Social Media Updates: Page 422

  • Twitter Enjoys Major Growth and Excellent Stickiness

    Twitter's growth shows no indications of slowing any time soon. Last month, Twitter said the number of tweets per day had climbed to 50 million. To get a better handle on Twitter's recent growth in the U.S. and internationally, as well as assess its "stickiness" as a service, Sysomos examined o...

    By • March 30, 2010

  • Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

    Changes announced today to Facebook's privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. I don't think so. "Exper...

    By • March 26, 2010

  • Twitter and Facebook: Productivity or Distraction?

    The argument is strong on either side of the case: do social networks increase or decrease productivity on the job? It's a landmark case where the decision will ultimately determine the fate of business within respective online communities of influence. Perhaps however, it's also a decision th...

    By • March 26, 2010

  • IKEA Victim of Facebook Hoax

    A while back, more than 200,000 Swedes were fooled to join a Facebook group that promised to donate 2 SEK per fan to the victims of the Haiti earth quake. Only problem was that once the group reached the goal, it changed name and added some really outrageous content. I was somewhat amazed ...

    By • March 25, 2010

  • Twitter: "aggressive" followers are spammers

    That's the latest warning from Twitter spelling out in more detail what it considers to be unacceptable behavior in its effort to rid the micro-blogging platform of spam. This includes aggressively following and unfollowing other Twitter accounts. Be forewarned: it is an offense that will get ...

    By • March 24, 2010

  • Is your Twitter Home Page your Biggest SEO Asset?

    Do you know the Page Rank of your Twitter Home Page? You may be surprised to find it is a lot higher than you think it is - and you probably achieved it without even thinking about it. For example, the Page Rank for my blog home page is 5 - and that's taken a little while to get to, not withsta...

    By • March 19, 2010

  • Nestle's "no logo" policy triggers Facebook revolt

    It's not every day that a brand turns its most loyal followers into angry protesters. But Nestlé has done just that, taking flak today for its commitment to environmental sustainability and then for its heavy-handed response to all protesters: a full Facebook clampdown on personal expression. No...

    By • March 19, 2010

  • Why you need to create custom Facebook tabs for your fan page

    Yesterday I posted how I looked for information on how to create a custom tab for a fan page. If you want to learn how to do that, go here. Let me tell you why I think you should. What I've realized about Facebook is that's becoming the Google of Social networks. More and more people go to it an...

    By • March 17, 2010

  • Twitter Spam: Can You Block What You Can't Define?

    We take twitter spam seriously around here. We often use words like spam, spammers and undesirables. And it always leads to the same question: "what is spam?" The universal answer seems to be: "Everything I don't want to receive from someone I don't know." So that leaves us with approximately s...

    By • March 17, 2010

  • Twestival Montréal 2010 - quand les médias sociaux font du bien social

    Twestival ? C'est un festival en premier. C'est aussi la preuve que les médias sociaux peuvent être utiliser pour faire du bien social. C'est un festival qui se tient à travers le monde la même journée, soit le 25 mars 2010 cette année ! C'est aussi 100% des ventes qui vont à une cause mondia...

    By • March 16, 2010

  • Getting Started: Metadata, Tagging and Twitter Hashtags

    Metadata or data about data has been an important topic in software and the web all along. In the old days we used metadata on a HTML page source to increase its searchability. That is by adding metadata or tags to a page we would tell the search engines what the page is about so that if someone...

    By • March 15, 2010

  • Le journaliste-réseau

    «Le journalisme, dit-on, c'était un cours magistral, c'est maintenant un séminaire ou une conversation. On peut bien le regretter, mais l'époque des journalistes-maîtres à pensée est révolue. À l'ère des Facebook et Twitter, le journalisme doit apprendre à dialoguer avec le public» dit Flor...

    By • March 12, 2010

  • Mon entrevue avec Stephen Harper, Premier Ministre du Canada

    Après ma visite à Ottawa pour l'annonce du budget fédéral 2010, Stephen Harper, le premier ministre du Canada, m'a invité pour une entrevue avec lui. Je vous propose de visionner la vidéo qui résume notre discussion, qui portait essentiellement sur l'avenir de l'économie numérique et de ses en...

