Social Media Updates: Page 385

  • Facebook to Google: 'Bring it on!'

    It was only three weeks ago that I wrote a piece on how Google, tired of playing games with Facebook started to roll out features whose data-collecting activity was reminiscent of Facebook's Social Graph. It's taken this long for Facebook to retaliate. Using the very public forum of its f8 develo...

    By • Sept. 23, 2011

  • Five New Facebook Facts

    A lot of folks have been really upset the about the recent Facebook changes. However, after watching the recent F8 keynote, the impact is going to be so much more than just the 'look and feel'. Facebook has made some major changes and the implications are going to be far reaching and important ...

    By • Sept. 23, 2011

  • A Study of Mobile Social Networking Around the World

    In our freshly released "Social Media Around The World"-study, we see that more than 1/3rd of the western world possesses a smartphone, and the majority of them are constantly connected through the mobile internet too. If there was ever a good reason for me to focus on a couple of mobile findings...

    By • Sept. 23, 2011

  • Leveraging Circles (Part One)

    We've always compartmentalized our relationships. Ever since I can remember I had 'school friends', 'music friends', 'hockey friends', 'university friends', 'drinking buddies' and, of course, 'best friends' and 'acquaintances' (to name a few). Sometimes the categories are functionally-based (lik...

    By • Sept. 23, 2011

  • Facebook Free? Hardly

    Amidst the latest extensive changes to the Facebook user interface come complaints from columnists, bloggers and millions of users. Many people are upset with Facebook's constant changes, making it nearly impossible to master the site. These complaints are often met with, "So what? Facebook is fr...

    By • Sept. 22, 2011

  • Facebook Autoposting - A Social Media No-No

    On average, Facebook Pages that show posts via a third party app such as HootSuite or TweetDeck, as opposed to linking the old fashioned manual way, receive 70% fewer likes and comments. Linking to your Facebook Page via auto post is a very common and time saving practice and while I have dabbl...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • A Challenge to Facebook: Start Mattering

    Dear Mark Zuckerburg and employees of Facebook, Facebook has incredible potential. I do not say this lightly. I am often critical of your company's decisions, but I believe Facebook can and should become a transformational force for good in this world. But you are not there yet. Facebook's attitu...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Social Media Crisis Fail: How Not to Handle a Campus Shooting

    Monday August 29 was the first day of classes at the University of Montana campus in Missoula, Montana. The campus was teeming with 15,000-plus students. At around 6:00 p.m. that night, there was a shooting on campus. The university has an emergency text message system, but no message was sent....

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Dear Facebook: What Are You Thinking?

    Since I wasn't one of the lucky ones that got to see the new Facebook changes in a "beta" roll-out this summer, today was the first day I woke up to the new format. All I can say is, ugh (sarcastic rant alert). My first thought was for myself, but after giving up in frustration to find a way to r...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Telling Stories of People's Lives... Using Social Media

    Culture of Content CreationThe Culture of Content Creation is a video series about people who make their own digital content to share with the world - such as blogs, podcasts, wiki entries, online product reviews or videos - to learn why they do it, what they find rewarding, and how they view the...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Transmedia Storytelling (A Fun Way To Blog)

    Ever have one of those days where you'd spend more time thinking about something to write about than actually writing the post itself? That'd be this morning for me! Instead of your traditional blog post, I thought I'd put together a 'How-To' video of sorts. I've always been fascinated with trans...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Facebook Lies, Damned Lies and Mis-understood Statistics

    Tweet Earlier this week, All Facebook featured a post on a report by DDB and OpinionWay examining the reasons that Facebook users "unlike" brand pages. The key findings, as reported by All Facebook (the report appears to have been taken down from SlideShare, so I can't link to it): The brand was...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Leave My Facebook Lists Alone

    Before I wrote a post on the new Facebook lists, I was giving them some time to marinate. I wanted to take them for a trial run before I jumped to conclusions that it was another horrible update on the Facebook Wall of Shame, as many other Facebook users have done. After testing them out for the...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Facebook's New Design: Windows Into Our Future

