Social Media Updates: Page 401

  • 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

  • Don't Tell Me to Find You on Facebook

    By • July 17, 2011

  • Blogging+ About Google+

    I posted the other day about my first short impressions of Google+ - and then I dove into the deep end, spen

    By • July 16, 2011

  • Gigya Arrives on Social Media Today!

    You may have noticed something new on Social Media Today and on all the sites in our network--social login via Gigya.At SMT, we're always looking for ways to make it easier for our visitors to become members of our community and to take full advantage of the opportunities for interaction here. No...

    By • July 16, 2011

  • Repent, All Ye Bloggers; the End of the Blogosphere is Nigh

    In the world of social media, nothing can ever be merely affected. It has to be killed. Slaughtered. Eviscerated. Massacred. Google+ is the latest alleged killer. Search the phrase "will Google+ kill" and you'll find nearly 30,000 results speculating whether Google will kill Facebook, Twitter, se...

    By • July 14, 2011

  • Google+ May Be the Biggest Online Conversation in the History of the Internet

    What is Google + and what are the main differences with Facebook and twitter is what most people are wondering right now. Should I be part of it? I can't waste my time on Facebook, Twitter and now in Google+. This is what most people are saying right now, but what is actually Google+? Google+ is...

    By • July 14, 2011

  • Should LinkedIn Fear Google Plus?

    A lot of people are out there saying that Gplus is going to make Twitter into Myspace, Facebook into Friendster, but the people I really see using it are businesses for networking. So how about Linkedin? Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy, (a UK company sometimes referred to as an alternative to ...

    By • July 14, 2011

  • How Social Media Has Disrupted the Internet

    At the recent Wharton Global Alumni Forum, hosted by the presitgious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the subject of "disruption" was front and center and the fact that "... a fundamental shift is taking place online, from an information-based web to the 'people web.'"I don't kno...

    By • July 13, 2011

  • Twitter Shows 3rd-Party Love With New Developer Site

    In an announcement late yesterday, Arnaud Meunier (@rno) publicly launched the new and improved Twitter developer's site, dev.twitter.com. This is the first post on the new dev blog:Today we're launching the new version of our Twitter Developer Site. With over 1,000,000 registered applications a...

    By • July 13, 2011

  • The Brutally Honest Guide to Naming Circles in Google Plus

    Users of Google+ are quickly coming to the conclusion that one of the game changing features offered up by this new social network is the following and sharing filter called Circles.For those that have not yet wandered into G+, you can segment those you follow into groups (circles) with the idea ...

    By • July 13, 2011

  • How to Opt Out of and Manage the Most Important Google+ Settings

    Google+ is the rave. It did not take long for the social community to fall in love and abandon their beloved Twitter and Facebook accounts and be incredibly apologetic about their absence. It so far has been living up to the love it has been given however, with any new platform we have to spend a...

    By • July 13, 2011

  • Twitter Town Hall Cynicism is Misplaced

    Politics breeds cynicism the way email breeds spam. A lot of the cynicism directed at US President Barack Obama's Twitter Town Hall is misplaced. To be clear, my opinions would be identical if this had been a Republican president making history as the first President to conduct a Q&A session ...

    By • July 12, 2011

  • The Discussion Continues: Customer Service via Twitter

    Editor's Note: When you read this post by Greg Meyer (Product Marketing Manager/Customer Experience Manager of Gist) I think you'll admire him as much as I do. Greg is just a treat. He's smart, stylishly articulate, and full of energy and passion about Customer Service. Greg will be stopping by f...

    By • July 11, 2011

  • Ecosystems (and Granny) Don't Move Overnight, Not Even for Google+

    "Build it and they will come." "Add some features & we can charge more." "Build the social media tool & they'll switch as long as we give it away for free." Let me start this post by stating I am in no way endorsing either Facebook or Google+ as the winning platform in the silent but very...

    By • July 11, 2011

  • How the Entenmann's / Casey Anthony Twitter Debacle Was Actually a Success

    For those that missed the HUGE news, Likeable Media issued a single tweet on behalf of their client Entenmann's that make a tongue in cheek joke about the Casey Anthony Trial.Cue online righteous indignation by people with too much time on their hands. Boycott Likeable Media! Boycott Entenmann'...

    By • July 11, 2011

  • Google + Take One

    At first glance, Google + has some upsides and downsides. But doesn't every platform out there? I must confess right off the bat that I am a Google fan-I use Chrome, Reader, Docs, Android, Calendar, and most of Google's toolbox. So for me, the new + is a winner. But I don't see it as a replacemen...

    By • July 10, 2011

  • Simplicity and Integration Continue to Drive Facebook's Success

    Mark Zuckerberg made a critical point during yesterday's announcement at Facebook headquarters-a point that was glossed over in most of the subsequent (and concurrent) discussions.

    By • July 9, 2011

  • Google+ and the Disappearance of the Wonder Wheel

    Google+ has been making a lot of noise lately in the already outrageous soundboard that is social media and social networking.

    By • July 9, 2011

  • Twitter, Your New Doctor

    US computer scientists from John Hopkins University, have been researching and scouring Twitter for any health related tweeting inside of America. Having read and looked at over 1.5 million tweets, all related to the health of tweeters from 2009 to 2010, they found some interesting facts. Mainly,...

    By • July 8, 2011

  • Google+: First Tips and Tricks

    When Google+ opened for beta testers last Friday, I was privileged to start kicking the tires. I was immediately sucked into playing on a new playground. "Ooo, what does this do?" "Ooo, shiney!" I was supposed to be leaving for a mini-vacation, but had a hard time tearing myself away. So, what's...

    By • July 8, 2011