Social Media Updates: Page 410

  • Careful, Google: Facebook Has Passed You in Time Spent on Site

    If Google isn't already worried about Facebook, this should unnerve them.

    By • Sept. 10, 2010

  • No Place Like Home: Is Facebook the Wizard of Your Oz?

    Businesses are flocking to Facebook these days, and with more than 500 million users, it's easy to see why. But we must be careful not to let Facebook become the wizard of our Oz.Nearly everyone wants to direct your attention to Facebook. Small and large businesses are spending lots of money to get us all to their Facebook pages, stay awhile, and engage. Facebook, Facebook, Facebook. It's where we all want to be, all the time.Or is it?Is Facebook so great that we don't even need our own websites anymore?

    By • Sept. 9, 2010

  • 12 Reasons Why You Like A Facebook Page

    If you're still searching for the secret sauce why people like your Facebook page, here's 12 great reasons. This helps put some perspective on a continuous debate...

    By • Sept. 9, 2010

  • Parents: Don't make Facebook Profiles for your Children

    Parents who make and update Facebook profiles for their children drive me nuts. Why does your infant need a profile separate from your own when s/he cannot even update it on their own?

    By • Sept. 9, 2010

  • Rejecting an Ad: Facebook Says No

    Facebook has blocked ads from the Just Say Now campaign backing California's Prop. 19, which aims to legalize marijuana and goes to the state's electorate on the November ballot.

    By • Sept. 8, 2010

  • 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace

    Once the undisputed king of social media (at least in the U.S.), MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter).MySpace used to be Janet, and now it's LaToya - at best.

    By • Sept. 8, 2010

  • Top 10 Most Popular Facebook Pages

    How famous is Lady Gaga really? We'll, she has recently become the most popular living musician/artist on Facebook. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta better knows as an american recording artist, Lady Gaga has gathered over 17 million fans on the most popular social network. She has reached the stardom with her hugely popular hits Alejandro and Pokerface.

    By • Sept. 8, 2010

  • How to Handle a Twitter Suspension - 3 Easy Steps

    This is a bit embarassing, but Twitter suspended our account (emarketinggeeks) for a few days in August. Of course this happened while everyone was on vacation. So we were dealing with it over the slowest WiFi connection in existence (reminded me of an old dial up connection).Dealing with a sus...

    By • Sept. 7, 2010

  • Drive Blog Traffic Without Using Twitter

    Happy Tuesday everyone! Welcome back to the real world. Other than the wind (I keep telling myself the wind makes me super strong on my bike, though it doesn't really help when you're riding in it), we had a perfect weekend in Chicago. Hope you did, too!

    By • Sept. 7, 2010

  • Surf the Web or surf Facebook? Top 15 Reasons Why You're Surfing Facebook!

    As I was writing a blog post the other day without thinking I included the words "surfing Facebook".

    By • Sept. 6, 2010

  • Social Media MegaTrends : Facebook, the new search engine

    No, this is not a typo. I was not referring to Google. I was indeed referring to Facebook as a search engine.

    By • Sept. 5, 2010

  • A Cup of Coffee to Your Branded Twitter Skin

    Your Twitter profile is a highly visible part of your online presence - don't waste an opportunity to reinforce your brand there. There are some beautiful and creatively designed Twitter backgrounds, or "skins," on sites such as mytweetspace and twitrounds. But, you can create one yourself and...

    By • Sept. 5, 2010

  • Social Media Weekend Challenge: Don't Tweet it Away!

    By • Sept. 4, 2010

  • Social "Me"dia and the Evolving Twitter Egosystem

    There's a saying, "technology changes, people don't." Yet, when we consider the impact of technology on our daily lives, some very interesting observations surface...A pen now feels awkward to hold and as such, our penmanship is deterioratingIt's now common to sit at a dinner table with family and friends where some are actively communicating with others, listening to music or gaming via mobile devices

    By • Sept. 3, 2010

  • 40 useful things you can share on Twitter besides blog posts

    I was never good at 'pass the parcel' when I was a kid. I blame it mainly on being over zealous.

    By • Sept. 3, 2010

  • Is There a "Press Pass" for Live Event Tweeters and Bloggers?

    I'd been looking forward all last week to a Saturday night event at the KC Artists Coalition. Peregrine Honig, the Kansas City artist who appeared on the Bravo reality hit "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" was speaking about her work and experiences as a finalist on the show. I tweeted about ...

    By • Sept. 3, 2010

  • Using Facebook to Help Build an Entrepreneur's Brand

    I believe Facebook can help build the brand of an entrepreneur, while also be useful as a way for an entrepreneur to stay in touch with friends, family, and even co-workers/business partners. Here are a couple of tips an entrepreneur can use to help build their brand on Facebook:

    By • Sept. 3, 2010

  • Don't Just Retweet it - Personalize it!

    For many, Twitter has become the go to place to obtain real time information by people all over the world. If you like what you see and/or want to share it with others you can "retweet" it.

    By • Sept. 2, 2010

  • Twitter Announces built-in URL Shortener

    Twitter announces they are soon to release t.co --twitter's own URL shortening service built-in to the twitter's own web interface.

    By • Sept. 2, 2010

  • What Type of Twitter User Are You?

    After reading Chris Brogan's 50 Power Twitter Tips I started really thinking about how people are using Twitter. The tips are insightful and should be read by everyone who using, thinking about using, and obsessing over Twitter. While most of the tips Chris covers are included in my book, Twitte...

    By • Sept. 2, 2010

  • Think before you post

    We all have heard "silence is golden" but certainly not when you are talking about social media. Here is an area where we want constant chatter and feedback.But I'd like to go against the tide and say that maybe we should reconsider this point. We all have friends that "overuse" their social profiles. It can be those that share the most mundane parts of their day. While you might be my friend it's not really imperative that I know what you're having for breakfast.

    By • Sept. 1, 2010

  • Five Columns to Help You Get More from Twitter

    Even among people signed up on Twitter, you see questions about Twitter's value and what Twitter is good for strategically. Many times these questions come from people who are still using Twitter at Twitter.com and haven't gravitated toward a more robust application such as Hootsuite or Tweetdec...

    By • Sept. 1, 2010

  • How to Upload & Share Videos on LinkedIn

    LinkedIn, the oldest of the big three social media networking sites at a ripe age of 7, has slowly plugged along in the social sphere with adding new features to increase user experience for not only highly active users but for those that are new or newer to the personal business connecting platform experience. I refer to LinkedIn as a personal business connecting platform as believe it has molded itself into such.

    By • Sept. 1, 2010

  • How To Organize A Successful Tweetup

    So you want to organize a Tweetup and want to know how to do it right? Organizing a successful Tweetup isn't easy.

    By • Aug. 31, 2010

  • The Art of using #FollowFriday Effectively

    By • Aug. 30, 2010