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Twitter for Business: Is It Time?

Webbiquity SMM

Twitter is in trouble. The company recently missed earnings estimates for the second time in four quarters, and had to strike a deal with activist investor firm Elliott Management which had “been trying to push (Jack) Dorsey out as part of an overhaul to Twitter’s business.” But it’s not. But it’s not.

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6 Tools to Fine-Tune Your Social Media Advertising Strategy

Convince & Convert

Social media advertising is a great way to quickly generate new customers and create a social media buzz around your (new) product. Social media strategy needs constant tweaking, analyzing, and learning from your or your competitors’ successes and failures.

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March 28: this week in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

March 28: this week in social media. March 28: this week in social media. What's new and cool in social media. Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. Twitter Blog: Celebrating #Twitter7. crowd rank.

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SMSsummit Speaker Interview with Sarah Barnes of Harvey Mudd College

Social Media Strategies Summit

At Harvey Mudd College, she is part of a small but mighty communications team that produces everything from web content to alumni magazines to academic department newsletters to social media and more. Check out our interview with her in anticipation of the upcoming Social Media Strategies Summit for Higher Education.

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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

The news of layoffs at StumbleUpon reminded me that in compiling some year-end social media referral data I’d noticed that a number of sites had experienced declines in StumbleUpon traffic. Is the dominance of Facebook and Twitter, coupled with increasing Google+ engagement , proving to be too much?

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Unethical Social Media at its Worst: Rob Ford’s Fake Twitter Account

Dave Fleet

Tweet The Globe and Mail , Maclean’s magazine , CTV , the Torontoist and blogTO all ran stories in the last day, alleging that staff of Toronto’s newly-annointed mayor elect, Rob Ford, used a fake Twitter account to deceive a voter into handing over incriminating materials during the campaign.

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How Time Magazine Gained 1.2 Million Google+ Followers

The Realtime Report

Time magazine has become one of the most popular news brands on Google+, with over 1.2 million users adding Time to their circles on the social network. Sharick recommends that social media managers target their circles, providing followers with the type of content they are more likely to engage with.

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