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.
How to Screw up Years of Content, Links & Community Digg Style!
Digg the once popular social media news website is under a rebranding from its new owners Betaworks after being acquired last month for $500,000. Yesterday...
Open Graph App Love Growing Still Stronger
It’s no news that apps able to operate across a variety of platforms, or Open Graph apps, offer superb and diverse sharing possibilities. Just the...
YouTube Bids Users to Post Real Names to Clean Up Comments
In an attempt to clean up comments on YouTube, Google is encouraging all its users to post their real names. It was announced last June,...
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Sensible Social Media Checklist for Businesses v2.0 [Infographic]
Once in a while, I come across a company that has yet to embrace social media. They get the same scolding that companies who did...
After Six Years, USPTO Approves Zuckerberg’s First Patent Application
Mark Zuckerberg’s first patent application from six years ago has been approved by the US Patent Trademark Office last Tuesday. Called as “Dynamically Generating a...
New on Facebook Mobile: Edit Your Recent Activity
Facebook has started rolling out its Activity Log to mobile users, a privacy feature that was available only to the social network’s desktop version. This...
The Creative Process of Creating the Best Link Bait
It is every website’s dream to create original link bait that will go viral over time. However, the key for success here is not just...
Facebook Pages Can now Create ‘Unpublished’ Posts
Using its Page Application Programming Interface, Facebook has added an option for Page owners to make “unpublished posts”. This type of post does not appear...
New Twitter Search Comes with Autocomplete and New Filters
Last Friday, Twitter announced what’s new on its search functionality: Search autocomplete and “People You Follow” search result. In addition to recent improvements that the...
Facebook Pages Gets Updated Insight for More Accurate Metric
Facebook recently made two changes on its Page Insights, helping page owners understand the true reach of their posts. The reach metric will now include...
Interview with Liz Wilson, Community Editor at Paper.li
Content curation is hot nowadays, and there are quite a few content curating tools to help you organize and re-use user-generated content that is spreading...
Pinterestingly Enough: Interesting Pinterest Stats
Who hasn’t heard about Pinterest? At 10.4 million users, it is the fastest growing social media site in history. Many of those users are recent...
SEO for Facebook – New Video Revealed
Facebook is probably not the first place you would think to go for SEO advice. However, the social media giant is looking to change that. With...
Pinterest Anti-Spam Measures: Are They Enough?
One of the social sharing sites experiencing great growth these days is Pinterest, an online bulletin board where users can submit their favourite images. It...
How to Use Foursquare to Get Reviews for Your Local Business
Obtaining positive reviews and testimonials is an essential component of a customer acquisition and retention strategy. According to the most recent Local Consumer Review Survey,...
The Complete Guide To Using The Brand New Buffer For LinkedIn
There are over 200 million Tweets being posted every day on Twitter. Another 4 billion items are shared on Facebook daily. But what about LinkedIn?...
Need a Cheat Sheet for Social Media?
Well, Flowtown made a fantastic one and we want to share it with you. Now obviously many of us do not need this cheat sheet,...
5 Simple Ways to Explore Your Social Media Following
The larger your social media following, the greater your potential reach online. It’s this statement that leads so many businesses to work to increase the...
[POLL] Have you ever unfriended a family member on Facebook? Have advice?
I know many people have at least one family member they would like to unfriend, but how does one do this without causing problems? Have...
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The Evolution of Facebook Features [INFOGRAPHIC]
GroSocial and Reid Johns created this infographic. Fantastic timeline of data to use for research.
How to Manage Twitter Multi-Language Accounts
One Twitter out of two is written in a language other than English. In the digitally globalized third millennium, whatever your content is, tweeting it...
7 Reasons to Include Social Promotion in your Marketing Strategy
The question of whether or not you should be engaged in content marketing is hardly a question at all these days. With the number of...
Use Social Media and Lead the Way to More Customers
As a business in the latter stages of 2011, have you jumped on the social media train or have you been left behind at the...
How to Setup A Google + Fan Page
As many of you know, earlier this week Google released Fan pages for their Google + Network. Google has opened up the ability to setup...
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How Far Does Social Advertising Reach? [Infographic] by Flowtown
FlowTown.com released an infographic called Social Advertising Reaching New Heights. I found the social objectives to be a solid representation of the different goals businesses...
Four Different Types of Specializations You Can Do In SEO to Get More Clients
By Arba Hana Arba Hana is an SEO expert, and writes on topics related to Internet Marketing. She’s working for smartpress.com that offers online printing...
The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic
Scoffing at Facebook’s $82 billion valuation? Think Twitter’s done? Take a closer look at the tsunami of social media. Our SEJ infographic portrays just how...
The Right Way to Apologize Online
Sooner or later, we all make mistakes. Who doesn’t? It’s something that happens to everyone. Eventually we all have our slipups, blunders, misunderstandings – or...
Different People Use Social Media for Completely Different Purposes
You, as a brand or an online marketer, see social media as a channel for reaching your audience and spreading your messages. But how does...
Interview with Andrew Kardon, Co-Owner of JoeShopping.com
We continue our (hopefully inspiring and motivational) series featuring successful self-made entrepreneurs. The first interview was with Kyle James, founder of Rather-Be-Shopping. And today we...