Social Media Updates: Page 389

  • Social Media and Politics: for Good, or Just a Fad?

    With the next United States Presidential Election set for November 2012, the two major American parties are already stepping up their campaigning efforts. Four years ago, Barack Obama utilised the internet more than any previous presidential candidate as he successfully ran for the most power...

    By • July 26, 2011

  • Is Google+ Really Living Up to The Hype or Is It Just The Perceived Exclusivity?

    A common suggestion by much wiser and older individuals than myself is that 'you learn more from mistakes than your successes.' Perhaps this is what Google has done. Google+ launched recently to virtually worldwide critical acclaim. Google has attempted developing a social media platform that cou...

    By • July 26, 2011

  • Beyond Google Plus: What's next for Google?

    This is going to be the first of a two-part piece on Google beyond Google+. The last few weeks have seen Google dominate the social media news landscape with the launch of their social network, Google+. Google's recent revamp of Google News got a lot less attention, but I think was also very in...

    By • July 24, 2011

  • Corporates Get Vocal As Google Goes Social!

    The launch of Google+1 by the planet's biggest search engine, hereby, declares the age of search and social is officially open! What's important now is not only to 'do SEO' but also to 'say hello'. The word on cyberstreet is that SEO has become social engine optimisation. To 'like' is as importa...

    By • July 24, 2011

  • If Facebook Were High School...!

    High school for me wasn't all that long ago, only seven years in fact. I remember it well.Back in those days Facebook and Twitter never existed. They were but a glimmer in Mark Zuckerburg's and Jack Doresy's eyes respectively. MySpace was only just starting to take off, or at least it was still...

    By • July 22, 2011

  • They Finally Got It Right! How Google+ Makes Web Content More Valuable

    In the past couple of weeks or so, it seems like Google did something right in terms of social media. It almost seems ironic that Google, the Internet's biggest search provider, has failed to release a solid social-networking platform. Either it was too complicated, or just not popular enough,...

    By • July 22, 2011

  • Bad Content Is Killing Your Social Media Ranking

    Today many of business websites and companies are intrested in social media marketing, they are created facebook page, facebook profiles(who dont know the difference b/w page and profile), twitter account, friendfeed account and many more social sites accounts.There are millions user may coonecte...

    By Anand Mohan • July 22, 2011

  • Should Bloggers be on Google Plus?

    With all the noise circulating the web about Google plus lately I think it is important for you to calculate your steps wisely and see if you're making the right decisions as a blogger. Since building a successful blog is all about knowing where your audience is and spending the most of your time...

    By • July 20, 2011

  • Google will not run Circles around Facebook, but it gets a +1

    While there are already countless articles about Google+ and many more sharing up-to-the-minute statistics to emerge from the burgeoning network, I reserved my thoughts until now. I needed time to think about it. Part FriendFeed, part Google Buzz, part Facebook, part Google.com and all of its pr...

    By • July 20, 2011

  • Facebook Face-Off: Should a Smackdown be a PDA? (Public Display of Aggression)

    Have you ever seen or been a part of an angry war of words on Facebook? Have you ever seen a response to a post that made you cringe? Until recently, I'd been only a silent observer on the sidelines of such uncomfortable exchanges. But no more! Just last week, my innocent comment resulted in a...

    By • July 20, 2011

  • Why Redditors Gave Imgur a Chance

    Imgur.com is an image hosting site similar to Flickr or Photobucket. Users can upload images and then easily share links to them. Hundreds of millions of images are now viewed on Imgur each month. A big part of this success can be attributed to Reddit, a social link sharing site owned by Condé Na...

    By • July 20, 2011

  • Why Social Media Platform Wars Matter to Companies (and You)

    Facebook and Google+ are readying themselves for a showdown. If you think that their activities aren't a concern for your business, you may want to rethink your position. Building an active social network requires a major commitment. In an economy where every penny needs to deliver a return, spre...

    By • July 20, 2011

  • What Happens When You Fail to Learn from Your Mistakes in Social Networking?

    In business, sooner or later, everyone makes mistakes. How you get on in the long term however depends upon your ability to learn from them. In terms of the way age is calculated in the business world, Facebook is still a young company and as such it is prone to gaffes. While that is to be expect...

