SocMed Sean

JANUARY 18, 2022

If you’re a frequent user on Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok (I mean, who isn’t?) It’s primarily used on Instagram and Twitter, where one user tags another user and types out “f4f” as a means for said user to gain followers. On apps like Twitter, it is used to convey the idea that something the other person said is really funny.

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SocMed Sean

MAY 12, 2022

While many popular social media sites have been around for several years and work smoothly most of the time, even the biggest and most popular of them can have issues, and Instagram is no exception. Check the Instagram servers using a reputable third-party status checker site. Factory reset your phone.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 15, 2019

Let’s start with the easy answer of how to share a tweet from Twitter to your LinkedIn feed. Steps For Sharing A Tweet From Twitter To Your LinkedIn Feed Using Your Desktop And Browser This one can vary slightly, depending on whether you want to share just an image that was tweeted or whether you want to share the entire tweet itself.

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SocMed Sean

APRIL 17, 2012

Is he one of those annoying Twitter Noobs who simply tweets what he’s eating, where he checked-in on Foursquare, and quotes from popular authors/politicians? Google’s Panda algorithm updates are targeting exactly these types of blogs and has a lready penalized thousands of sites. To what avail? Does anyone like his tweets?

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SocMed Sean

JULY 11, 2018

Are the back-links from other sites worth it? For those of you who don’t know what back-links are or what “back-link building” means, this concept refers to the proactive activity of searching out high-quality web sites and identifying ways to get the author to create a link to your site or article.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

While not necessarily a new site (it launched in beta in 2010), Pinterest is coming into its own with a female-dominated demographic that has rocketed past Etsy in membership and traffic. With a limited number of hours in the day , could Pinterest actually draw users away from other social networks like Facebook and Twitter?

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 21, 2011

I recently participate in an Twitter chat where the conversation turned to whether or not it’s a good idea to automate social media activities. I also am not a fan of posting FourSquare updates, quotes from famous people, or trivial content like ASCII twitter art. These are just my preferences, though.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 23, 2018

Maria writes for a variety of blogs and today she shares her thoughts on how a variety of emerging technologies could potentially impact our use of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. If so, be sure to share them in a comment. –Sean.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 26, 2012

Your customers might already be engaged in conversations about your brand on sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest. Developing a social media strategy isn’t easy, especially with so many channels out there…it sometimes feels like social media overload ! Cutting corners isn’t a good approach, either.

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SocMed Sean

APRIL 28, 2017

Receptionists and sales personnel are rarely the first contact for customers anymore, with tech-savvy prospects using web sites, Twitter, and Facebook pages as the first reference that most people use when researching a company.

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SocMed Sean

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Worker Smarter - Rather than spending your time surfing sites or reading tweets, have the content your really care about delivered to you using RSS feeds or through targeted Twitter lists.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 1, 2018

6) Allocated Budget for Paid Media Advertising like Google AdWords and Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouTube ads. Decreasing customer support costs – If you can help a customer resolve an issue through a Twitter conversation, it might cost your company a lot less than if that customer called a phone support center.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 24, 2022

On Twitter, go through the gear icon and choose Privacy and Safety. It’s best not to hide everything, but on sites like Facebook you can hide the past posts and enable people to see your future posts. On Instagram, click the menu box and then the gear icon to go to Settings. Then go to Privacy and from there to Account Privacy.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Without people and their personal relationship information, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter would be reduced to…well…MySpace. Apple employees are not allowed to help their customers on any of the Apple or Mac sites. Social media and social networking are both about connecting people.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 6, 2012

For most people, our technology devices have become more about the data they transfer between apps, email, Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging and less about how many minutes of call-time we use. If you do, consider all the time you spend on it and then think about how much of that is actually spent talking on the phone.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 23, 2017

In other words, while indexing a website, a mobile version will be preferred over a site that is not mobile-optimized. Whether it’s from the subway to their apartment or from the farmhouse to the fields, an expectation has been created that the Internet, and the sites that fuel it, will be available anywhere…anytime.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

You can also check out some of Cassie’s other tips on Twitter at @SecureThoughtsC Facebook Privacy is an on-going concern. There’s no way to know, when you click those quiz links, what the authenticity of the site is or how it’s planning to use your data, so they’re best avoided altogether.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2011. If you would like to continue using Google+, there are a number of alternative projects, including Facebook and Twitter.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 1, 2012

You published 30 articles this year, but none of them have gone viral , you still only have 250 followers on Twitter (none of whom retweet you), and your Google page rank still sits at a 2. You’ve spent at least a couple hours each week thinking up new ideas, writing articles, and wading through Twitter. Are you asking for help?

