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What vertical networks mean for the future of social media

Sprout Social

This premise is essentially the case for the growing number of vertical networks that are taking off online. Vertical social networks aren’t overnight sensations. Understanding what these niche social media platforms say about the future of social media as a whole can help marketers stay ahead of the trend curve.

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News Feed Optimization (NFO) is the new SEO!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This is the algorithm that controls what you see in your News Feed when you log into Facebook. This is a new type of optimization called News Feed Optimization and it’s the next big race for all of us to embark on. 11 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2011 Around this time last year I wrote about the 10.

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7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks December 21st, 2010 Tweet I first heard about Amplify earlier this year; I believe it was at the January chapter meeting of IABC/DC Metro.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

LinkedIn is introducing more social features and is becoming more content friendly. Almost 38 per cent of Canadians is on Pinterest, an image-based social network. Time spent reading newspapers is down 75 per cent since 2011. per cent since 2011. Only 20 per cent of those use it daily. This is changing.

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Promote events through social media?

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Paid Posts: My Facebook Status Update is Smarter Than Yours

Webbiquity SMM

The social media giant recently launched a pilot program in New Zealand that allows users to pay to ‘highlight’ a post, meaning that it will appear near the top of friends’ News Feeds and remain their longer, even if it doesn’t receive the clicks, comments, and ‘Likes’ that usually push a popular post to the top.

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A Social Media Status Quo Pt.1-Japan

Mindjumpers

We’ve taken a look at some of the leading social platforms and emerging new trends in the land of the rising sun. Japan’s social status quo. Japan is one of the few countries that managed to actually keep its local social networks more popular than the media giant Facebook. As an example, users can send stamps.