The Full Explanation of Google+ Invites

July 8, 2011

via blog.seanbonner.com Finally, we have solid answers to many of our Google+ invite questions! The post sheds light on the fact that the sending of invites must also be received and then accepted within the same limited time frame from when invites become available and when they are turned off a short time after. So [...]

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The Top 100 Google+ Users

July 5, 2011

It’s not even a week old and already there’s a power list out of Google+ users. You know you’re curious – so go on and click. via steverubel.me Hat tip to @SteveRubel for finding this list.

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3 Blog Post Blueprints That Build Fans

June 29, 2011

Content creation and keeping your fans interested until they buy is a core strategy of social media. It creates a bind between customers and the brand. It creates a feeling of reciprocity. These are powerful marketing techniques. The catch, of course, is that content is hard to create. Most brands create blogs, but then are [...]

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[HootSuite] New Social Media Scheduling & Profile Protection Tools from #HootSuite

June 17, 2011

Reach the next level of social media management with HootSuite’s newest publishing tools: Publisher views, Limited Permissions and Profile Picker. Social Media Scheduling HootSuite was the first social media tool to offer message scheduling, now with the new publisher tool, you can plan your updates with greater ease. Slice and dice the destination profiles for [...]

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Facebook Changes Privacy Settings to Enable Facial Recognition

June 8, 2011

Image via cogdogblog Have you heard about the controversey surrounding Facebook’s new (well, kind of) face recognition feature? They’ve had the feature for some time, but now you can be sure that it has been activated on your account—without your permission, of course. The New York Times had one of the better posts about it [...]

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Survey: Social marketing use high, LinkedIn favored

June 6, 2011

A majority of marketers are engaging in social media as a marketing channel, and a large number of those consider the professional networking site LinkedIn as offering the best ROI. The “BMA Project Case Study,” a survey of Business Marketing Association members by online research company Itracks Online Data Collection, found that 89% of respondents [...]

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Twitter Update 2011 | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

June 1, 2011

13% of online adults use the status update service Twitter, which represents a significant increase from the 8% of online adults who identified themselves as Twitter users in November 2010. 95% of Twitter users own a mobile phone, and half of these users access the service on their handheld device. via pewinternet.org Check out the [...]

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Information Is Beautiful

November 29, 2010

Particularly beautiful data visualizations… via Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized!.

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Social Media Campaigns that Moms Love

April 15, 2010

Did Mom invent social media? Some say she did. And there is no arguing that she is driving it and helping it to evolve. There are 82 million moms across the U.S. of all ages. That’s right, 82 million. And 26 million of them are mommy bloggers. And they are grassroots, Oprah-like brand advocates with [...]

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Apple iObsession takes its toll

April 7, 2010

  via theweek.com Please note the “uBROKE,” which pretty much sums up my iLife Apple Fan Boy ridiculousness: iPad 32GB MacBook Pro 17″ MacBook 13″ iMac (original Blueberry) PowerBook G4 15″ iPhone 2G iPhone 3G iPod Touch iPod (original) Shuffle (original) Not to mention 600-700+ apps (and growing)… Posted via web from Posterous

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