SMX Toronto featured the best and brightest search and social thinkers currently operating in Canada in an intimate and approachable environment. Following are some of the highlights and takeaways from the two day conference experience. Jon Sinden, Manager of Digital Content & Social Media for Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment, opened the event with tips …
The US Department of Justice officially indicted Reuters Editor, Matthew Keys, late last week on 3 counts of conspiracy relating to a 2010 Anonymous hack attack on the Los Angeles Times. According to the indictment, Keys provided log in information to Tribune Company owned computers and encouraged the hackers to make unauthorized changes to published …
On Monday, March 11th, Daniel Maloney (@DanielPMaloney), CEO of PinLeague took a turn in the hot seat to discuss the finer points of Pinterest marketing. Maloney’s pedigree includes time spent at both AOL and Google. Following are his comments about the marketing value of Pinterest. Q1 @DanielPMaloney What’s the first thing a marketer should do when …
Yesterday Facebook posted another major announcement to its blog. The long tested redesign of Timeline is beginning to roll out. The new look of Timeline will give users a place for all the things they care about. As you can see, the Facebook clean-up continues. The rich media look that they recently featured in the …
Starting today, marketers with business accounts on Pinterest now have a tool for tracking basic web traffic between their verified website and Pinterest. Pinterest Web Analytics offers tracking of several key performance indicators and is, most likely the first steps to monitizing the highly popular virtual dream board. The web analyitcs tool enables participants to track …
Last Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg hosted another big press event at the Palo Alto headquarters of Facebook to introduce the new look of the News Feed. As with every other major change to Facebook, the changes have met with mixed feelings from users. Whether that contingency of Facebook users that despise change likes it or not, …
On Monday, March 4th, Social Media newbies and pros alike gathered around the virtual campfire to discuss content strategies that get the social share with guest expert, Lisa Grimm (@lulugrimm). Lisa is the Senior Social Media Strategist at Imagination Publishing. She has been embedded at General Mills as the leading social presence, and has provided social …
Ever since the invitation went out from Facebook to “Come See a New Look for News Feed,” many have been speculating what that might be. Several anonymous sources have been leaking very good clues about what to expect at the big press event later today. Most are certain that an option for multiple content specific feeds, …
WordPress.com, the popular blog hosting site, has added another service level to their paid services. Now businesses have the option of a WordPress hosted website for $299/year. Here were the options before the business level service was offered: Free – a basic blog hosted as yourusername.wordpress.com Pro – $99/year includes domain registry, HD videos with …
This Thursday Facebook will hold its second big media event of the year. In January they invited us to “see what they’ve been building.” The event was the big announcement of the roll out of Graph Search. Now the news media has been invited back to the Menlo Park headquarters to “see a new look …
