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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...
Facebook Lite is Being Tested in India
You must have read by now that Facebook, or at least someone from Facebook has accidentally leaked out beta invites to Facebook Lite. Apparently, many...
Facebook Rolls Out Real-Time Search
Real-time search is so hot these days. Almost everyone is getting into the real-time search bandwagon including Facebook which just rolled out its improved real-time...
Facebook Bought Friendfeed, Will Google Buy Twitter?
Oopsies! Did anybody see this coming? I mean Facebook and Friendfeed joining forces. The official announcement from both Facebook and Friendfeed is out. Facebook agrees...
Customer Service: The Man Behind the Conversational Curtain
Lisa Barone wrote a post this week lambasting companies that are too timid to get involved in social media, and rightfully so. The reality is...
Was Yesterday’s Twitter DDoS Attack Cyber Warfare
Twitter bites the dust again, along with FaceBook, LiveJournal and even YouTube… Yesterday, August 6, 2009, will be talked about on the web for a...
Interview with Sarah Blow of TweetMeme
Tweetmeme is one of the most popular and smartest Twiiter-based services. It’s well-known “Retweet it” buttons are used throughout the Internet. So today we are...
Social Media Rock Star: An “Interview” With Musician Michael Wainwright
“Come On…I’m Talking To You…Come On” Tears For Fears “Shout” Social media professionals endlessly debate tactics and best practices in this developing realm of communication. ...
3 New Cool Twitter Search FireFox Addons
As much as I love Twitter search, I find it funny that there’s not really an overwhelming number of FireFox addons to tweak it. Apart...
Twitter Highlights Search on New Home Page
We all knew that Twitter is about to launch its redesigned home page. But we didn’t expect it to be this fast and neither did...
Interview with Brian Carter on TweetROI and Overall Marketing on Twitter
Last week we reviewed a new smart Twitter monetization service called TweetROI. This week we are discussing it with one of the creators, our very...
Customer Service Has a New Name and It’s Twitter
According to Wikipedia, “customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase”. To prove how current they are, small...
Twitroduce: A Fresh Approach to Twitter Social Networking
There is a new Twitter app that has a fresh approach to Twitter social networking. It is called Twitroduce. It has been described as a...
Twitter Tip: Utilizing RSS & Yahoo Pipes
I have always been a huge fan of RSS. More specifically, I have been a fan of XML. Quite a few of the projects I...
No Precedence For Social Media – Amazon Hangs Us Out To Dry
A Disconnect Between Social Media Marketing And Amazon.com Recently I had an interesting interaction with Amazon’s affiliate program. Rather than telling you the story from...
Cash Motivation: Getting the Users to Participate
Users are the most important “elements” (forgive me the “impersonalization“) of any websites (especially social media ones of course): that’s them who build content and...
Interview with Fraser Kelton of Glue, New Promising Social Network
This week we feature the interview with Fraser Kelton, working at new and exciting social media project Glue, developed by AdaptiveBlue. 1. Please share your...
Flickr Rolls Out Twitter Integration Feature
Flickr has just introduced a new feature that it should have done long ago – Flickr2Twitter. If you use Flickr, this new feature would allow...
StumbleUpon Tip: Use Google to Choose the Best Category and Tags
Sharing stories on social voting and bookmarking sites both grows your social media profile power and enables you to reach your audience. Surprisingly enough, being...
Facebook or Just Face-Look? Are People 55 And Older Really Using Social Networking Websites?
Facebook is estimated to have 70.2 million unique visitors per month in the United States according to comScore. Social networking is booming, everyone is friending,...
Grab You Facebook Fan Pages’ Vanity URLs Tonight
Tonight, Facebook will start allowing Facebook fan pages owners to get their preferred vanity URLs. If you will recall, Facebook started allowing Facebook users to...
Twitter SEO – The Slow Death of Twitter Hash Tags
Hash tags are a fad. Hash tags were cool for about 10 minutes. But then they started to remind us of IRC, Meta Data, and...
Buying and Selling Social Media Profiles?
Last week I stumbled across an interesting service that allows to buy-sell social media accounts. It is called Assetize and apparently functions as an auction....
Twitter SEO – the Future of Keywords
The future in search appears to be how real-time data is going to be accessed by users. Twitter is at the forefront of this with...
Twitter Search Gradually Becoming a Real-Time Search Engine
Although Twitter’s search market share is not significant enough compared to other search engine, it is still interesting to know that gradually Twitter search is...