Sherrilynne Starkie
JULY 27, 2012
Did you know that you can edit comments you’ve made on Facebook after you’ve published them? It works for both personal and business profiles. It’s easy. Just click in the top right corner of your comment, then go down to ‘Edit’ Change your mind again? Just hit escape and the original comment will stand. This is a boon to Facebookers who comment without their reading glasses on (like me).
SocMed Sean
JULY 24, 2012
Hang around any medium or large business for a while and you’ll start hearing many of the same corporate buzzwords. Phrases like: Ping me if you need me! Let’s figure out how to be more collaborative ! How can we be more innovative ? Are their opportunities for synergy between these projects? Can we put together a cross-functional team? All phrases based on buzzwords that often are nebulous in their meanings, which means they’re difficult to measure.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Mindjumpers
JULY 25, 2012
Tweet We often post about the importance of finding the right conversational touch points in order to engage your target group in conversations based on your values and beliefs. Also, the importance of monitoring and listening is a much-discussed topic here on the blog. We put emphasise of these issues because of the importance of getting to know who your users are and to reveal what trends and demands that are being talked about.
Firebelly
JULY 23, 2012
The Firebelly crew wishes the Colorado theater shooting victims’ loved ones our sincere condolences. I was unsure if I wanted to compile this round-up. I didn’t want to come off as opportunistic or insensitive. When tragedy strikes, however, social media sites are frequently the first places traditional news sources (along with worried family and friends) turn to for more information.
Advertisement
Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.
Sherrilynne Starkie
JULY 23, 2012
The Social Capital 2012 conference took place on Saturday in Ottawa and more than 220 people turned up to share and learn about the latest in social media thinking, issues and technologies. One highlight was Kelly Rusk’s session on using social media for research. Kelly discussed how to effectively research the social web to understand how people interact with each other, organizations and brands.
Waxing UnLyrical
JULY 24, 2012
Folks, I’m really sorry. I know I’ve gotten behind on your #measurePR chat recaps, and I really don’t have any excuse. So… just… I’m sorry. Forgive me? OK, let’s catch up, then, shall we? 1. There was no #measurePR chat on May 29. Life was just too crazy. 2. On June 12, Katie Paine joined us – it was a surprise gift!
Social Media Informer brings together the best content for social media professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Small Business Mavericks
JULY 24, 2012
It wasn’t too long ago that shady SEOs discovered they could engage in negative SEO tactics and kill their competitors in the search engine rankings. But recent changes at Google have weighed in favor of the innocent victim. Matt Cutts explains negative SEO briefly in a recent Google+ post : If you received a message yesterday about unnatural links to your site, don’t panic.
Sherrilynne Starkie
JULY 25, 2012
Registration for the IABC Canada Summit is now open. The conference takes place on Nov 1st – 3rd at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier — three days of learning aligned with emerging trends and technologies — capped with a dash of social, Silver Leaf Gala, Haunted Walk and “Dinearound.”. Workshops include: • Survival guide to the new social workspace. • The 10 most powerful questions in strategic communications. • Quick and painless ways to add multimedia. • Career planning for comm
Idaconcpts
JULY 23, 2012
Perhaps there comes a time in almost everyone’s life when they are compelled to deliver a speech of some kind. For some this prospect, like having to imbibe castor oil, is a source of dread. Enter these 4 Speech Apps for iPhones, like the proverbial cavalry. Coming to, as that old timer Mick Jagger might exclaim, your emotional rescue. In those primitive times before there were iPhones, speech givers were forced to go to the great length of lugging that notebook computer to their orations.
The Realtime Report
JULY 25, 2012
Gatwick Airport recently became the first European airport to use the social network Soundcloud by releasing a series of audio books for kids and parents. This week, the airport announced plans to feature the best new children’s stories on its channel, giving budding children’s authors the chance to reach a potential audience of tens of thousands of people.
Advertisement
A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.
Small Business Mavericks
JULY 22, 2012
Search engine optimization has a bad reputation. Many people don’t trust it and it’s largely due to bad advice that SEOs often give. Some of those SEOs are shady characters who just don’t have any ethics. Others are people who giving advice based on blogs they’ve read and outdated information. Others are just people with their hearts in the right place but not experienced enough to give solid advice.
Convince & Convert
JULY 23, 2012
Sports have been played, enjoyed by spectators and covered by the media since well before the advent of smartphones and social media. But it’s no question that the development of social platforms has changed how we play, enjoy and cover sports. Twitter is the new sports ticker. Facebook is the new hub for fans. Who needs to catch ESPN’s Sportscenter now that highlights are put on YouTube within minutes after the play?
Idaconcpts
JULY 25, 2012
You tweet regularly and are beginning to build a following for your local business. You’re ready to take it to the next level and truly grow your presence on Twitter and harness the social aspect of social media for your advantage. So how do you do it? 1. Engage with Your Followers. First, you need to ensure you’re truly engaging in the conversation that’s taking place because of your tweets.
The Realtime Report
JULY 27, 2012
Ever since Twitter picked a business model based on advertising, the company has been emphasizing the importance of creating a “consistent experience” for Twitter users. What will this experience look like? That’s media company code for “we want to be able to deliver ads to all Twitter users,” no filters or mute buttons allowed , not lose them to a third-party platform.
Advertisement
Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.
Bill Hartzer
JULY 23, 2012
If you have what Google calls “unnatural links” that hare pointing to your web site, then Google will notify you. They do these notifications via Google Webmaster Tools. In order to receive the messages, web site owners must go through a verification process to “verify their web site” and prove that they are the web site owner.
