Alert Facebook Marketers

Facebook has recently implemented thorough guidelines to running promotions on the platform. Ultimately, marketers and brands must go through third-party applications to implement any promotion or viral growth strategy on Facebook.
Read the official guidelines here: http://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php

BING Integrating Facebook and Twitter Status Updates into Search Results

Today Bing plans to announce the incorporation of Facebook and Twitter status updates into the Bing search engine. This move by Bing to become a real-time search engine is definitely going to help the Microsoft owned company mark its territory amongst the vast landscape of search engines.
Details on the arrangements are supposedly going to be [...]

Facebook Lite and @ Tagging

Today Facebook has widely released Facebook Lite. The new version of Facebook was released in beta throughout August, but as of today is available in the U.S and India. Facebook Lite is a simplified front-end version of Facebook that is optimized for slower internet connections. Essentially it is Facebook on a diet plan, losing all [...]

Focusing on the Basics of Social Media

Nailing down a solid foundation for a social media campaign still comes as the most important element of a social media strategy. Before building apps., micro-sites, widgets or otherwise the communication channels between brand and consumers must be free flowing and continuous. Social media continues to evolve at an exponential rate as new programs, features [...]

Visualize Twitter

The one thing I use LinkedIn for is social groups. I am in a few social media groups which always provide great content. I found this this morning which is especially intriguing. You can see it in full size here.

Thanks to http://applicant.com for this.

Hoot YEAH! Tweeting Made Easy for the Busy Folks

Like every other Social Media oriented business all of us here at Movement are stoked on twitter and what its providing the online community. The simple, 140 character social melting pot provides unparalleled opportunity, advice and direction across all business landscapes.
I find it hard to constantly provide my followers with valued tweets throughout the work [...]

BuzzGain Sets the New Standard

Yesterday was the initial public beta launch of the long awaited BuzzGain. Founded by Mukund Mohan and co-founded by Brian Solis the program is intended to help companies analyze and understand online communities. Not only does the program help small business, entrepreneurs, and even corporations understand these communities it takes it a step further to [...]

“He Said She Said”- Single Celled Twitter Morphs Through Apps.

If you listen to anyone that knows anything about Social Media you’ll hear them say that twitter is platform that you must master. The beauty of social media is sharing, connecting and doing so instantaneously. Twitter offers all of this in a simplistic platform operated through micro interactions. Consider twitter the evolution of texting, a [...]

When All Else Fails – Facebook as a Legal Platform

Typically when we login to our social networks we receive light hearted messages from friends, networking requests from professionals, or status updates from followers, unfortunately this women wasn’t greeted with the type of content you look forward to.

In the BBC today there was an article about a woman and her husband who had defaulted on [...]

On My Mind: Brand Simplicity

Introducing a brand through social media outlets requires the backing of an innovative and well targeted implementation. However the brand development should still appear as a work in progress, in need of some small tweaks and changes. In essence, I’m suggesting that the implementation strategy overrides the presentation.
The reason that brands should be integrating themselves [...]