A Marketing Miracle? Facebook’s New Publisher Controls in Beta

Thanks to the pressure put on Facebook by the advances of Twitter we the people are receiving a better service. Twitter reigns as the thought sharing, micro-blogging mecca, where Facebook provides the end-all be-all network, aggregating all of ones personal sharing and media. Twitter’s success comes about through its simplistic model of sharing and communicating, [...]

Vanity URLs Offered on Facebook

Around 1:00pm today facebook announced that they will be offering users the ability to select vanity
URLs for their profiles and pages they administer. If you are unfamiliar, an example of a vanity URL is http://facebook.com/edieter, rather than the current long tail URLs that everyone possesses; http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=10213726&ref=profile. There is significance behind this announcement seeing that the [...]

Twitter Insights on a #Follow Friday

So for those reluctant souls who still think that twitter is a waste of time for social networking junkies with nothing better to do, I’m here to tell you otherwise. By now your boss has probably said “who knows what this twitter thing is & how can we use it to make sales?” or you’ve [...]

10.5 Ways To Explode Your Blog Traffic

1. Submit Your Blog – Submit your blog to Google Here
Use Feed Burner to submit your blog Here
2. RSS Feeds – Make sure you have an RSS feed that is easy to subscribe to. But instead of saying something boring like “subscribe here”, say something that people will understand more easily like “get up to [...]

Friday is for Followers: Why and How to #followfriday

There are many ways people go about gaining new followers on twitter, but Follow Friday is one that stands out from the rest in my opinion. There’s no app. or bot involved that compiles a list of people to follow based upon your characteristics, posts, interests or otherwise. Follow Friday is a method that is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Who’s Looking?

Last evening Matt Galligan, CEO and Founder of Social Thing, lectured on the campus of the University of Colorado. While a plethora of points he brought up during his presentation were valuable I found the information on Search Twitter to be the most relevant to our scenario. Movement Strategy has been investigating efficient ways to [...]

Twitter Influence

Whether you’re a marketer looking to analyze the effectiveness of your twittering efforts or someone looking to see how many people they have influenced through twitter, check this out, http://twinfluence.com/.
 
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Influencial Networking

Commonly marketers see the usage of social networks as an outlet to create direct contact points with consumers and specialize segmentation. Within the last few months there has been a significant transformation in consumer usage and interactions within social networks. It seems now more than ever people desire to express their views and voice, and [...]