Social Media Updates: Page 405
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What the Hell is Facebook Playing At?
OK, so two things. First, Zuckerberg and co seem to be on a one way mission to annoy people. There are seemingly endless tweaks being made to Facebook at present and it feels like every time I login there's something different or something new. Now I'm not against change - I love progress! I love it when something is added or altered in a social network (or anything else for that matter) that enhances its functionality or usefulness or efficiency or results.
By Paul Sutton • Nov. 11, 2010 -
Google Withdraws Address Book Access from Facebook
The squabble between internet giants continues. The latest is Google's recent move to disallow facebook's ability to allow users to find friends via their Gmail account. According to Google, this is due to facebook's unwillingness to reciprocate by allowing Google to access facebook users data...
By Heather O • Nov. 10, 2010 -
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5 Staggeringly Simple Ways to Create Custom Facebook Landing Tabs
Unless you can get people to click your "like" button, your Facebook strategy will be as limp and lifeless as Matt LeBlanc's post-Friends career.
By Jay Baer • Nov. 9, 2010 -
23 Ways to Integrate Facebook and Twitter with Traditional Advertising
Integrated Media Marketing is when you effectively integrate social media with traditional marketing. Here are 23 ideas for integrating Facebook and Twitter in PR, direct selling, customer services, advertising and sales promotions.
By Patsy Stewart • Nov. 8, 2010 -
Twitter: Old School
This video is two and a half years old so some of the particulars might be out of date, but the gist of "what the heck is Twitter?" is here. Enjoy - and please retweet.
By Rick Stilwell • Nov. 6, 2010 -
Twitter Speaks: Foursquare Still Has Some Way To Go
Yesterday saw the first ever Big Tweet Off on Twitter, with Foursquare coming under heavy scrutiny from numerous social media pros. And after an hour of debating the pros and cons followed by a vote, the majority opinion was that Foursquare is yet to convince people that it has the staying power for long-term success.
By Paul Sutton • Nov. 5, 2010 -
Your Real Twitter Advocates are Not Who You Think
I read a blog post last week that stated something along the lines of "show me a Twitter user who says he doesn't care about follower numbers and I'll show you a liar". It struck a chord - as much as any of us harp on about quality over quantity and about influence and all that other social media bull (it might be true, but it's still bull), the plain fact is that we want more followers. More, more, more!
By Paul Sutton • Nov. 3, 2010 -
LinkedIn Launches Product and Service Recommendations
LinkedIn is unto something.
By Esteban Contreras • Nov. 3, 2010 -
Social Commerce
Many businesses have been 'exploring' the opportunities of social media over the past number of years. However, the time has now come for companies to think about realising a direct sales return from social media.
By Brendan Hughes • Nov. 2, 2010 -
Get-Out-The-Visualizations! Social Media & Election Day
Besides Slurp140, here are a few of our favorite tools for following the election via social media that have recently come to our attention. Is there a website or tool you recommend? Let us know! New York Times: The Election Will Be Tweeted (and Retweeted)
By Tyler Gray • Nov. 1, 2010 -
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Trick or Tweet: Meet The New Twitter Styleguide
The business of Twitter has grown more in this last year than it has in its brief four-year history. It's a light year versus calendar years and now Twitter is flying high with almost 200 million users releasing 100 million Tweets per day.
By Brian Solis • Oct. 31, 2010 -
Unethical Social Media at its Worst: Rob Ford's Fake Twitter Account
The Globe and Mail, Maclean's magazine, CTV, the Torontoist and
By Dave Fleet • Oct. 31, 2010 -
Social Media: Are Your Social Conversations Delivering Value?
Wow, it has been a busy couple of weeks. I have had little time to write. It's funny as what is driving me the most nuts about this is my community is asking for information.
By Pam Moore • Oct. 30, 2010 -
Study Shows: Brands Can Lose the Follower Envy
A study by Invoke Solutions (via Biz Report) shows that brands need to worry less about follower envy, as the size of your follower or like list won't make most consumers think any better of you.
By Dirk Singer • Oct. 30, 2010 -
Social Media Increases "Face to Face Interaction"
Hours spent on Facebook and Twitter makes you forget about the real world, right? Wrong. If anything the opposite is true, according to research by email marketing firm ExactTarget (via Marketing Charts).
By Dirk Singer • Oct. 29, 2010 -
Ten Tips for Getting More Out of your Facebook Updates
In addition to building great websites, we (The Bivings Group) also help clients manage their online campaigns on an ongoing basis. Helping our clients create and maintain compelling Facebook pages for their organization, cause or business is an increasingly large part of this work. The key to a great Facebook page a frequent, compelling status updates. Boring updates won't generate any response, and will lead fans hiding your updates from their news fees or simply "unlike-in
By Tyler Gray • Oct. 29, 2010 -
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All New Facebook Groups - Does This Change Everything?
Now that the new facebook groups have been out for a bit, I wanted to post my "take" on them so far.
By Heather O • Oct. 27, 2010 -
Buying Twitter Exposure: How to Feel Dirty and Influence People
With a nod to Abbie Hoffman, allow me to introduce reTweet.it, a service that allows you to buy retweets-cash or credit. The program allows you to trade retweets for credits: every two retweets by you gets you one retweet of your own. You can also get credits just by signing up, and by referrin...
By Matt Chandler • Oct. 27, 2010
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