Social Media Updates: Page 402

  • Top 100 Auto Industry Influencers Ranked by Twitter

    Top 100 Auto Industry Influencers in North America according to Twitter...

    By • Jan. 15, 2011

  • What Would Happen If Real Life Was Like Twitter

    Ever wonder about that? No? Ok. Me neither until just this moment. So here's the answers.80% of conversations occuring using telephones would be about having conversations using telephones.99% of conversations about computers sent via computers would be about using computers to send messages to other computers.60% of conversations in coffee shops would be about how to best have conversations about coffee shop conversations.Sex would go much faster, having a limit of 140 micro movements. Men would be happy. Women would buy more batteries.

    By Robert Bacal • Jan. 15, 2011

  • Cause A Stir With Your Social Media Status

    (Guest post by Nitin Aggarwal) Twitter has enjoyed quite a lot of notoriety lately as the social media platform preferred by Hollywood celebrities short on time, but big on sharing the personal news their fans crave.

    By • Jan. 14, 2011

  • How Social Media Can Get You a Job

    Looking for a job, and feeling like you're shooting your resume into a black hole?That's sure how I felt when I graduated from Duke University this past May. Over the summer, I lost track of how many searches I did on craigslist, CareerBuilder, Idealist (and so on), how many cover letters I la...

    By • Jan. 13, 2011

  • 6 Tips For Giving Your LinkedIn Profile A Facelift

    LinkedIn, launched in 2003 as a professional network with under 500 users, is now connecting over 70 million people in 200 countries and territories. Initially associated with the popular MySpace, but for adults, users quickly learned that this platform was a whole lot more. It was opportu...

    By • Jan. 12, 2011

  • Major Shift In Twitter Trends From 2009 To 2010

    So there I was on Ad Age, a common occurrence for sure, and I came across two pie charts depicting the changes in Twitter trends from 2009 to 2010... and I was blown away, in a good way that is. The data came from, as you can see from the image above, What the Trend, the trend-tracking company th...

    By • Jan. 12, 2011

  • Another 2011 Prediction: Facebook has more issues over Privacy...duh!

    People all over the web are taking the new year as an excuse to make predictions, resolutions and recaps. So I'm going to throw my hat in the ring, bust out my crystal ball and tell you about the future. IN THE YEAR 2011: A Prediction Facebook will do SOMETHING that will cause people to be up...

    By • Jan. 12, 2011

  • She said, "I Think Facebook is Just Stupid"

    Last Saturday night I was at a party with several old friends. Not many of them realized how I had been making my living for the last year and, as the conversation began to centre around social media, I heard someone say "I think Facebook is just stupid". I was about to round on her with several ...

    By • Jan. 11, 2011

  • Is Facebook Your New Call Center?

    In our survey of 200 leading business to consumer Facebook pages, Social Yantra has identified that 34% of the posts from customers on these Facebook pages are "actionable". Meaning, there is an opportunity for these companies to respond and actively engage in the conversation that's been initia...

    By • Jan. 11, 2011

  • Facebook moderation lessons from Sarah Palin's Alaska

    If you're looking for a best-practices playbook for Facebook moderation and brand engagement, start studying the model used on the Page of Sarah Palin's Alaska, an 8-part television series on TLC that concluded last night.Here are five reasons that I've been impressed with the Alaska approach:

    By • Jan. 10, 2011

  • Will Twitter Cross The Chasm?

    The tubes were buzzing recently about Twitter's new round of funding from Kleiner Perkins, whose $200 million dollar investment brings Twitter's total valuation to around $3.7 billion. As someone who has been involved with VC investment before, I can tell you that while the valuation is very exc...

    By • Jan. 10, 2011

  • What Would 2011 Have For Us?

    After 3 week long hiatus I'm about to restart my blogging. During the break I visited India and South Korea for about ten days each, and was reminded that how much I grew addicted to constant Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates. The moment I regained my free wifi connection at Seoul International Airport, I was back at catching up all the news bits from my social media curators.

