Social Media Updates: Page 405
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Research Reveals When Facebook Updates Are Most Effective
I blogged recently that page administrators must invest time into understanding the psychology of Facebook users, and that virtually all page interaction happens in the users own newsfeed unless there is a good reason to revisit a page. And with this specifically in mind, the importance of scheduling page updates takes on huge relevance.
By Paul Sutton • Nov. 17, 2010 -
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The One Thing Every Social Media Site Is Failing At (Except LinkedIn)
I have account with most social media sites that you have probably heard of, and a few that you probably haven't.
By Rohit Bhargava • Nov. 17, 2010 -
Bing & Facebook, Sitting in a Tree...
Well it's all been go, go, go with Facebook recently - the ongoing battle with Google over your contact list, copying Gmail/incorporating email (depending on your bias), opening a new $450 million data center in NC - but for me, one of the most intriguing developments is the Bing search integrati...
By Simon Ashton • Nov. 16, 2010 -
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The Perfect Storm-Facebook, Email, NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board has just ruled that companies must allow their employees to discuss working conditions on social networks like Facebook. For details see this post. This ruling brings into serious question most company policies that prohibit discussion of a company on Facebook or other social media sites.
By Chris Kieff • Nov. 15, 2010 -
Facebook email: How your email went social
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - Niccolo Machiavelli
By Tom Eldridge • Nov. 14, 2010 -
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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
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