Social Media Updates: Page 392

  • Can Social Media Help Find the Missing?

    Back when we all spent a lot more time at the post office, the iconic "Wanted" poster was a particularly effective form of reaching a captive audience hailing from all walks of life - after all, everyone needed to send a letter now and then, and if you were in the business of trying to catch crim...

    By • June 24, 2011

  • Social By Design

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    By • June 24, 2011

  • Twitter for Lawyers

    If you are at the panel tonight for Hastings School of Law please let me know what you thought of it in the comments. It's a big topic, and there's no way I can cover Twitter for lawyers in the allotted 10 minutes plus Q&A, so I thought I write up a bit more here for those who attended and th...

    By • June 23, 2011

  • Grandparents Are Using Social Networks

    Twenty-two percent of all grandparents in the UK are using social networks, according to Mashable.

    By • June 23, 2011

  • A Lesson About Twitter & PR: A Duke Nukem Tweet Is Forever

    You'd think that PR professionals would have realised that both (a) social media is now a key channel for talking to the press and wider audiences and (b) it is public and once in cyberspace will be there for a long, long time.

    By • June 21, 2011

  • Facebook Version of AdSense Coming to a Site Near You?

    According to recent eMarketer research, Facebook is the number one seller of display ads in the US. eMarketer expects Facebook to generate $2.19 billion in display advertising revenue this year. How much is expected for Yahoo? $1.62 billion. And what about Google? Only $1.15 billion. We all kn...

    By • June 21, 2011

  • Get Your Head Out of the Sand...It's Time to Get Your Business on Facebook!

    "There's No Time Like the Present"Many small to medium businesses seem to be dragging their feet, waiting for a better time than NOW to start engaging with an online community that is there and waiting on Facebook. The wait should truly be over. Everyday, when Facebook users, Social Media Managers, business owners and brand representatives search for their target market or a business affiliatate to link up with, time and time again they are coming up short.. This shouldn't be, and here's why!

    By • June 19, 2011

  • Are You Adding to the Noise?

    There is a concept in social media circles known as your signal-to-noise ratio. What is meant by that exactly? In social media terms, your signal-to-noise ratio is the amount of actual value that you provide relative to the nonsense you churn. Pardon the dirty speak, but that's essentially what i...

    By • June 17, 2011

  • Social Networking Growth Stats and Patterns

    Yesterday, a comScore Report was released detailing usage stats that highlight the continued rise in the importance of social networking on the web. In this post, I'd like to use data from 900+ social networking sites on Amzini to dive further into the distribution and drivers of the continued su...

    By • June 16, 2011

  • 10 Tips to Get the Twitter Conversation Started!

    You have read the blog posts, listened to the webinars and even bought the books. You've been watching the tweets go by for at least three to six months. One consistent message you keep hearing is that social media is one big conversation. Twitter is all about the conversation, connecting with ...

    By • June 16, 2011

  • The Facebook Cycle: Collecting, Culling, Connecting

    In the last few days the big news on Facebook has been its drop in users. Reports that have surfaced thanks to Inside Facebook have shown that although the number of total Facebook users were still up, Facebook has lost 6 million users in the U.S and 1.52 million users in Canada in the last month alone. Quite worrying for Facebook considering this is the country where Facebook was first released.

    By • June 14, 2011

  • The Chinese Twitter Clone

    Twitter is a giant. Its growth is insane. Its community is vast.It seems unlikely that there can be a competitor to Twitter, at least not in the English speaking world. However, in China, Social Media is taking off with competitors to Twitter (and Facebook) who are grabbing market share nearly as...

    By • June 13, 2011

  • Twitter Has an Awareness vs Usage Gap - But Does It Matter?

    Emarketer has an interesting post up , tying together two pieces of research around Twitter. The piece can basically be summarised as follows: Almost everyone has heard of Twitter, but few use it. The two stats that make that point are as follows. First of all we have Pew Research's figures,...

