Social Media Updates: Page 376

  • 6 LinkedIn Pet Hates - Frustrations That Come From Using LinkedIn

    I am extremely passionate about showing business professionals how to leverage LinkedIn to increase business, make new connections, grow their LinkedIn networks & gain success accordingly. How you measure that success is down to each individual.But LinkedIn also has some 'issues.' Not so much...

    By • Feb. 15, 2012

  • Pinterest Is Hot [Infographic]

    Did you know that the hottest new social media sensation has only 16 employees? Yet they are one of the fastest growing websites. Look at the amazing statistics in the infographic below. Do you think Pinterest will be long lasting?Lemon.ly, a visual marketing firm, studied Pinterest's amazing rise and produced the infographic below.

    By • Feb. 15, 2012

  • Facebook's Future - What will Zuckerburg and Co do with the IPO 'Pot of Gold'?

    In a few months, Facebook will finally launch as a publicly traded company and the giant of social media will receive a veritable pot of gold to fund its future operations. The much talked about IPO is set to raise anything between $5-10billion; an enormous cash injection that will have a greater impact on the company than any single event since its launch and a significant influence over future development of the internet.

    By • Feb. 15, 2012

  • Why Timeline is a Big Misstep for Facebook

    In September when Facebook introduced Timeline, its new profile interface designed to "tell your life story," many of us scratched our heads and wondered whether this would turn out to be a serious misstep - a blunder significant enough to knock Facebook from its throne of power.While the long-t...

    By • Feb. 14, 2012

  • Companies That Got It Right on Pinterest

    With over 10 million registered users and 9.5 million monthly Facebook connected users, Pinterest is the fastest growing social media site, despite still being invite only according to App Data! This immense growth has turned many companies into fiendish pinners, some successful, some not. ...

    By • Feb. 14, 2012

  • How Do You Use Pinterest?

    I've been exploring Pinterest over the last few days and have become victim to its addictive layout and discovery possibilities. It's almost like the first time I was on the internet... you just dig deeper and deeper and the next thing you know, it's 3 hours later (or 3am so I've decided to blog about it).

    By • Feb. 14, 2012

  • Twitter Powers Jeremy Lin's Rise to NBA - and Social Media - Superstar

    By now you've probably heard of Jeremy Lin. The newest NBA star and point guard for the New York Knicks burst onto the scene this week, scoring a bucketload of points and helping his team win four straight games, including a 92-85 win over the Los Angeles Lakers Feb. 10.Lin's rise from bench wa...

    By • Feb. 13, 2012

  • BBC and Sky News do not want journalists breaking stories on Twitter

    The debate is roaring on whether the BBC are right in telling their journalists that they must report to their news desk before breaking a story on Twitter. This comes just days after Sky have similarly updated their social media policy. The Guardian have been quick in reporting on both stories a...

    By • Feb. 13, 2012

  • Follower. Liker. Blogger. Friend. How Facebook is Trying to Reconcile Your Social with Your Interest Graphs.

    First, let's clear the social media gibberish: Social Graph? Interest Graph? To quote David Rogers, the Social Graph is a digital map that says "This is who I Know", a place that reflects real-life social ties. On the web, these places are called social networks: Facebook and LinkedIn are the two most common examples. In real life your phone's contact list or your last birthday party's guest list are just the same.

    By • Feb. 13, 2012

  • The Basics of Twitter Visibility

    Twitter has exploded onto the social media circuit in recent years. More and more companies are creating accounts and establishing a Twitter presence - to the point where it's become a standard marketing practice. But, just like any other social media account you initiate, a Twitter account is not something you just create and forget about. To reap any benefit, it should be cultivated properly, starting with these basics:

    By • Feb. 12, 2012

  • Why Time Is of the Essence When Responding to Facebook Fans

    This was one of the questions asked during a conversocial survey, facilitated through the New York University and its Assistant Professor Liel Leibovitz, Assistant Professor of Communications. The survey - sent out online - was returned by 513 respondents and covered 9 questions - all around cus...

    By • Feb. 10, 2012

  • Video Chat Use Upside - 550 Billion Minutes in 2015

    The video communications market can be divided into three sub-markets depending on the consumer electronics (CE) device which is being used to make the call: PCs, Mobile, and living room (digital home) devices. That being said, the living room video calling is a nascent market and currently has a...

