Social Media Updates: Page 373

  • Has Pinterest Become a Getaway from Facebook and Twitter?

    Facebook and Twitter are a big part of people's everyday lives, almost to the point of routine. Wake up, pour coffee, check email, check Facebook. Tweet about breakfast, your commute and every topic under the sun - from merchant credit card processors for gas stations to automotive lift repair. R...

    By • March 26, 2012

  • Twitter, Visual.ly and the Kim Kardashian Faceoff [Infographic]

    Infographics for the MassesThanks to Visual.ly, we can now all do it--create our very own infographic. The company's latest release enables users to create an infographic almost instantly, based on their Twitter profile. This is one of what we socialites anticipate will be many web-based, user-ge...

    By • March 26, 2012

  • Your Apps Are Ready For Facebook Timeline (Are You?)

    Facebook finalizes the transition to Timeline for brands one week from today (March 30), presenting a timely opportunity ito make your Facebook page the visual, storytelling hub of your brand. In case you missed the news, here are a collection of useful resources on Timeline:

    By • March 26, 2012

  • 10 Reasons Business Blogging is Better than Facebook [Infographic]

    This Friday's infographic compares business blogging with Facebook and builds a case as to why blogging is the better marketing strategy.

    By • March 26, 2012

  • Confessions of a Social Media Girl: Facebook as a Dating Site

    Creating a dating platform on Facebook would most likely creep some people out, even though the entire system is basically in place. Facebook recommends who your friends should be, knows what you like, and markets what you are interested in to you. Why not use it for formal dating if we creep on the opposite sex all the time anyway?

    By • March 24, 2012

  • 15 Must Know Tips to Rock Your New Facebook Timeline Business Page

    Yup, Facebook did it to us again. This time they have added the new timeline to business pages. With it come both good and bad changes. As I wrote in this earlier post " Quit Blaming Facebook and Fix Your Own Marketing Problems" it's important you don't waste too much time complaining. Instead use that same negative energy and turn it into a positive. Use it as a lesson for not putting all of your social eggs in one basket!

    By • March 24, 2012

  • Advice to Social Platforms on Content Takedown - How to Avoid Human Rights Abuse Issues

    The mass actions of the Arab Spring and the London riots and the recent case of Kony2012 highlight the huge part the social media plays in shaping the the way we think and act. UGC platforms are increasingly being used by a range of civic actors in innovative ways: to amplify their voices, organ...

    By • March 23, 2012

  • Social Media - the 21st Century News Source

    Social media is not only changing the way we learn but what we are learning as well. According to the 2011 State of the News Media report from the Pew Research Center, only 40 percent of people say they get their news from newspapers, compared to 46 percent who get their news online. The real-time news sources such as Facebook and Twitter combined with the hundreds of millions of users, this statistic isn't too farfetched to believe.

    By • March 22, 2012

  • Your Social Media Dashboard is Killing You

    Social media dashboards have become a staple in every community managers (or avid social media users') bag of tools. Amazingly convenient, they put an end to the rapid-fire tweets from users and instead allowed them to nicely distribute them throughout the day (most users, some still haven't gott...

    By • March 22, 2012

  • Google shares tips on using Google+ for brands.

    At SXSW Google took over a couple streets near the downtown Austin Convention Center to create the Google Village, which was designed to provide an interactive "glimpse of Google's view of the future." Among the many demos, discussions and musical performances taking place in the Village was a Go...

    By • March 22, 2012

  • VidEO: It's all so pint'resting!

    Bored with what you're looking at? Food not appetizing to you? Join Pinterest! People will follow your good taste and wishlists. Josh Rimer brought his video to our attention, now we bring it to yours.

    By • March 21, 2012

  • Pinterest has a New Design

    Pinterest released a new page design for profile pages this week that will be advantageous for both pinners and businesses. The new design highlights the user profile in a large header and has added more connection options for a user to populate. The board's image preview has gotten an update, along with the ability to arrange the boards with a drag and drop feature, so you can organize what boards will appear above the fold. They have also improved functionality by moving main navigation elements and activity to a single bar just below the profile header.

