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The Fastest Way to Increase Your Google Ranking
How many times have you heard someone say, I just want that top search result on Google? For a business website, the top spot in the search engine returns can be a lead generating machine.
Think about it. Google is where most people go when they are researching. What if there was a way to get your company’s website on that coveted first page? Well there is…
What Tweets Work….and Which Don’t
Have you ever thought about the impact that tweets may have on the number of followers you have?
TweetEffect is a service that provide details on how many followers were attracted or driven away after you made a tweet. While it’s an interesting service, I think it’s difficult to assess if a particular tweet had a direct impact on drawing followers in or driving them away. MORE
Twitter Emerging as Online Video Power Broker [STATS]
New stats we’ve just been shown by video measurement company TubeMogul show that Twitter is quickly growing as a top referrer for web video traffic, far outpacing Facebook, Yahoo, Google and Bing. More
Twitalyzer Offers a Buffet of Twitter Analytical Data
Quick Pitch: Twitalyzer is social media’s most complete application for measuring impact, engagement and influence on Twitter.
Genius Idea: Twitalyzer is a free analytics dashboard for Twitter that provides detailed metrics on things like impact, engagement, clout and velocity for individual Twitter accounts.
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LinkedIn Beefs Up Its Twitter Integration [PICS]
LinkedIn already syncs status updates with Twitter, but now the business social network is taking its Twitter integration to the next level to help users better track and follow their connections. More
New Facebook Privacy Controls Arrive on Wednesday
On Sunday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised simplified privacy settings “in coming weeks.” It now looks like that timetable has been bumped up, with an executive at the social network revealing at an event in New York that new features will launch tomorrow. More
Google TV looks to blend web and television
Google believes it has come up with the technology to unite web surfing with channel surfing on televisions. More
Facebook CEO: We Will Add Simpler Privacy Controls
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses Facebook users’ privacy concerns in a column in the Washington Post on Monday. Zuckerberg admits that users find their privacy settings confusing, and promises new, simplified settings “in the coming weeks.” More
Twitter sensation “S**t My Dad Says” becomes a TV pilot
Clips from the pilot of “Sh*t My Days Says,” the first show to make the jump from Twitter to TV, have been released. William Shatner has the starring role in the new sitcom. More
50 Social News Websites: A List of General and Niche Social Media Communities
There are a great deal of social news sites on the internet, sometimes too many. Most of them are dormant and are no longer active, largely because they were poorly marketed and hence, never had an active community of users in the first place. More
How to Write a Social Media Press Release
It’s incredibly hard to get a social media community interested in a press release, and it’s not because they hate hearing about what your company is up to, it’s just that they hate the way you’re telling the story. Consider some of the approaches the average press release takes. More
How Social Media is Changing Government Agencies
While many government agencies still tend to employ the “broadcast” model when using social media, some are engaging through hashtags, community building initiatives, and geo-location analysis. These efforts are helping to better inform the public and alert them to public safety emergencies in real-time. More
Which Department Owns Social Media?
In the past, it was easy for businesses or brands to segment different types of outreach or communication into departments. Marketing and public relations often operated separately from one another; human resources, customer service and technical support all operated in their own distinct branches. While overlap did occur, for the most part, actions and activities adhered to a set organizational structure.
But how do you classify social media? More
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