Social Networking
How To Convert Your In-Person Events To Live Streaming Video Events
Don’t cancel your event. Make it virtual. Our new reality is that we cannot gather audiences together in person, at least for the foreseeable future. However, there is a way through this challenge and that is to create virtual events. Specifically, online streaming video events—either live or recorded. While there is no amount of sophisticated…
Read More24 Highly Useful Facebook Marketing Features, Tips and Tactics
Facebook’s big news this week is the introduction of an interactive feature called Instant Articles. Currently launching with just nine major media partners, this feature is bound to see significant growth with more publishers coming on board to create fast-loading, highly visual, experiential articles. (My favorite part about this announcement is the fact that publishers…
Read MoreTop 100 Social Media Leaders On Twitter: The Social Scoop Issue 136
It’s an honor to be included again in this year’s Top 100 Social Media Power Influencers – at numero four, alongside awesome folks like Guy Kawasaki, Robert Scoble, Chris Brogan, Brian Solis, Seth Godin, Ann Handley (Marketing Profs), Pam Moore, Jeremiah Owyang and so many more. (Track all 100 influencers by subscribing to this Twitter…
Read More10 Pinterest Tips and Tools To Help Grow Your Business
[Guest blog post by Lilach Bullock]: With 48.7 million users, Pinterest is one of the top online social networks. Yet many business owners are still not sure about Pinterest; they are afraid to venture into more than one or two social networks, preferring instead to stick to the social media king and queen: Facebook and Twitter.…
Read More7 Ways To Craft Your Facebook Posts For Maximum Shares
Facebook recently changed the way users interact with content on fan pages: any user, including non-fans, can now post on fan page walls and like/comment/share fan page content. In other words, a Facebook user does not have to first like your fan page before they can interact with your content. This is a good thing!…
Read MoreWhat’s So Exciting About Google+ – An Overview
Is Google’s hot new social network Google+ a serious “threat” to Facebook? Or Twitter? In the short or long term, I don’t think so. But, Google+ will certainly make Facebook, in particular, more agile and determined to continue improving its array of products. (In fact, the first thing Mark Zuckerberg said at the start of…
Read MoreShould You Merge Your Facebook Place Page and Business Page?
Facebook launched many great new products this year, not least of which was Facebook Places – which went live on August 18, 2010. Facebook Places is a terrific product for both local businesses and Facebook users alike, especially since the launch of Deals. When a Facebook user checks in to a location using their iPhone,…
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