    By • March 21, 2012

  • Visual Storytelling

    A commonly used categorization of learning styles is Fleming's VARK model, which discusses visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. Fleming's theory is visual learners have a preference for seeing - pictures, visual aides, diagrams. It's a learning style where ideas, concepts, data and o...

    By • March 20, 2012

  • What Facebook Interests Mean for Your Business Page

    We know Twitter has Lists, Google+ has Circles, Pinterest has Boards and now Facebook has Interests. Most users should now see "Interests" on the left side of their News Feed:These Interest lists are a way to tidy up a user's News Feed and isolate a particular topic or grouping. When I click on m...

    By • March 20, 2012

  • The Vlogger Interviews: Ryan Abe [ForSkitsAndGiggles]

    More about Ryan Abe: There was a time, not so long ago, when a young entertainer's heart would skip a beat when offered the chance to make the big jump to television - Ryan Abe got an email recently just like that - an agent, perhaps, who asked, "how would you like your own tv show?" "I guess he ...

    By • March 19, 2012

  • How Powerhouse Pinterest Can Boost Your Female Audience

    Literally out of nowhere Pinterest has become the fastest standalone site in the history of the internet to break the ten million unique visitor mark. The growth of this pinboard-type social image sharing site is nothing short of staggering, with visits doubling every six weeks - especially among...

    By • March 19, 2012

  • 42 Things To Do On Twitter Besides Tweet Spam & Coupons

    One of the number one social media questions I hear from business leaders is "what should I tweet?"It's funny because most business owners start a business because they have a passion for something or at minimum have an interest in it enough they believe they can make some money providing such a service or product. However, when it comes to sending a 140 character tweet they struggle with it.

    By • March 19, 2012

  • Mapping social media trends around the world

    It can seem as if there's little standing in Facebook's path to world domination. As the social networking giant prepares for its multi-billion-dollar IPO, its rapid growth is continuing around the globe. The latest figures show it boasts more than 845 million "active" users. And a report by anal...

    By • March 16, 2012

  • How Fortune 100 Companies are Engaging on Twitter and Facebook

    Enterprises are becoming more and more active on various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube, Quora etc. They are no more just merely present on these social media channels, but are actively engaging with their audience.According to this eMarketer article, 84 % of t...

    By • March 16, 2012

  • Twitter Handles: Coming Soon to a Uniform Near You

    It first happened on the PGA tour in early February. TaylorMade, one of golf's biggest equipment vendors, stitched the sponsored Twitter hashtag, #driverlove, on the side of hats worn by golfers endorsed by the company. The tag was in reference to TaylorMade's marketing campaign, which looks to c...

    By • March 15, 2012

  • How to Follow up When Someone Mentions Your Brand on Twitter

    Merely twenty years ago, we began a new journey as proud netizens creating an impervious matrix called the Web. Today within the world we have many networks, which are determined to reduce the distance, hypothetically, between people. Twitter happens to be one such network that has not only succe...

    By • March 15, 2012

  • The New Google +1 Button

    The Google +1 buttons are receiving a little bit of a makeover to match the red and white logo of Google+. According to an update on the Google+ Developers blog, the new +1 look will be visible to the Google+ Platform Preview Group before being deployed into the public. So what was once white and...

    By • March 15, 2012
  • SMT Expert

    Should You Major in Social Media?

    Should you major in social media? Take on a BA for blogging? Receive honors for working with a #hashtag? I'm already having too much fun playing with words on the social front but in all seriousness, courses on social media are already well in swing in business schools throughout the country. Off...

    By • March 14, 2012

  • Every Animal Charity Needs a Facebook Page!

    Facebook is a great way of tracking down old friends, old lovers, family members, making new friends, getting involved with online activity or even finding local places that share your hobbies and interests. But have you ever thought of using Facebook to find your new rescue pet? Facebook is also...

    By • March 14, 2012

  • 5 Ways to Increase the Life (and Power) of a Tweet

    The federal goverment recently posted a request for information for a social media monitoring application. Why? The FBI realizes what many businesses already know, there's a lot of life in a tweet, and a lot of data.The days of a tweet's value lasting a few minutes, or only as long as it graces p...

    By • March 14, 2012