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Realtime Olympics: 60% of London 2012 Visits Came Via Mobile; Facebook Was 2nd Highest Traffic Source

The Realtime Report

The Games organizers also used a remarkable array of platforms, strategies and applications to drive fan engagement around the games. million social media followers across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Foursquare. Social media played an enormous role in driving traffic and engagement: 66% of web traffic (to London2012.com)

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10 Tips For Taking A Vacation From Social Media

SocMed Sean

7) Buy a guidebook featuring popular restaurants, tourist destinations, maps, and travel tips – I know it seems old-fashioned, but having a physical book will help keep you off Google Maps, Yelp, Foursquare, and Urban Spoon. Stop relying on user reviews on the Web and mobile applications and ask the locals.

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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. If you have a blog-based website (through WordPress or Blogger), you may be able to automate some of the posting process by installing the Social RSS application.

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9 Tools to Improve Social Media Productivity

Convince & Convert

Keep in mind that Glyder is currently only available for iPhone, although they are working on releasing an Android application as well. In addition to blog comments, you can also track conversations on other popular social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, YouTube, Foursquare, and Tumblr.

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The Social Media Monitoring Lighthouse – A Guide on What and How to Monitor

Razor Social

Talkwalker offers an enterprise-monitoring solution but it also has a free alerts application. We already mentioned a free alerts application provided by Talkwalker but their main application is an enterprise social-media monitoring tool. It also provides the ability to create customized Facebook applications.

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Will The Rise of the Photo Apps Kill the Written Word?

Convince & Convert

More companies are using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, downloadable mobile apps, texting and Foursquare.”. The rise of image driven apps such as Pinterest, Tumblr, or Instagram is another trend that various commentators have jumped on to hail the death of the written word in generating sales. Word Killer Number One: Pinterest.

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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Engagement at the Speed of Social!

Convince & Convert

They mine for content created by fans on Tumblr, and they partner for giveaways with companies like Warner Bros. Foursquare needs to increase their revenue, and their most important asset is the massive amount of data they’ve accumulated. via Foursquare Time Machine. This affects their social strategy. via AMC Stubs.