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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 Tommy Walker • 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 Tommy Walker • 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 Brad Friedman • 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 Tommy Walker • 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 Tom Martin • 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 Kevin Briody • 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 Debra Ellis • 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 Isabel C. Alvarez • 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 Christine Cashen • 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 Nikki Peters • 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 Rick Liebling • 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 Josh Lyford • 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 Rick Stilwell • 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 Mark Lazen • 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 Shel Holtz • 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 Mili Ponce • 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 Tammy Kahn Fennell • 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 Steve Olenski • 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 Tammy Kahn Fennell • 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 John Jantsch • 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 Suzanne Vara • 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 Shel Holtz • 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 Alyson Button Stone • 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 Pam Moore • July 11, 2011