    Facebook's new page design will engineer a modified Facebook user experience. While these changes may seem random to many novice users, Facebook is in fact subtly re-engineering the way we interact with their platform. That said, few of these changes seem final or complete. I have a good feelin...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Facebook Will Be Sending You Less E-mail

    Facebook sent out an email today entitled:Facebook will be sending you less email - learn whyWe're trying out a new feature to reduce the amount of email you receive from Facebook. Starting today, we are turning off most individual email notifications and instead, we'll send you a summary only if...

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Google+ Changes the Game with Hangouts... Is Your Business Ready?

    I'm not a prognosticator. I resist invitations to predict technology trends. I never write blog posts on the top 10 ways social or digital media will impact business in the new year. It's just too volatile a space where a single innovation (e.g., Twitter) or misstep can upend the apple cart. (Go back and read the prediction posts from 2006. Nobody predicted Twitter.)

    By • Sept. 21, 2011

  • Netflix Fail: Qwikster Twitter Handle Owned By Pot Smoking Elmo

    Netflix's Big Twitter BlunderNetflix has had an abrupt change in strategy including major price hikes and a new name for the company's DVD-by-mail service - Qwikster. But what did they forget to do?Domain name... checkTwitter name... umm...Yes, the folks at Netflix failed to check the Twitter ha...

    By • Sept. 20, 2011

  • Did Google+ Inspire Facebook's New Features?

    Looks like Google is inspiring Facebook this time around. Facebook just rolled out its new Subscriptions features last week, a useful enhancement that addresses one of the pains of Facebook users that have a plethora of friends. The Subscription function will allow users to transcend the 5,000 ...

    By • Sept. 19, 2011

  • Google+ - Too Little, Too Late

    Regular readers of my blog will know of my interest in Social Media. When Google announced to the world that they would be launching a social network it made perfect sense for a number of reasons. Firstly they are one of the best known and trusted brands in the world, secondly, their homepage is ...

    By • Sept. 19, 2011

  • Can Smaller Social Networks Cross the Chasm?

    If you look at the social network landscape you could conclude that you have the big 3 (Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn) and the others. If I look at the data of our social media around the world 2011 survey, I conclude that you have the big 1 (Facebook), a few rising stars (Twitter, LinkedIn, G...

    By • Sept. 17, 2011

  • Why We Don't Have a +1 Button

    So, Google's +1 button has been around for some time now and, while many sites have integrated it, there are still a surprising number sitting with just the traditional Like and Twitter buttons. My company, Stinkyink.com, is one of them, and this is a decision we have made by choice not negligenc...

    By • Sept. 16, 2011

  • Twitter Kills Off Tweetdeck's Deck.ly Service

    Today the next web reported that TweetDeck has updated its applications across all platforms and the death of Deck.ly will come as a result.The next web went on to say: "The fate of Deck.ly itself, it seems, is a bit up in the air. It would makes sense that Twitter would keep Deck.ly around for p...

    By • Sept. 15, 2011

  • Constructing Realities in the Virtual World

    You've got mail. lol. brb. afk. imho. rofl. Log on. IM. The hype for the virtual world seems endless. Every day, more people go to the virtual world to connect and perhaps to attempt to build a reality within the virtual context. Many of us perceive e-communication as a tool that brings us clos...

    By • Sept. 14, 2011

  • How I Tweet in a Nutshell (55 Behaviors from a Twitter Nut!)

    Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't is my mantra of life. I am who I am take it or leave it.

    By • Sept. 14, 2011

  • 100 Million Twitter Users, Time To Get Involved!

    This week Twitter released news that they have reached, and passed, 100 million active users for their social networking site. Twitter is the second most used social media tool available, second only to Facebook. So having successfully made waves in the online media world, what's next for the ...

    By • Sept. 13, 2011