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Animals in the Wild ‘Tweet’ Via GPS Trackers

The Realtime Report

In Central Kenya, four GPS-tagged bull elephants are “tweeting” through the hashtag #ElephantsLive. GPS trackers on each elephant allow scouts to follow their location via mobile phone app. Lately wild animals have been joining the fray; two recent examples include sharks off the Australian coast and African elephants.

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social networking gives sponsors and clinical trial coordinators the ability to target a vast group of e-patients. Advanced campaign tracking tools make it much easier to identify issues and correct them. Here’s a list of useful campaign tracking tools to get you started: Facebook’s Campaign Tracker and Insights.

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How to Use Hashtags, Expand Your Reach and Develop Brand Awareness

Socialmedia.biz

The feature was so popular that it was eventually adopted by other social networks like Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn — making it a key feature in the social marketing world. Any large event can be searched for and discussed using specific hashtags on social networks. Social networks are inherently very messy.

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Facebook Places Explained

Mindjumpers

Within the coming years, geosocial functions will likely become an integral part of our lives, as more and more people get smart phones, tablets and cameras with in-built GPS data to track our lives. Similar Posts: Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places Foursquare: How Does It Work?

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Australia Toyota Yaris social media campaign Downfall

Laurel Papworth

Toyota have chosen 5 or 6 agencies and have asked them to spend $15,000 each on a “social media marketing campaign&#. By customer, I mean, people who are engaged in online community activity and may not want to be inflicted with poorly thought out, temporary, low budget, campaigns. B&T Oct 20 ). B&T 20 Oct ).

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How To Harness The Power Of Twitter Hashtag Analysis

Keyhole.co

Thus, they are more likely to spark social conversations around creatine benefits for workout routines. Measure campaign effectiveness This is your reality check: Are your tweets hitting the mark or missing the target? Think of your campaign as a special occasion unfolding on Twitter, marked by unique event hashtags.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?