New Tool That Aggregates Multiple Social Media Channels Into A News Story
Tweet If you want to aggregate the social media accounts for any “breaking” news story across multiple social media channels on one platform and publish it on the internet within minutes, a new platform Storify.com that has just come out of ‘Beta’ in the last few days allows you to do that with a simple [...]
50 Fascinating Facebook Facts And Figures
Tweet The rise and rise of Facebook is producing a scramble by marketers and companies to leverage its huge global database and traffic. Google is looking over its shoulder as Facebook grows at over 10 million users a month and sits currently at number two on web traffic rankings according to Alexa.com. Last year Facebook [...]
10 Compelling Reasons Why Your Business Should Blog
Tweet Why is the business blog not given the marketing attention it deserves? In an age of shiny new toys such as social media marketing and Facebook it is often overlooked as being slightly dowdy and just a touch unattractive. Blogging requires commitment both in thought and time. CEO’s that blog are very rare as they [...]
Why Would You Want A Facebook ‘Send’ Button?
Tweet Facebook has rolled out a series of changes to its 50 million Facebook ‘Groups’ as well as announcing the ability to include a ‘Send’ button in your website or blog that is an addition to the Facebook social sharing ‘button’ family. The new button allows you to choose a subset of your Facebook friends [...]
How To Facebook ‘Like’ Your Google Search
Tweet The web becomes more social every week as Google continues to evolve its search engine by rolling out a new +1 button that attempts to play catchup with Facebook’s social proof efforts and Bing displaying search results with links that have been Facebook “liked” by your friends. The Facebook ‘like’ button has only been [...]
5 Tips To Drive Engagement With Your Fans On Facebook
Tweet It started as a trickle and has turned into a torrent as people and companies target you with multiple media such as Twitter and emails with requests for you to ‘like’ their company Fan page on Facebook. The Facebook ’like’ scramble is this centuries version of the frantic email subscriber acquisition tactics of the [...]
Are Book Publishers Dying? E-Book Sales Increase by 300%
Tweet I am starting to notice the dedicated eBook reader Kindle displaying a more prominent presence in public and amongst friends and family. The price drop last year to a $139 (when they first came out they were $399) has made the case for the Kindle dedicated e-book reader compelling (I even bought one) and [...]
Is The Twitter Business Model In Trouble?
Tweet Twitter is an enigma. It is a social media company that doesn’t believe it belongs in the social networking genre and Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo insists that the company isn’t a “social network.” Most outside observers of Twitter think it’s for “Twits” despite its propensity for attracting its fair share of high level media [...]
The Pros and Cons of Migrating Your Facebook Profile into a Business Page
Tweet Last week, I did a quick tutorial on how you can convert your Facebook profile to a business fan page. Subsequently, I was flooded with queries on various aspects of the conversion process, the pros and cons of opting in/out and the considerations before you decide to do it. Therefore, I decided to do [...]
Who Are The 3 Biggest Losers Of Social Media?
Tweet Facebook has become the biggest party pooper since the term “social media” was invented with it’s success sucking the oxygen out of the air for most of the second tier social networking platforms. Social networking emerged in 2002 as a phenomenon with the creation and meteoric rise of Friendster which was quickly mimicked by [...]
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