    By • Feb. 10, 2012

  • Pinterest: 10 reasons why it will be bigger than Twitter

    It's pretty hard to miss Pinterest at the moment. Every time I look at my Tweetdeck there's a Pinterest mention or a Pinterest link (notice how many people are un-shortening Pinterest links they want to share on Twitter, just to show you they've a Pinterest account?); every day another tech medi...

    By • Feb. 9, 2012

  • LinkedIn Best Social Platform for Lead Generation?

    It's a given that most businesses have established a following on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. B2C companies have broadened their marketing reach as they embrace social media strategies to capture their target niche. Social networks are made for customers, but every social platform isn't for every company. For instance, B2B companies can't possibly acquire leads and enhance client acquisition by simply creating a Facebook page or thinking like a publisher using Twitter. While social networks can boost brand awareness, such approach is too casual for a B2B company.

    By • Feb. 9, 2012

  • Keep Your Audience on Its Tweet: 4 Keys to Building a Strong Social Following

    If the presidential election-coming to a polling place near you in November-is the nation's foremost popularity contest (more than 65 million Americans voted for President Barack Obama in 2008) the ongoing battle for followers on Twitter, from a purely competitive standpoint, isn't far behind.

    By • Feb. 8, 2012

  • 'United Breaks Guitars' Launched Dave Carroll's Career in Social Media (video interview)

    PART 3 of 4 -- When Dave Carroll wrote "United Breaks Guitars" about his prized instrument's unfortunate run-in with baggage handlers, he told his brother and fellow bandmate Don the date of the video shoot. Don, a fulltime firefighter, had to work that day. "I said OK," Carroll recalls. "Probabl...

    By • Feb. 8, 2012

  • Is LinkedIn Running Out of Steam for Recruiters?

    Over the last couple of weeks I have had many recruiters in my social media classes and every time they focus all their attention on LinkedIn as a recruitment tool. When I come to Facebook, they seem to be shutting down. It seems they do not take Facebook seriously as a recruitment environment. ...

    By • Feb. 6, 2012

  • Dealing with the "Unfriend", "Unfollow" & "Unlike" Factor

    Wangari Kamande is Research Analyst at Social Media Group. Lately, I have read status updates or heard friends say to me "I am going to 'unfriend' all these Facebook friends that I don't really know or care about" or "I am tired of reading status updates that have no meaning or value for me." ...

    By • Feb. 6, 2012

  • Twitter: A Social Medium for the Anti-Social

    I'm not the most avid user of social media. It's not the media part that turns me away - I've spent more than a decade of my life writing for various print and online publications. I understand the value of sharing information.It's the social part that gets me - I'm kind of a loner. Social media is like an online conversation, and there are many times when I don't feel like conversing.

    By • Feb. 5, 2012

  • What's An Average Day on Facebook? [Infographic]

    Did you know that American Internet users spend more time on Facebook than any other site? Not only is it the site with the second-largest U.S.

    By • Feb. 5, 2012

  • Playing for Change -- and Going Social

    When I first saw the original Playing for Change video Stand By Me on YouTube I was moved an

    By • Feb. 4, 2012

  • Social Media Round Up for February 3rd

    By Kirsten McNeill and James Cooper Kirsten McNeill is a Co-ordinator on the Content and Community team at Social Media Group. Follow @kirstenmcne.James Cooper is a strategist on the Content and Community team at Social Media Group. Follow @jamescooper This week, we got our first look into Facebo...

    By • Feb. 3, 2012

  • SOPA is Dead but Twitter Censors

    SOPA might be dead but it seems that our favorite social networking known for not censoring is changing its policy. Twitter will now be censoring content in c

    By • Feb. 3, 2012

  • Pinterest Rivals Twitter in Referral Traffic #pinteresting

    To those of you who lead "the Pinteresting life," you've contributed to a phenomenon that is certainly putting its clicks where the hype is. By that I mean, Pinterest is a two-year old cultural sensation that is borderline causing dependency among its users and the rabid audiences they're developed. This rapid fire network has pinned itself to a rocket with estimated unique viewership ascending 429% from September to December 2011...and I'm not even sure if the sky's the limit here.

    By • Feb. 3, 2012

  • LinkedIn Tips as Tweets -- In 140 Characters or Less!

    These are only brief tips (mainly as they're all 140 characters or less, so

    By • Feb. 2, 2012