Social Media Updates: Page 411

  • How to Promote Your Content on LinkedIn and Still Wear a White Hat

    By • Aug. 30, 2010

  • The Complications of the Facebook Relationship

    Relationships were never easy. Facebook made them ridiculously harder.Back in 2004, before Facebook had news feeds and was for college kids only, my friend had a Facebook stalker. When she ended her relationship, she changed her Facebook status from "In a relationship" to "single." Within an hour, she had received two calls and a texts from that stalker asking her out, while condolences poured in slowly over the next week.

    By • Aug. 30, 2010

  • How to Opt Out of Facebook Places

    Facebook Places, launched last week has set out to bring friends together while out on the town. Accessed via the new most recent version of the Facebook iphone app or touch.facebook.com (available if your mobile browser supports HTML 5 and geolocation), users are able to check-in and notify friends of where they are and also see if some are nearby.

    By • Aug. 30, 2010

  • Facebook Places - Putting it in Perspective

    What have you heard about Facebook Places? Like 'all things facebook' , you may have heard a lot of hype, and even panic. Relax! Let's put it in perspective. First, what is it? Facebook places is simply a way that people can 'check in' at locations when they choose to. (This is not a new con...

    By • Aug. 29, 2010

  • 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business Articles

    Facebook Places has been out just a little over a week now. Here are 5 articles to help you understand its relevancy to your business.

    By • Aug. 27, 2010

  • How do you respond to Tweeters who follow, unfollow, and then follow back?

    I've been noticing a trend lately. Like most people, whenever someone follows me on Twitter, I get a notification.Me being the inquisitive person that I am, I usually take a quick look to see if they're someone I'd like to follow back. Sometimes I follow, sometimes I don't.

    By • Aug. 27, 2010

  • Facebook to reach saturation point soon? More evidence

    The other week Hitwise came out with stats questioning whether Facebook's growth was beginning to slow in the UK. This was on top of US figures from June showing that the uptake among 18-44 year olds had dropped.

    By • Aug. 26, 2010

  • Living In Twitter

    There was an article in the Times magazine a few weeks back on how much the notion of "living in

    By • Aug. 25, 2010

  • Facebook Makes Major Changes to Pages

    Apologies that all my posts seem to be about Facebook lately, but this one really needs flagging up. In yet another sweeping change, Facebook has announced that it will, as of this week, be removing the handy sidebar boxes from all profiles. The "Boxes" tab, boxes on profiles and Pages, and application info sections will be going away. Additionally, all profile and Page tabs will be resized automatically to 520 pixels wide beginning the week of August 23. What does this tab width change mean? If you've created a custom tab, you need to change the width to 520 pixels.

    By • Aug. 25, 2010

  • When on Twitter, Act Like You're in a Bar

    Many brands wonder how they should behave on Twitter: What should we say? Can we add Twitter in our communication mix? Often heard questions, no?

    By • Aug. 25, 2010

  • 5 Ways Facebook Places Could be Used by Marketers

    Facebook Places launched in the US last week laying claim to three major features:

    By • Aug. 25, 2010

  • Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Why So Glum?

    One of the most anticipated films of the fall isn't a romantic comedy, or an action movie, or even a horror movie. Without a doubt, the new movie about the rise and rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook (The Social Network with Jesse Eisenberg playing the plum role of the boy wonder himself) is th...

    By • Aug. 24, 2010

  • Why You Shouldn't Have a Facebook Brand Page

    By • Aug. 24, 2010

  • Welcome to the Hotel Facebook

    Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' - Eagles, Hotel CaliforniaSo a Twitter-friend did me the favor of testing Facebook Places features by checking me.

    By • Aug. 24, 2010

  • Facebook Places: The Verdict of the Experts

    Since this time last year, geo-location has been touted by those in the know as the next big thing in social media. But while Foursquare says it receives one million check-ins per day and has 2.7 million registered users worldwide, neither it or major rival Gowalla has broken through to the mainstream.

    By • Aug. 24, 2010

  • Facebook Places: Be Cautiously Curious

    Now that Facebook Places (a location-based tool that is likely going to compete with Foursquare and Gowalla) has been in full force for a few days, have you tried it? It's kind of a fun little tool, from a personal perspective, and we'll talk here about the business implications, but I say be cautiously curious.

    By • Aug. 23, 2010

  • Privacy and Facebook - what are you broadcasting to who?

    Those words have been uttered and once again 'internet privacy' is being debated across the media. It can be a bit boring for those who use social sites every day for their jobs, like myself with a role within an integrated PR, search and social media agency. However, because there was such a commotion last week, in the UK at least, following comments made by Google's Eric Schmidt I was compelled to check my Facebook settings... just in case.

    By • Aug. 23, 2010

  • Using LinkedIn For Branding

    LinkedIn is one of the largest professional networks on the web. With more than 75 million registered users that span more than 200 countries, LinkedIn has quickly become one of the leading social media sites for connecting with business colleagues. What you might not know is that LinkedIn is also an excellent site for building up your brand. Here are a handful of branding tips to help you maximize your profile and establish a bolder presence.Profile

    By • Aug. 23, 2010

  • Facebook and the Death of Micro-Site

    By • Aug. 22, 2010

  • We All Hate Facebook Places Already

    I don't think I ran across a single blog yesterday that thought Facebook places was a great idea. We all know it was derived from Foursquare, Gowalla and their cousins.

    By • Aug. 20, 2010

  • Understanding Your Privacy With Facebook Places

    The time has come for the oft-discussed Facebook Places to finally launch. One of the biggest topics of discussion around Facebook Places is how this will affect user privacy - especially due to some of the huge privacy issues in the past that Facebook has had to deal with.

    By • Aug. 19, 2010

  • Facebook Places: Foursquare Without the Fun?

    The big news in the social media space: Facebook has released "Places," a much-anticipated geo-location service that will allow users to "check in" at locations around the world. Or rather, Facebook is in the process of releasing Places, since it's not available everywhere as of this writing.

    By • Aug. 19, 2010

  • Facebook's Location Services - A Good Thing?

    So. Here it is. Amidst some fanfare and yahoo, Facebook has announced its location services Package, called (fair enough) 'Places', and involves the more or less willing co-operation of th

    By • Aug. 19, 2010

  • Best Practices & Why You Should Brand Your Twitter Profile

    By • Aug. 18, 2010

  • Three Keys to Being a Subject Matter Expert on Twitter

    By • Aug. 17, 2010