Social Media Updates: Page 400

  • Don't Look Behind You Facebook, Google+ May Be Gaining On You

    According to comScore, Google+ is now in the record books as being the fastest website to reach 25 million users and if reports are to be believed the folks at Facebook are now in "lockdown" mode which is described as "a self-imposed period of intensive product development." Paraphrasing the g...

    By • Aug. 3, 2011

  • 10 Surefire Ways to Get Me to Follow Your Twitter Account

    As a followup to my previous article on 10 Surefire Ways To Get Me To Avoid Your Twitter Account, I thought it might be a good idea to write a post detailing good habits that will attract me to review and (hopefully) follow your account.

    By • Aug. 3, 2011

  • Social Media: Are you a hunter-gatherer or farmer?

    Humans have been hunter-gatherers for 95% of our existence, but yet in social media, everyone wants to be a farmer before we have learned how to forage Approximate centers of origin of agriculture and its spread, courtesy of Wikipedia What can anthropology teach us about social media that we do...

    By • Aug. 3, 2011

  • Controlling Social Media

    Missouri's governor signed a law that bans teachers and students from being Facebook friends or interacting on a personal, such as messaging on social media sites. One of the great things about the Internet is that it evolves and changes very fast. So fast that on a sociological level it can ...

    By • Aug. 2, 2011

  • Your Children Are Not My Responsibility on Twitter

    It's always a hot topic. How should sensitive material be handled on social media. Similar to forcing watershed times on television programs, there's a bit of a movement now to start filtering out sensitive material on social media.Let me preface this with: I am a parent. I have a young child and...

    By • Aug. 2, 2011

  • The Aggregated Twitter Account

    Of my million followers, like 800k r porn bots and they don't care about nuclear disarmament, comedy or SoulPancake. How do I impress them?-Tweet from Dwight Schrute This article is part of a group of posts focused on optimizing ROI in Twitter use. Many users are employing Twitter as an informati...

    By • Aug. 2, 2011

  • How to Keep Your LinkedIn Profile From Hurting Your Image

    Here is the second article in the Learning LinkedIn series that we kicked off last week with the article, Is LinkedIn Answers Worth the Investment for B2B Professionals. This week we continue with a chat about the profile, which is the key to protecting your online reputation on LinkedIn.

    By • July 30, 2011

  • Twitter Launches Promoted Tweets

    As reported last month, Twitter finally rolls out its ad platform via promoted tweets. Brands, businesses, and non-profits are now allowed to target their promoted tweets but can only advertise to their followers. Promoted tweets will appear at the top of a user's timelineswhich they can dismiss ...

    By • July 29, 2011

  • Social Media Faux Pas - Hijacking Hash Tags

    There aren't too many rules governing the use of hash tags on Twitter - but there's one pretty important one to pay attention to: Never hijack sensitive, political or breaking-news issues to promote your brand or product - especially if it's completely unrelated. The latest example of social med...

    By • July 29, 2011

  • The 12 Funniest Domain Names in the Facebook Typosquatter Lawsuit

    You can get more details here and/or here.Facebook has filed a major lawsuit accusing 25 different domain name holders of being in violation of the Lanham Act. The majority of the domain names are typos/variations of Facebook.com. ElliotsBlog.com has the full copy of the lawsuit here (PDF).Given ...

    By • July 28, 2011

  • Time Management in Social Media - the definitive guide

    Knowing how and when to manage your activity on social media channels is one of the biggest headache's a business will face. So, I have put together a comprehensive guide on how you could not only manage your time better but (as an agency) also cost it better so that getting involved in social m...

    By • July 28, 2011

  • Social Media & Employment: 'Apply With LinkedIn' - The New Way To Get A Job

    The world's biggest social networking site designed for business, LinkedIn, has this month launched a new plug-in that allows its users to apply for jobs with the click of a button.

    By • July 28, 2011

  • 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