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SocMed Sean

MAY 25, 2012

One wrong statement on Twitter or Facebook can quickly ruin a company’s reputation with certain customers, clients or vendors based on a stupid statement you hired to speak on your behalf. What we discovered was disturbing. Luckily for us we caught them in the act, reported the incident to oDesk and revoked our payment.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

What Happens Without Customer Service Issues Pile Up: On social media sites, a popular business can expect a lot of traffic daily. Brand Promotion: Using a site like Facebook as an example, any action taken by a member of your network will be made available to their entire network via the News Feed.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 12, 2016

For example, I’m still trying to figure out why Instagram doesn’t have a good way to upload photos from the desktop or why Twitter makes it so hard to switch to desktop view on an iPad or tablet. Instead of using the standard [link] URL to access the site, try clicking this link instead: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

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SocMed Sean

APRIL 5, 2012

Every time I hear of companies blocking Blogging Sites, Facebook, Twitter, and other Social Media sites, it makes me wonder what curmudgeon or poorly informed leader is calling the shots and what experience drove them to make the decision. There is a lot of good information being traded through blogs, tweets, and forums.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

3) Post your print ads or TV commercials on your Facebook page or YouTube channel and leave it at that – Social networking is not about advertising and social media sites are not the place to post up your latest print ad like a virtual corkboard. Easy recipe for social media disaster.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 18, 2012

Remember, the more you clean up those old posts the more they will pay you back with increased search engine traffic or organic traffic from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Make sure every image on your site has an Alt tag – This one is a MUST.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Similar to my articles on switching between Twitter mobile and desktop and reorganizing your Facebook photos , I expect that there are a lot of people out there searching for the answer to this one too. I’m not comfortable passing that information through a site/application that I know nothing about so I chose not to try it.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 11, 2012

As the site owner/community manager, I even had someone threaten to come to my house in person so he could discuss the fact that I edited one of his posts for racist comments. 6) Consult with the site owner or community manager – When in doubt, ask the community manager whether they are okay with the way the conversation is going.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

And while each of those are important to helping you in your blog distribution plan, I treated StumbleUpon as just another place to submit a bookmark to my site so I could create an inbound link. Until recently, I just saw it as another social bookmarking tool like Digg , Delicious , or Reddit. Boy, was I wrong.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Search for dating on LinkedIn, and you'll be amazed at how LinkedIn, a professional networking site, has morphed into a dating site, with sexual harassment of users, particularly women, becoming disturbingly normal since male users outnumber female users. The unfortunate part is that there is nothing you can do about it.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

I get a lot of questions via Facebook , Twitter and my email contact form and many of the items listed below come straight from those questions, my experience in social media strategy, years of researching platforms and best practices and…well…tinkering with social media. 8) Take some time to learn the lingo of social media.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 26, 2018

Cost Per Click (CPC) – This is the amount of money you will pay Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest, or any other ad provider when they drive a user to click your advertisement and come to your site. Pages Per Session – This is the number of pages the average person browses on your site once the get there.

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SocMed Sean

APRIL 12, 2015

Don’t get lost over there at the HubSpot site, though, if you’re interested in learning why this is such an ironic situation. Take a look at the image below that show one of my tweets being included in another Twitter member’s list. Like Twitter. Is Twitter Just One Giant Link Farm? I’ll wait.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 14, 2012

Which sites to choose The social media sites you might already be familiar with – sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – are all global brands with their own localized settings for foreign language users. In Brazil, for example, Orkut is the biggest site, with about 20 million monthly visits.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 17, 2018

Since we’re in the digital age, you may have to write some blog posts for channels such as your employer’s website or as a guest poster on third-party sites. Also, be sure to follow Kevin on on Twitter , Linkedin & Google+. –Sean.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 20, 2018

It’s just that I don’t worry so much about the fact that people are coming to my site to find an answer to a question, reading the article, hopefully finding a solution, and then going on with their lives. But what if the user is sent to the site, views one page for seven minutes , and then bounces out?

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SocMed Sean

JULY 20, 2018

That means 80% of your readers come to your site, read one page, and then leave. I get paid to do it, which is nice…but that could literally all go away if Google decided my site sucked, so let’s just say it’s a constant work in progress. How can you consider yourself a successful blogger with a bounce rate of 80%???

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 16, 2018

Instead, pay to promote your post via Facebook ads or Twitter promoted posts. Try finding conversations on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Reddit where the article might be helpful to other people. PLEASE don’t be tempted to buy traffic from shady sites. Be cautious, though. Paid media can ad up to an expensive cost quickly.

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