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.
4 Useful Twitter Bots for Marketers
The best thing about Twitter is the evolution of the concept. I feel too lucky to enter the Internet Marketing world at the right time...
The Thinning Line Between SEO and Social Media
I’ve been doing SEO for as long as I can remember. I rarely stop to look at the distance I’ve made since I started; more...
LinkedIn Group versus Facebook Group
I have already reviewed how Facebook Group is different from Facebook Fan Page: a group is better to use for (two-way) discussion while a page...
8 Villains of Social Media
Social Media Marketing sure isn’t easy. It takes time to get to know the space you’re in, to network with like minded users, and to...
Trackur Update- The White-Labeled Social Media Monitoring Dashboard
We are pleased to announce that one of the amazing social media monitoring dashboard tools has decided to offer its services as white-label! Trackur has always...
5 Simple Steps to Viral Video Results
Let’s start off funny. The following are NOT the 5 steps to viral video results: Sit around drinking and talking about funny video ideas. List...
9 Places to Share Your Blog Feed to Automatically Update Your Social Media Contacts
Most of us are active at a number of social media sites. And I bet, we all have a blog (or several blogs). You are...
Change Your Default Twitter Following Email Notifications
By default (but optionally) Twitter sends you an email “notice” of each user who starts following you. Unlike Facebook, for example (where you have a...
Use Titles & Descriptions to Get Best Exposure (and SEO) for Your Site on Social Media Networks
Social Networking and Bookmarking sites have become a great way to boost the profile of your website across the internet and automated sharing and posting...
Creating a Social Media Analytics Action Plan – Part 1: Defining KPIs
Last week I spoke at PubCon South on the Analytics Strategy panel on the topic of social media. This is something I’m very passionate about...
How to Promote and Manage LinkedIn Group
A couple of weeks ago I had the deal with Mike Clough, who manages The Blog Zone group at LinkedIn. As the result of the...
Google Now Lets You Replay Popular Tweets
Want to go back in time and read those famous tweets that were indexed by Google? Well, actually Google did not just index those tweets,...
Does Your Company Twitter? 10 Tips To Become A Great Business “Twit”
What do you think of when I mention Twitter? Do you think about teenagers posting what color socks their wearing to school today? Or do...
Twitter Highlights Top Tweets, Users on its Homepage
Twitter has started rolling out a new design of its homepage, the page that loads on your browser when you visit Twitter.com and you are...
Naveen Jain Interview : Date Check, People Search & Entrepreneurship
Part of learning about business, search and technology is learning about those who have done well in each respected field. While SEJ generally concentrates on...
Facebook Drive More Loyal Visitors to News and Media Sites
Well, it looks like Facebook is not only beating Google in terms of being the most visited site in the U.S. as well as for...
3 Tools to Analyze the Sentiment of Your Brand Social Mentions
Sentiment analysis is something very new and immature. Sentiment analysis allows you to identify general attitudes towards your brand (or a product). The goal of...
Six Types of Social Spammers
I hate spammers, and I’m 100% certain other people do too. Everyone at some point in time has had some type of experience with spammers....
Anatomy of A (Successful) Tweet
Ever wondered what makes a good tweet? Let’s break it down. But first….there are many different reasons to tweet, therefore there are many different kinds...
Engineering Viral Success
Going viral doesn’t just happen! And if it does, it’s the exception to the rule. Almost always, viral content explodes because of careful maneuvering by...
Microsoft and Yahoo Displeased With Google Buzz
Yesterday Google released Buzz, an integration of new social features for Gmail that connect users with each other. If you read my article I had...
Introducing Google Buzz! GMail Social Sharing
Ladies and gentlemen- Google Buzz has now been announced! It looks like Google inadvertently answered my “social hub” prayers today with everything that Buzz has to...
How to Get Banned on Social Media Networks
You’ve lost your account…it’s gone. You can’t log in. All your activity has been erased. You didn’t get an email, not even a warning. You’ve...
Scott Brown Tops Coakley in Massachusetts Election & Social Media
Regardless of which candidate you supported in the January 19 special election to fill the seat vacated by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, there is one...
Interview with Chris Brogan, Social Media Maven
It took me quite a bit of time to complete this post, because all the pieces fell into place last week at CES. I interviewed...
How to Quickly Check Tweets Related to Any Web Page
The idea of giving the opportunity to leave off-site comments to any page has been hot for a long time: that’s how many social bookmarking...
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...
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 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...