    By • Jan. 9, 2011

  • The Most Visited Website of 2010

    Is it Google? Actually, no. Google didn't make it to the top this year. Google was bumped to second place by the one and only Facebook. Who would have thought when Facebook began nearly 7 years ago, that it would become as large and as influential as it is today? There is a movie about it, there are more than 500 million people now using the site, and its users are visiting Facebook for more than simply connecting with "friends". Facebook draws people from around the world - supporting causes, promoting brands and celebrities, and even shopping - while staying in touch with friends.

    By • Jan. 6, 2011

  • Why Emergency Health Personnel Should Not Use Twitter

    My father is a physician by trade. He spends more time on the road going to the emergency room than he does in any other place on planet. Basically, he's obsessed with his work. In any case, the other day, my dad and I went out grocery shopping and on the way there, he randomly asked me if he sho...

    By • Jan. 6, 2011

  • Social Media for Beginners: Facebook

    This is the fourth installment of a five part series: Social Media For Beginners: Facebook 1. If you run a business, you must be on Facebook. The numbers tell the tale. There are over 500 milllion people on Facebook. The more powerful number however is that 50% of those people log into Face...

    By • Jan. 6, 2011

  • Twitter: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

    In today's blog post on the well respected blog Business Insider Henry Blodgett stated "THE TRUTH ABOUT TWITTER: Half Of Twitter Users Never Listen To A Word Anyone Else Says" This is presented as some great revelation of startling proportions! OMG! Half of my Twitter followers never even read...

    By • Jan. 6, 2011

  • A new Twitter business model - a comprehensive hashtag strategy

    Following up on my previous post A New Local Business Model for Twitter, I extend the idea of Twitter potentially employing a new hashtag for geographies to other categories.To recap the geographical strategy:

    By • Jan. 5, 2011

  • StumbleUpon Passes Facebook For Social Media Traffic

    That was the whole tweet and nothing but the tweet that came from StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp.The findings came via an analytics service called Statcounter which tracks an average of 15 billion page views per month on over 3 million websites. In terms of Social Media, they reviewed numbers from ...

    By • Jan. 5, 2011

  • 10 Press Release Alternatives

    More than a few PR people want to declare the press release dead; however, as long as reporters continue to ask for releases - and sometimes run them verbatim - the press release is alive and well.

    By • Jan. 5, 2011

  • Finding Quality Interactions on Twitter - Lose the Auto DM!

    What is the benefit of an auto-DM on Twitter? Practically speaking, I suppose it's great. Automated responses reduce the time that you have to spend personally acknowledging new followers.Sure, sending an auto-DM after someone follows you might sound like a good way to begin a Twitter relationsh...

    By • Jan. 5, 2011

  • Facebook Goes For Gold

    Looks good 'on paper'

    By • Jan. 5, 2011

  • Don't send all your tweets to LinkedIn

    This article from @jorgensundberg really got me thinking about how I use Twitter on LinkedIn.Integrating Twitter into LinkedInI previously had the Twitter app integrated into my account, which sent all Tweets into my status on LinkedIn,The up shot of this though is that on the status updates on m...

    By • Jan. 5, 2011

  • Great Social Networking Cleanup of 2011

    Why wait for Spring? The New Year is the perfect time to clean up and clean out your social networks! Clean up - it means different things based on context. Social network clean up is about removing dead weight, be it contacts or entire network profiles, subscriptions or even what you publish....

    By • Jan. 3, 2011

  • 2011 is not About Social Media. Prepare for the Next Wave of Disruption.

    Every year I (like most people) look ahead and ask myself, "What do I want to be when I grow up?" (Okay, actually I ask myself that every few months.) This year I feel that it's time for me (to begin) to pivot again slightly.

    By • Jan. 1, 2011

  • Over 111 million Facebook users in Asia on New Year's Day

    As of January 01 2011, there are a total of 111.9 million Facebook users in Asia. In the last quarter of 2010, Facebook population grew by 21.4% in Asia, or almost 20 million new users.

    By • Jan. 1, 2011