Social Media
Learn the latest news and trends on the most popular social networks and how to reach and engage your audience with social media marketing best practices.
5 Reasons to Learn Social Media
Have you ever noticed how many bloggers and social media marketers just tell people that they should go out try social media? How you shouldn’t...
Interactive Buttons with Hit Counters – Which Ones Do You Use?
There have appeared a few really cool interactive buttons recently that visualize how popular the story is. The best thing about them is that they...
Twitter Success: You Gotta Show Up
Twitter is all the rage, but you don’t need me to tell you that. So, yes, this is another Twitter article. But hang in there,...
How to Learn Who Favorites Your Tweets & Why
It is an amazing discovery when you’ve been using a site for more than a year and then come across some new, unexpectedly genius way...
Iran Election Tops Twitter Trends 2009
After Hitwise’s Top Search Term and Top Visited of 2009, it’s now Twitter’s turn to release its Top Twitter Trends of 2009. Since Twitter is...
Track Your Twitter Activity & Popularity w/ Raven Tools
Keeping up with your social media activity may be exhausting. You have to be everywhere at the same time asking and answering questions, expressing your...
Social Media Marketing Snake Oil
This post is a response to BusinessWeek’s recent “Beware Social Media Snake Oil” article. I would like to elaborate on a few concepts and misconceptions...
How to Track a Keyword within a Twitter List
I already looked at some useful things you can do with Twitter lists. Today I am sharing another tool that makes sense of Twitter lists...
Manage Your Corporate Twitter Account with TweetFunnel
Using Twitter for streaming news on one company or business is nothing new. It’s considered perfectly fine to separate your personal Tweets from your business...
Twitter Turns On Opt-In GeoLocation Feature
Twitter has just activated its GeoLocation feature which will let you opt-in whether you want your tweets to be tagged with your current location. The...
Leapfish: Enhanced Social Media and Real-Time Search Experience
We have seen a few social as well as real-time search engines previously, and this whole week is all about a new-comer: Leapfish. In fact...
3 Actual Uses of Twitter Lists
Twitter lists have been introduced just a couple of weeks ago and it is still not really clear to many people how the lists can...
4 Reasons Why Including Social Networking Results is Smart
Just when you think that everything that could be done to ramp up a search engine’s search capabilities has already been done, they come up...
Is Twitter Working a Deal with Google and Microsoft?
Is Twitter Working a Deal with Google and Microsoft? With 54 million users to boot and a steady stream of real-time and content-sharing information generated...
How to Subscribe to Your Twitter Stream with Google Reader
Since joining Twitter I’ve been looking for ways to effectively follow my friends there and last week I found something hilarious which I must share...
3 Ways Digg Can Stop the “Bury Brigade” Dead in Its Tracks!
Recently, @MichDe wrote a post entitled “New Media Concepts, The Digg Bury Brigade and How to Fight it.” I took a personal interest in this...
Are You There Facebook? It’s Me, Rachel
Earlier last week, and with much anticipation (from me anyway), Facebook launched their new ad manager. I was lucky enough to get access to the...
XSS Attack on Reddit
Playing around in Reddit tonight I found several threads being attacked by what appears to be an XSS (cross site scripting) virus. If you go...
Preview of StumbleUpon’s Upcoming Site Changes
StumbleUpon’s founder Geoff Smith, recently announced to their Beta group members that SU is testing a new interface they plan on implementing. The new design...
Gelato Adds Real-Time Search to Online Dating
Are you in the mood for something new and yet still related to search? How about checking out Gelato? a new online dating site that...
Getting Control of Your Social Media Life
You can balance your social media life between “I don’t have time for it” and “I can’t stay away from it!” Social media participation is...
Scribd : Linking & Branding via Document Sharing
As most of us know, Scribd is the most popular document sharing site available, with over 50,000 uploads each day. With that being said, Scribd...
Social Media and the Impact on Network Security
There are many pros for social media. You can use social media to augment traditional public relations and communications strategies. You can build a profile...
10 Ways to be a Great Social Media User
I read Matt Leonard’s post on 10 Ways to be a Great SEO a while back and thought it would be great to put a...
Using Social Media for Attracting New Talent
(The second post from SEJ collaborative Social Media Series for Business Operations) Incorporating a social media strategy into your overall online marketing/business strategy has become...
Soon Your Twitter Followers Will Know Where You Are
GeoLocation is one of the hottest stuff right now. If you’re an iPhone user, there are tons of apps that always ask your permission to...
Lawsuits & PR Nightmares: Why Employees Need Social Media Guidelines
How have companies with more than 1,000 employees been faring with employees and their social media use? According to multiple recent studies, it appears that...
Introducing A Social Media Series For Business Operations
I recently spoke at a regional event that had about 120 IT, human resources, law and accounting professionals to “demystify” social media. It was over...
How to Target Users within Social Networks
One important aspect of social media optimization is finding individuals interested in your products or initiatives. One way to approach this is to find key...
Social Media: White Hat vs. Black Hat
I am on a panel today at SES San Jose called Social Media: White Hat vs. Black Hat. The description of the panel is as...