June 6, 2011 | By admin | No Comments
Twitter continues the online trend toward media integration by adding support for six additional social media platforms. Users will now be able to see multimedia content from Amazon, AOL Video, Foursquare, Gowalla, Meetup, and Plancast within Twitter streams. These third-party sites join other social sites Twitter added last year, such as YouTube and TwitPic.
April 4, 2011 | By admin | No Comments
So how many active Twitter users are there? Fewer than you might think, according to Business Insider. Twitter’s About page claims 175 million registered users, yet according to numbers from an unnamed source with access to the social media site’s API, the number of active users is far less. Here are estimates based on what [...]
March 25, 2011 | By admin | No Comments
Jeremiah Owyang started keeping tabs on the growing number of social strategists in corporate ranks. Currently, he’s aware of 280 people who hold the title. The eye-catcher on the list is the proportion of regulated industries represented.
March 24, 2011 | By admin | No Comments
If you’ve ever known a 5-year-old, you know that kids at this age often operate—mind and body—at near-warp speed. It turns out our favorite digital 5-year-old, Twitter, isn’t much different. CNN’s Doug Gross reflected on the 5 Ways Twitter Changed How We Communicate. The first reason? He writes it “made the fast flow of information [...]
March 11, 2011 | By admin | No Comments
Mashable’s Jennifer Van Grove reports that a new iPhone and Android app, Domo, allows Facebookers to connect with nearby strangers who share specific interests. How? It collects info about a user’s interests as well as his or her registered location. Then it connects that user to other nearby Domo users who share the same interests. [...]
March 7, 2011 | By admin | One Comment
We have product life cycles, customer life cycles, and marketing cycles. Now Jamie Turner gives us the social media ROI cycle. In Understanding the Social Media ROI Cycle, he divides the cycle into 3 stages.
January 28, 2011 | By admin | No Comments
Have you heard about the mom who launched a blog and in just a week of launching the blog, ended up organizing a flash mob in a Canadian mall? You heard right, Shannon Smith, a Canadian mother of three, was asked to leave a children’s clothing store because some of the staff were offended by [...]
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One Way to Deal with Negative Social Media Comments
June 1, 2011 | By admin | One Comment
How do social media reps deal with not-so-nice comments in a public forum like a blog? Brenda Somich on Social Media Today shares tips for dealing with negative blog comments, but her tips can be used as a guide for dealing with negative reactions on other social media platforms as well.