Convince & Convert
JULY 25, 2012
Injecting a real face and personality into your personal Twitter account is intrinsic, and most people don’t give it a second thought. We share what’s happening in our lives, photos from great vacations, things that annoy us, and other content that compels us. But when it comes to imbuing corporate Twitter accounts with a similar measure of personality and humanity, we often fall down on the job.
Ari Herzog
JULY 23, 2012
I installed Livefyre on my blog in July 2011. The comment system remained for three months. Today I bring it back. How to comment with Livefyre. 1. Write your comment inside the box at the bottom of every post. You are not limited to words but you can also tag Twitter and Facebook friends as I illustrate below. 2. Post your comment. You will initially see a “Post comment as” button.
The Realtime Report
JULY 24, 2012
Last week, Twitter announced that it would no longer require advertisers to send a Promoted Tweet out to all of its own followers first. In what Marketing Land dubbed a “pure ad product,” these new Targeted Tweets can be shown to specific audience segments, targeted by geography or by device, and different messages can be sent at different times.
Advertisement
SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.
Kikolani
JULY 25, 2012
This is a guest post by Adam Riemer. One of the hardest things to do with your new websites or blogs is to get people to find it and trust it. Once you have people finding and trusting your blog, you can then begin to build your brand and grow your following. The issue is that with all of the clutter on the web, it’s hard to start a new site and stand out.
Convince & Convert
JULY 26, 2012
Recently, I was lucky enough to give a talk at Syracuse University during their #140cuse conference on building cause-passionate armies. The talk was well received and mainly focused on how we can utilize the communication tools we have today to inspire change and social good around the world. Since that talk though, I’ve started thinking about rooting that back to general community/social media management.
Small Business Mavericks
JULY 26, 2012
Are you linking to your social media profiles? If you’re like most small business owners, then the answer is no. In fact, fewer than 20% of SMBs link to social media profiles, and they’re making a big mistake. There are two primary reasons you should link from your website or blog to social media websites : It builds your social authority.
The Realtime Report
JULY 26, 2012
Australian ranks fourth worldwide in social media penetration – behind only the US, Canada and South Korea. A total of 9.8 million Australians (44% of the total population) are predicted to be on social media in 2012, according to an eMarketer estimate. Businesses are rapidly moving to engage consumers in this space, and many social media users are welcoming their presence.
Advertisement
Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.
Kikolani
JULY 26, 2012
Do you tend pin on your pin board on Pinterest more than you tweet on Twitter lately? Pinterest offers a new kind of social media sharing, and at the Internet marketing firm I work for, we’re seeing it swell in popularity (even though it’s still in the beat phase) among bloggers and search engine marketers for building a personal brand online. As mentioned, Pinterest offers a unique social sharing experience as users actually “pin” their favorite photos onto their own personal pin board (or prof
Convince & Convert
JULY 24, 2012
Read on and you could win a copy of The Social Habit research. 48 percent of Facebook users check their account more than once per day. 23 percent of Facebook users check their account more than five times per day. 8 percent of Facebook users check their account more than ELEVEN times per day. The mean number of daily Facebook checks is 4. Four! How many things do you do four or more times per day, ruling out purely physiological activities like blinking?
Small Business Mavericks
JULY 23, 2012
There is more to analytics than simply looking at how many website visitors you have and where they are coming from. One often overlooked analytics measurement is which part of your pages are the most popular among your website visitors. To get that information you need to employ eye tracking studies so you can see where your visitors are spending the most time.
The Realtime Report
JULY 27, 2012
The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Facebook: 950 million active users. via Forbes. Twitter: over 500 million users. via Twopcharts. Qzone: 576 million active users. via TechCrunch. Sina Weibo: over 300 million users. via Bloomberg Businessweek. Renren: over 170 million users. via iResearch iUser Tracker. LinkedIn: 160 million members. via LinkedIn.
Advertisement
Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.
Kikolani
JULY 23, 2012
Last year, I wrote a huge comparison post on Thesis vs Genesis from DIYThemes and StudioPress. It’s been almost a year, and I thought I would share some stats of what people decided to buy after reading the post. Here are the results. Number of Clicks. Here, you can see that the number of clicks to the StudioPress (Genesis) website is almost equal to the number of clicks to the DIYThemes (Thesis) website from both the post and the buttons on the sidebar.
Convince & Convert
JULY 21, 2012
Here’s what we included in this week’s One Social Thing daily email. Scroll to see the social media and content marketing articles you need to know. To get One Social Thing delivered to your email each day, please subscribe below. If you find a social media or content marketing story you think is a must-read, tweet it out with the #OneSocialThing hash tag.
Small Business Mavericks
JULY 27, 2012
Great content is everyone’s goal. That is, everyone who attempts to market their business, product, or service online. But why is great content so important? Can’t you do the same thing with mediocre content? That seems like a silly question, but there is a lot of mediocre content on the Internet. And a lot of bad content. After all, not all content can be great.
Laurel Papworth
JULY 22, 2012
Corporate Karma is immediate & irrevocable. Transparency & accountability arent just nice to haves they are part of every day reality. I will let this poor mother speak for herself. News-gathering in its traditional form is finished. These dark moments will continue to be made public as transparency becomes the norm. Shame on you Channel Seven!
Kikolani
JULY 27, 2012
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Content. 7 Ways to Find Viral Content Ideas – Want to find content ideas that have a chance at viral fame?
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
315 
Let's personalize your content