We have heard it in the news, and it has become quite apparent when you see all the changes that Facebook and LinkedIn are focused on lately. I am talking about businesses and how they do business with each other. If you are a company or a B2B (business-to-business) marketer, it can be hard to choose what social networking platform to use in order to maximize your reach. Just a couple of years ago, I didn’t really have a clue about this whole area of Facebook ...
What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you think about following someone on Twitter? Their profile, right? You want to see what the person is about, and if they posted a personal avatar of themselves as well. When you take the time to fill out your bio on Twitter and write little bits of interesting information about yourself, it gets others interested in you also. You are suddenly worth their follow. If you don’t take that small amount of time to fill out ...
This infographic asks the question, “Are jerks the future of the Internet?” Most of the sites where I’ve seen this posted elaborate with a story about jerk behavior that they’ve experienced in social media. I feel like I’m living in the twilight zone a little bit right now because I’ve had a completely different experience in social media. It’s true that I get the occasional troll comment on one of my 2,180 articles, but it doesn’t happen very often. A year ago when I wrote 10 ...
I’m guilty. No, I haven’t done anything criminal, but I do admit to falling for one of the cardinal social media sins affecting users today: Waking up in the middle of the night to check a timeline. Here’s how it happens: when restless at 1, 2 or even as late as 3 a.m., it’s not unusual that I wake up in a fit with my mind racing. Maybe it was a dream, a nightmare, or a noise. But, the real problem is that instead of going ...
Yes, I sleep with my phone and check my @ mentions anytime I’m mildly awake in the middle of the night. Don’t judge or act like you don’t either. Twitter mentions are the new “You’ve Got Mail.” The excitement from seeing the @ symbol light up is like Christmas morning! You’ve tweeted a ton to your friends, RT’d a bunch of thought leaders, tweeted an original blog you are proud of, and even given your favorite celebrities shout outs…so who could the @ mention(s) be from?!?!?! ...
Is Your Community Fan Page Guilty Of Being A Trophy Wall? You know the ones, they only post “community service events?” Guess why you don’t have many “likes,” comments and participation? You are STALE & BORING! With the plethora of opportunities, your Facebook presence has gotten stale. Why are you wasting it as just a trophy wall? You know, the ribbon cutting pictures, the kumbaya moments where everyone is picking up litter, and the pat me on the back moments that create no reason for people ...
On a normal day, I spend about all the time on two or three different social networking services. Well, of course, I do this while I work so I am more or less just monitoring the streams as I keep on working. Every once in a while, I throw in a tweet or a status update to stir up the pot a little bit. It’s quite interesting to see how these services keep evolving while trying to stay ahead of the game. To say that they ...
The one social network that people are talking about right now is Pinterest. The image and video sharing social networking service has become a bit of a hypechild as of late. For now, you need an invitation to become a user to be able to try it out. At least that was the case a couple of weeks ago. It’s not as hard as it sounds though. All you really need to do is sign up to receive an invitation, and one should be emailed to ...
It all started with this simple image of a cat at a laptop for me. I saw it one Saturday on Wil Wheaton’s Google+ page and it’s message “on the internet, no one knows you are a cat” totally made me laugh. And then I kept seeing the hashtag #Caturday. The Urban Dictionary has several definitions of Caturday. I like this one, “The greatest holiday on the internets. A day to celebrate the greatness that is Felis Domesticus, or the common house-cat.” I am sure you have ...
I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t read at least one story about how Facebook either builds or destroys relationships. At least yesterday there was some balance to the madness. First I read a story about a guy who “accidentally” had sex with an exotic dancer at his bachelor party. His brand new wife found out about it a few months later by reading his Facebook page where he was flirting with that same dancer. Now the newlyweds are getting divorced. Right when ...
Have you ever wondered what the differences are between men and women when it comes to social networking? Well, one thing has been proven, and that is that women are much more likely to have interaction than men. Also, women have much higher follower or friend rate than men. I guess that could be explained by nature itself really, so we don’t have to go too much into those statistics. What I find really fascinating is the fact that there is a huge difference between men ...
You always hear everyone say that on Twitter, it’s not about how many followers you have, it’s about how you engage and connect with the followers you do have. I agree with that perspective because a handful of meaningful social media friendships is much more valuable than tweeting to a bunch of strangers and bots, at least to me. However, for one UK company, it’s all about the followers, well, sort of. Uniform’s research platform (ULAB) created a cuckoo clock that toots and dispenses a piece ...
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