number of tools available to help us manage our content, understand our metrics, and be better pinners. Below are just a few of the tools and services now available for us...

    By • April 4, 2012

  • The Rise and Fall of Digg

    Once upon a time, Digg was a social media powerhouse that could do no wrong and boasted some of the healthiest traffic numbers a startup could hope for. Its social news model was at least in theory a fresh new way of disseminating information and staying current on news, breakthroughs and industr...

    By • April 4, 2012

  • Automate Your Twitter Feed with BufferApp (3 Steps)

    The Twitterverse hates shameless self-promotion, but if you are using Twitter as a way to promote your business, how do you get around Twitter's dislike of self-promotion? That is easy. You share more than you promote. At most, your Twitter feed should be 30-percent self-promotional tweets. The r...

    By • April 3, 2012

  • The CIA Can Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher and Your Facebook Timeline

    I read a chilling story on Wired the other day: "CIA Chief: We'll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher." According to Wired,"Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded...

    By • April 3, 2012

  • Brewing Controversy - How Starbucks Embraces Social Media

    Health Care Reform, Tax Fairness, The War in Afghanistan, Occupy Wall Street, same-sex marriage. These are just a few of the hottest and heated issues that presently divide our nation. While individuals look to their political, religious, cultural, and personal beliefs to take a stance on the mat...

    By • April 3, 2012

  • Many Twitter Users Rarely Tweet [STUDY]

    According to an AYTM Market Research Study, 42% of Twitter users rarely tweet from their own accounts. The study surveyed 200 Twitter users by asking, "how often do you tweet?" This seems surprising considering as of June 2011 there were 200 million tweets generated per day.

    By • April 2, 2012

  • Facebook's Timeline for Pages - the Impact So Far

    So last Friday was the day that timeline for Pages became permanent and social media management platform provider, Wildfire, have released some very interesting research about how timeline has impacted the launch partner's pages as well as a large number of other diverse pages.We'd spent a bit of...

    By • April 2, 2012

  • Facebook Birthday Wishes: To Thank Smartly or Not

    Birthdays come once a year and we get heaps of wishes on Facebook. It may be your best friends, old school friends or even people you have met only once before. Your Friends might write on the wall or send a personal message. You will always feel really happy to see a lot of wishes, but down the ...

    By • April 1, 2012

  • 3 Key Aspects of Facebook's Timeline Format

    Like it or not, Facebook's Timeline format is rolling out this weekend and by April Fool's Day all brand pages will be automatically be converted to the Timeline format. No brand is safe from this mandatory change from Facebook, Facebook's turf so it's Facebook's rules. It's not that bad after al...

    By • March 31, 2012

  • How Often Do You Check Google Plus?

    Google Plus is projected to hit 400 million users by the end of 2012. Some are even suggesting it may overtake Facebook. But here's my question...How often do you actually check your Google Plus page?I'm ashamed to admit it, but I probably only check it once a week, and if I'm really neglectfully...

    By • March 30, 2012

  • Up Close & Virtual: Six Degrees of Separation

    As I was sitting at the dinner table with my mother just the other night, she looked over at me with a look of elated realization on her face and asked me, "Do you know Brad?" It took me a moment of wracking my brain to figure out what Brad she was talking about, Brad Pitt, Brad Paisley? It turn...

    By • March 30, 2012

  • Does LinkedIn Trip Your Trigger Like it Does for Us?

    If giving and sharing denote a thriving group on LinkedIn, we've struck the right note.Our moderated LinkedIn group, also Social Media Today, welcomed its 70,000th member yesterday. Begun just over four years ago, membership stood at 52,000 when CEO Robin Carey appointed me lead manager last fall...

    By • March 30, 2012
  • SMT Expert

    Can You Legally Own a Twitter Hashtag?

    Can You Legally Own a Twitter Hashtag?Nearly five years ago in August 2007, Chris Messina Tweeted on his Twitter account 'how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups? As in #barcamp [msg]?' It was the creation of the first hashtag, noticeably distinguishable for using the pound symbol as a p...

    By • March 30, 2012

  • Pinterest - are the new terms better? The Legal View

    There has been a lot of furor over the past few weeks about Pinterest and its terms and conditions. The debate crystallized in a blog post by a photographer who removed her pictures on the basis that Pinterest's terms said it could "sell" the pictures and claimed permanent ownership of any pict...

    By • March 29, 2012

  • Google Play Includes Social Sharing

    Google Play begins to rollout globally today offering a condensed source for content from the previous Android market and other Google products. Digital content gets a new platform within Play, by combining a user's Google music, e-books, android apps, and games into a single hub. A user will b...

    By • March 29, 2012

  • Social media in Poland - over half of Poles use social networking websites

    Fifty-four percent of Poles use social networking websites, the most popular being Facebook and nk.pl, says a survey conducted by PMR Research.As many as 54% of adult Poles (over 18 years old) say that they use social media, with the highest percentage of social network users, 82%, among respond...

    By • March 28, 2012

  • Turning Brand Advocates Into Superfans with High-Fives

    Lauren Parajon is social media specialist at Standing Dog Interactive, a Dallas-based innovative online marketing agency for the hospitality and entertainment industries worldwide.In social media, you hear a lot of talk about the importance of cultivating of "brand advocates" and "brand ambassado...

    By • March 27, 2012