Social Media Updates: Page 391

  • What is Your Plan For Google + Experimentation and Exploration?

    Simon Laustsen What a day! The platform war between Facebook and Google + officially launched with a press conference at Facebook announcing the new "awesome" features including one click skype/Facebook integration for video chat. I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky rea...

    By • July 7, 2011

  • Google Plus - Bridging Together Too Irreconcilable Worlds

    Continuing further with that series of blog posts on the topic of Google Plus, I thought I would move ahead today and share a third one, which I thought was going to be, originally, the last one for now, but then again things have come up and there will be another one that I will be sharing next,...

    By • July 6, 2011

  • Engage Your Facebook Page Fans with Page Apps

    So you started a Facebook page and even managed to gather a few fans, you might be wondering how to keep those fans engaged so that your page is not forgotten. A great way to keep your page relevant is to post quality page updates that invite your fans to like and comment on them. Not only will y...

    By • July 6, 2011

  • Quick look at Google+ Features [Infographic]

    By • July 6, 2011

  • Google+ - Yi-Tan Call Notes

    Yi-Tan Community hosts a weekly 40-minute conference call about navigating change in technology and society. Jerry Michalski is the moderator. I used to participate in the calls way back in 2005 in the early days of blogging and always found the calls informative. Yesterday's Yi-Tan call with...

    By • July 6, 2011

  • Obama's Town Hall Meeting versus Twitter Truth

    The premiere social media event of the week is U.S President Obama's "Twitter town hall," today. The president will take questions posed through the #askobama hashtag during a discussion moderated by Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter. The White House said it wants the talk to focus on the eco...

    By • July 6, 2011

  • Facebook Offers In-Browser Skype Chat

    I said it was going to happen. Of course, it happened sooner than I thought it would. But I'm more than pleased to announce that my prediction was correct. Facebook is now offering Skype video chat. WebProNews reported the news over the weekend. So what's this mean for small businesses? Imagine t...

    By • July 5, 2011

  • Where Google Plus Scores Over Others

    By • July 5, 2011

  • 10 Things to Consider As You Move to Google+

    Something interesting is happening with Google+. We're all freaking out because we can't import our Facebook and Twitter friends (you can export Facebook friends into Gmail now, if you're patient and have a tiny bit of tech savvy). Here we've spent years (in most cases) building communities on so...

    By • July 5, 2011

  • Google+, Does it have Potential for Business Use?

    I admit I'm pretty intrigued by Google+ and have been spending quite a bit of time checking it out over the last few days. It is quite the geekdom at present, and frankly that's just fine with me for now. I guess that's really the plan at first, get us in playing with it and writing / talking abo...

    By • July 5, 2011

  • Verified Twitter Accounts Can Now Receive DMs Without Following

    Earlier today The Next Web reported that larger brands with Verified accounts no longer have to follow users back to receive Direct Messages from their customers."The relaxation is aimed at providing Twitter users that have large follower counts with a private system with which they can receive...

    By • July 5, 2011

  • How Many People Really See Your Facebook Page Updates?

    A lot of companies don't know that Facebook tailors what each of it's fans sees to how relevant it is for those individuals. The system of deciding who sees what is based on Facebook's EdgeRank algorithm which looks for three qualities: affinity, recency and interaction, and decides whether each ...

    By • July 5, 2011

  • Happy July 4th! (There's a Patriotic App for That, Too.)

    Civic developers at Code For America created a Web application in honor of this year's Independence Day that features a number of patriotic values: creativity, technical expertise and interest in the public discourse of their fellow citizens. Flag.CodeForAmerica.org aggregates Twitter avatars fro...

    By • July 4, 2011

  • Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

    Everyone's all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. I won't break down all the features and how-tos and what-ifs, as other folks are better at that, including Jason Falls and Chris Brogan. My initial, abbreviated ta...

    By • July 3, 2011

  • Google Plus (Google+): The Painful Realization

    Yesterday was an awesome day. I played with Google+ all day. I've had a blast on it experimenting with features and building my social graph from scratch. Today however, was a different story; I had a moment of uncomfortable clarity. The honeymoon high is over for me, not because Google Plus ...

    By • July 1, 2011

  • Why Google+ Doesn't Stand a Chance Against Facebook

    So by now, you've likely heard Google+ is coming to an internet near you.You may have taken a look at the demo, or gotten an early invitation, you might think this could usher in the next generation of social networking.And you might be right.I'll admit, I'm anxious to see if Google's actually go...

    By • July 1, 2011

  • Breaking Down Google+

    Google+ is officially on the market, and it's being released in small doses in the form of invites. Much like how Gmail was initially spread in beta, the invite only model creates a sense of exclusivity and belonging. Facebook also used this method to market their network to college students, and...

    By • July 1, 2011

  • Hospitality & Social Media: Meet a Modern-Day Marco Polo with 10 Phones, 3 Tablets -- and He Tweets, Too!

    I wrote this for the WebInTravel blog last week. Steve and I talked about Marco Polo returning to Singapore and the use of Social Media in the hospitality business.

    By • July 1, 2011

  • A Mid-Year Assessment of Social Networks in 2011

    We're halfway through 2011, and a lot has happened in social media. As over 1,000 Social networks fight and innovate to grab their piece of the social networking space, the first six months of the year have included new features, redesigns, acquisitions, and IPOs... But who have been the biggest ...

    By • July 1, 2011

  • Strong and Weak Ties: Why Your Weak Ties Matter

    Strong and weak ties are both relevant and important in your social networking interactions. They perform different functions in relationships but they can extend your network far beyond your normal reach. Using and maintaining your socially weak ties can bring far-reaching benefits outside of your normal relationships.

    By • June 30, 2011

  • Getting Social for the Fourth

    With the long Independence Day weekend tempting us right over there on the horizon, many of us are packing our bags, fueling up our cars or just getting ready for a holiday weekend close to home. Keeping the spirit of the holiday in mind, we dug up a few fun links about the Fourth and social medi...

    By • June 30, 2011

  • 10 Things Google+ Can Do to Wow Itself and the World

    Google+ is off to a good start: A clean interface that works, interesting and useful features, a great Android app,and a curious community of early adopters. The screenshots at the bottom of this post will give you a taste of what Google+ is but they will also likely show you what it is not, at...

    By • June 30, 2011

  • Google+ Invites (Or Google Plus - Whatever!) Crap Name, Great Product

    Google+ (or Google Plus) is here and after playing about with it it looks cool - this might certainly be a real challenger to Facebook at last:) If you want an invite subscribe to Hobo by email and I will grab your email and try and get you an invite. If you are sbscribed already by email - you a...

    By • June 30, 2011

  • Some Initial Thoughts on Google+

    I'm genuinely excited by Google+, not for the fact that Google "is getting in the game" by creating a "new Facebook" but for 4 reasons: 1) It appears at first glance to be the clean, easy and uncluttered sharing environment that Facebook seemed to be years ago before apps and ads became preva...

    By • June 30, 2011

  • The Google+ Project Is Here

    Well, the Google+ Project is here (sort of - they're rolling it out slowly to high influencers first) and I don't know what to make of it. Yes, this is different than +1, which was introduced publicly a few weeks ago. Yes, it (seemingly) is yet another thing you have to try to fit into your life....

    By • June 29, 2011