Social Media Updates: Page 387

  • Robots Tweeting In Outer Space, We Are The Future!

    Yes, ladies and gentleman, a robot using social networks whilst in a rocket in the depths of space... This is a story which sounds like it should be the plot to a old black and white Hollywood movie, but it's 100% true! A robot, named R2, has tweeted whilst out amongst the stars. Now we've heard it all. R2 was created by the NASA space co-operation to help aid his human counterparts in and around the space station with daily tasks. The tinman tweet read:

    By • Aug. 25, 2011

  • Facebook Comments: Too Bitter a Pill for Pharma to Swallow?

    As we

    By • Aug. 25, 2011

  • Foursquare Crushes Facebook Places

    Facebook just announced plans to abandon the "Places" feature inside its mobile application, making location information just a standard part of mobile status updates.According to Jay Yarow of Business Insider:"This looks like a tacit admission that Foursquare is winning the check-in battle, afte...

    By • Aug. 24, 2011

  • First the World, Then the Dictionary

    As many of you have already heard, "retweet" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary this week. Social media lingo can be overheard in almost any conversation on the street, and now, it's taking over the dictionary.The official definition is:

    By • Aug. 24, 2011

  • How To Get The Google+ 'Verified User' Badge

    With many reports that people are unable to find the "Name Verification" tab and being unable to find it myself this morning, I can only assume that Google has closed off this method of name verification. If you happen to have success please let us know in the comments below.With Google's insiste...

    By David DeWald • Aug. 24, 2011

  • Unlike Google Buzz, Has Google+ Taken Off?

    Guest post by John ZenithThere are already hundreds of social networks in the internet space, but only a few of them can be considered household names. If Google has anything to say about it, its new introduction into the game will be one we talk about for some time to come. Recently introduced t...

    By • Aug. 23, 2011

  • Social Networks and Your Sales Force: A 3 Steps Approach

    One of the biggest challenges faced by companies with large sales forces these days is how to deal with social networks. This is particularly true of companies that operate in highly regulated industries in which the sales force interacts directly with consumers, industries such as financial serv...

    By • Aug. 22, 2011

  • The LinkedIn Diairies: Steps You Need to Take...Offline

    LinkedIn has established itself as a social media tool that permeates all areas and levels of business. Indeed, it's rare to find a business person that hasn't created a LinkedIn profile. But, as with all evolving technologies, typical users only use a fraction of LinkedIn's functionality. Ha...

    By • Aug. 22, 2011

  • Favorite Tool in the Shed: TWITTER

    ... and I'll pick Peter Pan over all the rest. I've been asked what my favorite tool is for social media, what favorite site would be the last one I'd give up under duress. Without hesitation, it's Twitter. Find me at @rickcaffeinated on Twitter, and we'll start talking about anything you want - ...

    By • Aug. 22, 2011

  • Immortality on Facebook? An Infographic

    The last thing on someone's mind when they're about to die is (or ought to be) what's going to happen to their Facebook account. But with 500 million people on the social network, user deaths are pretty unavoidable. How will you live online after you've passed away in real life?This is a great in...

    By • Aug. 22, 2011

  • Social TV Just Got the Kick It Needed

    In January this year, I was asked to predict the key trends for 2011 and social tv was one of them (presentation is below if you're at all interested to see how i'm getting on!). Insights Eleven View more presentations from Paul Fabretti Hulu and conventional web broadcasting aside, this had l...

    By • Aug. 22, 2011
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    Social Media Haze: Business vs. Personal

    In any given day, I receive dozens of questions about social media. Here are answers to a few questions I've been asked recently:Question #1:I was having a conversation with someone today about whether or not it's important to acquire friends and likes or if having likes only is most effective.A...

    By • Aug. 22, 2011

  • How Does LinkedIn Grow Your Business?

    By • Aug. 21, 2011

  • Social Media is Two-Faced

    Technology could either be a good thing or a bad thing. Social media is a product of vast progress of technology, which seems to have a huge impact on how society is evolving. As Jeff Jarvis puts it, social networks bring "elegant organization" to users. In has given birth to a customer-company...

    By • Aug. 19, 2011

  • Getting the Google Plus Conversation Right

    This content from: Duct Tape MarketingIf you still haven't joined Google Plus click here - 150 invites Benson Kua via FlickrOne of the most interesting things about Google's new social network, Google Plus, is the conversation that participation generates. Some still attribute this to the newnes...

    By • Aug. 19, 2011

  • Klout vs. Empire Avenue - Measuring Your Online Influence and Readership

    This post was intended for Social Media intermediates looking to increase their understanding of social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Thanks to the MLS-Office team for aiding in this research! Just the other week we doubled our energies on klout.com after digesting Mark Schafer...

    By • Aug. 19, 2011

  • The London Riots: 4 Digital Activism Do's and Don't's

    The great Martin Luther King, Jr., knew that the word-of-mouth approach is powerful when trying to initiate change in society. However, social media is making that approach seem out of date.Technology and social networks allow people to create and spread a message quickly. WOM is far too slow in ...

    By • Aug. 18, 2011

  • Telephone Flash Mobs, Celebrities, the Police and Social Media

    Is a telephone flash mob criminal? How do you prove that a series of Tweets directly caused a telephone flash mob? The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is trying to answer these questions after an artist who goes by the stage name, "The Game" allegedly tweeted the phone number of a sheri...

    By • Aug. 18, 2011

  • The Evolving Use of Social Media for Political Campaigns

    Campaigns and social media have been in the news a lot this year - Republican primaries and London riots in just the last week - and the exposure will increase as the US heads into election year in 2012. I want to look at how political campaigns have evolved in their use of the internet and socia...

    By • Aug. 17, 2011

  • Google+ - A Solution In Search of a Problem

    First I must say that I am desperate to like Google+. I really want it to succeed because I like Google. I find many of their products fantastically useful (gmail, maps, Android, calendar, docs.) I also trust Google (within the limits imposed by the fact that it is a listed corporation). I also...

    By • Aug. 17, 2011

  • Guest Post: Hashtags Are Like #Snowflakes

    Source: David J. Neff Note from Beth: You'll find some good tips from David and Ehren on how to leverage their platform. I'd like to emphasize one of their points - "measure - experiment-measure." Not every nonprofit is born with the "data driven gene." One way your organization can...

    By • Aug. 16, 2011

  • Infographic: Google's Search Result Quality War

    SEO.com has released an infographic on Google's efforts to provide quality search results high. It's an interesting look back at the key initiatives that Google has undertaken to combat sites from undeservedly dominating search results. While this may not seem like it would impact you, it actuall...

    By • Aug. 16, 2011

  • Getting in the Groove of Google +

    I can't believe Google + has been around for nearly two months and I haven't written a post on it yet! Well, actually, I can believe it. I'm not one to get Shiny Object Syndrome. I do consider myself a Super Early Adopter, but I always jump into a new tool fully, explore, experiment and assess, ...

    By • Aug. 16, 2011

  • Why Google Plus is Still a College Ghost-town

    We've all heard the numbers..."

    By • Aug. 16, 2011

  • Social Media Tells the Truth

    New adapters might see as social media as an outlet where fake people can act important, but they have not discovered the reality of social media. If you post something on your Twitter account that isn't true or completely scandalous someone will catch you and call you out on i

    By • Aug. 15, 2011