Social Media Updates: Page 408

  • Foursquare, Facebook Places and Philately

    It's the next big thing in social media, right? 2011 is going to be all about geo-location, right? Well yeah, maybe, but haven't we been saying that for 12 months already? Wasn't 2010 supposed to be the year when location-based networking took the social web by storm through Foursquare or Gowalla or a combination of both? But it hasn't really, has it. And you know why? Because it's too much of a novelty with not much of a return. It's lame.

    By • Oct. 7, 2010

  • 3 Alternative Ways to Find Great Content to Share on Twitter

    Finding content may be hard as Twitter is packed with so much information and tweets to read. So how do you decide what to tweet or find great content to share on Twitter?

    By • Oct. 6, 2010

  • 4 Key Differences Between Nonprofits, Businesses in Use of Social Media

    No question: Both business and nonprofits use social media to market themselves. Both nonprofits and business have Facebook pages and LinkIn accounts. They tweet and blog but, often, to different ends.Because the ends are different, the plans to achieve them must differ as well, although the tool...

    By • Oct. 5, 2010

  • Facebook: Is it an image or reality?

    Does facebook depress you? The idea of facebook and all social media is to share and engage. But with all this sharing is it possible what you're really doing is making others feel bad about their lives.Think about it. You're having a bad day and you log in to see what is happening and all of your friends have amazing status updates, at least that is what it looks like to you. They are going to parties, out with friends and all their pictures make it look like they are having the time of their lives.

    By • Oct. 5, 2010

  • Rules of Etiquette on LinkedIn Groups

    LinkedIn Groups is a feature of the popular business professional social network that creates a community around a common interest for its members. Groups have grown immensely popular and have provided a forum for LinkedIn members to interact, share ideas and demonstrate thought leadership on various subjects. Like many social networks and forums, there is the potential to misuse the platform in ways it was not intended, such as to pitch products that are unrelated to the topic at hand.

    By • Oct. 5, 2010

  • 50 of the Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far)

    While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were "familiar with" Twitter in a poll taken earlier this ...

    By • Oct. 5, 2010

  • The Social Network - what's it like to be Zuckerberg then?

    By • Oct. 5, 2010

  • 6 Timely Tips for Twitter Success

    New research from Sysomos shows that 92.4% of all retweets happen within the first hour after the tweet has been sent.This demonstrates that Twitter users are not browsing the public stream (or even their own lists) to find and interact with tweets from earlier in the day.

    By • Oct. 5, 2010

  • Effective Twitter for Business in 15 Minutes a Day

    If there were a single piece of advice I could give company execs who are trying to use Twitter as part of their marketing tool set, I'd sayBe mindful of your time.

    By • Oct. 4, 2010

  • The Social Network Movie Review

    I saw The Social Network, aka the Facebook movie.

    By • Oct. 4, 2010

  • The Social Network - From Harvard Prank To 25 Billion Dollars

    By John Kelly • Oct. 1, 2010

  • Skype and Facebook: Combining business and personal

    Facebook choosing Skype as the VOIP provider just caused a forced blend of your personal and business contacts. I primarily use Skype for business needs and keep Facebook for personal. In order to use the blended service effectively, I would need to add personal users to Skype and business users to Facebook. I imagine this will happen through Facebook Connect for authentication.

    By • Oct. 1, 2010

  • A Brief Comment on Twitter Innumeracy

    Yesterday I wrote about the latest Sysomos data on Twitter behavior, and how I wouldn't be so quick to draw conclusions about engagement or the value of Twitter based upon these data. One last comment on this topic: Yesterday, the headline that most blogs and sites went with was this one (I've picked on Alltop, here, but you can find others): "71% of tweets produce no reaction."

    By • Oct. 1, 2010

  • Facebook vs. Twitter: How are they different?

    A while back I came across a great quote: "Facebook is where you find the people you know, Twitter is where you find the people you should know." To me this really says it all, and I'll try to explain why ...

    By • Oct. 1, 2010

  • Facebook News: Changes Coming to Your Newsfeed

    Facebook continues to beta-test changes on how status updates function for users and Pages. Here's a preview of what's to come.Format. The first thing users will notice is a new format. Instead of having one type of post (status updates) with attachment options, there will be multiple types of posts.

    By • Sept. 29, 2010

  • LinkedIn Enhances Company Profiles

    By • Sept. 29, 2010

  • B2B Marketing on Facebook, a Dead End Strategy?

    I was re-reading an excellent Mashable post as a follow-up to my suggestion that Facebook should split into distinct personal and business sites. We have to assume that Facebook won't change, so what can B2B companies do with their Facebook pages?

    By • Sept. 28, 2010

  • Study Finds Celebrities Have Little Twitter Influence

    "Celebrities who have an army of followers on Twitter do not actually hold any influence on the micro-blogging website, scientists have discovered."This was the headline on a story posted to the telegraph.co.uk this past Saturday, September 25th. Now my initial reaction was one of feigned disbelief...

    By • Sept. 27, 2010

  • How The Social Network Movie Will Damage Zuckerberg's Brand

    The Social Network movie is coming out on October 1st and has already received substantial reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine and other influential publications. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 100%, which is extremely rare for this type of movie, or any movie in general. The New York Po...

    By • Sept. 27, 2010

  • Facebook Philanthropy: Using Social Networks for Social Change

    In the online world, 'the things you care about' define who you are. They say as much about your personality as the clothes you wear and Facebook updates you share.

    By • Sept. 27, 2010

  • Twitter: What's So Great About the Conversation?

    When I announced TheSocialWeb last week, I said that I'd be challenging the status quo and asking the question 'why' a lot. And I'm starting off with a something that's been on my mind for several weeks now: from a marketing perspective, why do we bother with Twitter?

    By • Sept. 27, 2010

  • 7 Really Cool Things About the New Twitter

    By • Sept. 25, 2010

  • 51% of those reached by a company on Twitter are more likely to do business with you.

    Interesting statistic and a friend of mine gave me a link to this info-graphic earlier this week. Do you believe the first point (51% of those reached by a company on Twitter are more likely to do business with you)?

    By • Sept. 24, 2010

  • Facebook: The new search marketing ?

    An advertiser can produce the best creative ad in the world, but knowing your friends really love drinking Coke is the best endorsement for Coke you can possibly get." -Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, as quoted by Bloomberg Businessweek Product websites are not dead as some would...

    By • Sept. 24, 2010

  • Writing in Twitter's Shrinking World

    By • Sept. 24, 2010