    By • March 12, 2010

  • Growing a new community is hard work and may not change people's habits

    Are you working on a new community with big time bells and whistles that caters to a niche that you just know has been waiting for a place to call home? If so, I encourage you to push ahead full steam. But, let me caution you first. Your new community, no matter how great will not change habits....

    By • March 6, 2010

  • Quelques métaphores autour de twitter

    J'ai vu passer dans ma timeline ce tweet de @DrMorisset qui a retenu mon attention. Vu la cascade de RT, je ne suis pas seul à avoir été frappé par la métaphore. Elle croque en quelques mots des traits essentiels de Twitter dans lesquels beaucoup peuvent se reconnaitre. D'abord l'ambiance ...

    By • March 6, 2010

  • Facebook gagne de l'argent, mais ne rassure personne

    Donc, Facebook nous annonce gaiement qu'elle va sortir « environ » 600M$ de résultat, soit deux fois plus que l'année dernière. Le détail s'avère aussi instructif que source de circonspection... Facebook parlerai des marques comme « en situation d'expérimentation » (sic) dans l'utilisation des ...

    By • March 5, 2010

  • More referrals from social media than from search?

    There's a startling assumption buried as a throwaway comment on this post from TechCrunch on Google Buzz's recent arrival. Apparently, links shared on social networks have been growing to the extent that the mighty Goog is concerned that this phenomenon could start taking eyeballs away from all...

    By • March 3, 2010

  • Zynga denies mishandling FarmVille Haiti funds

    In the first test of how much Facebook members should trust online gaming operators like Zynga with handling funds ostensibly destined for charitable causes, Brazil's largest online newspaper has conducted a major investigation into how Zynga structured its latest Haiti aid experience and its n...

    March 2, 2010

  • Top 10 reasons to use Chinese Social Media.

    Hey all, as checking my Google buzz this morning, and found a cool link from Thomas Morffew for a site created by Ren Media. The article lists ten top reasons to use China social media, vs. Western media for a Chinese audience, I suspect. Key elements refer to the same stuff you may have heard...

    By • March 2, 2010

  • Bulletin de veille : Google

    Google fait beaucoup parler de lui ces jours-ci. Sa puissance inquiète, et son ambition le place au cÅ"ur de nombreuses polémiques. Il faut dire que la domination de Google sur le marché de la publicité et sur la recherche en ligne est impressionnante. Selon les estimations, Google encaisse e...

    By • March 1, 2010

  • 15 Social Media Answers From OMS10

    Online Marketing Summit 2010 in San Diego is host to a smorgasboard of internet marketing topics and this afternoon I am priveledged to participate on a panel about Social Media. Panelists include: Chris Baggott, CEO, Compendium Blogware Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Online Marketing Michael Senger, ...

    By • Feb. 24, 2010

  • Single ID: What Consumers Think and Why It May Not Matter

    [This blog post was cross-posted with my new Forrester blog at http://blogs.forrester.com/marketing/2010/02/single-id-what-consumers-think-and-why-it-may-not-matter.html.] I saw some interesting Forrester research this week. We asked over 4,000 consumers about Single-ID systems, which permit a ...

    By • Feb. 23, 2010

  • Maman 2.0 vous dit « merci » !

    Certains d'entre vous ont forcément noté que je n'avais pas blogué la semaine du 8 février, sur ce blog et sur les autres blogs que j'anime ou co-anime. J'ai également été peu active sur les réseaux en dehors de l'envoi de quelques tweets. Et pour cause, j'avais bien mieux à faire. J'ai en eff...

    By • Feb. 21, 2010

  • Did You Un-Friend Me Because You Don't Like Me Anymore?

    I have this little tool called Greasemonkey. Each time I sign into Facebook, the little monkey performs a "friend check" to see who has dropped me from their friend list. And yes, I've been dropped by several people. Ah ha! You thought I'd never know... Surprise! The Internet is no longer a pla...

    By • Feb. 19, 2010

  • Facebook Fan Page : pensez à son animation et sa promotion

    Il est bien beau pour une marque de lancer sa fan page sur Facebook, mais si ce n'est que pour faire de la présence ("Hé regardez ma marque est sur Facebook" s'exclame le directeur marketing), sans animation (De la présence à l'animation sur les médias sociaux) et sans promotion, cela ne sera p...

    By • Feb. 19, 2010