Social Media Updates: Page 422
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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 Leili McKinley • Aug. 23, 2010 -
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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 Jay Dolan • 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 Jeff Morris • 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 Colin Delany • 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 Tia Fisher • Aug. 19, 2010 -
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Social media is therapy for the 21st century
Social media is fast becoming a new type of therapy. Even if you have never been in therapy or counseling, we have all seen it played out in television, movies and books and know what therapists will ask.Here are just a few phrases that will be familiar:"Share your feeling"- Well then welcome to...
By Sandy Miller • Aug. 16, 2010 -
Is Facebook Killing the Web Site?
In the past week, I've come across two though-provoking articles about the future of Web sites.
By Mark Evans • Aug. 16, 2010 -
Twitter's Growth Doubles, Becomes More International
While there are questions about the ability of Facebook to grow in future, Comscore has found that Twitter use has more than doubled over the past year. Comscore's stats (via Marketing Charts) also confirm the on-going trend of Twitter becoming less of an a US dominated, or even anglophone network.
By Dirk Singer • Aug. 15, 2010 -
Is Facebook hitting saturation point?
That's a question Hitwise's Robin Goad asked earlier this week when he showed that - in the UK - Facebook was now getting one in six page views, or 16.73% of the total. That puts it in front of Google UK (8.22%), ebay (5.39%) and Yo
By Dirk Singer • Aug. 14, 2010 -
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If you're searching for something, will you Facebook it?
Excitement seems to be bubbling about Facebook's Open Graph Search Engine - will it work, will it be useful and, excuse the pun, will it be liked? People who spend time on the internet will have noticed that over the past few months the option to 'like' an article or a website is becoming commonp...
By Keredy Stott • Aug. 12, 2010 -
Google vs. Facebook - The War
The social networking war is heating up. With Google's purchase of Slide and Jambool, Facebook has gone to DEFCON 1 and ordered Lockdown across the company. The Lockdown, noted by the neon Lockdown sign on Zuck's office door, has been declared for the next 60 days to prepare Facebook for the u
By LJ Jones • Aug. 12, 2010 -
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How to Use Twitter for Media Relations
Many public relations professionals worldwide dream of the day that they can successfully pitch their latest and greatest story with the world via 'the little blue bird.' And quite naturally so, after more than 20 billion tweets. The real-time social platform Twitter has firmly established itsel...
By Robert A. Burns, II • Aug. 11, 2010 -
5 Ways You Can Wake Up Your Facebook Page
These days it seems like everybody and their mama has a facebook account.
By Evelyn Parham • Aug. 11, 2010 -
9 Tips For Building, Branding and Maximizing Your Profile And Exposure on LinkedIn
While LinkedIn might be the old dog in the Social Media race, it still remains as one of the most powerful tools in Business Building and Connecting online.Where Facebook might be getting all of the press, LinkedIn offers something that Facebook cannot - a "Business-Only" platform for building your brand, product, and personal profile.
By Stephanie Frasco • Aug. 10, 2010 -
10-4, Social Media - We Got Ourselves a Convoy!
When I started my digital agency back in 1996, I constantly ran into critics who called the Web "The CB radio of the 90′s." Eventually, as the web demonstrated it was more than just a flash in the pan, time has proven those critics wrong. But, I'm wondering ...
By Tom Snyder • Aug. 10, 2010 -
Would a different generation embrace social media?
I watched the season premiere of Mad Men and saw the character Don Draper suffering over having to give an interview. The reporter wants to know why he isn't talking more and Don says he is from the Midwest and wasn't raised that way.It got me thinking, I have to wonder would social media be used...
By Sandy Miller • Aug. 9, 2010 -
Learn from Abercrombie & Fitch: Embed social media in every customer touchpoint
"Have you checked us out on Facebook?" As I queued to pay at Abercrombie & Fitch in London over the weekend I kept hearing this phrase over and over again. In fact as everybody paid for their purchases the sales assistants asked them this very same question. Some may have found this annoying, some may have found it forced, and some may have found it distracting.
By Matt Rhodes • Aug. 8, 2010 -
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Facebook isn't the Devil
I often encourage people to give their honest feedback. I find that to be one of the quickest, least expensive ways to imrove ones company. Find out whats wrong from the horses mouth.
By Michelle Foose • Aug. 6, 2010
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