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.
Update To Facebook News Feed Designed To Combat Business Page Spam
Facebook recently announced they will be rolling out an update to their News Feed designed to reduce the appearance of the kinds of posts users frequently...
Twitter Adds Real-Time, Interactive Notifications To Desktop Version
Those who prefer to use Twitter via the web, rather than using a dedicated desktop app, can expect to see some new functionality rolling out...
Facebook Reveals A New Look For Sidebar Ads
In an announcement made yesterday on the Facebook For Business blog a new look for Facebook sidebar ads was revealed, with a design that appears...
Facebook To Remove Messaging Capabilities From Its Main Apps, Forcing Users To Download Messenger
If you have grown accustomed to using the instant messaging features of Facebook’s mobile app, you will soon be forced to switch to the standalone...
4 Reasons Why Social Network Marketing is a Bad Content Strategy
Social network marketing is a poor strategy if your aim is new business, solid leads, and good traffic that converts. Playing around in the social...
Twitter Announces Upcoming Launch Of Redesigned Profile Pages
Twitter announced this morning they will soon be rolling out revamped profile pages designed to be “easier” and “more fun” to express yourself. The new profile design...
5 Steps To Help You Get The Most Out Of LinkedIn
Whatever business you’re in, LinkedIn can help you to build a network of useful contacts. With 250 million members in over 200 countries and territories,...
Why LinkedIn is Important to Your Career in 2014
While it may not be the sexiest of social media networks, LinkedIn is definitely the most important one for professionals. With more than 277 million...
Yelp Headed To Supreme Court After Refusing To Reveal Identities Of Alleged Fake Reviewers
The Wall Street Journal reports an Internet free-speech case against online review site Yelp is headed to the Virginia Supreme Court this month. Lawsuits were...
MajesticSEO Integrates with Twitter
The team at MajesticSEO have let it slip recently that they wanted to have some fun with Twitter and are working out how to better...
Shareaholic Study: Most Social Referrals Came From YouTube, Google+, and LinkedIn
Shareaholic, developers of popular social sharing tools, recently published a study aimed to determine which social networks are driving the most engaged social referrals. When...
A Tour of the New Facebook Business Page Redesign
You may have noticed the new look of the news feed and personal timelines that Facebook rolled out over the past few weeks. It’s begun...
Google+ Introduces View Counts For Personal Profiles
Yonatan Zunger, Chief Architect of Google+, shed some light on a new feature many have been noticing showing up on their Google+ profiles. If you...
LinkedIn Launches New Tools: Measure Your Content Marketing Score and Discover Trending Content
LinkedIn announced the launch two new tools last week to assist businesses in their content marketing efforts: Content Marketing Score and Trending Content. LinkedIn’s announcement...
Is Your Social Media Content Quality-Controlled?
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? To put it another...
Twitter Adds Photo Tagging And Collages To iOS And Android Apps
Twitter announced they will be adding two new features to their iOS and Android apps to make photos “more social.” Taking a page from Facebook,...
Facebook Allows Advertisers To Find Similar Customers With Expansion To Lookalike Audiences
Yesterday Facebook announced an expansion to their lookalike audiences capabilities that will help advertisers find more customers who are similar to their existing ones. Facebook...
Facebook To Acquire Virtual Reality Headset Maker, Oculus, For $2 Billion In Cash and Stock
Facebook announced today the company has reached a “definitive agreement” to acquire Oculus VR, Inc. for a total of approximately $2 billion, which includes $400 million...
Twitter Experimenting With New Feature To Show How Many People Viewed Your Tweets
Twitter is reportedly experimenting with a new feature (see this link for a screenshot) that would show users how many people viewed their individual tweets. The view...
How to Get More Twitter Followers for Your Brand with Content Marketing
Content marketing and social media are integral to any successful blogger or publisher’s revenue-generating strategies. But how can you be sure that you are taking...
The 10 Best Ways to Land a Social Media Internship
It doesn’t really matter what industry you are trying to enter — internships are an essential way to get valuable hands-on experience in your potential...
Twitter Is Reportedly Phasing Out @-Replies From Its Service
Twitter is reportedly in the alpha stages of experimenting with a new version of its service that would see @-replies become phased out. BuzzFeed reports that Vivian Schiller,...
Google+ Posts Just Got Better: Now Featuring Large, Facebook-like Thumbnails
Google+ updated their user interface this week to make link posts stand out in the stream with bold titles and extra large images. The change...
5 Ways to Use Hashtags Without Being #ThatGuy
Hashtags became instantly popular when they were introduced to us via Twitter, and then soon spread across Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, Instagram, and the holy grail...
How Growth Hacking Drives Twitter Followers via Twitterjacking
Brands are growth hacking their Twitter followers via popular and highly engaging tweets that come from other brands or people i.e. “Twitterjacking”. A great example of...
How to Grow Your Instagram Account in Five Steps
Instagram is big business in 2014, and not just for the photo-sharing social network or its parent company, Facebook. Many companies and self-employed professionals are...
#SMX West 2014 Recap: The Integration of Search and Social
The integration of search and social is extremely significant and two SMX sessions addressed the subject in varied ways. The first of two was focused...
Facebook Introduces New Company Page Design, Featuring New ‘Pages To Watch’ Section
Facebook announced yesterday they will be rolling out a new “streamlined” look for company Pages on the desktop version of their site. The new look...
#SXSWi 2014 Recap: Sales in Social: You Can Sell, But You Can’t Hide
This session was targeted mainly for salespeople who want to use social media as part of their sales strategy. It featured Jason Suen, Director of...
#SXSWi 2014 Recap: Reddit: You’re Doing it Wrong
Reddit is an online community that is completely user-driven. Posts and images are separated into subreddits based on various topics. Rohit Thawani, the Director of...