    By • July 19, 2011

  • 21 Days to a More Engaging Facebook Page - Day 13 Designing the Perfect Landing Page

    Welcome to Day 13 of 21 Days to a More Engaging Facebook Presence Series (Click to watch in Full Screen HD) The purpose of this series is to help you build deeper relationships with your customers so you can create content they love interacting with, and products they can not live without In y...

    By • July 19, 2011

  • 21 Days to a More Engaging Facebook Presence - Day 12 Why Do You Want to Be on Facebook?

    (Click to watch in Fullscreen HD) The purpose of this series is to help you build deeper relationships with your customers so you can develop content they love interacting with and products they cannot live without. Today's going to be a quick tip, because we've already covered a lot of groun...

    By • July 19, 2011

  • Google+ First Impressions

    Google+ First ImpressionsAt the end of June, Google unveiled Google+ and entered into a head-to-head competition with Facebook. I have been on Google+ for less than a week and thought I share some of my first impressions. Just a quick reminder: Though I am a user of Google products (Google Apps...

    By • July 19, 2011

  • 21 Days to a More Engaging Facebook Presence - Day 11 The Best Time to Post, Day of the Week, Words that Work and More

    (click to watch inFullscreen HD) If you're just joining us, the purpose of this series is to help you build a deeper relationship with your customers so you can develop content that people will love interacting with, and products they can not live without. So Far, We've talked about smart com...

    By • July 19, 2011

  • The Night Twitter Died

    Last night Twitter died... well not completely but for a bit there a few folks who have spent a whole lot of time becoming a big deal on Twitter collectively held their breathe and prayed. They prayed that Twitter would at least show them a Fail Whale... something, anything... I mean, these folk...

    By • July 19, 2011

  • Twitter Is Not Your RSS Feed - Stop Treating It Like One

    Every Twitter user has heard it, or experienced it ourselves, the complaint that Twitter has become too noisy, too spamming, too much about just pushing links and not enough about actual people expressing actual thoughts. The problem however isn't Twitter's, and Twitter shouldn't have to become like Google+ to "fix" it.

    By • July 19, 2011

  • Facebook Scores 66 in Customer Satisfaction Opening the Door for Google+

    Facebook, the golden platform of the social media world, seems invincible but appearances can be deceiving. The company recently announced that 750,000 or three quarters of a billion people had signed up to use the service. Does customer satisfaction matter when that many people are flocking to ...

    By • July 19, 2011

  • International Languages: If You Avoid Them in Social Media, Is It racist?

    Several weeks back as I checked my unfollowers through whounfollowedme.com, I noticed someone who I was following and also was following... unfollowed. I remember when we started following it was because of "Toni-On-New York" (TV show). Anyway, I don't usually do this with unfollowers (mostly be...

    By • July 19, 2011

  • Facebook's BranchOut: Anti Social Media

    BranchOut has me out on a limb. Have you been invited to Facebook's professional networking entry into the LinkedIn world? It started to clog my newsfeed until I downloaded FB Purity (http://www.fbpurity.com/ - thankfully, it's free!) which alters your Facebook home page, showing only the mos...

    By • July 18, 2011

  • Facebook, You And Your Relationship: It's Complicated!

    I am willing to bet that a fair few members of the online social media world, have used Facebook to snoop into ex partners lives since splitting up.

    By • July 18, 2011

  • Google+ Won't Kill Facebook or Twitter, Google Has a Bigger Agenda

    One of the effects of Google+'s controlled roll out, primarily to tech geeks and Social Media nerds, was an avalanche of "Google+ will be a (fill in the blank) killer" posts. Twitter - dead! Facebook - dead! Twitter and Facebook - dead! I've tried to hold off on such pronouncements because, A) t...

    By • July 18, 2011

  • Why Using Social Media to Meet the Status Quo Isn't Enough

    Using social media can be as simple or as in-depth as you wish to make it. For some, simply hopping on Twitter and tossing out a few wild tweets or signing in to Facebook and posting incessant emotes makes up their entire social media interest. For others who are willing to dig a little deeper, social media can become a more fulfilling jump off point or a deeper and invaluable tool.

    By • July 17, 2011