    By • June 13, 2011

  • Is Facebook Fading?

    Can it really be true? Is Facebook loosing it's luster? The social network's overall growth has been lower than usual for two months which Inside Facebook reports as "unusual". Facebook reached 687 million monthly active users by the beginning of June. Most of the newcomers are from countries su...

    By • June 13, 2011

  • Justin Bieber: A Social Media Case Study

    As a 43-year-old father of a 2-year-old boy, I'm not exactly in the target demo for Justin Bieber. I even listed Mr. Bieber (tongue in cheek) as one of my Top Ten Reasons Why Twitter is Stupid. When my wife asked me to rent his new movie Never Say Never, I decided to try and earn some husband p...

    By • June 12, 2011

  • Should we be scared of Facebook's automatic photo tag suggestions?

    Used to be, the only time you'd have to worry about coming back from some wild party to find embarrassing photos of yourself plastered all over the place was if you were a bona fide celebrity, the sort of person regularly stalked by folks hauling expensive cameras with enormous lenses. Then came...

    By • June 12, 2011

  • A How To Tweet Guide - Yes Another One

    When I was in 5th or 6th grade, one my teachers gave the class an assignment: Write down the instructions on how to make a peanut butter & jelly sandwich. Every one of us failed. Why? Because every single one of us wrote down something to the effect of: Get two slices of breadSpread peanut bu...

    By • June 10, 2011

  • 11-Point Facebook Checkup

    If you manage a Facebook business page you most likely spend a most of your time managing your Wall content, reviewing your page analytics, or checking out the latest and greatest apps. But every now and then it makes sense to take pause and assess your Facebook health and well-being; to diagnose...

    By • June 10, 2011

  • Internet Week Panel: The Social Media Simplicity Toolkit

    New York Internet Week is upon us again. On Monday morning, I attended a panel hosted at the Four Points by Sheraton Manhattan Chelsea titled, "Social Media Simplicity Toolkit: How to Avoid Over Complicating your Brand Online".

    By • June 9, 2011

  • LinkedIn, Recruitment and Inadequate Customer Service

    One of the biggest things to impact social media recently has been LinkedIn. The company went public recently and the initial IPO was a huge success.It's not surprising to anyone in the field of recruitment that LinkedIn is the new hot ticket item. Recruiters are all trying to figure out how to m...

    By • June 8, 2011

  • Brand Do's and Dont's: Contests on Facebook

    Newsflash: Facebook is changing. All the time. And we are not talking about your friends' updates here: we're talking new functionalities, new layout for your brand's page and even new rules.This last point may be the most important to keep in mind, even though it is also the issue that no one ta...

    By • June 8, 2011

  • Google Moves and Other Reports from the Social Media Sphere

    I noted it last week but didn't have a chance to post it - Google bought PostRank Analytics - the price of the deal wasn't revealed. It's one of the acquisition's I did not expect Google to make but it makes sense as Postrank developed a way to cut through noise and rank blogs. Almost anyth...

    By • June 8, 2011

  • Four Good Reasons NOT to be a 'LinkedIn Smartypants'

    Having spent thousands of hours on LinkedIn I have definitely made my share of mistakes. Part of the study of using LinkedIn (LinkedInology) is being a responsible user. Being such, I feel compelled to clear up some misinformation on the proper usage of LinkedIn. This has been prompted by some...

    By • June 8, 2011

  • Twitter Use Jumps

    Twitter Use Jumps from Nov. 2010 As of May 2011, 13% of online US adults use the status update service Twitter, up 62.5% from 8% who did so in November 2010, according to data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Slightly more than half (54%) of Twitter users access the service via ...

    By • June 8, 2011

  • 5 Ways to Analyze Twitter Trends

    Are you looking for new trends on Twitter? If not, you should be. This is a great way to drive new traffic to your blog, especially if you use Twitter. You first spot a trend, then you blog about it using the right keywords, and you follow up that blog post with a tweet about it. Because the topi...

    By • June 7, 2011