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How Embedded Social News Grew My Content, Traffic, and Engagement, and Saves Me Time [Case Study]

ProBlogger

With Guitar Shop TV (GSTV), I set out to create an online community for passionate guitar fans and music lovers around the world. As creator of GSTV, I was looking for a social news platform that could deliver top guitar content from across the Web directly to our blog and allow users to participate on a social level.

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Social Media Marketing for Retail Brands: 5 Essential Tips

Hootsuite

Social media is a natural place for people to do preliminary research when thinking about a purchase. More than a quarter of social media users use social platforms for “inspiration for things to do and buy.” use social for “finding products to purchase.”. And nearly half of social media users have already done so.

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6 brilliant Facebook campaigns (& why they worked)

Sprout Social

As the widest-reaching social network around, Facebook boasts nearly 2.8 But given the continuous changes to the Facebook algorithm and the platform’s shifting demographics, many marketers are stuck scratching their heads when it comes to their future on the platform. billion monthly active users.

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What is Your Favorite “Real-time” Tool?

Almost Savvy

Posted by Irene Koehler in Branding , Business , Career , Facebook , Networking , Social Media , Tips , Twitter on December 12, 2009 | one response The theme of LeWeb ’09 was “The Real-time Web,&# but what exactly “is&# real-time? Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends Ready for Yet Another Social Platform?

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Klout for Enterprise 2.0 Networks is a Bad Idea

Social Media Strategery

I then read " Enterprise Social Networks, Performance Reviews, and Company Culture ," on the Social Media Club DC blog that rightfully (and thankfully!) takes issue with this idea of ranking people's influence on these internal networks. Communities don’t work like that.

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How Mayo Clinic Dominates Social Media

Convince & Convert

He has successfully translated the Mayo Clinic’s mission of inspiration, contribution, and placing the patient first into a series of internal and external social platforms that meet the needs of their diverse community of patients, staff, and medical professionals. What’s your one tip for becoming a social pro?

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Are you Blabbing up a storm yet?

Janet Fouts

Streaming right into Youtube is nice, to be sure, but I’ll give it up for downloading the stream from Blab or embedding it into my website. Yeah, I know, yet another platform to learn. This platform builds community super quickly. Meerkat and Periscope are being used as broadcasting tools for the most part.

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